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Relatio Vs. Oratio: Tacitus, Ann. 3.12 and the Senatus Consultum De Cn. Pisone Patre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Cynthia Damon
Cynthia Damon*
Affiliation:
Amherst College, cdamon@amherst.edu
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Extract

Tiberius' speech at the outset of the trial of Cn. Calpurnius Piso, as Tacitus reports it at Annals 3.12, sheds light on two discrepancies between relatio and response in the recently published senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre (hereafter SCPP).

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Shorter Notes
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , May 1999 , pp. 336 - 338
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1999

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References

1 Published in complementary Spanish and German editions: Caballos, A., Eck, W., Fernández, F., El senadoconsulto de Gneo Pisón padre (Sevilla, 1996)Google Scholar and Eck, W., Caballos, A., Fernández, F., Das senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre, Vestigia 48 (Munich, 1996).Google Scholar

2 168–70 placere uti oratio, quam recitasset princeps noster, itemq(ue) haec senatus consulta in {h}aere incisa, quo loco Ti. Caes(ari) Aug(usto) videretur, ponere<n>tur.

3 Woodman, A. J. and Martin, R. H., The Annals of Tacitus, Book 3 (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 138–9.Google Scholar

4 Piso's involvement is no more than a death bed allegation by Germanicus: mortis fuisse caussam Cn. Pisonem patrem ipse testatus sit (28).