Opilius Macrinus 12

ed. David Magie

Opilius Macrinus. . ed. David Magie. London. 1924.

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Current edition Perseus

Opilius Macrinus (Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Volume 2. Magie, David, editor. London, New York: William Heinemann, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1924.)

Notes on the current edition

Opilius Macrinus

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2. conatus Peter; coactus P.
3. so Salm. and Peter; pudore suffectassent atque P corr.
4. See c. viii. 3.
5. Tiridates, the claimant to the Armenian throne, went through the usual form of homage and received the diadem from Macrinus; see Dio, lxxviii. 27, 4.
6. Nothing is known of any campaign in Arabia Felix.
7. The mythical king of Caere in Etruria, who fought with Turnus against Aeneas. For the punishment here described see Vergil, Aeneid, viii. 485-488.
8. The first half-line is from Aeneid, xii. 275, where the phrase is used of an Arcadian killed by Tolumnius; the second describes Lausus, son of Mezentius, and is taken from Aeneid, vii. 654.