1The guard in the camp was under the command of the tribune Julius Martialis. 1He, whether through the enormity of the sudden crime or from fear that the camp was corrupted more widely and that he would perish if he opposed it, gave most people the suspicion of complicity; 1the other tribunes and centurions too preferred the present to the uncertain and honourable, and the state of feeling was such that a few dared the worst of crimes, more wished it, and all allowed it.
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Tacitus · Historiae I
Histories 1.28
The tribune Martialis stands aside
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Tacitus, Historiae I. Latin text: C. D. Fisher, Cornelii Taciti Historiarum Libri (Oxford, 1911), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.