Hist. 2.34.1Coniūnctīs Caecīnae ac Valentis cōpiīs nūlla ultrā penes Vitelliānōs mora quīn tōtīs vīribus certārent: Othō cōnsultāvit trahī bellum an fortūnam experīrī placēret.Now that the forces of Caecina and Valens were united, the Vitellians no longer delayed fighting with their whole strength: Otho consulted whether it was better to drag out the war or to try fortune.
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Tacitus · Historiae II
Histories 2.34
Otho weighs his strategy
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| coniungō, -iungere, -iūnxī, -iūnctus | join together, join |
| atque, ac (conj.) | and; after comparisons: as, than (ac only before consonants) |
| cōpia, -ae, f. | supply, abundance; plur., forces, troops |
| nūllus, -a, -um | not any, none, no |
| ultrā (prep. + acc.) | beyond |
| penes (prep. + acc.) | in the hands of, in the power of |
| Vitelliānus, -a, -um | of Vitellius; as noun, a Vitellian soldier |
| mora, -ae, f. | delay |
| quīn, conj. | so that ... not, but that, but |
| tōtus, -a, -um | all the, the whole or entire |
| vīs, vīs, f. | violence, force; virtue, potency, efficacy; plur. vīrēs, -ium, strength; omnibus vīribus, with all one's strength, with might and main |
| certō, adv. | with certainty, for certain, certainly |
| cōnsultō, -āre, -āvī, -ātum | deliberate, take counsel; consult the interests of (+ dat.) |
| trahō, trahere, trāxī, trāctus | draw, drag |
| bellum, -ī, n. | war |
| an, conj. | or (in questions) |
| fortūna, -ae, f. | fortune |
| experior, -īrī, expertus sum | try, test, experience |
| placeō, -ēre, placuī, placitum (+ dat.) | please (placuit eī: he decided) |
Tacitus, Historiae II. 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.