The Times - Specialist - O Tempora! XCVIII August 19 2017

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A silent man, or an eloquent historian (voc.)TACITE
A woman who is blamed or called to account (like Clodia in 4 d)accusata
Aut salvator aut salvus aut (rare) salus ipsasospes
By turns, in return: ____ versaVICE
Cut short, severed, wrenched away (fem: nom pl, gen/dat sing)abruptae
He might have known, cognovisset (pluperfect subj.)scivisset
Hooked, like Palinurus's hands as he climbs the rock face (Aeneid 6.360)uncis
I quaked, horruitremui
In qua fluunt aquae aut verba: rivo, flumine (abl.)amne
Like all Cretans, I tell liesmentior
Nonetheless, howeverattamen
One half of what Tacitus claims to renounce in writing history (Annals 1.1)IRA
Recte, diligenter, solito more; the Roman way?RITE
 
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Skill or discipline: ___ longa, vita brevisARS
Stretched out: ____ visentur... stagna (Horace Odes 2.15.3-4)extenta
The other half of what Tacitus repudiates (vide 23 across)STUDIO
They were dragging down (or through the mud)detrahebant
Things sharp to the taste or touch or smellacria
This woman's husband - or rather, brother: I'm always making that mistake (Cicero Pro Caelio 32)semperhicerro
To be mad: aegrotare animi vitio (eg Horace Odes 3.19.18)insanire
To get someone off the hook; to unburden themexonerare
Tortured (men) or curly (hair)torti
You (s) are in the fold; or might you be inveigling your way in?insinues
You lie there on your owniaces
____ in orbe, in the whole world (except Kansas)TOTO
_____ mutandis; things having been changed (that needed to be changed) (abl. pl.)MUTATIS

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