Abstract
Xiphilinus’ opening of Book 58 on the years ad 26–30 is ‘patchy and impressionistic’, and we feel the loss of Dio's account of the ‘seemingly inexorable rise of Sejanus’ (p. 269 on 58.1.1–4.7 [Xiph.]). M. explains equivalencies in Greek and Latin (e.g. autokratôr = imperator [p. 102 on 57.2.1], prokritos = princeps [p. 158 on 57.8.2], dêmotikos = ciuilis = ‘republican’ [pp. 160–1 on 57.8.3]), and he leaves several terms untranslated, such as daimôn and tyche (Latin genius); on daimôn, he explains, ‘Daimones form an important component of Dio's own cosmological awareness. Despite Sejanus’ rise, Tiberius remains a ‘political survivor’ with ‘inherent authority’ as emperor, who can destroy a man with a single letter (p. 269).