“Humanity” I give up at any rate, having just read so many mockeries
regarding it in the last volume of Campe’s dictionary.
“Sed quamquam, primo statim beatissimi sæculi ortu, Nerva Cæsar _res
olim dissociabiles miscuerit_, principatum ac libertatem; augeatque
quotidie felicitatem imperii Nerva Trajanus.” Tacitus in Agricola, cap.
3. Also, of the same old Nerva (noble and gifted with literary taste):
“Quod si vita suppeditet, principatum divi Nervæ, et imperium Trajani,
uberiorem securioremque materiam senectati seposui: _rara temporum
felicitas, ubi sentire quæ velis, et quæ sentias dicere licet_.” Tacit.
Hist. I. 1. I, of course, in order to avoid all detail, shall give only
the numerical quotations, sic: Tacit. Vita Ag. c. 3 Hist. I. 1.