Abstract
Chapter 68 begins the account of the last year covered by Tacitus in Annals 4: A.D. 28, when Junius Silanus and Silius Nerva were consules ordinarii. The new year, Tacitus informs us, was marked by a disgraceful event, the arrest (postponed since A.D. 24, cf. 19.1) of Titius Sabinus, loyal friend to Germanicus and his family. After the naming of the consuls at 68.1 and the brief preliminary account of Sabinus' arrest, 68.2–69.3 revert to the period before the beginning of a. d. 28 and describe Sabinus– entrapment by a group of ambitious praetors wishing to gratify Sejanus and so secure the consulship, an office ad quern non nisi per Seianum aditus, ‘to which the only access was through Sejanus’ (68.2).
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