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1 (1960) THE ROMAN REVOLUTION
972 f.; 1025). Note also C. Marcius Censorinus (P-W XIV, 1550 f.) and Cn . Domitius Ahenobarbus (P-W V, 1327 f.), the broth
ity of his wife is inferred from the inscr. ILS 9460. 2 His father, Cn . Domitius Ahenobarbus (cos. 96), was very influen
involved than the privileges of an oligarchy: in the contest against Cn . Pompeius Magnus, Cato and his kinsmen NotesPag
xculpate Pompeius, there is a contrary tradition. Like the killing of Cn . Papirius Carbo (cos. III), a benefactor of Pompe
um, a region where they possessed large estates and wide influence. 1 Cn . Pompeius Strabo, after shattering the Italian in
by the nobility’, for good reasons. 4 There were no words to describe Cn . Pompeius the son. After his father’s death, prot
from Picenum, of the tribus Velina, are attested in the consilium of Cn . Pompeius Strabo at Asculum, ILS 8888, cf. C. Cic
ainst the Pirates (ib. 2, praef. 6). Another member of this group was Cn . Tremellius Scrofa, suitably eloquent about pigs
ius, Divus Aug. 3 f.). In Syria L. Marcius Philippus was succeeded by Cn . Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus in 60 or 59 (Appi
Caesar 21; Dio 39, 54, 1). Their successors, L. Marcius Philippus and Cn . Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, were not strong
blic and camp of Pompeius embraced ten men of NotesPage=>043 1 Cn . Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus (cos. 72) was a ple
Lentulus Clodianus (cos. 72) was a plebeian by birth (Cicero, De imp. Cn . Pompei 58), hence probably a Claudius Marcellus.
this period are highly problematical (P-W IV, 1381; 1389; 1393). 4 Cn . Domitius Ahenobarbus (cos. 122) had been largely
inscr. ILS 6976 from Nemausus, and later by provincial notables like Cn . Domitius Afer (cos. suff. A.D. 39) and domitius
, Agr. 6, 1; ILS 966). Note also the championing of a wronged Gaul by Cn . Domitius (cos. 96), Cicero, In Verrem 11, 1, 118
us Pulcher certainly took place in 54 B.C. (Ad fam. 3, 4, 2), that of Cn . Pompeius probably about the same time (ib.). The
consulars only one was an active partisan, commanding armies, namely Cn . Domitius Calvinus, and he was no better than his
y terms with M. Cicero, cf. P-W XIX, 45 ff. 2 For example, a son of Cn . Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (Caesar, BC 3, 62
stole Venus victrix from his adversaries, Appian, BC 2, 68, 281. 4 Cn . Lentulus Clodianus and L. Gellius Poplicola, leg
Scipionic policy of exploiting help from Spain to his own advantage, Cn . Pompeius Strabo had granted the Roman citizenshi
me from Forum Julii (Jerome, Chron., p. 164 H). His father was called Cn . Cornelius (ILS 8995), and may be a Gallic notabl
ILS 8995), and may be a Gallic notable who got the citizenship from a Cn . Cornelius Lentulus in the service of Pompeius du
is poems; for Helvii at Brixia, CIL v, 4237; 4425 f.; 4612; 4877. 5 Cn . Domitius Afer (cos. suff. A.D. 39) and D. Valeri
cium is Osean. Is he perhaps of the family of the proscribed Samnite, Cn . Decidius, whom Caesar defended (Tacitus, Dial. 2
or defended certain of his personal friends like M. Caelius Rufus and Cn . Plancius, bankers’ sons both. Caelius came from
d Caninius, who had been legates of Caesar in Gaul and elsewhere, and Cn . Domitius Calvinus, who had fought in Thessaly, P
obscure and unrecorded (he was augur for the space of 55 years), and Cn . Domitius Calvinus, lost to history for thirty mo
nated P. Servilius Isauricus and L. Antonius; for 40 B.C., Pollio and Cn . Domitius Calvinus. The Caesarians Servilius and
eld a military command and died in 40 B.C.; but the Caesarian nobilis Cn . Domitius Calvinus prolonged an active career aft
en Brutus left Italy, he was accompanied or followed by his relatives Cn . Domitius Ahenobarbus and M. Licinius Lucullus,3
ilius Varus (Velleius2, 71, 3); also the pertinacious young Pompeian, Cn . Calpurnius Piso (Tacitus, Ann. 2, 43). For the c
at sea was short-lived. Pompeius, it is true, did not intervene; but Cn . Domitius Ahenobarbus, coming up with a large par
m were Cicero’s son and the assassins Cassius of Parma and Turullius. Cn . Piso, C. Antistius Vetus and L. Sestius also sur
tus obscurissimis initiis parum habebat summa accepisse et proximus a Cn . Pompeio ipsoque Caesare equestris ordinis consul
nsuls for 32, designated long in advance, were adherents of Antonius, Cn . Domitius Ahenobarbus and C. Sosius. But five yea
. Plinius Rufus, Appian, BC 5, 97, 405, &c; ILS 8891. Perhaps add Cn . Cornelius Lentulus (CIL XI, 6058) and Q. Nasidiu
insoluble, cf. recently E. Groag, PIR2, C 1395. Her first husband was Cn . Lentulus Marcellinus (cos. 56 B.C.). The second
employed at an early age for dynastic alliances. It is not known whom Cn . Domitius Ahenobarbus married; but his grand-daug
us. Octavianus had two and two only, the military men C. Carrinas and Cn . Domitius Calvinus. Carrinas, of a family proscri
alatine he had already dedicated a temple in 36 B.C. In the same year Cn . Domitius Calvinus, victorious from Spain, rebu
urvivors to support a new combination in the Roman State. The young Cn . Domitius Ahenobarbus, beyond all doubt the best
olitics. The young nobiles M. Aemilius Scaurus, his half-brother, and Cn . Cornelius Cinna, his nephew, remained with Anton
ch he dispatched before the end of the year to the consuls designate, Cn . Domitius Ahenobarbus and C. Sosius, his trusted
sul with Corvinus, instead of Antonius: one of the suffecti was to be Cn . Pompeius, a great-grandson of Sulla. Historic na
ure, based on the presence of the names M. Valerius, L. Cornelius and Cn . Pompeius on the Fasti. These consuls might have
3 and Forum Julii, whence came Cornelius Gallus and the ancestors of Cn . Julius Agricola, will have displayed no hesitati
ius Scaurus, the half-brother of Sex. Pompeius was pardoned, likewise Cn . Cornelius Cinna. 7 Scribonius Curio, however, wa
em iura Catonem. 7 NotesPage=>317 1 Tacitus, Ann. 3, 28: ‘turn Cn . Pompeius, tertium consul corrigendis moribus del
pp. 189 and 268. His son may have been married to a granddaughter of Cn . Domitius Calvinus, cf. PIR2, D 150. 4 CIL VI,
s; still less such nobiles as the three Valerii, Cinna’s grandson, or Cn . Pompeius, the descendant of Sulla the Dictator.
ation southwards over certain of the more highly civilized peoples. Cn . Domitius Calvinus had governed Spain during a di
rdinarius in 23 B.C. All the others head the year with the suffectus, Cn . Calpurnius Piso. 4 Dio 54, 3, 2 f. 5 Ib. 54,
ake the place of Murena in the supreme magistracy, Augustus appointed Cn . Calpurnius Piso, a Republican of independent and
lar rank in 29 B.C. (Dio 52, 42, 4). PageBook=>350 Scaurus and Cn . Cinna were not especially favoured Scaurus, like
ia, entered the Senate during the reign of Augustus, soon followed by Cn . Domitius Afer, the great orator from Nemausus. 2
.). (Q.) Pompeius Macer was praetor in A.D. 15 (Tacitus, Ann. 1, 72), Cn . Domitius Afer in 25 (Ann. 4, 52). Again, a certa
fore his marriage to Livia, only one descendant of a consular family ( Cn . Domitius Calvinus) belonged to the faction. Octa
o his cause even the most recalcitrant of the nobiles; and some, like Cn . Piso (cos. 23 B.C.), joined perhaps from a disin
y grandiose land speculation in Picenum. 4 L. Volusius Saturninus and Cn . Cornelius Lentulus, excellent men, amassed fortu
ot uncommon it would hardly be fair to conjecture a relationship with Cn . Magius of Larinum (Pro Cluentio 21 and 33). 4
before A.D. 4 are perhaps to be inserted the names of M. Vinicius and Cn . Cornelius Lentulus. 4 The situation in the Bal
e: the latter might seem more plausible. Further, the consular legate Cn . Cornelius Lentulus, usually assigned to Illyri
and agents in this department of public service appears to have been Cn . Domitius Calvinus, the oldest surviving consular
: the fragment Eph. Ep. VIII, p. 317, probably of 21 B.C., mentions a Cn . Dom[itius], who can hardly be anybody else. On t
the inventive fancy of an unknown rhetorician. 1 It was reported that Cn . Cornelius Cinna, a grandson of Pompeius Magnus
Sex. Pompeius and memories of trials in adversity for the Republic. 5 Cn . Calpurnius Piso (cos. 23 B.C.) had been a Republ
ere preserved as heirlooms or curiosities (Suetonius, Tib. 6, 3). 6 Cn . Piso, consul with Tiberius in 7 B.C. Tacitus des
), also an associate of Sex. Pompeius, formed a Pompeian connexion. 3 Cn . Cinna, again, was a grandson of Magnus. By now
n advancement. 6 NotesPage=>429 1 Velleius 2, 102, 1 f. 2 As Cn . Piso (cos. 7 B.C.) found to his cost when trying
4 Tacitus, Ann. 1, 13, according to whom some authorities substituted Cn . Piso (cos. 7 B.C.) for Arruntius. That is not th
6 M. Plautius Silvanus governs Asia and then Galatia (A.D. 4-6); 7 Cn . Piso’s command in Spain probably belongs to this
of the earliest Narbonensian senator who attained prominence in Rome, Cn . Domitius Afer, of resplendent talents as an orat
ius at Brundisium he had condoned the return of one of the assassins, Cn . Domitius Ahenobarbus. Nor, on the other hand, ha
nt among the Liberators and himself the last admiral of the Republic, Cn . Domitius stood next to Antonius for leadership i
cendants only through collaterals or through the female line, such as Cn . Cornelius Cinna, and the Scribonii, issue of the
502 1 D. Valerius Asiaticus, consul under Caligula, cos. 11 46, and Cn . Domitius Afer, cos. suff. 39. 2 The origin of
’ Compare Velleius 2, 10, 2: ‘hunc nobilissimae simplicitatis iuvenem Cn . Domitium. ’ PageBook=>511 Augustus set es
eir feud (Suetonius, Nero 4); and Plancina his granddaughter, wife of Cn . Piso (cos. 7 B.C.), was accused of poisoning Ger
L. Sulla victam armis libertatem in dominationem verterunt. post quos Cn . Pompeius occultior non melior, et numquam postea
7 D. Junius D. f. Brutus: Mam. Aemilius Mam. f. Lepidus Livianus 76 Cn . Octavius M. f.: C. Scribonius C. f. Curio 75 L
Lucullus: C. Cassius L. f. Longinus 72 L. Gellius L. f. Poplicola: Cn . Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus 71 P. Cornelius P
. Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus 71 P. Cornelius P. f. Lentulus Sura: Cn . Aufidius Orestes 70 Cn. Pompeius Cn. f. Magnus
anus 71 P. Cornelius P. f. Lentulus Sura: Cn. Aufidius Orestes 70 Cn . Pompeius Cn. f. Magnus: M. Licinius P. f. Crassu
elius P. f. Lentulus Spinther: Q. Caecilius Q. f. Metellus Nepos 56 Cn . Cornelius P. f. Lentulus Marcellinus: L. Marcius
Cornelius P. f. Lentulus Marcellinus: L. Marcius L. f. Philippus 55 Cn . Pompeius Cn. f. Magnus II: M. Licinius P. f. Cra
54 L. Domitius Cn. f. Ahenobarbus: Ap. Claudius Ap. f. Pulcher 53 Cn . Domitius M. f. Calvinus: M. Valerius Messalla Ru
her 53 Cn. Domitius M. f. Calvinus: M. Valerius Messalla Rufus 52 Cn . Pompeius Cn. f. Magnus III: Q. Caecilius Q. f Me
us 41 L. Antonius M. f.: P. Servilius P. f. Vatia Isauricus II 40 Cn . Domitius M. f. Calvinus II: C. Asinius Cn. f. Po
ito: M. Acilius (M’. f.?) Glabrio L. Vinicius M. f.: Q. Laronius 32 Cn . Domitius L. f. Ahenobarbus: C. Sosius C. f. L. C
sar Divi f. III: M. Valerius M. f. Messalla Corvinus M. Titius L. f.: Cn . Pompeius Q. f. 30 Imp. Caesar Divi f. IV: M. L
stus XI: A. Terentius A. f. Varro Murena L. Sestius P. f. Quirinalis: Cn . Calpurnius Cn. f. Piso 22 M. Claudius M. f. Ma
pillo M. Vinicius P. f. 18 P. Cornelius P. f. Lentulus Marcellinus: Cn . Cornelius L. f. Lentulus 17 C. Furnius C. f.:
alpurnius L. f. Piso Frugi (Pontifex) 14 M. Licinius M. f. Crassus: Cn . Cornelius Cn. f. Lentulus (Augur) 13 Ti. Claud
Censorinus: C. Asinius C. f. Gallus 7 Ti. Claudius Ti. f. Nero II: Cn . Calpurnius Cn. f. Piso 6 D. Laelius D. f. Balb
C. Clodius C. f. Licinus 5 L. Valerius Potiti f. Messalla Volesus: Cn . Cornelius L. f. Cinna Magnus C. Vibius C. f. Pos
r Studien xxxv (1913), 113 ff.; xxxvi (1914), 84 ff. BORMANN, E. ‘ Cn . Domitius Calvinus’, Festschrift für O. Benndo
ius, 35. Calpurnius Piso, C. (cos. A.D. 111), 497. Calpurnius Piso, Cn . (cos. 23 B.C.), with the Liberators, 199, 206; a
ors, 199, 206; accepts the consulate, 334 f., 368. Calpurnius Piso, Cn . (cos. 7 B.C.), son of the preceding, and friend
male virtue, 444. Claudia, wife of Brutus, 45, 58. Claudia, wife of Cn . Pompeius (the son of Magnus), 45. Claudia, daugh
Cinna, L. (? cos. suff. 32 B.C.), 279, 328. Cornelius Cinna Magnus, Cn . (cos. A.D. 5), 269, 299, 328, 349 f., 425, 496;
rnelius Lentulus, adherent of Sex. Pompeius, 228. Cornelius Lentulus, Cn . (cos. 18 B.C.), 373, 400. Cornelius Lentulus,
rnelius Lentulus, Cn. (cos. 18 B.C.), 373, 400. Cornelius Lentulus, Cn ., the Augur (cos. 14 B.C.), 381, 400 f. Corneli
cos. 3 B.C.), proconsul of Africa, 435. Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus, Cn . (cos. 72 B.C.), 44, 66. Cornelius Lentulus Cru
s Crus, L. (cos. 49 B.C.), 41, 44 f. Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus, Cn . (cos. A.D. 26), 437; alleged conspiracy of, 494,
is, Ser. (cos. suff. A.D. 10), 377. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, Cn . (cos. 56 B.C.), 35, 36, 44; his son a Caesarian,
, 476. Danube lands, see Illyricum, Moesia. Dardani, 223. Decidius, Cn ., proscribed Samnite, 80. Decidius Saxa, L. (tr
Domitiopolis, in Cilicia, 281. PageBook=>546 Domitius Afer, Cn . (cos. suff. A.D. 39), orator from Vienna, 44, 79
39), orator from Vienna, 44, 79, 367, 456, 502. Domitius Ahenobarbus, Cn . (cos. 122 B.C.), 44. Domitius Ahenobarbus, Cn.
omitius Ahenobarbus, Cn. (cos. 122 B.C.), 44. Domitius Ahenobarbus, Cn . (cos. 96 B.C.), 24, 44. Domitius Ahenobarbus, Cn
mitius Ahenobarbus, Cn. (cos. 96 B.C.), 24, 44. Domitius Ahenobarbus, Cn . (Marian partisan), 20, 27. Domitius Ahenobarbu
s Ahenobarbus, Cn. (Marian partisan), 20, 27. Domitius Ahenobarbus, Cn . (cos. 32 B.C.), 51, 198, 202, 206, 210, 212, 213
th of, 296; descendants, 421 f., 494 f., 510. Domitius Ahenobarbus, Cn . (cos. A.D. 32), 510. Domitius Ahenobarbus, L.
, 421 f., 510. Domitius Apulus, Antonian, 132. Domitius Calvinus, Cn . (cos. 53 B.C.), Caesarian partisan, 62, 111, 165
Julius Aquila, C., praefectus Aegypti, 367, 411. Julius Agricola, Cn ., from Forum Julii, 292, 356, 455, 502. Julius
Lucceius, L., opulent friend of Pompeius, 35, 407. Lucilia, wife of Cn . Pompeius Strabo, 30. Lucilius, friend of Brutu
73. Papinius Allenius, Sex., Augustan senator, 363. Papirius Carbo, Cn . (cos. 85 B.C.), 16, 27, 28. Papius Mutilus, M.
357. Plancina, granddaughter of L. Munatius Plancus, 512. Plancius, Cn ., defended by Cicero, 89. Plancus, see Munatius
ompeianus’, meaning of, 317, 464. Pompeii, origin of, 28. Pompeius, Cn . (cos. suff. 31 B.C.), 279, 328. Pompeius, Q. (
ustus, 356. Pompeius Macer, Q. (pr. A.D. 15), 367. Pompeius Magnus, Cn . (cos. 70 B.C.), his origin and early career, 28
279. Pompeius Rufus, Q. (tr. pl. 52 B.C.), 279. Pompeius Strabo, Cn . (cos. 89 B.C.), his character and actions, 28; a
actions, 28; adherents and clientela, 71, 75. Pompeius Theophanes, Cn ., client of Magnus from Mytilene, 35, 76, 262; as
22. Tertulia, alleged mistress of Octavianus, 277. Theophanes, see Cn . Pompeius Theophanes. Thermus, see Minucius. Th
te, 172, 197; no descendants, 498. Treia, 360. Tremellius Scrofa, Cn ., landowner and friend of Varro, 31. Tribunate, 1
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