agments of the preface of Sallust’s Histories, combined with Tacitus, Hist . 1, 1–3, will give some idea of the introduction

αστϵȋαι τϵ σαν ἤδƞ ĸατἀ πoλλἀ ĸαὶ στασίαρχoι µoναρχιĸoί. 2 Tacitus, Hist , 2, 38. 3 Tacitus, Ann. 1,1; Hist. 2, 38. 4 S

ασίαρχoι µoναρχιĸoί. 2 Tacitus, Hist, 2, 38. 3 Tacitus, Ann. 1,1; Hist . 2, 38. 4 Sallust, Hist. I, 18 m: *et relatus i

acitus, Hist, 2, 38. 3 Tacitus, Ann. 1,1; Hist. 2, 38. 4 Sallust, Hist . I, 18 m: *et relatus inconditae olim vitae mos,

ontinua per viginti annos discordia, non mos, non ius. ’ 5 Tacitus, Hist . 1, 3: ‘non esse curae deis securitatem nostram,

he peasant farmer. Among the victims NotesPage=>014 1 Sallust, Hist . 1, 55, 9M: ‘illa quies et otium cum libertate qu

C. Cf., however, no less pessimistic remarks about an earlier period, Hist , 1, 12 M. 2 There was no party of the populares

Rome’s empire and to their own ruin. NotesPage=>017 1 Sallust, Hist , 1, 67 m; 69; 77, 6, &c. PageBook=>018

Philippus steeled the Senate to take action against Lepidus (Sallust, Hist . I, 77 M); and he secured for Pompeius the comman

ff. 4 Pseudo-Asconius on Cicero, Div. in Caec, p. 189 St. Sallust ( Hist . 4, 43 M) describes him as ‘humili loco Picens, l

tesPage=>054 1 Below, p. 317 f. 2 Compare especially E. Meyer, Hist . Zeitschr. XCI (1903), 385 ff. = Kl. Schr. 12(192

arks by the present writer, BSR Papers XIV (1938), 1 ff. 3 Sallust, Hist . 3, 88 M: ‘sed Pompeius a prima adulescentia serm

iturius Sabinus, whose father served with Pompeius in Spain (Sallust, Hist . 2, 94 M), and Ser. Sulpicius Galba, whose parent

The notorious L. Fufidius, ‘honorum omnium dehonestamentum’ (Sallust, Hist , 1,55, 22 M): A primipilaris (Orosius 5, 21, 3).

y (ib. 13, 46) and took his own life rather than prolong a civil war ( Hist . 2, 47), and L. Vitellius: ‘eo de homine haud sum

cool treatment of the virtuous Emperor Galba will not escape notice ( Hist , 1, 49) ’magis extra vitia quam cum virtutibus’.

C. Tarquitius, at the banquet where Sertorius was murdered (Sallust, Hist . 3, 83 M) is presumably a member of this family.

‘bonurn publicum simulantes pro sua quisque potentia certabant. ’ 2 Hist , 1, 12 M: ‘bonique et mali cives appellati non ob

factione paucorum oppressum in libertatem vindicaret. ’ 4 Tacitus, Hist . 4, 73: ‘ceterum libertas et speciosa nomina prae

tia et obscura brevitas fuere pro cultu. ’ 2 Sallust, BJ 41; BC 10; Hist . 1, 11 m. 3 Sallust, Hist, 1, 55, 13 f. M: ‘leg

e pro cultu. ’ 2 Sallust, BJ 41; BC 10; Hist. 1, 11 m. 3 Sallust, Hist , 1, 55, 13 f. M: ‘leges iudicia aerarium provinci

4. 3 Divus Aug. 28, 1. 4 lb. 2, cf. above, p. 320. 5 E. Meyer, Hist . Zeitschr. xci (1903), 385 ff. = Kl. Schr. 12, 42

1 Dio 55, 13, 6. 2 For the details, M. Rostovtzeff, Soc. and Ec. Hist . of the Roman Empire (1926), 573 f. 3 Ad Att. 7

a (20-19 B.C.)4 NotesPage=>388 1 Above, p. 327 f. 2 Tacitus, Hist . 1, 4: ‘evulgato imperii arcano posse principem a

he Princeps, the ‘plebs sordida et circo ac theatris sueta’ (Tacitus, Hist , 1, 4). 6 e.g., ILS 120. The last was Q. Junius

imperium which it exerted over others. PageNotes. 440 1 Tacitus, Hist . 2, 95. PageBook=>441 Not until libertas w

u. 5 PageNotes. 442 1 On Marius, Sulla and Pompeius, cf. Tacitus, Hist . 2, 38. Marius and Sulla do not occur in the list

ics 2, 173 f. 3 On this, cf. above all M. Rostovtzeff, Soc. and Ec. Hist ., 50 ff. 4 Not that they were bad farmers. Comp

were attached to the Roman communities. 2 Rostovtzeff (Soc. and Ec. Hist . 42, cf. 499 f.) rates the social status of the l

scribe themselves as ‘coloniam Romanam et partem exercitus’ (Tacitus, Hist . 1, 65). Varus got fifteen hundred men from the c

ts, see the full details in Suetonius, Divus Aug. 79 ff. 2 Sallust, Hist . 2, 16 M: ‘Oris probi, animo inverecundo. ’ 3 R

, Ann. 1, 10: ‘interfectos Romae Varrones Egnatios Iullos. ’ 2 Ib., Hist . 3, 54. 3 Seneca, Controv. 2, 4, 13: ‘caput pot

and for moral worth. 4 PageNotes. 485 1 Tacitus, Dial. 21, 7. 2 Hist . 1, 1: ‘inscitia rei publicae ut alienae. ’ 3 Q

s in aeternum ipse proscripsit. ’ 6 Tacitus, Ann. 4, 34 f. 7 Ib., Hist . 1, 1. This is assigned as a direct result of the

et in ripa, calcemus Caesaris hostem. 3 PageNotes. 488 1 Tacitus, Hist , 1, 1: ‘ita neutris cura posteritatis inter infen

y, Epp. 2, 1, 8 and the inscr. ILS 982, cf. PIR1, V 284. 3 Tacitus, Hist , ι, 52: ‘merito dubitasse Verginium equestri fami

iam divum Augustum nec Tiberii Caesaris prima tempora loquitur. ’ 3 Hist , 1, 50. PageBook=>508 Captured and enslave

e. NotesPage=>514 1 ILS 8393. 2 Eprius Marcellus in Tacitus, Hist . 4, 8. 3 Tacitus, Hist. 4, 5. 4 Titinius Capi

1 ILS 8393. 2 Eprius Marcellus in Tacitus, Hist. 4, 8. 3 Tacitus, Hist . 4, 5. 4 Titinius Capito (Pliny, Epp. 1, 17). T

hi and Cicero but was it worth it? 8 NotesPage=>515 1 Sallust, Hist , I, 7 M: ‘nobis primae dissensiones vitio humani

mina libertatis aut gloriae aut dominationis agit. ’ Compare Tacitus, Hist . 2, 38: ‘vetus ac iam pridem ínsita mor- talibus

;c. Pollio no doubt had similar observations to proffer. 2 Tacitus, Hist . 2, 38: ‘mox e plebe infima C. Marius et nobilium

isi de principatu quaesitum. ’ 3 And, as such, properly admitted in Hist . 1, 50: ‘mansuram fuisse sub Pompeio Brutoque rem

mansuram fuisse sub Pompeio Brutoque rem publicam. ’ Not, however, in Hist . 2, 38, where the historian speaks for himself.

et quocumquc alio nomine sunt tutores status publici. ’ 4 Tacitus, Hist . 1, 16: ‘imperaturus es hominibus qui nec totam s

And such there were. NotesPage=>517 1 Tacitus, Agr. 3, 1. 2 Hist . 1, 1. 3 Ib. 4, 8: ‘bonos imperatores voto expe

e usum, ambitiosa morte inclaruerunt. ’ 4 Tacitus, Ann. 15, 31. 5 Hist . 4, 69, 18 M (not invalidated by the fact that it

lius 15, 7, 3; Velleius 2, 124, 2; Ovid, Tristia 2, 219. 4 Sallust, Hist , ι, 55, 5 m: ‘scaevos iste Romulus. ’ 5‘Sallust