rriage Caesar’s daughter, Julia; and Caesar now married a daughter of Piso . Gabinius and Piso in their turn received importa

ghter, Julia; and Caesar now married a daughter of Piso. Gabinius and Piso in their turn received important military provinc

provinces, Syria and Macedonia, through special laws. Gabinius and Piso were the most conspicuous, but not the only adher

law, the virtuous L. Calpurnius Piso. When hostilities were imminent, Piso offered to mediate between Caesar and Pompeius; a

. Afr. 80, 4). Q. Marcius Crispus (ib. 77, 2) had been a legate of L. Piso in Macedonia (In Pisonem 54). As for A. Allienus

p. Claudius, who strove to expel Curio from the Senate. His colleague Piso thwarted that move, but was unable or unwilling t

easures were passed. On the insistence of Caesar’s father- in-law, L. Piso , the Senate decided to recognize the Dictator’s w

in this context certain other names are mentioned, P. Servilius, L. Piso and Cicero: they are described as neutrals, their

ate three men of consular rank had spoken against Antonius, namely L. Piso , P. Servilius and Cicero, and therefore might be

and policy the three consulars were discordant and irreconcilable. Piso , an aristocrat of character and discernment, unit

of Philodemus, the poet and scholar. 1 Though elegant in his tastes, Piso suited his way of living to his family tradition

d elected through the agency of Pompeius and Caesar to the consulate, Piso saw no occasion to protect Cicero from the threat

t, sentence and consequences of exile. Cicero remembered and attacked Piso for his conduct of the governorship of Macedonia,

cedonia, both before and after the proconsul returned, on any excuse. Piso replied, no doubt with some effect. 3 Nor did any

a proconsul alleged to have been corrupt, incompetent and calamitous. Piso , however, withdrew more and more from active poli

Ciceronem, a brief, vigorous and concentrated attack, was written by Piso , as has been argued by Reitzenstein and Schwartz,

were professed, and sometimes followed, with such robust conviction. Piso , a patriotic Roman, did not abandon all care for

ontemporaries was accorded that double and melancholy satisfaction. Piso was an ex-Caesarian turned independent. P. Servil

a tribune: Ti. Cannutius belonged to the following of Isauricus. 3 Piso and P. Servilius each had a change of side to the

enemies and his own apologies attest. The sagacious and disinterested Piso would hardly lend help or sanction to the Notes

e met Brutus, occupied in the last preparations for leaving Italy. L. Piso , he learned, had indeed spoken in the Senate but

rocious displays of political invective, as when he contended with L. Piso ten years earlier. Between Antonius and Cicero

in petty rancour and impudent defamation like the invectives against Piso . The other speeches against Antonius, however, ma

from human sacrifices to the wearing of a black toga at a banquet. 1 Piso and Gabinius were a brace of vultures, rapacious

Piso and Gabinius were a brace of vultures, rapacious and obscene. 2 Piso to public view seemed all eyebrows and antique gr

orgies within four walls! As domestic chaplain and preceptor in vice, Piso hired an Epicurean philosopher, and, corrupting t

African extraction, a baker or seller of perfumes at Aricia. 4 As for Piso , his grandfather did not come from the ancient co

een called a ‘vir fortis’, a pillar of Rome’s empire and honour. 9 L. Piso , for his stand against Antonius, acquires the tem

Cassius, asserted, could be called statesmen and patriots himself, L. Piso and P. Servilius. 8 From the rest nothing was to

for four days. Calenus spoke for Antonius, Cicero for war; 1 and L. Piso twice intervened on the plea of legality, with ar

the outlawing of Antonius, violated private as well as public law. As Piso pointed out, perhaps with sharp reminder of the f

ed in secret. 1 The embassy set forth. It comprised three consulars Piso , Philippus and Ser. Sulpicius, a respectable an

more scandalous, more disgusting than the conduct of their mission by Piso and Philippus. ’2 The conditions upon which Anton

ere appointed to a representative commission, namely Calenus, Cicero, Piso , P. Servilius, and L. Caesar. Cicero, however, ch

es censor in the same year; then both disappear. 5 Two honest men, L. Piso and L. Caesar, lapse completely from record. Phil

re Cicero’s son and the assassins Cassius of Parma and Turullius. Cn. Piso , C. Antistius Vetus and L. Sestius also survived.

of ‘legatus’, perhaps c. 23 B.C. (ILS 86). Note also a proconsul, L. Piso , sitting in justice at Mediolanium (Suetonius, De

t intentions he merely handed over certain state papers to the consul Piso , to Agrippa his signet-ring. 2 Under their direct

memory of the Liberators. 3 The choice of Sestius, like the choice of Piso , will attest, not the free working of Republican

ublic and plausible justification, Words and phrases were not enough. Piso and Sestius, ex-Republicans in the consulate, tha

in the most distinguished of noble families. The grandfather of L. Piso (cos. 58 B.C.) was a business man from Placentia;

s cause even the most recalcitrant of the nobiles; and some, like Cn. Piso (cos. 23 B.C.), joined perhaps from a disinterest

either 13–11 or 12–10 B.C. According to Seneca (l.c.), Augustus gave Piso ‘secreta mandata’: in order that the legatus Augu

e=>392 1 Horace, Epp. 2, I, I f. 2 Odes 4, 9. 3 For example, Piso and Ahenobarbus receive no ode from Horace. Pag

ook over Illyricum; 2 and, either after the campaigns of Tiberius and Piso and the first stage in the pacification of the Ba

urged that the new command was set up as a result of the campaigns of Piso . The first clearly attested legate of Moesia is t

warfare. The proconsul could choose ‘viri militares’ as his legates. Piso was not himself a soldier, but he took to Macedon

not be sufficient or secure support, for it may belong to another L. Piso at a slightly later date; and Castabala was the c

of a native principality. It would be possible, however, to assign to Piso the acephalous and much-contested elogium from Ti

, then proconsul of Asia, then legate again, of Syria. This would fit Piso and his Bellum Thracicum quite well; but Quiriniu

matians rose in revolt. As twenty years before in the Thracian War of Piso , so now the Balkan lands called again for reinfor

the first senator of his family, so perhaps was Lollius. Silvanus and Piso , however, were nobiles. These men all held high

nd in the provinces of the East with which, indeed, both Silvanus and Piso could recall hereditary ties. 7 NotesPage=>3

selves absent on provincial commands, men like Lollius, Quirinius and Piso will have had something to say. NotesPage=>4

eeking closer relationship with the reigning dynasty. From his father Piso inherited, along with the love of letters, good s

h brought enhanced splendour and eventual ruin to both houses. 1 L. Piso was a neutral, commanding repute and even, perhap

d even, perhaps, a following of his own. 2 Like the Cornelii Lentuli, Piso was no enemy of Tiberius. There were other nobles

t and the esteem of Tiberius. 6 NotesPage=>424 1 The family of Piso , like that of Messalla, is a nexus of difficult p

preserved as heirlooms or curiosities (Suetonius, Tib. 6, 3). 6 Cn. Piso , consul with Tiberius in 7 B.C. Tacitus describes

vancement. 6 NotesPage=>429 1 Velleius 2, 102, 1 f. 2 As Cn. Piso (cos. 7 B.C.) found to his cost when trying to co

citus, Ann. 1, 13, according to whom some authorities substituted Cn. Piso (cos. 7 B.C.) for Arruntius. That is not the only

true, with the family of Caesar; but the bond had not been tightened. Piso was an aristocrat of varied accomplishments, of l

n to outward view, but no less trusted by Tiberius than the excellent Piso . 7 NotesPage=>436 1 Velleius 2, 112, 1 f.;

ac lenitate mixtissimos. ’ Seneca (Epp. 83, 14) is more valuable: ‘L. Piso , urbis custos, ebrius ex quo semel factus est, fu

dilettante, showed some favour to Ovid, and perhaps to Horace; 4 and Piso satisfied the philhellenic traditions of his fami

at a late date in Horace’s life and was dedicated to two sons of this Piso is so plausible that it can dispense with the sup

however, they became entangled, not only among themselves, as when a Piso , adopted by a Crassus, married a Scribonia descen

o perish by violent ends, among them that irreproachable and academic Piso whom Galba unwisely adopted to a four days’ partn

d largely on family ties has been built up, nobiles like Ahenobarbus, Piso and Paullus Fabius Maximus govern the military pr

feud (Suetonius, Nero 4); and Plancina his granddaughter, wife of Cn. Piso (cos. 7 B.C.), was accused of poisoning Germanicu

hilippus (cos. 91 B.C.) and his son, or from honest independence like Piso . With the Principate comes a change. For the se

e papers which the Princeps, near to death, handed over to the consul Piso in 23 B.C. But earlier versions may more easily b

A. f. Varro Murena L. Sestius P. f. Quirinalis: Cn. Calpurnius Cn. f. Piso 22 M. Claudius M. f. Marcellus Aeserninus: L. A

s C. f. Gallus 7 Ti. Claudius Ti. f. Nero II: Cn. Calpurnius Cn. f. Piso 6 D. Laelius D. f. Balbus: C. Antistius C. f. V

Fabricius 1 Cossus Cornelius Cn. f. Lentulus: L. Calpurnius Cn. f. Piso (Augur) PageBook=>529 A.D. A. Plautius:

”—— ‘Galatia and Pamphylia under Augustus: the governorships of Piso , Quirinius and Silvanus’, Klio XXVII (1934), 12

um Pannonicum, 390. Bellum Siculum, 230 ff. Bellum Thracicum, of L. Piso , 391, 398. Beneventum, 84. Betilienus Bassus, P

d by Galba, 497. Calventius, of Placentia, maternal grandfather of L. Piso , 74, 150, 357. Calvisius Sabinus, C. (cos. 39 B

ations with, 265 f.; and Octavianus, 301. Mediolanium, 150, 503; L. Piso proconsul at, 329, 398; the Liberators honoured t

n-council of, 418, 472, 519f. Pisaurum, 132, 296. Piscinarii, 23. Piso , see Calpurnius and Pupius. Placentia, 74, 150, 3

ith Caesar, 138 f.; activity in 60 B.C., 34; exile,36, 135; feud with Piso , 135, 140; in the Civil War, 45, 137 f.; under th

llus, L., Augustan senator, 363. Valerius Flaccus, L., legate of L. Piso in Macedonia, 396. Valerius Messalla, M. (cos. su

alliances between the descendants of Pompeius, Sulla, Crassus, and L. Piso (cos. 15 B.C.), cf. above, pp. 424 and 496 f. For

p. 54. M. Crassus Frugi (cos. A.D. 27) is assumed to be the son of L. Piso , adopted by the last of the Licinii Crassi, the c