nce to the narrative. The immense number of characters mentioned in a brief and compressed fashion has been the cause of pecu

1 The narrative of Augustus’ rise to supreme power, supplemented by a brief analysis of the working of government in the new

e atonement for the crime and NotesPage=>003 1 Tacitus, in his brief summary of the rise of Augustus {Ann, i, 2), make

reclude a successor to his domination. Sulla resigned power after a brief tenure. Another year and he was dead (78 B.C.).

ial death had been spared the experience of another civil war after a brief respite of precarious peace. 2 In all, twenty-six

rge of a certain Rufinus, the son of one of his freedmen. 5 Such in brief was the following of Caesar, summarily indicated

Temple of Tellus. In the meantime, the Liberators, descending for a brief space from the citadel, had made vain appeal to t

the results may have outstripped his designs. In form, the speech was brief and moderate:1 the audience was inflammable. At t

f theory, an acute sense of the difference between words and facts, a brief acquaintance with Roman political behaviour that

ight. Many deserted and returned to their homes, none the worse for a brief autumnal escapade. With weakened forces and despa

3 Though it demands faith to believe that ‘Sallust’, In Ciceronem, a brief , vigorous and concentrated attack, was written by

shed, as once Senate, People and Cicero had dealt with Catilina. In brief , Cicero proposed to secure legitimation, punlica

his only danger the rival army commanders. For the moment, certain brief formalities. To bring to trial and punishment the

ished with Dolabella; 1 another Marsian, Poppaedius Silo, gained only brief glory. 2 The pace was fast, the competition feroc

threw himself into the strong city of Perusia and prepared to stand a brief siege, expecting prompt relief from Pollio and Ve

26, 3. 4 Appian, BC 5, 65, 276. 5 Dio 48, 32, 1. They had a very brief tenure. 6 Velleius 2, 76, 4: ‘per quae tempora

ever, no indication of such a change. Octavianus went to Gaul for a brief visit, Lepidus to Africa. Antonius departed for t

the most ancient families. Many minor partisans served him well, of brief notoriety and quick reward, then lapsing into obs

2 About consulates under the Triumvirate (43–33 B.C.), the following brief computation can be made. Excluding the Triumvirs,

osity, a tireless industry. Long ago he deserted politics, save for a brief interval of loyal service to Pompeius in Spain, a

llam Sallusti velocitatem. ’ PageBook=>249 in vocabulary, with brief broken sentences, reflecting perhaps some discord

st pretentious of contemporary writers, Cornelius Nepos, who compiled brief historical biographies designed for use in school

21, 4. Balbus probably died not long after this. PageBook=>258 brief lull when many feared the imminent clash and some

moment whatsoever in the policy of Caesar the Dictator, but merely a brief chapter in his amours, comparable to Eunoe the wi

nius should have held. Republican freedom of speech now revelled in a brief renascence as though it were not fettered to the

the last illusory plans and the last despondency before death. After brief resistance Antonius was defeated in battle. He to

g an inspired vision of recent history, the shield of Aeneas allows a brief glimpse of the future life, on the one side Catil

nze, Hermes LIX (1924), 73 ff. = Vom Geist des R mertums142 ff. For a brief , clear and admirable account of the controversy,

, 17, 4 (above, p. 138). 2 Wilamowitz disposed of the question in a brief footnote (Der Glaube der Hellenen 11, 428 n.).

Roman writers echoed the official description. Not so Tacitus—in his brief account of Augustus’ feigned moderation and steal

bring the consulate and ennoblement of their families for ever. In brief , Augustus’ design was to make public life safe, r

urn passed westwards and went to Gaul and Spain (20-19 B.C.), after a brief sojourn in Rome. For a time the capital city wa

forth on the Fasti a Quinctius, a Quinctilius, a Furius Camillus, but brief in duration and ill- starred. 1 Pride of birth,

after the consulate, little occupation, save a proconsulate, usually brief in tenure. The consulars became ‘senior statesmen

n forming a famous compact. Cabinet government already existed in the brief Dictatorship of Caesar. While the Senate held emp

the Princeps in the matter of his nephew Marcellus. Their triumph was brief and transient. The death of Marcellus, a heavy ca

ius, Tib. 14, 4, cf. Tacitus, Ann. 6, 21. 4 The narrative of Dio is brief and fragmentary, in part preserved only in epitom

as they had been to the service of the State, the nobiles now enjoy a brief and last renascence in the strange but not incong

in war awaited him, but a dreary and precarious old age, or rather a brief term of despair until Gaius succeeded to the thro

june archaism or a bare Attic simplicity: a new style developed, with brief , ferocious sentences, pointed, rhetorical and orn

ession of Caligula, the enemies of Augustus and of Tiberius enjoyed a brief and illusory consolation. Caligula, the great-gra

-wars of Marius and Sulla had been a punishment and a warning. In the brief respite between the Dictatorships the old familie

urity by Caesar or by Augustus, either to resplendent fortune or to a brief renascence before the end. Others that survived p

arried Junia Calvina, of the blood of Augustus; 4 the other enjoyed a brief tenure of the Principate that Augustus had founde

edure of a nominally independent Senate. The nobiles might savour a brief taste of revenge when scandal and crime rent the

ella claros potentesque fecerunt, felix in publicum fuit. ’ 2 For a brief panegyric of Saturninus, see Velleius 2, 105, 1.

dom. 3 Neither Tacitus nor Trajan had been a party to this folly; the brief unhappy Principate of Nerva was a cogent argument

s, temples or theatres they had erected; their mailed statues and the brief inscribed record of their public services adorned

ugustus, 368, 379, 419 f., 479; in relation to the consulate, 372 f.; brief renascence, 419 ff.; loss of prerogatives, 404 f.