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1 (1960) THE ROMAN REVOLUTION
(P-W XIV, 1550 f.) and Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus (P-W V, 1327 f.), the brother of the consul of 54. Ahenobarbus had married a da
is heir, Pliny, NH 14, 96. 4 L. Licinius Lucullus (cos. 74) and his brother Marcus (cos. 73), who was adopted by a M. Terenti
trician Servilii and ruthless to recapture power for her house. 5 Her brother , Q. Servilius, husband of Hortensius’ daughter,
treacherous and merciless, had killed the husband of Servilia and the brother of Ahenobarbus. 1 ‘Adulescentulus carnifex. ’2
d harried Pompeius, in which activities he got encouragement from his brother Appius, from his kinsmen the Metelli, and from Cr
to or for the Republic they postponed vengeance, but did not forget a brother and father slain by the young Pompeius in a foul
4). Also young Hortensius (Ad Att. 10, 4, 6) and Lucius and Quintus, brother and cousin of C. Cassius Longinus, the brother-in
of the legates present or past joined the enemies of Caesar Cicero’s brother and the great marshal T. Labienus. Honoured and e
Lepidus could recall a family feud against Pompeius; and his consular brother had been won to Caesar by a large bribe. 5 Servil
s against Sertorius, receiving as a reward the Roman citizenship; his brother likewise served in the war against Mithridates. H
at he accepted the adoption and persuaded a tribune, L. Antonius, the brother of the consul, to allow him to address the People
re taken from Brutus and Cassius, while Macedonia was assigned to his brother , the praetor C. Antonius. On the following day,
3 Ib. 3, 23. The tribunes were Ti. Cannutius, L. Cassius Longinus (a brother of the assassin but a Caesarian in sympathy), and
ed his policy and his character; and Clodia committed incest with her brother and poisoned her husband. The enormities of P. Va
on. But the Antonii at least kept faith among themselves: the younger brother Lucius added Pietas to his name as the most convi
e expected. Cicero distrusted for different reasons both Paullus, the brother of Lepidus, and the kinsmen of Octavianus, Philip
s with M. Antonius he may still have hoped for an accommodation:7 the brother of the Caesarian leader was a valuable hostage.
mmon sentiments of humanity were revolted when Lepidus sacrificed his brother Paullus, Antonius his uncle, the elderly and blam
the proscription of a Coponius may fairly be put down to Plancus. 4 A brother and a nephew of Plancus were also on the lists. 5
family towards Plancus, cf. Velleius 2, 83, 3. below, p. 283. 5 His brother Gaius, otherwise known as L. Plotius Plancus, was
s heir and served their turn: they departed to die in peace. Lepidus’ brother , the proscribed Paullus, retired to Miletus and l
, 12, 1, cf. 15, 1. He was the son of the consul of 61 B.C. His half- brother , L. Gellius Poplicola, was also with Brutus for a
, was Sex. Pompeius (cos. 35 B.C.), the grandson of Pompeius Strabo’s brother . For the Vinicii, above, p. 194. PageBook=>
d country, and bring himself to inflict the penalty of death upon the brother of Antonius. When Brutus heard of the end of Cice
anius, sought to exploit the confusion in the interests of his absent brother . 1 They played a double game. Before the veterans
orthward in the hope of effecting a junction with the generals of his brother who held all the Gallic provinces. Octavianus,
western provinces, lacking instructions, doubted the veracity of his brother and his wife. Salvidienus made his way back fro
Perusia the consul professed that he was fighting in the cause of his brother , and his soldiers inscribed the name of Marcus An
capitulation (late in February?). Octavianus received with honour the brother of his colleague and sent him away to be his gove
m Syria to Egypt and lurked in Egypt, while in Italy his wife and his brother not NotesPage=>214 1 Appian, BC 5, 4, 15 f
arms of an alien queen,1 or else his complicity in the designs of his brother was complete but unavowed. The alternative but no
p by the sudden and complete rout of a body of hostile cavalry. 3 His brother had tried to defend the landed class in Italy fro
diation of Octavia was invoked to secure an accommodation between her brother and her husband or so at least it was alleged, in
may already have tired of Octavia. Anything that reminded him of her brother must have been highly distasteful. His future and
ts in foreign lands had lapsed by now to the Caesarian party. Sextus’ brother was dead, as were those faithful Picenes, Afraniu
y ships: of ships Antonius had no need. Octavia was instructed by her brother to bring a body of two thousand picked men to her
forward as a pawn in the game of high politics, to the profit of her brother , whichever way the adversary moved. 3 Antonius wa
25 B.C. (IGRR IV, 33, col. c, 1. 15), cf. P-W V A 691 ff. Possibly a brother of Varro Murena. 3 The consular M. Acilius Glab
aks. 2 Another of the party-dynasts had come to grief. Murena was the brother of Terentia, the wife of the all-powerful Maecena
of the all-powerful Maecenas. Yet neither Maecenas nor Murena’s half- brother , the virtuous and disinterested Proculeius, an in
ight mean civil war the Varro in charge of Syria was perhaps Murena’s brother . He fades from recorded history. When M. Agrippa
de a fatal mistake he told Terentia of the danger that threatened her brother . 3 Augustus could not forgive a breach of confide
finition before the law. Agrippa was not, Agrippa never could be, the brother and equal of Augustus. He was not Divi filius, no
. Another member of this influential group was C. Proculeius (a half- brother of Varro Murena), an intimate friend of the Princ
the class of men referred to, compare the phrase employed by Cicero’s brother (Comm. pet. 53), ‘equites et boni viri ac locuple
t with dispensations the young Ahenobarbus, Ti. Claudius Nero and his brother Nero Claudius Drusus, P. Cornelius Scipio, three
PageBook=>384 The next generation was Caesarian. His father’s brother , a senator, supported Agrippa in prosecuting the
ng-field: it was out of place at Court. His coeval, Germanicus’ young brother Claudius, whom some thought stupid and whom his m
from the politics of the Aemilii and the alliance of his ill-starred brother , the husband of the younger Julia. He served with
06 1 Note, in the militia equestris, C. Stertinius Xenophon and his brother (SIG3 804 f.) from Cos, the Ephesian (?) Ti. Clau
, 180; declared a public enemy, 184; Triumvir, 188 f.; proscribes his brother , 192; actions as Triumvir, 202, 207, 208, 209, 21
anitarian language, 158 f.; his conduct defended, 180; proscribes his brother , 193; in the Perusine War, 210 ff., 215; flees to
acy and death of, 333 f.; the problem of his full name, 325 f.; ? his brother , legate in Syria, 329 f. Terrasidius, T., offic
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