taly and a stable empire demanded and imposed. The rule of Augustus brought manifold blessings to Rome, Italy and the provinc

d in the end, as was fated, it came round to monarchy again. Monarchy brought concord. 6 During the Civil Wars every party and

ed through patronage of the Scipiones. 4 Subsequent alliances had not brought much aristocratic distinction. Pompeius’ mother w

and by the Metelli. 8 Then a second defeat. The tribune L. Flavius brought forward NotesPage=>033 1 Plutarch, Pompeiu

Ahenobarbus, energetic but very stupid. The tail of the procession is brought up by Sulpicius Rufus, a timid and respectable ju

o going back. To Caesar’s clear mind and love of rapid decision, this brought a tragic sense of impotence and frustration he ha

d have incriminated the stern censor on that count. Further, Caesar brought back the three disgraced consulars, not all dubio

that they cannot show a consul. A Fabius Maximus followed Caesar and brought back the consulate to his family. 1 Ap. Claudius,

nia Ulterior and then propraetor, made the acquaintance of Balbus and brought him to Rome. Allied both to Pompeius and to Caesa

veteran colonies, in Italy and abroad. At auction Pompeius’ property brought in fifty million denarii: it was worth much more.

bility were the Valerii, perhaps the Fabii. 2 These baronial houses brought with them to Rome the cults and legends of their

einforced the new nobility. 6 These foreign dynasts were taken up and brought in by certain patrician houses for their own poli

r’s man; and it was more than the obstinate folly of Ahenobarbus that brought on the capitulation of the neighbouring city of C

ic and not the true motive of Caesar’s augmentation of the Senate. He brought in his own partisans, men of substance or the new

s did not strive to get them condemned. Rejecting both extremes, he brought forward a practical measure. Though Caesar was sl

vernors in 44 B.C. suffers from confusion and inaccuracy: it has been brought into satisfactory order through the researches of

ood-natured but careless person), the years of pleasure and adventure brought him, after service with Gabinius in Syria, to bri

alutary policy. By force of argument and personal authority, Antonius brought the session of March 17th to terms of compromise

s the assassins, with impunity. The disloyal Caesarian was soon to be brought to book. To maintain power with the populace and

rospect of concord or a subtle intrigue against the consul had been brought to nought. Antonius, for his part, had been con

t. 25th). The informant was Servilia; a slave of Caecilius Bassus had brought the news. Further, Scaptius, Brutus’ agent, had a

re discipline Antonius ordered summary executions. Disturbing rumours brought him back to Rome. He summoned the Senate to meet

e Antonius proposed a vote complimentary to his ally Lepidus (who had brought Sex. Pompeius to terms) and carried through the a

rcellus wholly to be neglected he had family connexions that could be brought into play, for the Caesarian cause or for the Rep

ed to the obsession. Otherwise there were many things that might have brought Cicero and Caesar together a common taste for lit

eutral does not run away. 2 In the autumn, too late: Cicero returning brought not peace but aggravation of discord and impulsio

on that neither the policy nor the party of Caesar had been abolished brought a rapid disillusionment. Even before the Ides of

at Antium showed, or any armed support from the provinces. Early July brought well-authenticated reports from Spain that Sex. P

in Roman politics. 2 So he thought then and the month of September brought no real comfort or confidence. Back in Rome, Cice

allies, drop Caesar, and become amenable to guidance: he was abruptly brought to heel by Pompeius, and his influence as a state

warfare in the north, with leisure for grim reflections. When Hirtius brought to completion the commentaries of Caesar, he conf

condemn a Roman citizen unheard. At the very least Antonius should be brought to trial, to answer for his alleged misdeeds. In

change in the military situation in the north. The eastern provinces brought news of sudden and splendid success. While the Se

ghost of Caesar but an incalculable hazard, the loss of Cassius, that brought on the doom of the Republic. Brutus could win a b

1 So did he spend the winter after Philippi. Then his peregrinations brought him to the city of Tarsus, in Cilicia. Through hi

Scribonius Libo and Sentius Saturninus (Appian, BC 5, 52, 217): they brought with them Julia, the mother of Antonius, who had

(Servius on Ecl. 9, 47) and died upon the spot: the incident is there brought into connexion with the comet and said to be refe

one of themselves, a soldier and a man of honour. Peace with Pompeius brought him further allies. 1 The aristocrats would have

nce of warfare and little success as a general. The Pact of Puteoli brought Italy a respite at last from raids and famine, an

icy of family alliances, though the day was long past when that alone brought power at Rome. His brother-in-law the consular P.

ge and in the company of young men of the Roman aristocracy. Defeat brought impoverishment and the constraint to solicit and

e Queen of Egypt: he had not seen her for nearly four years. Fonteius brought her to Antioch, where they spent the winter of th

ysus; and his own race was fabled to descend from Heracles. Both gods brought gladness and succour to humanity. Before the eyes

Roman People was large, dangerously large. Caesar’s conquest of Gaul brought its bounds to the English Channel and the river R

ic monarchies. Rome spread confusion over all the East and in the end brought on herself wars foreign and civil. To the populat

Hirtius and Pansa. Then the new year had been eagerly awaited, for it brought a chance to secure constitutional sanction for th

and Titius. Well primed with the secrets of Antonius, the renegades brought a precious gift, so it is alleged news of the doc

verso iuvenem succurrere saeclo ne prohibete. 5 The poet Virgil had brought to completion the four books of his Georgics duri

promise with Senate and People, certain eminent personages might have brought secret and urgent pressure to bear upon him. So

orruption of ancient virtue and the decline of ancient patriotism had brought low a great people. Ruin had been averted but nar

remained, men to whom adventure, intrigue and unscrupulous daring had brought the rapid rewards of a revolutionary age. Obscu

rmy itself, from the centurionate to equestrian posts. The Revolution brought a change, deriving perhaps from purely military n

with solemn rebuke of the princess his paramour for the disgrace she brought upon her family, her ancestors and all posterity

ted a man to the highest order in state and in society, the consulate brought nobility and a place in the front ranks of the ol

the most valuable endowment. Service in war and the command of armies brought the highest distinction to men whose youth had be

ain for reinforcement from the armies of the East. In A.D. 7 Silvanus brought troops to the Balkans, fought along with Caecina

s to keep in touch with the Senate but who decided the business to be brought before that convenient and docile committee? The

politician to whom the notorious friendship of his mother with Livia brought promotion and a career. Silvanus became consul al

spirit. Piso’s family became related to the Crassi, an alliance which brought enhanced splendour and eventual ruin to both hous

the daughter of the Princeps. Yet it was not of Livia’s doing, and it brought no immediate benefit to her son. The whole episod

cherously attacked and wounded. The wound refused to heal. His malady brought on a deep dejection, reinforcing perhaps a consci

her new master for many years. The adoption of Tiberius should have brought stability to the régime by discouraging the hopes

een invoked to palliate his execution for conspiracy. 4 The charges brought against Agrippa Postumus had been more vague, his

excellence the primacy over pecuniary profit. If the growing of corn brought no money to the peasant, if his life was stern an

he old-fashioned moralist might rejoice. Let foreign trade decline it brought no good, but only an import of superfluous luxury

lled last on the list of the consulars. 5 Labeo, it is also recorded, brought to ridicule a proposal that a bodyguard of senato

f Virgil and Livy from the public libraries. 3 The rule of Caligula brought no freedom, no benefit to history: it merely pois

h. Like Brutus originally an enemy of Pompeius, and through that feud brought into conflict with Caesar, he followed Cato’s lea

ly an incapacity to adopt the meaner virtues and ignoble devices that brought success in a changed and completely plutocratic o

delayed but logical end of Revolution and Empire. Noble birth still brought the consulate as of right, and after a long inter

stification of success. One man only of all whom the Revolution had brought to power deserved any public repute, and that was

ily trees, 83, 361; repute and virtues of, 82, 193, 360, 453, 455 f.; brought into Roman politics, 285 f., 359 ff., 364; and mi