s and the seven genealogical tables it will sometimes reveal facts or connexions not explicitly mentioned in the text. In some way

sul and when a consular, or senior statesman, through lack of family- connexions and clientela. Within the framework of the Roma

ried to Q. Hortensius (cos. 69). For the stemma, Münzer, RA, 224; for connexions of Catulus with the Domitii Ahenobarbi and the Se

conservative statesman in the tradition of Philippus; and he formed a connexion with the Metelli. 1 The lust of power, that prime

a, of the house of the Aurelii Cottae. For the stemma, showing also a connexion with the Rutilii, Münzer, RA, 327. Caesar also ha

tella’s daughter, Aemilia. 1 When Aemilia died, Pompeius kept up that connexion by marrying another woman of that house. 2 The al

ation, had been a legate of Caesar in Gaul. For his pedigree, showing connexions with the Postumii, with Ser. Sulpicius Rufus and

ompeius’ following to his own. He may also have inherited the Spanish connexion of his old associate Crassus, who had once raised

Campania, again, a prosperous region, could show Marian and Caesarian connexions in towns like Puteoli, Cales and Nuceria. The Gra

on Trebonius, ib. 2274 ff. 8 Suetonius, Divus Iulius 83, 2. For his connexions , above, p. 64, n. 2 PageBook=>096 caution

uld induce him to depart to his province. Lepidus, through his family connexion with Brutus, might prove a bond of alliance betwe

in any event assured of a brilliant career through these influential connexions , was taken up by Caesar. 5 When C. Octavius pas

5 Nor was the devious Marcellus wholly to be neglected he had family connexions that could be brought into play, for the Caesaria

ortuous policy, to enhance his power and that of his clan. His family connexions would permit an independent and, if he chose, a c

hat would have excused his ambitions. 1 The Aemilian name, his family connexions and the possession of a large army turned this ci

es among the nobiles, but certain of the more eminent, through family connexions and social influence, had been able to evade pros

cl. 9, 47) and died upon the spot: the incident is there brought into connexion with the comet and said to be referred to in the

young matron generously endowed with beauty, sagacity and influential connexions . Herself in the direct line of the Claudii (her f

s. Even if a NotesPage=>263 1 On the notion of concord and its connexion with monarchy, cf. E. Skard, Zwei religiös-politi

grandson L. Calpurnius Bibulus, also an admiral; 2 and M. Silanus, a connexion of Brutus, was now an Antonian. 3 NotesPage=>

50. 4 CIL VI, 16357, cf. PIR2, C 1474. 5 The extraction and other connexions of this remarkable person are highly obscure (P-W

thers were praetorian. Nor was high birth in evidence. The family and connexions of one of the legates are uncertain; 2 none of th

Cornelius Maluginensis. 3 By birth, Seius already possessed powerful connexions his mother was sister to Maecenas’ Terentia and

knight’s son from the colony of Cales. P. Sulpicius Quirinius had no connexion with the ancient and patrician house of the Sulpi

pted by a novus homo, cf. E. Groag, P-W XIII, 1378, on the mysterious connexion with the house of Messalla (Tacitus, Ann. 12, 22)

the unlovable Scribonia to the advantageous and satisfactory Claudian connexion . Livia, however, gave him no children. But Julia,

his own match with Livia, the Princeps long ago had won the Claudian connexion : through the marriages of others he subsequently

the Marcii Censorini (cf. Velleius 2, 14, 3). There is an unexplained connexion with the Messallae in the family of M. Lollius (T

with his friend the Emperor Claudius. T. Flavius Vespasianus formed a connexion with Caenis, a freedwoman of Antonia; 2 and it wa

the princes Gaius and Lucius remained, and next to them the Claudian connexion . NotesPage=>420 1 At least, so Seneca says

grew ever more complex, producing by now a large number of collateral connexions , the husbands or the sons of the women of his hou

lies entwined about the roots of the monarchy. Livia and the Claudian connexion were in low water: Tiberius lived on in exile and

e difficulties about Cotta, cf. PIR2, A 1488. To be noted further are connexions with the successful novi homines M. Lollius (Taci

so was no enemy of Tiberius. There were other nobles with influential connexions , such as that mild-mannered person P. Quinctilius

A.D. 6, of a family of the new nobility which can show highly eminent connexions at this time: the first wife of P. Quinctilius Va

(cos. 22 B.C.), also an associate of Sex. Pompeius, formed a Pompeian connexion . 3 Cn. Cinna, again, was a grandson of Magnus.

25 1 ILS 8892. 2 Note M. Livius Drusus Libo (cos. 15 B.C.), whose connexions are unknown. The other relationships are tortuous

7). But L. Arruntius himself (cos. A.D. 6) may have Pompeian blood or connexions through the Cornelii Sullae, cf. Tacitus, Ann. 3,

ied Claudia Pulchra, the daughter of Marcella. Varus had other useful connexions . 4 A new party becomes discernible, dual in com

(PIR2, A 1129); his son, cos. A.D. 6 (ib., 1130). For their Pompeian connexions , which help to explain their prominence, cf. abov

sympathies were openly expressed. From his father Cassius inherited a connexion with the Transpadani; 1 and Brutus’ father had be

property during the Civil Wars. 6 None the less, the poet had eminent connexions , the Aelii Galli, and influential friends, Maecen

iances. Thus did Servilia work for her family, capturing the Aemilian connexion . But alliances begot feuds, and the nobiles were

acked Sulla: they made a final bid for power when, with the Scipionic connexion , they supported Pompeius. The last in the direct

eian partisans, L. Scribonius Libo and L. Arruntius, acquired a fatal connexion with the Pompeii. 3 Association with the reigning

and in A.D. 256. 10 Cf. Groag’s masterly elucidation of his family connexions , Jahreshefte XXI–XXII (1924), Beiblatt 425 ff. If

ntius, L. (cos. 22 B.C.), 227, 282, 297, 330, 339, 372, 434; Pompeian connexion of, 425, 434, 499. Arruntius, L. (cos. A.D. 6),

nexion of, 425, 434, 499. Arruntius, L. (cos. A.D. 6), his Pompeian connexion , 425; regarded as ‘capax imperii’, 433 f.; his ad

; praefectus urbi, 404, 436; political and social importance of, 424; connexions , 424, 434, 437, 496; descendants, 496 ff., 500; c

lations with Octavianus, 142, 182; death, 217; character, 128; family connexions , 112, 134. Claudius Marcellus, C. (cos. 49 B.C.

382; his feuds, 62, 63; wealth, popularity and influence, 13, 14, 24; connexions , 24, 44 f. Domitius Ahenobarbus, L. (cos. 16 B.

92, 356, 455, 502. Julius Caesar, C. (cos. 59 B.C.), his family and connexions , 25, 64, 68; early career, 25, 29, 32; consulate

in the War of Mutina, 162 ff., 176 ff.; his end, 180; his family and connexions , 64, 134. Junius Brutus Damasippus, L., partisa

eath, 38; his character, 22; wealth, 12; a dictum about politics, 12; connexion with the Metelli, 22, 36; with the Scipiones, 36;

with C. Caesar, 398, 428 ff.; disgrace and death, 428; his son, 435; connexion with the Valerii, 362, 379; wealth, 381; alleged

Nero, the Emperor, pedigree of, 495. Nerva, the Emperor, 415; his connexions , 501 f.; character of his rule, 517, 518. Neutral

424; legate of Varus, 435; proconsul of Africa, 438; important family connexions , 434, 437; descendants, 500. Nonius Calpurnius

the Catilinarians, 25 f.; as a leader of the Optimates, 26, 146; his connexions , 21, 23 f.; his party, 44 f., 268, 492; condones

ria, 401; in Germany, 432, 433; responsibility for the disaster, 511; connexions of, 424, 434, 437; character, 511; his son, 496.

anus, 182, 189; his second consulate, 197, 208; career, character and connexions , 69, 136; descendants, 298, 492. Sestius, L. (c

rbi, 403 f.; his career in general, 325; origin, 237; wealth, 380 f.; connexions , 379, 425; descendants, 498 f. Statilius Taurus

berius, 429, 434; his origin, 362; wealth, 381; patrician wives, 379; connexions , 425; lack of offspring, 499. Sulpicius Rufus,

he Civil War, 45, 64; attitude in 43 B.C., 164, 170; death, 170, 197; connexions , 64, 134. Superstition, spread of, 218, 256, 47

eedom of speech, 482; a supporter of the monarchy, 512; relatives and connexions , 198, 238, 269, 279, 423, 425; descendants, 496.

is son Q. Aemilius Lepidus (cos. 21 B.C.). Groag’s elucidation of the connexion with the descendants of Pompeius and Sulla throug

xxxix (1904), 461 ff. (with a stemma, ib. 470). In the matter of his connexion with the Cornelii Lentuli, however, the views of