at least to palliate, the horrors of the Roman Revolution: hence the danger of an indulgent estimate of the person and acts o

preferred comfort, secret power and solid profit to the burdens, the dangers and the extravagant display of a senator’s life.

and political intrigue, constrained them, in mastering these manifold dangers , to derogate from oligarchic practice and confer

d the disappearance of Crassus, slain by the Parthians (53 B.C.), the danger of a breach between Pompeius and his ally might a

kind happened. Italy was apathetic to the war-cry of the Republic in danger , sceptical about its champions. The very virtue

ble person of scholarly tastes, in high repute as a gourmet: it was a danger to ask him to dinner. 5 Pansa was also in Gaul fo

of the new dispensation. Gaul and the armies remained tranquil, the danger of popular outbreaks was averted, the veterans we

communications to Gaul and Spain. Antonius was ready to parry that danger he would take that region for his own consular pr

onia, was a Caesarian but also a kinsman of Brutus, hence a potential danger . But that province was soon to be stripped of its

lished at the small town of Velitrae, had shunned the burdens and the dangers of Roman politics. 1 Ambition broke out in the

avianus did not improve. Neither trusted the other. To counter that danger and outbid his rival the consul went farther with

e province of Syria. Antonius had already acted. There was a nearer danger , D. Brutus holding the Cisalpina and cutting off

st not to turn up. He salved his dignity by the belief that he was in danger of his life, and by the composition of a speech i

n the venerable consular and the revolutionary adventurer. There is a danger , it is true, that the relations of Cicero and Oct

have no compunction about declaring the young man a public enemy. The danger was manifest. It did not require to be demonstrat

ageBook=>165 intervened. Lepidus was not as vigilant against the dangers of fraternization as had been the generals of Pom

nto the original compact with Octavianus with clear perception of the dangers of their equivocal alliance. He had not been delu

elatives. Cicero answered with a rebuke. 4 Octavianus was a greater danger to the Republic than Antonius; that was the argum

n and from the party of the constitution. Now he was consul, his only danger the rival army commanders. For the moment, cert

e, perpetuated in fiction and in history; and in later days, personal danger and loss of estates were no doubt invented or enh

e the suspicions of the soldiery. Riots broke out and his life was in danger . Rome and all Italy was in confusion, with murd

tavianus, while prosecuting the policy of the Caesarian party, was in danger of succumbing to just such an alliance of Caesari

ut barely known to historical record. Octavianus now learned of the danger that had menaced him. In a moment of confidence i

Lepidus: they had done so before. For Octavianus there subsisted the danger of a revived Republican coalition under Antonius,

enemy would win no support along or near the coast of Dalmatia. These dangers had been threatened or experienced in Caesar’s wa

victims of confiscation, rancorous and impotent at the moment, but a danger for the near future, should the Republicans and P

ter fighting against the domination of Pompeius, recognized a greater danger and hoped to use Pompeius for the Republic agains

of Roman domination. Not their strength, but their weakness, fomented danger and embarrassment to Rome. A revived Egypt migh

ional support for the enterprise it was necessary to invent a foreign danger that menaced everything that was Roman, as Antoni

>275 1 Tarn (CAH x, 76) concedes that Antonius himself was not a danger to Rome. 2 Horace, Odes 1, 37, 21. 3 The unim

m. Only then, after victory, did men realize to the full the terrible danger that had menaced NotesPage=>287 1 Horace,

vested with supreme power, but no title. 6 There must be no risks, no danger of an Antonian rising in Italy in defence of Libe

s—or even of diplomacy. Of an invasion of Asia and Syria there was no danger to be apprehended, save when civil war loosened t

ce of Egypt, was merely a pretext in his policy. There was a closer danger , his own equals and rivals, the proconsuls of the

et debellare superbos. 1 But the armies of Rome presented a greater danger to her stability than did any foreign enemy. Afte

for his advice on weighty matters—and never tempted by ambition into danger . He could afford in the magnanimity of success to

t the gap between fact and theory. It was evident: no profit but only danger from talking about it. The Principate baffles def

hstand Agrippa. Maecenas made a fatal mistake he told Terentia of the danger that threatened her brother. 3 Augustus could not

a, Livia and the chief men in the governing oligarchy had averted the danger of any premature manifestation of hereditary mona

e profits of his own existence for the pomp, the extravagance and the dangers of the senatorial life; of which very rational di

d already proceeded so far that it could abate its rhythm without any danger of reaction. The greater number of his partisans

the Princeps controlled the armies. Nor indeed had there been serious danger in Rome itself. During the absence of the ruler (

won the consulate without competition, held it without ostentation or danger , and lived secure as a senior statesman, much in

rovincial armies lay the real resources of power and the only serious danger . It was not until a century elapsed after the Bat

tions yet further, bind together the European provinces and avert the danger made manifest and alarming during the Triumviral

he eastern lands (17-13 B.C.). That was one solution of the political danger . But Agrippa departed in 13 B.C. M. Titius, who p

reatened to precipitate a civil war. It might be conjectured that the danger was averted by a veiled coup d’état on the part o

L. Licinius Sura (P-W XIII, 475). Pliny, Epp. 9, 13, 11, attests the danger from the provincial armies. Late in 97 or early i

LI (1919), 74 ff. XXVIII. THE SUCCESSION PageBook=>419 THREE dangers ever beset the domination of a party there may ar

r a cool reception. Lollius was all-powerful. Tiberius’ life was in danger at a banquet in the presence of Gaius Caesar and

y to the régime by discouraging the hopes of rivals or relatives. One danger , ever menacing, was still averted by the continuo

ore than a cause for congratulation and a source of revenue. It was a danger and a responsibility. By its unwieldy mass the Em

fficultates κɑì τοσɑύτην ɑ҆ποθυμίɑν τ ν στɑτενομένων’); and there was danger of mutiny (Dio 56, 12, 2). PageBook=>458 N

the government affected to believe and discover. 2 There was a graver danger than the dagger of a casual assassin, whether he

ors without alarming the government; and men might still read without danger the opprobrious epistles of Antonius or the viole

dorn the Fasti their principal use. For all else they were believed a danger , though often only a nuisance, so great a tribute

uragement to the more irresponsible type of serious-minded person. No danger that they would be challenged to put their ideals

e supported the government without dishonour, his own dignity without danger . 1 Likewise the excellent P. Memmius Regulus, a p

ugustus, 311, 404, 521 f. Privato consilio, 160, 163. Proconsuls, danger from, 310, 328; appointment of, under the Princip