nd son by adoption of Augustus, consort in his powers. Not until that day was the funeral of the Free State consummated in

scales against the vanquished. Brutus and Cassius lie damned to this day by the futility of their noble deed and by the fa

erity. It is manifest in action on various occasions, arrayed in open day to defend an extortionate provincial governor, to

ok=>026 high assembly. But the speech and authority that won the day was Cato’s.1 Aged thirty-three and only quaestori

d in working the constitution against the craftiest politician of the day : he was declared a public enemy if he did not lay

ed a public enemy if he did not lay down his command before a certain day . By invoking constitutional sanctions against Cae

and prudent Hirtius. He summoned the Senate to meet on the following day in the Temple of Tellus. In the meantime, the L

he Forum. A speech of Marcus Brutus delivered on the Capitol the next day likewise fell flat. The mob was apathetic or host

ders and the Liberators entertained one another to banquets. The next day , further measures were passed. On the insistence

Thoughtful men reflected that its powers could easily be restored one day under another appellation. At the end of March or

ect of the Roman Empire 1 (1928), 192 ff. Even if June 1st be not the day of the passing of the law (cf. M. A. Levi, Ottavi

’s heir. And now Heaven itself took a hand. At the eighth hour of the day a comet appeared in the northern sky. The superst

lar policy. In the Senate on September 1st Antonius proposed that a day in honour of Caesar should be added to the solemn

ime there was criticism and opposition in the Senate on the following day both Cicero and P. Servilius Isauricus spoke. 1 A

assigned to his brother, the praetor C. Antonius. On the following day , after a solemn review at Tibur, where not only t

ace calls for constant vigilance. Cicero later claimed that from that day forward he never deserted his post. 1 Facts refut

Back in Rome, Cicero refrained from attending the Senate on the first day of September. Antonius uttered threats. Cicero ap

Cicero’s return provoked an incident, but gave no indication that the day of September 2nd would be a turning- point in Rom

ns in advance for the personal safety of the new consuls on the first day of the year, when momentous transactions were ann

NotesPage=>162 1 Phil. 3. In a speech to the People on the same day he states: ‘deinceps laudator provincia Gallia me

t but helped them with generous subsidies. 1 On the first or second day of February the envoys returned, lacking Sulpiciu

ate his efforts. As a patriotic demonstration he proposed on the same day yet another statue in the Forum, for the dead amb

on the victorious and disordered troops of Antonius and retrieved the day , no soldier in repute or in ambition, but equal t

de, Hirtius fell. In the field Antonius was rapid of decision. On the day after the defeat he got the remnants of his army

had reckoned without the military resource of the best general of the day and the political maturity of the youth Octavianu

ilitary levies in Picenum. The rumour was false. 2 On the following day Octavianus forbore to enter the city with armed m

were seen in the sky, the omen of Romulus, the founder of Rome. 3 The day was August 19th. Octavianus himself was not yet t

, 28. Ch. XV PHILIPPI AND PERUSIA PageBook=>202 ON the first day of the new year Senate and magistrates took a sol

o the Caesarians. Otherwise their situation was desperate, for on the day of the first Battle of Philippi the Republican ad

mature: Senate and People steeled themselves to celebrate instead the day of Philippi. Ailing, despondent and under evil au

t L. Marcius Censorinus as proconsul of Macedonia; 3 and on the first day of the year 39 Censorinus inaugurated his consuls

that satisfied head, heart and senses, and endured unimpaired to the day of his death. For once in his life he surrendered

ht still exert the traditional policy of family alliances, though the day was long past when that alone brought power at Ro

style of Cicero, recognized as ultimate and classical even in his own day . But not without rivals: a different conception a

257 1 Nepos, Vita Attici 19 f. Octavianus wrote to him almost every day (ib. 20, 2): yet Atticus was also in sustained co

concord through alliance with the men of property and influence. 1 A day would come when the ruling class in the cities of

ve might be guessed: it was to be imparted to the Senate on the first day of the new year. So far official documents and

hen dismissed the Senate, instructing it to assemble again on a fixed day , when he would supply documentary evidence agains

ea-power. Not perhaps by a battle at sea: the greatest general of the day would prefer to re-enact the strategy of Pharsalu

my of the Roman People entered the capital city of Egypt on the first day of August. Such was the episode called the Bellum

orious battle of Actium and the defeat of the greatest soldier of the day that called forth the shrillest jubilation from t

that. The whole career of Pompeius was violent and illicit, from the day when the youth of twenty-three raised a private a

ith no voice or testimony, hoping and fearing in secret. On the first day of January he entered upon his eleventh consulate

eds, with developments of the imagined future. Two emperors might one day be required or four. Yet the fabric must be held

ssage of dynastic politics into monarchical rule and emerge into open day in the court life of the ruler of the Julio-Claud

advice of Livia and received a long curtain-lecture. On the following day he summoned Cinna to his presence and delivered a

a distant relative. Likewise Livia Medullina, who died on her wedding day (Suetonius, Divus Claudius 26, 1). Cf. also below

ll that, the sober standards prevalent in the society of Tacitus’ own day were perhaps imposed by a mysterious revolution o

oor expressed their gratitude by crowding to the Capitol on the first day of the year and contributing small coins to a fun

sleep in the temple of Apollo and was visited by a snake. On the very day of the birth of his son, the great astrologer Nig

of sovranty from Jupiter, and recognized again by Cicero on the next day when he had the first sight of Caesar’s grandneph

thday of the Princeps as the beginning of its calendar-year; for that day announced good tidings to the world. 3 Asia surpa

bility but not the living. Few of them, indeed, survived in Juvenal’s day , and they mattered not at all. The Empire had bro

re to deride the new nobility, the oligarchy of government in his own day . He makes mock of the needy Greek of low degree,

Africa (Ann. 1, 53). PageBook=>494 That was fitting. From the day when the great ancestor, Attus Clausus, migrating

l extraction, like his father- in-law and like the best Romans of his day . PageNotes. 507 1 Tacitus, Ann. 3, 65: homine

r of Caesar had endured to the end. He died on the anniversary of the day when he assumed his first consulate after the mar