utlasting the friends, the enemies and even the memory of his earlier days , Augustus the Princeps, who was born in the year

nd of constitutional government. So well did he succeed that in later days , confronted with the separate persons of Octavian

racter. Cato extolled the virtues that won empire for Rome in ancient days , denounced the undeserving rich, and strove to re

proposal of Caesar was rejected and he was declared contumacious: six days later his province was taken from him. The Caesar

an empire: the fate of Italy was decided in the provinces. In earlier days the Roman noble augmented his power and influence

offer of the citizenship to any who laid down their arms within sixty days may have weakened the insurgents by encouraging d

es, the Liberators barricaded themselves in their houses. Nor, as the days passed, did it become safe for them to be seen in

us was amicable, not exploiting his position unduly. In these April days fortune seemed to smile upon the Roman State and

Gracchi and a long line of demagogues. Rumours went about in the July days at Rome that Octavianus, though a patrician, had

with abuse of the Liberators. This was on October 2nd. Three or four days NotesPage=>123 1 Cicero, Phil, 1; Ad Jam.

a busy and imperious autocrat. Then came the Ides of March and, two days later, the meeting of the Senate in the Temple of

NotesPage=>142 1 Ad Att. 16, 8 (Nov. 2nd), cf. 16, 9 (one or two days later). 1 Ib. 16, 11, 6. 4 Ib. 16, 14, 2: ‘ne

as perfect of their kind as are the civic and moral paragons of early days ; which is fitting, for the evil and the good are

be used of this flimsy character, was with Antonius, his ally in the days following the Ides of March; and he will have ref

e for action. Hirtius and Pansa opened the debate. It lasted for four days . Calenus spoke for Antonius, Cicero for war; 1 an

yricum to Egypt. About Cassius there were strong rumours in the first days of February:1 from Brutus, an official dispatch t

mation. Such was the battle of Forum Gallorum (April 14th). 1 Seven days later, Antonius was forced to risk a battle at Mu

aordinary honours had already been devised. 2 A thanksgiving of fifty days was decreed to the immortal gods unprecedented an

y, moving along the Aemilia, on April 22nd. He secured a start of two days , for D. Brutus went to consult Pansa at Bononia,

eachable. 6 Ad M. Brutum 2, 2, 3. After an altercation covering two days , Servilius was crushed ‘a me ita fractus est ut e

asts met in conference on a small island in a river near Bononia. Two days of concentrated diplomacy decided the fate of the

s marched to Rome and entered the city in ceremonial pomp on separate days . A Lex Titia, voted on November 27th, established

critically since, perpetuated in fiction and in history; and in later days , personal danger and loss of estates were no doub

of authority in the Senate there was a singular dearth, recalling the days when Cinna was dominant at Rome. In December of t

y for the bare distinction, were granted in abundance, held for a few days or in absence. 6 The sovran assembly retained onl

ial religion of the Roman People could come scant consolation in evil days , NotesPage=>246 1 In the Dialogus of Tacit

d did more than justice to the merits of Senate and People in earlier days . 2 There was no idealization in his account of a

ough Macedonia, but in vain. He had to escape to Antonius. After some days the legions capitulated, an interval perhaps spen

alled the Bellum Alexandrinum. Cleopatra survived Antonius by a few days which at once passed into anecdote and legend. To

ned to Italy. He entered Rome on August 13th. During three successive days the imperial city witnessed the pomp of three tri

were to resume the rightful exercise of all their functions. Three days later the Senate again met, eager and impatient t

Maecenas as well. Between the Princeps’ two steadfast allies of early days there was no love lost. The men of the Revolution

Divus Aug. 41, 1. PageBook=>352 The Roman Commonwealth in the days of the Republic was composed of three orders, eac

other of Varro Murena), an intimate friend of the Princeps in earlier days . Augustus, they said, once thought of giving hi

inium of the Paeligni. 2 Municipal men in the Senate of Rome in the days of Pompeius were furnished in the main by Latium,

Titius, who possessed a long experience of the East from his Antonian days , appears then to have been appointed legate in Sy

inted praefectus urbi in 26 B.C. and resigning the office after a few days , because he did not understand its functions or b

ncle, the Sabine historian and moralist. Like the Maecenas of earlier days , the subtle Sallustius concealed the qualities of

cession to his nephew Caligula, when Rome lacked a government for two days and in the Senate men debated about a restoration

Claudian party were probably the remnant of the Pompeians. In evil days Roman aristocratic loyalty acknowledged the ties

n on his way to Spain succumbed to illness and died at Massilia a few days after Tiberius’ return, the Claudian was not rest

ularly lacking in the city states of Greece but inculcated from early days at Rome by the military needs of the Republic, na

ods, Augustus’ most urgent care was to honour the generals of ancient days , the builders of empire. 1 He caused their statue

onsi Catonis auspiciis veterumque norma. 1 But these were not the days of Romulus or of Cato the Censor; and that shaggy

educate coming generations to civic virtue. The story of the first days of the city, established as the old poet recorded

age of history, imposing their names, as families had done in happier days , upon a period or a government. In the background

Sulla, Cinna, Crassus and Pompeius, were still prominent in the first days of the Empire but their direct line did not survi

ematic contrast which virtuous and pushing novi homines of Republican days were in the habit of drawing between their own ‘i

tempted to regret the grand and untrammelled eloquence of the closing days of the Republic. 4 He might pause when he reflect