hority, all that made no difference to the source and facts of power. Domination is never the less effective for being veiled. Aug

ever, chose the consulate of Metellus and Afranius, in which year the domination of that dynast was established (60 B.C.). Tacitus

asts Pompeius, Crassus and Caesar to control the State and secure the domination of the most powerful of their number. Motum ex

lla could not abolish his own example and preclude a successor to his domination . Sulla resigned power after a brief tenure. Ano

olutionary designs of M. Livius Drusus, held the censorship under the domination of Marius and Cinna, passed over to Sulla in the

censorships or triumphs in as many years. 3 Impaired by the rise and domination of the party of Marius, the Metelli got power and

nd veterans of his father, and led his army to liberate Rome from the domination of the Marian faction for Sulla’s interests and f

and Afranius into a date heavy with history. 5 In the next year the domination of Pompeius Magnus was openly revealed. It rested

other principes and by his support, when consul and proconsul, of the domination of Pompeius, who now, for supreme power, seemed l

s and a subverting of the constitution. After long strife against the domination of Pompeius, Cato resolved to support a dictators

s; 2 while Cato chose to fall by his own hand rather than witness the domination of Caesar and the destruction of the Free State.

defied and then destroyed the Senate’s rule. Each had sought armed domination . 1 Had Pompeius conquered in battle, the Republic

the vocabulary of Roman political invective, applicable alike to the domination of Sulla and the arbitrary power exercised by Cic

ional government. His rule was far worse than the violent and illegal domination of Pompeius. The present was unbearable, the futu

the praetorship in 44 B.C. Yet Cato, no sooner dead, asserted the old domination over his nephew more powerfully than ever in life

ar was being forced into an autocratic position. It meant the lasting domination of one man instead of the rule of the law, the co

esar exploited his family and the state religion for politics and for domination , winning the office of pontifex maximus: the Juli

sand veterans, settled on the lands of Sulla’s enemies, supported his domination , promoted the Romanization of Italy and kept aliv

taly. That would preclude competition for a post of vantage and armed domination . A fair prospect of concord or a subtle intrigu

mploying the name of Caesar and the arms of Octavianus to subvert the domination of Antonius, and so destroy the Caesarian party,

mpeius had come to terms with the government. Cicero was sorry. 4 The domination of the Caesarian faction in the person of Antoniu

d the respectable names of Senate and People as a mask for personal domination . The names of good citizens and bad became partis

overnment ‘in order to liberate himself and the Roman People from the domination of a faction’. 3 The term was not novel. Nobody

to Atticus ‘what is the point of overthrowing Antonius to install the domination of Octavianus? Cicero is as bad as Salvidienus. M

When a coalition seized power at Rome, it employed as instruments of domination the supreme magistracy in the city and the armies

e outbreak of the Civil War achieve the highest distinction under the domination of the Triumvirs. The consulate falls in the main

of his more recent predecessors when they had liberated Rome from the domination of a faction. But L. Antonius did not hold the ci

enturer, after achieving recognition with Republican help against the domination of Antonius, deserted and proscribed his associat

in the struggle. That was not to be known. At the end of 40 B.C. the domination of the Caesarian faction, founded upon the common

of the royal house. The damage and the disgrace were immense. But the domination of the nomads was transient. Brundisium freed the

nts that might serve him later against Antonius, winning for personal domination the name and pretext of liberty. The young mili

ined by the aristocracy to intimidate the people, to assert their own domination and to reinforce the fabric of the Commonwealth.

orships. Not Caesar’s invasion of Italy but the violent ascension and domination of Pompeius, that was the end of political libert

he rulers of Rome claimed the homage due to gods and masqueraded, for domination over a servile world, in the guise of divinity, C

nce with Antonius. The Catonian faction, after fighting against the domination of Pompeius, recognized a greater danger and hope

further to speculate upon the policy and intentions of Antonius, the domination which Cleopatra had achieved over him and the nat

t kings were already there: let them remain, the instruments of Roman domination . Not their strength, but their weakness, fomented

beautiful. 3 But there are more insistent and more dangerous forms of domination he may have succumbed to the power of her imagina

signed and contrived by the party of Octavianus. It was not a war for domination against Antonius Antonius must not be mentioned.

to be fought? For Rome, for the consuls and the Republic against the domination of Octavianus, or for Egypt and Egypt’s Queen? Ah

4 Aid from Italy could be invoked for revolution, for reaction or for domination , even for all three ends at once. The tribune Liv

ntal monarchy was distant and irrelevant when compared with the armed domination of Octavianus at home. Yet in some way, by propag

as a guarantee against any recurrence of the anarchy out of which his domination had arisen. But Augustus was to be consul as we

or for that matter of Antonius, save as criminal types. The power and domination of Augustus was in reality far too similar to tha

was Brutus a good imperialist. As he pronounced when he attacked the domination of Pompeius, for the sake of empire it was not wo

rtisans of Augustus, were well aware of what was afoot. To secure the domination of the Caesarian party, the consolidation of the

sts, but with more thoroughness and without opposition. This time the domination of a faction was to be permanent and unshaken: th

e pleased. One thing could never change, the source and origin of his domination . When a faction seized power at Rome, the consu

ng prestige of his auctoritas, and all the vast resources of personal domination over the empire of the world. NotesPage=>330

n the confusion of the Civil Wars they extended their raids and their domination southwards over certain of the more highly civili

ity was legal. The new settlement liberated the consulate but planted domination all the more firmly. The tribunicia potestas was

ps. The Caesarian party was installed in power: it remained to secure domination for the future. After the assassination of Caesar

and magistrates. Electoral disorders were barely heard of again. The domination of the Triumvirs had created numerous consuls, in

s or as corporations all this has sufficiently been demonstrated. The domination of Pompeius gave a foretaste of secret rule his M

III. THE SUCCESSION PageBook=>419 THREE dangers ever beset the domination of a party there may arise dissension among its d

em, and leaping with avidity upon any dramatic phrase that fitted the domination of Pompeius: nostra miseria tu es magnus. 1 Age

oresque viris et moenia ponet. 5 His triumph did not bring personal domination , but the unity of Rome and Italy, reconciliation

His works were condemned and burnt. Augustus was able to prevent his domination from being stamped as the open enemy of freedom a

and Caesar were all more than mere faction-leaders; yet the personal domination of those dynasts never meant so drastic a depress

It is evident that a traditional Roman prejudice, sharpened under the domination of the Caesarian party and debarred from attackin

with noble qualities as well as evil the strife for liberty, glory or domination . 1 Empire, wealth and individual ambition had rui

mpeius and Caesar. People and Army were the source and basis of his domination . Such were the Res Gestae Divi Augusti. It woul

began when he raised a private army and ‘liberated the State from the domination of a faction’. Dux had become Princeps and had co