ian houses, Valerii, Fabii and Cornelii, none the less held in turn a dynastic and almost regal position. 1 The Senate again, be

e tribune Ti. Sempronius Gracchus. The Metelli backed Sulla. The last dynastic NotesPage=>012 1 Compare Münzer’s comments

with the transformation of the Roman State, the manner and fashion of dynastic politics changes but little; and though noble hou

not so much through Marius as from internal disasters and the rise of dynastic houses of the plebeian nobility. But neither Vale

gative or inevitable destiny; and their daughters were planted out in dynastic marriages. In their great age the Metelli oversha

n who never became consul. Its origins lie at the very heart of Roman dynastic politics. The tribune M. Livius Drusus, whose act

6 For primacy in Rome Pompeius needed support from the nobiles. The dynastic marriage pointed the way. Sulla, as was expedient

n, tried to reinforce his predominance by the peaceful means of a new dynastic alliance. He saw the way at once. Having divorced

es to a changing economic system, by active rivals and by the rise of dynastic plebeian houses like the Metelli, they remembered

orked steadily to restore the dignity and power of her family. In her dynastic policy she ruthlessly employed the three daughter

validity. The province could boast opulent and cultivated natives of dynastic families, Hellenized before they became Roman, wh

an altar and a traditional religious observance. 6 Of certain local dynastic families it could in truth be proved as well as s

and elsewhere, tells of cities or nations, often with neglect of the dynastic houses that ruled them in a feudal fashion. Not

tic censor), cf. Suetonius, Tib. 2, 2. For their intermarriage with a dynastic house of Capua c. 217 B.C., Livy 23, 2, 1 ff. The

y a Latin termination. 3 The plebeian houses might acquire wealth and dynastic power at Rome, but they could never enter the rig

ceptions rather than examples. The governing oligarchy, not least the dynastic houses of the plebeian nobility, had been growing

s is fitting, with another Poppaedius Silo, an historic name. 8 Other dynastic families of Italia, providing insurgent leaders i

g his descent on the maternal side from the Cilnii, a house that held dynastic power in the city of Arretium from the beginning.

ar’s heir, no return to Rome. But the young Pompeius was despotic and dynastic in his management of affairs, like his father tru

eldest son, is unknown. They were surely employed at an early age for dynastic alliances. It is not known whom Cn. Domitius Ahen

uperior in power to Antonius. These aristocratic careerists, like the dynastic Livia Drusilla, the greatest of them all, were to

n four years. 3 No less conspicuous were the gaps in the ranks of the dynastic houses of the old plebeian aristocracy among the

overed the men and set them up as kings without respect for family or dynastic claims. NotesPage=>259 1 Plutarch, Antoniu

f the bitumen from the Dead Sea. That munificence did not content the dynastic pride and rapacity of Egypt’s Queen: again and ag

k=>262 inherited estates or the fruits of mercantile operations, dynastic in their own right. Caesar did his best to equa

practice were older still. Long ago the nobles of Rome, not least the dynastic house of the patrician Claudii, had enhanced thei

Empire of the Roman People :4 he treated Egypt as his own private and dynastic possession and governed it through a viceroy, jea

nceps set his hopes of a line of succession that should be not merely dynastic , but in his own family and of his own blood. Two

everence for forms and names. It went beyond the practices of Roman dynastic politics into the realm of pure monarchy; and it

der and rapine. Others came from the ancient aristocracy of the land, dynastic and priestly families tracing descent unbroken fr

. M. Salvius Otho, the son of a Roman knight, sprung from ancient and dynastic stock in Etruscan Ferentum, became a senator unde

ther Samnite was M. Papius Mutilus (cos. suff. A.D. 9), of an ancient dynastic house. Two other consuls in this period, though n

ranchise and in spreading their clientela, those rulers inherited the dynastic devices along with the ambitions of earlier Roman

two Fabii Maximi. Most of them were entrapped in the matrimonial and dynastic policy of Augustus. 2 While depressing the powe

and regular upon the Fasti. The date is not accidental: the flagrant dynastic policy of Augustus constrained him to bid for the

s for power and wealth require the same weapons, namely amicitia, the dynastic marriage and the financial subsidy. Loyalty and

B.C.), cf. Suetonius, Galba 3. PageBook=>378 Of the use of the dynastic marriage, Augustus’ own début in politics provide

, the censor Appius Claudius had been blessed with five daughters for dynastic matches may inspire and baffle conjecture. 1 Thou

or secret. Tiberius, being the head of the Claudii, would have had a dynastic and personal following whatever the character of

asked under the Principate of Augustus, they grow with the passage of dynastic politics into monarchical rule and emerge into op

mines. They had hitherto been kept in the background for political or dynastic reasons, for the glory of the Princeps and his st

Hadr. 4, 10. PageBook=>416 Agrippa and Livia had thwarted the dynastic ambitions of the Princeps in the matter of his ne

oubts. The New State was fast turning into the New Monarchy. As the dynastic aspirations of Augustus were revealed, more openl

was ended, his life precarious. Of that, none could doubt who studied dynastic politics and the working of human character. It t

patricians (for the latter families were older than the Roman State, dynastic and even regal in ancestry), regarded their oblig

e. Yet Tiberius must have had a following among the nobiles. Of the dynastic houses of the patrician nobility now renascent, A

, not invited, or perhaps disdaining, to join the inner circle of the dynastic group, namely the descendants of Cinna, Sulla, Cr

ian army; and Divus Julius had been avenged by his son and heir. This dynastic monument is a reminder, if such be needed, that D

hese observances attested devotion to the government and seconded the dynastic and monarchic policy of Augustus: a noticeable sp

erary figure. Very different the proud sons of the great priestly and dynastic houses of Asia, now holding consular rank in the

had met violent ends, accused of conspiracy. 3 Such was the price of dynastic name and dynastic alliance. The Aemilii and the

nds, accused of conspiracy. 3 Such was the price of dynastic name and dynastic alliance. The Aemilii and the Domitii Ahenobarb

eval and patrician distinction of Aemilii and Claudii, the Domitii, a dynastic plebeian house of fairly recent nobility, would y

tion of the Republic, he constructed in the Campus Martius a huge and dynastic monument, his own Mausoleum. He may already, in t

programme, 443 ff.; in Gaul and Spain, 388 f.; after 12 B.C., 391 f.; dynastic ambitions for his grandsons, 416 ff.; position af

k=>555 Maroboduus, King of the Marcomanni, 400, 431. Marriage, dynastic , 12, 20, 33, 34, 40, 43, 69, 189, 229, 238, 345,

B.C.), his origin and early career, 28 ff.; position in 62 B.C., 30; dynastic marriages, 31 f., 36, 40, 43; alliance with Crass