stem of the Principate had already taken shape, firm and manifest, as early as the year 23 B.C., so that a continuous narrati

hese Claudii, the character of the eldest was made no more amiable by early struggles and expedients to maintain the dignity

Porcia to L. Domitius Ahenobarbus, the cousin of Catulus, a young man early prominent in politics through the great estates i

atem pecuniae demito. ’ PageBook=>053 Caelius complained quite early in the Civil War. 1 Not everybody was as outspoke

he had been led or carried in a Roman triumph. From obscure years of early manhood some said that he served as a common sold

ens as well. The provincia, which received a Roman colony at Narbo as early as 118 B.C., before all Italy became Roman, was a

oddess Vitellia through an ancient and extinct patrician house of the early Republic. 2 Some said that Cicero’s father was a

lausible and sometimes convincing, in the religion and archaeology of early Italy, in names of gods and of places. The family

could admit an alien origin without shame or compunction. About the early admissions to power and nobility at Rome much wil

discussed here. 2 The unification of Italy is often dated much too early . That it can have been neither rapid nor easy is

rity. C. Asinius Pollio, his grandson, a man of taste and talent, won early fame as a speaker NotesPage=>091 1 Plutarc

m‘Vehilius’ is rare and not noticed by Schulze: compare, however, the early inscrr. CIL I2, 338 f. (Praeneste). For M. Cusini

an senator comes later (ILS 932). Perhaps Marsian, cf. the name on an early dedicatory inscr. beside Lake Fucinus, CIL I2, 38

2 Horace, Odes 1, 7, 21. A Munatius is attested as aedile there on an early inscr., ILS 6231. 3 Phil. 8, 27 and other evide

1, 1. The dating of this crucial document has been much disputed. The early morning of March 17th, ably argued by O. E. Schmi

elf off as a grandson of C. Marius. The Liberators departed from Rome early in April, and took refuge in the small towns in t

be restored one day under another appellation. At the end of March or early in April the Senate allotted consular provinces f

allegations when proof or disproof was out of the question: in these early months the consul had embezzled a treasure of sev

lius Augustus’. Posterity was to know him as ‘Divus Augustus’. In the early and revolutionary years the heir of Caesar never,

ludes grasp and definition no less than the mature statesman. For the early years, a sore lack everywhere of personal, authen

d hesitated to take over the corn- commission voted on June 5th. Now, early in August, Antonius induced the Senate to grant t

e Table III at end. PageBook=>128 active help from them in the early months. On the surface, the consulars Philippus a

re usually less obtrusive. L. Cornificius (cos. 35 B.C.), however, an early adherent (Plutarch, Brutus 27), is quite possible

n able politician. 1 Pansa, however, encouraged Octavianus at a quite early date. Along with Pansa in this context certain

ctant to break with Antonius, for he hoped through Antonius to get an early consulate for his own son. 5 Nor was the devious

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

nts) should have been declared null and void. That was not done until early in February. The arguments invoked by Cicero on J

cero had already crossed swords with Servilius more than once; and in early April, after a quarrel over a vote complimentary

3 Above, p. 64. 4 Ad M. Brutum I,15, 10 f. 5 Ib. 1, 16 and 17 ( early July?). The authenticity of these two letters has

a and Dolabella had fallen in war, and the consul Q. Pedius succumbed early in his tenure of office, stricken by shame and ho

lic. 10 Most of the assassins of Caesar had no doubt left Italy at an early date; and the party was NotesPage=>198 1 A

t. After a short and merry winter at Alexandria, he left Egypt in the early spring of 40 B.C. That he had contracted ties tha

tials or none at all may summarily be dismissed. A definite claim was early made. Pollio’s son Gallus (born perhaps in 41 B.C

rother Octavianus: his father, through diplomacy, hoped to get him an early consulate. 6 His ambition was now satisfied, his

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

Ib. 47, 15, 4. 3 Ib. 49, 43, 5. 4 The reliefs showing scenes from early Roman history recently discovered in the Basilica

t, but not a rout or a disaster. The Roman losses were considerable early and unfriendly testimony reckons them NotesPage

r Helios to Iotape, the daughter of the Median monarch. 1 Then in the early spring of 33 B.C Antonius, alert for the care of

? ’ It is evident that this famous fragment, matching in frankness an early product of Octavianus (cf. Martial 11, 20) does n

alleged that he had been bribed. The compromising ally remained. In early summer Antonius passed from Ephesus to Samos and

r. Octavianus did not strike at Dyrrhachium or Apollonia. Making an early beginning, he moved southwards instead and took u

and Macedonia, where armed proconsuls are definitely attested in the early years of the Principate. Nor is the information p

be admitted, however, that full lists of provincial governors in the early years of the Principate of Augustus are not to be

Africa and Asia, were governed by proconsuls of consular rank. In the early years it might be expected that from time to time

s for the Caesarian party and for the Roman State. Late in 24 B.C. or early in 23 a proconsul of Macedonia, a certain M. Prim

and indefinite instrument of government, the tribunicia potestas. As early as 36 B.C. he had acquired the sacrosanctity of a

s quite relevant here, though the poem may well have been composed as early as 29 or 28 B.C. 2 Dio 53, 32, 5 f. (the only e

f. Dio mentions no grant of imperium to Agrippa. That Agrippa at this early date possessed imperium maius over the senatorial

ready received dispensations allowing them to hold magistracies at an early age. 2 PageNote. 340 1 Suetonius, Divus Aug.

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

. Ritterstand (1927), 136 ff. 2 For example, ILS 2654 and 2656 (not early ). 3 Suetonius, Divus Vesp. 1. 4 ILS 9200 (C.

already in Latin letters, had sent its sons to Caesar’s Senate. Quite early in the Principate five or six men appear to have

id not rise to the consulate. 4 With so few suffect consulates in the early years of the Principate, competition was acute an

ns were Sex. Appuleius and M. Appuleius, both consuls, no doubt at an early age. The schemes devised by Augustus in the ram

e Aelii Lamiae. 9 NotesPage=>382 1 He was pontifex at least as early as 64 B.C., Macrobius 3, 13, II. 2 Cicero, Ad f

If appointed by lot at all, certain of the military proconsuls in the early years of the Principate, such as Balbus in Africa

at some time between 13 and 8 B.C. (Josephus AJ 16, 270), perhaps as early as 13 B.C., cf. T. Corbishley, JRS XXIV (1934), 4

have been Cn. Domitius Calvinus, the oldest surviving consular in the early years of the Principate. 4 NotesPage=>411

13, 11, attests the danger from the provincial armies. Late in 97 or early in 98 Syria is found to be without a consular leg

too much. Tiberius and Drusus had received special dispensations and early distinction, it is true. Tiberius became consul a

The son of the Triumvir might well be politically dangerous. Like the early Christian, it was not the ‘flagitia’ but the torn

e singularly lacking in the city states of Greece but inculcated from early days at Rome by the military needs of the Republi

ldiers. Tradition remembered, or romance depicted, the consuls of the early Republic as identical in life, habit and ideals w

rbonensis supplies only two auxiliary regiments; and that province is early evident in the Guard (ILS 2023); where, in the Ju

of cabinet, Maecenas, captured the most promising of the poets at an early stage and nursed them into the Principate. August

oman history and its culmination in the rule of Augustus. As he wrote early in the poem, nascetur pulchra Troianus origine

riumphant career. Livy, like Virgil, was a Pompeian: he idealized the early career of Pompeius, controverting Sallustius. Whe

ly it was a kind of parody. Augustus did not see the joke. Like the early Germans depicted by Tacitus, he did not think tha

lebs of Rome, L. Domitius Ahenobarbus was formidable in politics from early youth. Like Brutus originally an enemy of Pompeiu

ver, the Acilii Glabriones, not of great political consequence in the early Principate, survive the longest, PIR2, A 62 ff.,

ed by ILS 1321. It is no accident that the governors of Lower Germany early in Nero’s reign were Pompeius Paullinus and L. Du

ndispensable that was the greatest triumph of all. Had he died in the early years of the Principate, his party would have sur

mised than detected. The Res Gestae in their final form were composed early in A.D. 13, along with the last will and testamen

Antonius, M. (cos. 44 B.C.), family and relatives of, 63, 64, 103; early career, 41, 43, 76, 90, 94 ff., 103 f., 382; afte

476. Horatius Flaccus, Q., 198; Epodes, 16, 218; at Tarentum, 225; early life and writings, 254; style and character, 255,

P., Caesarian, 79. Hybreas, orator of Mylasa, 259. Idealization, of early Rome, 249, 452 f., 455; of municipal men, 455; of

ius Caesar, C. (cos. 59 B.C.), his family and connexions, 25, 64, 68; early career, 25, 29, 32; consulate and alliance with P

ius Sardus, Post., senator from Umbria, 361. Mindius Marcellus, M., early partisan of Octavianus, 132, 236. Minucius Basilu

A.D. 15), 367. Pompeius Magnus, Cn. (cos. 70 B.C.), his origin and early career, 28 ff.; position in 62 B.C., 30; dynastic

Tullia, daughter of Cicero, 69. Tullius Cicero, M. (cos. 63 B.C.), early career and consulate, 24 f., 29 f., 32; as a novu

dii, of Auximum, 92. Ventidius, P. (cos. suff. 43 B.C.), origin and early career, 71, 92; a ‘muleteer’, 92, 151; his early

43 B.C.), origin and early career, 71, 92; a ‘muleteer’, 92, 151; his early services to Antonius, 126, 176, 178; his consulat