has often been told, with an inevitability of events and culmination, either melancholy or exultant. The conviction that it al

Pompeius had neutrality been possible. Pollio had powerful enemies on either side. Compelled for safety to a decision, he chos

the government at a certain stage in his career, with no discredit to either . Caesar’s choice was still open had it not been f

leading nobiles to destroy Caesar, whether it came to war or not, in either way gaining the mastery. They were not duped they

between Dictator and Princeps. Under his rule Caesar the Dictator was either suppressed outright or called up from time to tim

f Caesar the Dictator. It has been supposed and contended that Caesar either desired to establish or had actually inaugurated

o suggest that Caesar alone of contemporary Roman statesmen possessed either a wide vision of the future or a singular and ele

warlike fame and even in bodily form. 3 Caesar was a truer Roman than either of them. The complete synthesis in the person o

Not so Crassus and Caesar. The faction of Pompeius was unable to move either the propertied NotesPage=>072 1 Ad Att. 8,

of the plebs by Caesar in 44 B.C., had served under him in the wars, either as a centurion or as an equestrian officer. 1 Sax

ly, suppressing their history. Yet these were individual communities, either colonies of old or states till recently independe

the principal agent is of doubtful advantage at the best of times it either imparts a specious unity to the action or permits

utus’ abusive reference to him (Ad M. Brutum 1, 17, 4). No mention of either by Cicero their mere names would have been a dama

harmony, the libertas of the People and the auctoritas of the Senate: either of them could be exploited in politics, as a sour

it indicates armed usurpation attempted or successful, the removal of either a pretender or a tyrant. 7 NotesPage=>155

f principle than by mutual interest and by mutual services (officia), either between social equals as an alliance, or from inf

matė the bond was called amicitia, otherwise factio. 1 Such alliances either presupposed or provoked the personal feud which,

uld choose. Lepidus could afford to wait. A stronger character than either Lepidus or Plancus was C. Asinius Pollio in Hispa

e or the Vinicii of Cales, who are not known to have been proscribed, either enjoyed protection already or now purchased it. 5

f. in that year. Nothing is known of the services to the Triumvirs of either Asprenas or of any person called Marcius. 4 L.

e again he found that Brundisium would not admit him. Not that he had either the desire or the pretext for war, but he was in

of the generalship of Agrippa and the diplomacy of Maecenas. Lacking either of them he might have been lost. Antonius was ind

his service. 1 At last Titius captured Pompeius and put him to death, either on his own initiative or at the instigation of hi

on and the first revolutionary venture. Consulars were rare enough on either side. The most prominent of them, Pollio, Ventidi

service to the Triumvirs. Nor did they achieve great fame afterwards, either the nobiles or the novi homines. 2 Octavianus may

inforce the fabric of the Commonwealth. Only philosophy could provide either a rational explanation of the nature of things or

d sympathy, if not in the deed, he fought at Philippi. Then, refusing either to agree with Messalla that the Republic was doom

Was it the design of Marcus Antonius to rule as a Hellenistic monarch either over a separate kingdom or over the whole world?

an early product of Octavianus (cf. Martial 11, 20) does not furnish either a satisfactory definition of the word ‘uxor’ or a

defeated at sea, baffled on land. 6 The names of the commanders on either side are given by Velleius 2, 85, 2 Plutarch, Ant

d comparatively few casualties. A large part of the fleet of Antonius either refused battle or after defeat was forced back in

vi homines at that. Hence the conspicuous lack of legates of Augustus either noble in birth or consular in rank. Not a single

me and first trodden by his divine parent. 1 The design of conquering either Britain or Parthia had no place in the mind of Au

osing total, so Augustus proudly affirmed, no fewer than eighty-three either had already held the consulate or were later rewa

cient testimony. 2 Wars waged between Romans with veteran armies on either side set a high standard of mobility, supply and

140; Seneca, Epp. 83, 14. The three years of the Bellum Thracicum are either 13–11 or 12–10 B.C. According to Seneca (l.c.), A

ither final nor systematic. Augustus might be requested by the Senate either to nominate a proconsul in an emergency or to tak

the other two armies. In 12 B.C. Augustus took over Illyricum; 2 and, either after the campaigns of Tiberius and Piso and the

aigns no doubt have lapsed into oblivion. No complete record exists either of governors of the military provinces or of the

etonius, Nero 4. PageBook=>422 There was more in him than that either prudence or consummate guile: his name finds reco

he last age of the Republic marriage had not always been blessed with either offspring or permanence. Matches contracted for t

asure were lightly dissolved according to the interest or the whim of either party. Few indeed of the great ladies would have

r such as were not admitted to the recitations of the rich, or lacked either the taste for good books or the means of acquirin

atened by continual conspiracies though these plots may not have been either as frequent or as dangerous as the government aff

s was invulnerable. Not so his friends: a trial might be the occasion either of a direct attack upon their persons or for occa

future. He did not intend that his retirement from politics should be either inglorious or silent: he introduced the practice

atriciate, were revived from long obscurity by Caesar or by Augustus, either to resplendent fortune or to a brief renascence b

bertas. Tacitus, in a sense his successor, was not a Roman aristocrat either , but a new man, presumably of provincial extracti

uccessful novi homines can stand their ground. Superfluous the effort either to arraign or to rehabilitate the robust careeris