from the passage of the Rubicon to the last battle in Spain. Then he followed Antonius for five years. Loyal to Caesar, and pro

y and Roman politics, namely a nexus of personal obligations, is here followed closely. PageBook=>011 hundred senators th

to doubt the loyalty of Caesar’s best marshal, T. Labienus. 6 Then followed debate in the Senate, public attempts at mediatio

utus. 3 Cato himself had not reached the consulate, but two consulars followed , the stubborn and irascible Bibulus, and Ahenobar

lood and muddled heads. The error was double and damning. Disillusion followed swiftly. Even Cato was dismayed. 1 It had confide

esar had kept faith with Crassus; the younger son was dead, the elder followed Caesar, for all that his wife was a Caecilia Mete

have declined so far that they cannot show a consul. A Fabius Maximus followed Caesar and brought back the consulate to his fami

sion to Pompeius and by the outbreak of the Civil War. Her son Brutus followed Virtus and Libertas, his uncle Cato and Pompeius

orius in the Caesarians Vatinius and Sallustius. 6 They were no doubt followed by knights whom Caesar promoted. Campania, again,

plans the tyrant was slain, therefore liberty was restored. A lull followed and bewilderment. Sympathizers came to the Capito

e month, the consul himself was back in Rome. An unfriendly interview followed . Octavianus claimed the ready money from the inhe

saved because he had a party behind him. It was clear that many a man followed Caesar in an impious war from personal friendship

stand made by the two consulars, though negative, irresolute and not followed by action of any kind, was certainly a check to A

than the more elevated principles that were professed, and sometimes followed , with such robust conviction. Piso, a patriotic R

der the auspices of Cato. 2 Most of his friends, allies and relatives followed Cato and Pompeius in the Civil War. Servilius, ho

lement based upon compromise were neither fools nor traitors. If they followed Cicero there was no telling where they would end.

y of civil war. Among Caesar’s allies Pollio was not the only one who followed the friend but cursed the cause. The continuance

om allying with his bitterest enemy to save the State. 5 Plancus soon followed the unimpeachable example of the patriotic Lepidu

subjugated the strong Caesarian sympathies of officers and men: they followed Lepidus not from merit or affection but only beca

rest raw recruits. Plancus knew what recruits were worth. 4 A lull followed . Antonius was in no hurry. He waited patiently fo

men of Marcus Brutus. When Brutus left Italy, he was accompanied or followed by his relatives Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus and M.

October 23rd). 2 Both sides drew back, damaged and resentful. There followed three weeks of inaction or slow manoeuvres in whi

e his way back from Spain through the Cisalpina; Pollio and Ventidius followed , slow but menacing, in his rear. The war had alre

tations of soldiers made their wishes known. 1 Tentative negotiations followed . As a sign of goodwill, Antonius sent away Ahenob

tched to Bithynia to facilitate the Caesarian compact. 2 Plancus soon followed as governor of the province of Asia; 3 and immedi

One of the suffect consuls was L. Marcius Philippus, who had probably followed the discreet and ambiguous policy recommended by

iuvenis’, fought for liberty at Philippi and was proud of it. He then followed Antonius for a time, it is uncertain for how long

alvisius engrossed two of the more decorative of such offices: Taurus followed his unholy example. 4 Most of the colleges had al

dvantage over the distant Antonius. He easily found in the years that followed the men to govern the military provinces of Gaul,

est fled to Antonius, bearing with them the unread missive. They were followed by more than three hundred senators, Republican o

confident as well as the most vocal assertions of Italian nationalism followed rather than preceded the War of Actium. Only then

geBook=>293 the Senate and a large number of Roman knights: they followed him from conviction, interest or fear. Hence an i

is wife, Servilia, who had once been betrothed to Octavianus, bravely followed him in death, true to noble and patrician traditi

As for the West, Sex. Appuleius, the son of Octavianus’ half-sister, followed Taurus in Spain. Messalla, who triumphed from Gau

urator of Asia, entered the Senate during the reign of Augustus, soon followed by Cn. Domitius Afer, the great orator from Nemau

ity was relieved of the burdensome presence of both her rulers. There followed a certain relaxation in the control of elections

ind of consensus Italiae. Municipal men rising to power and influence followed traditional devices and secured promotion for the

rcissus that he owed the command of a legion. 3 The four emperors who followed Nero in the space of a single year were all perso

–A.D. 6. PageBook=>401 As for the Rhine, it is not certain who followed Tiberius in 6 B.C.1 Before long, however, that im

esident was Messalla. He held the post until his death. Ateius Capito followed , then the aged Tarius Rufus. 4 The regulation of

odes. A crisis had supervened, at the very core of the party. Another followed before long, and Augustus loudly lamented the los

the next year a son was born, named Gaius. When a second son, Lucius, followed in 17 B.C. the Princeps adopted the two boys as h

ce Hannibal (for so the rebellion of Illyricum was designated)1 there followed a disaster unparalleled since Crassus, the consti

ed to ‘M’. Lepidum’, which most editors, scholars and historians have followed , supposing M’ Aemilius Lepidus, cos. A.D. I I (PI

Sentius Saturninus alone persisted, commanding on the Rhine:4 he was followed by Varus, with L. Nonius Asprenas as his legate.

and Horace had lost their paternal estates in the confiscations that followed Philippi or the disorders of the Perusine War: th

e efficiency of his government. Herod’s death showed his value it was followed by a rising which Varus the governor of Syria put

most at once; and it was his habit to boast openly that he had always followed the better cause in politics. 2 As he had been am

Pompeius, and through that feud brought into conflict with Caesar, he followed Cato’s lead and fell at Pharsalus. Whatever had b

ard married to a woman from Nemausus. 3 Hadrian, his nearest kinsman, followed , then Antoninus Pius, in origin a Narbonensian fr