ments of expression and substance I am deeply under obligation to the following friends, Mr. E. B. Birley, Professor A. Degrassi,

lf, the Roman statesman cannot stand alone, without allies, without a following . That axiom holds both for the political dynasts

by Caesar and by his bitter enemy, L. Domitius Ahenobarbus. To win a following at elections, to manage bribery, intimidation or

his provincial commands the dynast won to his allegiance and personal following (clientela) towns and whole regions, provinces an

great debate on Caesar’s command was postponed till March 1st of the following year. Pompeius remained ambiguous, with hints of

for his party by ejection of undesirable senators, and augmented the following of Caesar. The arrogant and stubborn censor, mind

n the aspirant to autocracy and the forces of law and order. Caesar’s following was heterogeneous in composition at its kernel a

om political principle he returned to an old allegiance. 1 Caesar’s following was dual in composition. The fact that he took up

s of his class, excellent men. Many knights were to be found in the following of a proconsul, in a variety of functions. Such e

r, and Caesar filched the Balbi, the dynasts of Gades, from Pompeius’ following to his own. He may also have inherited the Spanis

in Rufinus, the son of one of his freedmen. 5 Such in brief was the following of Caesar, summarily indicated and characterized

d in the Roman Senate, even by renegades. Pompeius Strabo had a large following in Picenum:3 but these were only the personal adh

to Pompeius and the legitimate government of Rome. Caesar has a mixed following , some stripped from Pompeius, others not to be cl

e moderate and prudent Hirtius. He summoned the Senate to meet on the following day in the Temple of Tellus. In the meantime, t

arch or early in April the Senate allotted consular provinces for the following year2 probably in accordance with the intention

ommanding influence in the towns of Italy. Once a compact and devoted following was won, and his power revealed, he could build u

on. This time there was criticism and opposition in the Senate on the following day both Cicero and P. Servilius Isauricus spoke.

ms) and carried through the allotment of praetorian provinces for the following year. Crete and Cyrene were taken from Brutus and

edonia was assigned to his brother, the praetor C. Antonius. On the following day, after a solemn review at Tibur, where not on

e arrived in Italy. Seven months pass, and he has money, troops and a following . Whence came his adherents and his political fund

rty is but a kind of conspiracy against the Commonwealth. Octavianus’ following could not raise the semblance even of being a par

he way. Yet he probably lent a tribune: Ti. Cannutius belonged to the following of Isauricus. 3 Piso and P. Servilius each had

cero had never been a revolutionary not even a reformer. In the years following his consulate he wavered between Pompeius and the

e towns of Campania were enthusiastic. Among the plebs he had a great following ; and he might win more respectable backing. ‘But

hould not be regarded as criminal. Cf. Appian, BC 3, 84, 345 (clearly following an excellent source): ∈ἰρήνην τ∈ καὶ ἔλ∈ον ἐς ἀτυ

sed of this flimsy character, was with Antonius, his ally in the days following the Ides of March; and he will have reflected tha

d on retaining Comata: that province he would hold for the five years following , until Brutus and Cassius should have become cons

organize military levies in Picenum. The rumour was false. 2 On the following day Octavianus forbore to enter the city with arm

190 The rule of the dynast Pompeius in 60 B.C. and during the years following depended upon control, open or secret, of the org

paring Italy. A party prevailed when Caesar defeated Pompeius yet the following of Caesar was by no means homogeneous, and the Di

zing their resources and raising more money: so several months of the following year were spent in chastising Rhodians and Lycian

ct the requisite money. About the provinces of the West they made the following dispositions, treating Lepidus as negligible. Cis

a marriage with Scribonia; Julia, his only daughter, was born in the following year. But there was a more important pact than

ft time for that. But Octavianus had designated him as consul for the following year. The next NotesPage=>220 1 Ecl. 4, 17

angements had already been made by Antonius. During the course of the following year they were modified and completed. It will be

4. PageBook=>228 Labienus. Yet Pompeius still retained in his following persons of distinction, relatives, friends or adh

n lost. Antonius was induced to come to Tarentum in the spring of the following year (37). The uneasy alliance was then perpetuat

erms were sometimes synonymous) has already advanced a stage; and his following already reveals in clear outline the twin and yet

nt nobility, the patrician; which did not in any way hamper them from following a revolutionary leader or taking up an ally not o

f Perusia were more amicably disposed to Antonius; and his Republican following , already considerable, was augmented when the las

28, 531. 2 About consulates under the Triumvirate (43–33 B.C.), the following brief computation can be made. Excluding the Triu

way to imperial power. Beside princes of blood or title, the personal following of Rome’s ruler in the East might suitably be ext

astic in their own right. Caesar did his best to equal or usurp the following of Pompeius, with grants of Roman citizenship or

om Antonius’ alliance and marital life with the Queen of Egypt. The following year witnessed a turn of fortune in the northeast

a coasts. Nor was the preponderance of Antonius less evident in his following of Roman senators his provincial governors, gener

f Antonius in 35 B.C. (Appian, BC 5, 144, 599). Plancus had a certain following , for example, M. Titius and C. Furnius; and a Ner

t. 1, 5, 32 f.), he was sent on a mission to Egypt by Antonius in the following winter (Plutarch, Antonius 36). 7 M. Insteius f

. 6 The total of noble names is impressive when contrasted with the following of the rival Caesarian dynast, but decorative rat

the Republican Ahenobarbus and the old Caesarian Plancus, each with a following of his own. Between them was no confidence, but b

er, some to the very end. Most significant is the strong Republican following of one already denounced as an enemy of Rome, as

talia far surpassed any attempts of earlier politicians to build up a following among the propertied classes of Italy. The oath e

allus, a Roman knight. 5 For the rest of the year 30 and the winter following the conqueror proceeded to make his dispositions

unobtrusive and masterly. With the Mede, Antonius’ ally, he began by following Antonius’ policy and even granted him for a time

martial glory of the renascent state was also supported in the years following by the triumphs of men prominent in the Caesarian

ar as quaestor in 45 B.C., he joined the Liberators at the end of the following year (above, p. 171). 2 Namely Varro, legate in

ius got credit for his efforts on behalf of Murena. 4 What friends or following Murena had is uncertain but the legate of Syria a

his was an order more firmly consolidated than Caesar’s miscellaneous following , bound to a cause and a programme as well as to a

vil Wars had missed the consulate. Here and on the Fasti of the years following are to be discovered the aristocrats who rallied

ore aristocratic families were lured by matrimony into the family and following of the Princeps. Of his allies among the young no

being the head of the Claudii, would have had a dynastic and personal following whatever the character of the Roman constitution:

spected and rumoured about Livia poison and murder. Her power and her following can be detected in the time of her son, most dist

ought the advice of Livia and received a long curtain-lecture. On the following day he summoned Cinna to his presence and deliver

emembered rancour and postponed revenge. Yet Tiberius must have had a following among the nobiles. Of the dynastic houses of th

es. 1 L. Piso was a neutral, commanding repute and even, perhaps, a following of his own. 2 Like the Cornelii Lentuli, Piso was

us harmless, his own sons secure. Though absent, Tiberius still had a following ; though an exile he still held his tribunicia pot

repaired but magnified beyond all measure by his detractors. 5 In the following year Augustus came to Gaul, Tiberius with him. Ti

cernible, dual in composition, as might be expected. In the six years following the return to power of Tiberius, along with desce

ost its army). 2 In the three years of the rebellion of Illyricum the following consulars served under Tiberius in various capaci

ncus, artifex ante Vitellium maximus. ’ Passienus is mentioned in the following section. 4 L. Vitellius, married to Calvina, cf

(cf. above, pp. 199 f., 235, 243 f.). It is of decisive value for the following years: 39 B.C. C. Cocceius (Balbus), already kn