y be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in

(v and vi) that analyse the composition of the Caesarian party in the form of a long digression. No less than the subject,

but do not derive entirely, from this illuminating work—in an earlier form and draft they were the substance of lectures del

e testimony of the vanquished cause. That would merely substitute one form of biography for another. At its worst, biography

uence of the principal among his partisans. In all ages, whatever the form and name of government, be it monarchy, republic,

een strong or coherent enough to seize control of the whole State and form NotesPage=>007 (No Notes) PageBook=>0

. Adelsfamilien (1920), 427 f. 2 Cicero, De off. 1, 25; in a milder form , Pliny, NH 33, 134; Plutarch, Crassus 2. PageBo

e remaining five months of the year. A new combination was ready to form , with the ultimate decision to turn on the dynast

to history, for it is unverifiable and therefore the most attractive form of misrepresentation. The enemies of Caesar sprea

anity the resemblance to Alexander in warlike fame and even in bodily form . 3 Caesar was a truer Roman than either of them.

erans NotesPage=>075 1 BG 1, 47, 4, cf. 19, 3. For the correct form of the name, cf. T. Rice Holmes, Caesar’s Conques

n war did the fierce Italici begin to give up hope. An amnesty in the form of an offer of the citizenship to any who laid do

the former, elsewhere attested only once (CIL VI, 24052), is another form of ‘Petrucidius’ or ‘Petrusidius’, ILS 6132b, cf.

ops for Ventidius in 39 B.C., Dio 48, 41, 1. On‘Poppaedius’, the true form (not ‘Pompaedius’), cf. W. Schulze, LE, 367, and

Caesarian party; and the results may have outstripped his designs. In form , the speech was brief and moderate:1 the audience

were larger than that. To carry through a Roman revolution in orderly form , in the first place the powers of the highest mag

be carried through without any violation of legal and constitutional form . The Principate of Augustus was justified by the

nce, or from inferior to superior, in a traditional and almost feudal form of clientship: on a favourable estimatė the bond

h of Octavianus, exposed to an iron schooling and constrained through form of law and not in the heat of battle to shed the

eedmen of the commercial class got value for their money in the solid form of landed NotesPage=>194 1 Appian, BC 4, 4

e virtus. 2 It may have been rehandled and made more allegorical in form . 3 Servius on Eel. 4, 1. 4 Servius, ib. 5 C

tions, newly acquired along with their wealth and status, assumed the form of a dislike of freedmen and foreigners. Aliens h

.; 131. PageBook=>261 She coveted the whole of his kingdom, to form a continuous territory northwards into Syria. Ant

ly. Yet, for all that, the contest soon assumed the august and solemn form of a war of ideas and a war between East and West

om the menace of the East. A kind of plebiscite was organized, in the form of an oath of personal allegiance. ‘All Italy o

alicum, it had not coalesced in sentiment with the victorious city to form a nation. The Italian peoples did not yet regard

n, Vont Werden und Wesen des Prinzipats, 32 ff. 3 On the character, form and true significance of the oath, see, above all

ion gradually faded from use. Yet he might have kept it, whatever the form of the constitution and legal definition of his p

nted to assume a special commission for a period of ten years, in the form of proconsular authority over a large provincia,

le conception of the Roman State triumphed after his death, receiving form and shape in the New Republic of Caesar Augustus.

n had triumphed and had produced a government, the Principate assumed form and definition. If an exact date must at all cost

ther his residence in the East is described as a mild but opprobrious form of banishment. 7 There is no truth in this fancy

ntly masked, for the most part, long ago by assimilation to the Latin form of nomenclature. NotesPage=>360 1 Velleius

, but none the less potently, representative of Rome and of Italy. In form , the constitution was less Republican and less ‘d

p. 394 f. PageBook=>374 Election by the people might be a mere form , but it could not be abolished by a statesman who

PageBook=>382 Whether admission to the various colleges took the form of co-optation or of election by the People, the

presumptive. The youngest child, Claudius, displayed neither grace of form nor intellectual promise. But even he could serve

om first to last the dynasty of the Julii and the Claudii ran true to form , despotic and murderous. NotesPage=>439 1

no doubt set forth the ‘lessons of history’ in a vivid and convincing form . An excellent source soon became available, no le

on. Tota Italia would not have been out of place. The Princeps’ own form and features were reproduced in Rome and over all

een expedient, the gratitude of the people to himself from taking the form of honours almost divine. Augustus was not a go

tor of a system. For himself and for the dynasty he monopolized every form and sign of allegiance; no proconsul of Rome ever

the helpless. Quintilian, a professor of rhetoric, claimed that this form of composition was peculiarly and wholly Roman. H

t matter. Personal rights and private status need not depend upon the form of government. And even though hereditary success

it and theory as well as in fact, the very absence of any alternative form of rule was an encouragement to the more irrespon

furnished great themes and orators to match. By definition, the best form of state was spared these evils. Well-ordered com

ectable tradition of philosophic thought held monarchy to be the best form of government. It was also primeval, fated to ret

more easily be surmised than detected. The Res Gestae in their final form were composed early in A.D. 13, along with the la

pt to discover ultimate derivation and exact definition as a literary form . 4 NotesPage=>523 1 Res Gestae 2: ‘[et] po

inevitability of, 258, 291; constitutional, 320, 516 ff.; as the best form of government, 516, 518; as a guarantee of libert

, 269, 296, 350. Officers, see Knights, Centurions. Oligarchy, as a form of government, 7 f., 18; of Sulla, 17 ff., 45, 61

l at Tarentum, 225; date of expiry, 225, 277 f., 279; merits of, as a form of government, 347. Troy, not to be rebuilt, 30