designate to the imperial succession. Such accidents of duration and fortune the future held. None the less, the main elements

s money on senseless luxury or electoral corruption, to risk station, fortune and life in futile political contests. Averse N

ulcher fought in Macedonia, where he died; P. Servilius with better fortune for four years in Cilicia. Most glorious of all w

cs of Curio. In the autumn men began to speak of an inevitable war. Fortune was arranging the scene for a grand and terrible

consuls one by one. 2 Marriage or adoption might retrieve the waning fortunes of a noble family. The Metelli had employed the

attle on the plain of Pharsalus, the odds lay heavily against Caesar. Fortune , the devotion of his veteran legionaries and the

e had been all things and it was no good. 3 He had surpassed the good fortune of Sulla Felix and the glory of Pompeius Magnus.

the great Rabirius, who inherited the generous virtues and unimpaired fortune of his parent these admirable men and others now

s amicable, not exploiting his position unduly. In these April days fortune seemed to smile upon the Roman State and upon Ant

Roman legions. From his possession of the State papers and private fortune of the Dictator, duly surrendered by Calpurnia, A

2 BY the terms of his will Caesar appointed as heir to his name and fortune a certain C. Octavius, the grandson of one of h

d his intended candidature, but the Caesarian alliance maintained the fortunes of the family. The widow Atia was at once transfe

his enemies bitterly observed, the name of Caesar was the young man’s fortune . 2 Italy and the world accepted him as Caesar’s s

ic about all else, Caesar the Dictator had faith in his own star. The fortune of Caesar survived his fall. On no rational forec

e perilous inheritance. But he kept his head, neither dazzled by good fortune nor spurred to rash activity the appeal to the tr

Which member of Caesar’s family inherited the remnant of his private fortune mattered little for the power rested with the lea

us Scarpus were nephews of the Dictator: they received a share of his fortune through the will, which they are said to have res

of his own, to loyal Caesarian adherents, to shady adventurers. Good fortune has preserved the names of three of his earliest

hroughout Italy. Octavianus had more skill, fewer scruples and better fortune than the Liberators. By the beginning of October

se resources is by no means clear; neither is the fate of the private fortune of Caesar the Dictator and the various state mone

bs were paid after all by Octavianus, perhaps not wholly from his own fortune and the generous loans of his friends. Further, C

Senators who had come safely through civil war or who owed rank and fortune to one revolution were not eager to stir up anoth

tes, Piso suited his way of living to his family tradition and to his fortune , which would not have supported ostentatious disp

m 13), and his entertainments were lacking in splendour (ib. 67). The fortunes of certain eminent nobiles were far from ample. T

us and Antonius could have overwhelmed the young consul. His name and fortune shielded him once again. In the negotiations he n

lancus, made his escape (Dio 48, 30, 5) and later rose to resplendent fortune in the company of Plancus. 6 Urbinius Panapio (

forces of the Republic: would the legions stand against the name and fortune of Caesar? From his war-chest Cassius paid the me

impatient of delay, officers and men clamoured that he should try the fortune of battle again. Moreover, eastern princes and th

tiation with Antonius. Once again the young Caesar was saved by the fortune that clung to his name. In Gaul Calenus opportune

pute secured him the larger share of credit for making peace when the fortune of war had been manifestly on his side. The com

ress Caesar’s heir had been offered repeatedly three years before, by fortune , by Fulvia and by Salvidienus. Antonius had rejec

ndisium Caesar’s heir had again been saved from ruin by the name, the fortune and the veterans of Caesar, the diplomacy of his

rded. PageBook=>236 But now, after Brundisium, the soldiers of fortune Salvidienus and Fango were dead: the young leader

descended from kings and gods of timeless antiquity, possessing royal fortunes in NotesPage=>261 1 W. W. Tarn, CAH x, 81.

ife with the Queen of Egypt. The following year witnessed a turn of fortune in the northeast and some compensation for the di

a pirate on his own account before joining Sex. Pompeius, shared the fortunes of his uncle as an admiral and governor of provin

was politic and inevitable. Augustus could bequeath his name and his fortune to whomsoever he pleased, but not his imperium, f

s soon as a census came they would forfeit it, if they had lost their fortunes . After Actium certain cities of Italy were punish

Parthians, Ventidius of a natural death. Had they survived from good fortune or a better calculation in treason, they would ha

of profiteers, invoking the law and the constitution to protect their fortunes . So far indeed from there being reaction under th

ion of the badge of senatorial birth (the latus clavus) and a certain fortune . NotesPage=>358 1 Suetonius, Cal. 23, 2 (A

nd lastly the daughter, Julia. No less resplendent in its way was the fortune that attended upon other partisans of Augustus. U

om electoral contests: which confirmed its power in private. With the fortune won from confiscation and the treasure of the Pto

1. 6 Velleius 2, 14, 3. 7 Dio 53, 27, 5. PageBook=>381 The fortunes of the great politicians were gross and scandalou

military man of parsimonious tastes, L. Tarius Rufus, acquired a huge fortune from the bounty of Augustus, which he proceeded t

olusius Saturninus and Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, excellent men, amassed fortunes without discredit: precisely how, it is not recor

paid into the aerarium, which he also subsidized from his own private fortune . 7 Augustus had huge sums of money at his disposa

on due to their family and their mother’s prayers, but not with equal fortune . 1 The elder took to wife Julia, daughter of Juli

ion that they could not survive, and even profit from, a revulsion of fortune . 3 But the principal supporters of the Claudian p

blic safety imposed the ruthless suppression of a rival. Once again fortune took charge of the game and shattered Augustus’ a

re relegation to the islands and deprivation of a large part of their fortune . The tightening of the matrimonial bond would h

hought of mulcting the rich men of Italy, curbing the growth of their fortunes , or dividing up their monstrous estates for the b

e, the rigour of whose parsimony was not relaxed even by the splendid fortunes they amassed. Vespasian, an emperor from the Sabi

d, at the very least, that his native caution was happily seconded by fortune when the soldiers of Brutus broke into the camp a

d from long obscurity by Caesar or by Augustus, either to resplendent fortune or to a brief renascence before the end. Others t

before the end. Others that survived proscription and battle by good fortune , diplomacy or the contraction of serviceable marr

bi perpetuated a direct succession in the male line, but with diverse fortune . The Aemilii had been perilously close to the sup

the New State were by no means exempt from the infertility or the ill fortune that attended upon the progeny of consulars. Thei

petuate their name and establish the families which their resplendent fortune could so handsomely have endowed. The Caesarian p

appeared to have established their families securely enough. But good fortune seldom accompanied their descendants. The familie

ged and completely plutocratic order of society, steadily reduced the fortunes of the nobiles. Frugal and astute men of property

to unmask the realities of their rule. The halo of their resplendent fortune may dazzle, but it cannot blind, the critical eye

Taurus, C. Sentius Saturninus, M. Vinicius and P. Silius. 2 More good fortune perhaps than merit that their characters should b

tremest of evils. Hence avarice or rapacity to repair their shattered fortunes , and the hope that the Princeps would provide: Ro

5 Enriched by both sides, Pollio augmented the dignity as well as the fortunes of his family. Pollio’s son Gallus married Vipsan

x’, Pompeius had seized the title of ‘Magnus’. Augustus, in glory and fortune the greatest of duces and principes, intended to