oration of the Republic in 27 B.C., or from the new act of settlement four years later, which was final and permanent. Out

owed closely. PageBook=>011 hundred senators the names of some four hundred can be identified, many of them obscure o

fifteen years (123-109 B.C.). Q. Metellus Macedonicus (cos. 143) had four consular sons. For the stemma, see Table I at end

t in Macedonia, where he died; P. Servilius with better fortune for four years in Cilicia. Most glorious of all were the t

Pius, M. Lucullus, M.’ Lepidus’ (Asconius 53 = p. 60 Clark). 4 Only four of the consuls of 79–75 B.C. are heard of after 7

Lex Gabinia). No province of the Empire was immune from his control. Four years before, Pompeius had not even been a senato

ds of the Commonwealth. 1 The coalition may summarily be described as four ancient and eminent families, linked closely with

consulates in this generation rewarded their sagacity. 3 With these four families was now joined the faction of Cato. Of h

tribune had revealed, an overwhelming majority in the Senate, nearly four hundred against twenty-two, wished both dynasts t

than his colleague Messalla or his illustrious predecessors, for all four had been involved in flagrant electoral scandals.

nd announced. It is evident enough that Caesar’s new senators, some four hundred in number, comprised adherents from all o

them were nobiles, with patricians in high and striking relief. 6 The four novi homines were all signalized by military serv

eech, with abuse of the Liberators. This was on October 2nd. Three or four days NotesPage=>123 1 Cicero, Phil, 1; Ad

ius set out for Brundisium on October 9th, proposing there to pick up four of the Macedonian legions and send them or march

services to Caesar’s heir. After November he slips out of history for four years: the manner of his return shows that he had

ng time passes before any number of senators emerge on his side. When four years have elapsed and Octavianus through all haz

. What dissimulation, what inner turpitude and nameless orgies within four walls! As domestic chaplain and preceptor in vice

e time for action. Hirtius and Pansa opened the debate. It lasted for four days. Calenus spoke for Antonius, Cicero for war;

Cassius. That was not all. The Caesarian A. Allienus was conducting four legions northwards from Egypt through Palestine,

nus and Hirtius avoided battle, waiting for Pansa to come up with his four legions of recruits. Pansa had left Rome about Ma

combined forces amounted to fourteen legions, imposing in name alone. Four were veteran, the rest raw recruits. Plancus knew

vealed in June. In July a strange embassy confronted the Senate, some four hundred centurions and soldiers, bearing the mand

almost all were now dead. After the establishment of the Triumvirate, four of them are found holding high command. Of these,

any sign at all. Nor did he see the Queen of Egypt again until nearly four years had elapsed. On the havoc of intestine st

aire from Gades, emerging again into open history after an absence of four years, and the Antonian P. Canidius Crassus. 5 Th

crushed liberty, had at least maintained a semblance of peace in the four years that had elapsed since the Pact of Brundisi

nforced in devotion, but had attached few senators of note, even when four years had elapsed since the foundation of the fac

ilis can be found holding military command under Caesar’s heir in the four years before Brundisium, unless Norbanus, the gra

and the regular control of patronage improved his prospects. Another four years, from the Pact of Brundisium to his triumph

no Valerii yet, but the Valerii were soon to provide three consuls in four years. 3 No less conspicuous were the gaps in the

the Roman vassals, the Queen of Egypt: he had not seen her for nearly four years. Fonteius brought her to Antioch, where the

he rest, the greater part of the eastern territories was consigned to four kings, to rule as agents of Rome and wardens of t

oconsul and vassal-ruler. After Antonius’ departure from Egypt nearly four years earlier, Cleopatra had given birth to twin

ould be guessed that the Cocceii, a new family showing two consuls in four years, were highly circumspect. M. Cocceius Nerva

26 ff., esp. 36 ff. For the words and formulation he acutely invokes four documents: the oath of the Paphlagonians taken at

arius Scarpus, Antonius’ lieutenant in the Cyrenaica, surrendered his four legions and passed into the service of the victor

roved. There were other victims. As for the Antonians later captured, four were put to death, among NotesPage=>299 1

he East, thirty years before. Precisely as in the system of Antonius, four men controlled wide realms and guarded the easter

aeclo ne prohibete. 5 The poet Virgil had brought to completion the four books of his Georgics during the War of Actium an

f consul. This frail and venerable relic, intact after the passage of four centuries, was no doubt invoked to demonstrate th

s proposed himself to be consul without intermission. During the next four years his colleagues were T. Statilius Taurus, M.

rinceps east and west, six names are attested as legates in the first four years of the new dispensation (27- 23 B.C.). 5

sul cast a glaring light on the character of the new Republic and the four cardinal virtues of the Princeps inscribed on the

cal principle, if such existed, or private dislike. Yet even so, only four years earlier, one of the closest of the associat

nts of the imagined future. Two emperors might one day be required or four . Yet the fabric must be held together. Two remedi

Soldiers dismissed in the years 7-2 B.C. received in all no less than four hundred million sesterces. 5 The army still prese

Vitellius from Nuceria won distinction as procurator of Augustus: his four sons entered the Senate. 5 Vespasius Pollio, of a

fluous. His will prevailed, in virtue of auctoritas. 3 In the first four years of the new dispensation Augustus kept a tig

ng very different from the firm order that had prevailed in the first four years of the Principate. Riots in Rome could not

has sole control of patronage, advancing his own partisans, in 31-29 four novi homines and five nobiles. With 28 B.C. annua

B.C., down to and including 6 B.C., a period of thirteen years, only four are recorded, two of them caused by death. 3 Augu

of consular standing. Yet this was apparent by 12 B.C at least, when four or five large commands already existed. 4 It was

ughter of the moderate Caesarian P. Servilius, the youth proceeded in four years through a constrained and unconsummated uni

lso 878 (Aquileia). The burial-place of the Statilii has yielded over four hundred inscriptions of slaves (CIL VI, 6213–6640

ge of the great Narcissus that he owed the command of a legion. 3 The four emperors who followed Nero in the space of a sing

further except for the dynasts Antonius, Octavianus and Lepidus, only four of them find any mention in subsequent history. 1

as soon on his travels again and back at his work. After a sojourn of four years as vicegerent of the East, Agrippa came to

merely for princes of the blood. Ahenobarbus was proconsul of Africa four years after his consulate; 2 Paullus Fabius Maxim

special treatment. The legates of Galatia are an instructive class. Four men of note governed Galatia at different times,

death of Lollius, Quirinius took his place with C. Caesar. 3 Three or four years later he was appointed legate of Syria, in

the insurgents were overcome. 6 Though incomplete, these annals of four senatorial careers of service are instructive and

forth the manner in which the principes were employed. Including the four governors of Galatia already discussed, there is

nate which he desired and which he was himself compelled to undertake four years later. Plancus and Lepidus resigned before

e was devised to try certain cases of extortion the judges were to be four men of consular rank, together with three praetor

his daughter Fabia Numantina to the son of Sex. Appuleius. 4 These four consulars were perhaps not all outstanding in tal

3 Namely two consuls in 18 B.C., one in 14 B.C. Then an interval, and four more (3 B.C., 1 B.C., A.D. 2, A.D. 10). 4 The l

of Pax Augusta should be set up. The monument was dedicated three or four years later. On its sculptured panels could be se

the sun, even in winter, in which season he would wear no fewer than four under-shirts, not to mention puttees round his le

cf. Mommsen in CIL 12, p. 376. PageBook=>492 Banded with these four families, the Catonian faction suffered heavy los

endant of Pompeius; 6 hence a family foredoomed like the Silani, with four brothers all to perish by violent ends, among the

hat irreproachable and academic Piso whom Galba unwisely adopted to a four days’ partnership of the purple. 7 One of them le

however, there remained but little of the Catonian faction or of the four noble houses that supported Pompeius. The patrici

of adulation, 501. Vitellius, P., procurator of Augustus, 356; his four sons, 361; allegations about his family, 487. V