esar’s heir against Antonius. The last year of Cicero’s life, full of glory and eloquence no doubt, was ruinous to the Roman

es, nobiles and novi homines, but by the strife for power, wealth and glory . The contestants were the nobiles among themselve

Yet two men stood out in this year of another’s consulate and public glory , shaming the mediocrity of their elders. They wer

g the revolution of Catilina, robbed the indispensable general of the glory of saving the Republic in Italy as he had vindica

and Mauretania, all Spain, and both provinces of Gaul. The power and glory of the master of the world were symbolized in thr

f in impatience and resentment. 1 They had cheated Caesar of the true glory of a Roman aristocrat to contend with his peers f

destruction of the Free State. That was the nemesis of ambition and glory , to be thwarted in the end. After such wreckage,

s no good. 3 He had surpassed the good fortune of Sulla Felix and the glory of Pompeius Magnus. In vain reckless ambition had

ood by the ancient ideals, it seemed that Caesar, avid for splendour, glory and power, ready to use his birth and station to

retation, cf. JRS XXVIII (1938), 113 ff. PageBook=>068 and the glory of Caesar. Labienus left Caesar, but not from pol

astic plebeian houses like the Metelli, they remembered their ancient glory and strove to recover leadership. Some families

itii and saw the recent laurels of Pompeius wane before the power and glory of Caesar, the Germans shattered, the Rhine cross

his triumph over noble adversaries, they too had a share of power and glory . Discontent, it is true, could be detected among

y eighteen years of age: but he resolved to acquire the power and the glory along with the name of Caesar. Whether his insist

rippa, ignoble names and never known before. 1 They were destined for glory and for history. When Salvidienus tended flocks u

same year as a pendant to De officiis. 4 Cicero defined the nature of glory , no doubt showing how far, for all their splendou

6 Ad Att. 16, 13b, 2 PageBook=>146 to make history. Duty and glory inspired the veteran statesman in his last and co

with Dolabella; 1 another Marsian, Poppaedius Silo, gained only brief glory . 2 The pace was fast, the competition ferocious.

reat victory. The Romans had never fought such a battle before. 9 The glory of it went to Antonius and abode with him for ten

sk of carrying out confiscation in Italy. A victor, but lacking the glory and confidence of victory, Octavianus returned to

ook=>231 Caesar’s heir was damaged and discredited. The military glory of Antonius was revived in the triumph which his

ably tortuous. 7 The principal members of the Caesarian faction won glory and solid recompense. In public and official se

y and the army knew after the campaigns of 35 and 34 B.C. His was the glory . NotesPage=>240 1 It has sometimes been ar

nds could be employed to advertise in literature and on monuments the glory and the traditions of a family, a dynasty, a whol

nast in one person; the latter role would be sensibly enhanced by the glory of victory in Parthia or by a defeat, constrainin

longer owing everything to the name of Caesar, possessed strength and glory in his own right, and implacable ambition. From

r enhanced the impression of a pacified West as well as the power and glory of Caesar and the Caesarian party. 4 The armies

worn and sacred union of all Italy. But the young Caesar required the glory of a victory that would surpass the greatest in a

he Republic, Pompeius, Crassus and Antonius, in distant conquest, for glory , for aggrandizement—and to extinguish the recent

r of Alexandria—all wars of Rome against a foreign enemy. The martial glory of the renascent state was also supported in the

feat that had fallen to only two Romans since Romulus. Such military glory infringed a monopoly. The opportune discovery, or

of a dynast who had taken rank with Pompeius and Caesar; in military glory he was a sudden rival to the new Romulus, who tri

the new dispensation unequivocally reveals. Rightly, for the martial glory and martial primacy of the new Romulus was not im

Emperor distrustful of the title of ‘princeps’ and eager for warlike glory was flattered when his poets called him ‘dux’ and

us ambition of politicians who sought power illegally and held it for glory and for profit. Rival dynasts rent the Empire apa

th armies were rivals to the Princeps in power as well as in military glory . It would be expedient to rely instead upon the i

ree years in the Balkans and the East, not merely for warfare and for glory but that consolidation and conciliation should co

forces. The Romans operated in three columns of invasion; and as all glory and all history now concentrate upon a single per

consuls of Africa were permitted to wage wars and to acquire military glory L. Sempronius Atratinus triumphed from Africa in

as’ poets might salute the munificent patron of letters, the peculiar glory of the equestrian order modestly abiding within h

mbers of a narrow group contended among themselves for office and for glory : behind the façade of the constitution the politi

d whose mature skill, directed against foreign enemies, augmented the glory and the security of the New State. Some were pass

effort, however, was greater still. There was the Rhine as well. The glory of it all was intended to fall to Agrippa and the

een kept in the background for political or dynastic reasons, for the glory of the Princeps and his stepsons. Of the great pl

imperator. 6 Before long that honour too would be denied. Military glory was jealously engrossed by the Princeps and his f

the exploits of noble houses; and towns and trophies commemorated the glory and the vanity of the great Pompeius. Of all that

m. Tiberius inherited Lollius’ command of the legions of Gaul and the glory of the Alpine War. Like P. Silius for the favouri

or suppressed rancour, persuaded Tiberius to defraud them of military glory . The deplorable Lollius had a son, it is true, bu

efit of the deserving and Roman poor, whose peasant ancestors had won glory and empire for Rome. The Revolution was over. Vio

and panegyric stands aloof and alone, with all the power and all the glory . But he did not win power and hold it by his own

nerals of Augustus who encroached upon Tiberius’ monopoly of military glory , whether personal enemies of Tiberius or not. Lol

roads, temples and towns named in their honour and commemorating the glory of the great houses that were the Republic and Ro

r many of them it had been hard enough to preserve and perpetuate the glory of their state in times of civil peace. The Revol

estless, with noble qualities as well as evil the strife for liberty, glory or domination. 1 Empire, wealth and individual am

and quietly practised the higher patriotism. It was not glorious: but glory was ruinous. A surer fame was theirs than the fut

ve of their res gestae or recounted their life, deeds and destiny for glory or for politics: none can have fabricated history

been ‘Felix’, Pompeius had seized the title of ‘Magnus’. Augustus, in glory and fortune the greatest of duces and principes,

his own Mausoleum. He may already, in the ambition to perpetuate his glory , have composed the first draft of the inscription