se the saviour of Italy, and thereby put a double-edged weapon in the hand of Crassus, who disliked them both. 4 Nor was Pom

to victory and to power. 4 Caesar, it is true, had only a legion to hand : the bulk of his army was still far away. But h

ended worthy of his ancestors; 2 while Cato chose to fall by his own hand rather than witness the domination of Caesar and

t than to alien or theoretical models. More important the business in hand : it was expedited in swift and arbitrary fashion.

. Hence one of the Marcelli, the consul who had placed a sword in the hand of Pompeius, mindful at last of a marriage-connex

e formed an alliance with the Metelli he placed deadly weapons in the hand of his rival, namely the appeal to the People aga

ntulus Crus, above, p. 44, n. 4. 3 It may be presumed that he had a hand in the pact of 60 B.C. In December of that year h

Dictator’s will, granting a public funeral. Antonius had played his hand with cool skill. The Liberators and their friends

he danger of popular outbreaks was averted, the veterans were kept in hand . Property and vested interests seemed secure from

lebs and veterans went to Caesar’s heir. And now Heaven itself took a hand . At the eighth hour of the day a comet appeared i

of Philippi. The same phantom bore heavily on Antonius and stayed the hand he would have raised against Caesar’s heir. The w

us state moneys at his disposal. Antonius is charged with refusing to hand over money due to Caesar’s heir perhaps unjustly.

all invention, perhaps. The subtle intriguers were now showing their hand . In November they were clearly working for their

of Volaterrae with demands for an interview, for Cicero was close at hand . 1 Cicero refused to be compromised in public. Th

me. ’6 Octavianus was but a youth, he lacked auctoritas. On the other hand , he was the heir of the Dictator, a revolutionary

d most ominous was the speech delivered in Rome, the solemn oath with hand outstretched to the statue of Caesar the Dictator

in carrying out a political mandate, a wider appeal thus lay ready to hand . All the phrases, all the weapons were there: whe

s, Antonius could be no true consul of the Roman People. On the other hand , the adversaries of Antonius deserved full recogn

the East loomed heavily. The Republicans in the Senate showed their hand . The position of M. Brutus had already been legal

lippi. Ailing, despondent and under evil auspices, Octavianus took in hand the confiscation of Italian property and the sett

f Praeneste in the neighbourhood of Rome. And now the soldiery took a hand Caesarian veterans from Ancona, old soldiers of A

er, might well seem to cry out for an explanation. It was easy and to hand Antonius was besotted by drink, the luxury of Ale

it Antonius. He laid siege to the city. Then Sex. Pompeius showed his hand . He had already expelled from Sardinia M. Lurius

the hazardous support of mercenary armies. There was fair evidence at hand to confirm the deeply- rooted belief, held among

oked excessive debate, does not need to be discussed here. On the one hand , the Triumvirs could continue to hold their power

ood firm. Had Ahenobarbus required a pretext for desertion, it lay to hand in Antonius’ refusal to dismiss Cleopatra. But th

clamouring for a crusade against the foreign enemy. Yet, on the other hand , the united front was not achieved merely through

7 Livy 5, 51 ff. 8 Ib. 5, 49, 7. PageBook=>306 there was to hand an authentic native hero, a god’s son and himself

s now held a census in virtue of powers specially granted and took in hand a purge of the Senate. 4 ‘Unworthy’ members were

retion of the Senate and the People. By what right had it been in his hand ? He indicates that it was through general consent

a, for he had slain the chieftain of the enemy in battle with his own hand , a feat that had fallen to only two Romans since

ion that connoted eminence, but not always sole primacy, was ready to hand . The leading statesmen of the Republic had common

ts there was work to be done. The restored Republic needed a friendly hand to guide its counsels and set in order its imperi

the world should all be found in one man. A triumvirate was ready to hand , in the complementary figures of Augustus, Maecen

rbitrary acts was to continue as a steady process, guided by the firm hand of a national administration. NotesPage=>351

t first belong to it, but takes time to develop. Notice, on the other hand , frequent praefecti classium; and the position of

of Rome knew how they were expected to use that freedom. On the other hand , the candidate, at least for the consulate, would

e consul in office, C. Sentius Saturninus. There was need of a strong hand , and Saturninus was the man to exert himself, fir

rintended the foreign and frontier policy of the Empire from close at hand , with long periods of residence in the provinces.

eBook=>412 A sacerdotal lawyer, conservative and pliable, was to hand in the person of Ateius Capito. 1 For the promoti

candal and sanction the disgrace on his daughter? The influence and hand of Livia might have been suspected, bearing heavi

the ‘comes et rector’ fell abruptly from favour and died, of his own hand , so it was reported. Everybody rejoiced at his de

s and revealed itself in his public acts and utterances. On the other hand his enemies were alert to prosecute their advanta

ach worse than the last, till the temples should be repaired. 1 Whose hand would Heaven guide to begin the work of restorati

ate Isles, where nature provided all fruits without the work of man’s hand , might meditate for a moment on the evils of priv

acy, for he was not one of them; he chastened them, but with a loving hand . For the respect due to aristocracy was tradition

Italy south of the Apennines were by no means abundant. On the other hand , northern or provincial Italy, above all the part

.), Virgil was engaged in writing an epic poem that should reveal the hand of destiny in the earliest origins of Rome, the c

mbers of the pacific and non-political order in society. On the other hand , their genius was not the creation of the Augusta

um preserved with pride the statues of the Liberators. 2 On the other hand , Bononia was in the clientela of the Antonii. But

le-cry and the justification of Caesar’s heir. Antonius, on the other hand , was remiss, willing even to admit an accommodati

of one of the assassins, Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus. Nor, on the other hand , had he refused to proscribe Cicero, an ally and

n Agrippa. One of the wives of Caligula, and also a candidate for the hand of Claudius when the sword removed Valeria Messal

inicius was the patron of a loyal and zealous historian. On the other hand , Lollius was a political scapegoat, while Quirini