ly, the reason may be discovered in the character and opinions of the historian Pollio—a Republican, but a partisan of Caesar and

edient; and adulation was repugnant to his character. Another eminent historian was also constrained to omit the period of the Tr

ientela of Pompeius: Theophanes of that city was his friend, domestic historian and political agent. 2 But Caesar, too, had his p

oman statesman. There is a melancholy truth in the judgement of the historian Sallustius. After Pompeius and Crassus had restor

oo well; and the immediate and palpable present bore heavily upon the historian , imperatively recalling the men and acts of forty

en per cent, of the whole army. 2 Q. Dellius subsequently became an historian (Strabo, p. 523; Plutarch, Antonius 59), possibly

. Al. 56, 4. 3 The knight L. Annaeus Seneca, later to be known as a historian and authority on rhetoric, must have been a man o

to be spared. 4 dementia became one of his cardinal virtues; and the historian Velleius Paterculus fervently extols the clemency

2 It was an especial habit of the Greeks to make much of Parthia. The historian Livy rebuked them (9, 18, 6). 3 Dio 51, 7, 7, c

d not been? Neither Gallus nor Crassus is even mentioned by the loyal historian Velleius Paterculus, hence all the more reason to

to revive such memories, save by covert apology, or when an official historian sought to refute Sallustius. The tone of literatu

? 4 Augustus twitted him with being a Pompeian. 5 The Emperor and his historian understood each other. The authentic Pompeius was

ncipe uteremur. acriora ex eo vincula. ’ PageBook=>324 A later historian dates from this ‘constitutional’ settlement the b

ceived. The Princeps speaks of a restoration of the Republic, and the historian Velleius Paterculus renders an obedient echo of i

end in wrecking the Caesarian party. In the secret debate which the historian Cassius Dio composed to illuminate his account of

erienced Taurus. Statesmen require powerful deputies and agents, as a historian observed when speaking of these men. 1 Such a t

study of rhetoric. Pompeius Macer, who was the son of the Mytilenean historian , was procurator in Asia; 7 and before long two me

he Principate of Augustus, Cassius Dio complains that the task of the historian has been aggravated beyond all measure under the

rule his Mytilenean client Theophanes was an intriguer as well as an historian ; his friend, the affluent senator Lucceius, gave

e, the wealth and the luxurious tastes of his great-uncle, the Sabine historian and moralist. Like the Maecenas of earlier days,

Cassius Dio, the decision to restore the Republic, or rather, as that historian believed, to consolidate the monarchy, was formed

sent, inter dissimulantes fuissent’ (ib. 4). PageBook=>414 The historian might with no less propriety have turned his tale

. The crisis could not long be postponed. A loyal but not ingenuous historian exclaims that the whole world felt the shock of T

t to Rome, perhaps, and more solid achievement than is indicated by a historian who omits Ahenobarbus and is as cool about the se

damned by the crime of ambition and ‘impia arma’. Augustus, like the historian Tacitus, would have none of them; and so they rec

9, 602 f. 4 Horace, Odes 1, 12, 43. For the type in a contemporary historian , cf. the Sabine Sp. Ligustinus (Livy 42, 34) who

hat a change later came over the Roman aristocracy was evident to the historian Tacitus; no less evident that it was slow in oper

er, the eloquent Theophanes of Mytilene. Caesar, however, was his own historian in the narratives of the Gallic and Civil Wars, a

invictae gentes aeterna in foedera mittant. 6 In the same years the historian Livy was already at work upon the majestic and co

for that was the ‘better cause’. 2 It may be presumed that Augustus’ historian also spoke with respect of Brutus and Cassius the

find little to his taste in the New State. Pollio was himself both a historian and an orator; and in history he was critical as

ned with distaste from the wars and politics of his time and became a historian . Both writers had practical experience of affairs

nator Tacitus more than a century later, was scornful of the academic historian . 2 Livy had come to history from the study of rhe

acerbity of Pollio must have delivered a more crushing verdict upon a historian from Patavium than the obvious and trivial commen

ry. 1 Pollio knew what history was. It was not like Livy. Augustus’ historian of imperial Rome employed for his theme an ample

as Labienus and Cassius, or possessing fewer enemies, the Republican historian A. Cremutius Cordus, whose vivid pages proscribed

1 Governments change and careerists make mistakes. Seianus fell. The historian may have been involved in his ruin. With the acce

s and triumphs, the elogia of the noble families. The earliest native historian of note, Cato the Censor, made his protest agains

ord of their ruin might be instructive it was not a happy task for an historian . The author of the Annals was moved to despair of

e; and the grandson of Vinicius was the patron of a loyal and zealous historian . On the other hand, Lollius was a political scape

new the bitter truth about the last generation of the Free State. The historian Tacitus, commenting on the stability of the new r

lancholy and complain that his own theme was dull and narrow. But the historian who had experienced one civil war in his own life

imself would have thought it impossible after a civil war. Like the historian , the student of oratory was tempted to regret the

peio Brutoque rem publicam. ’ Not, however, in Hist. 2, 38, where the historian speaks for himself. 4 Dial. 36 ff. 5 Ib. 40,

. 2 He turned instead to the sombre theme of the Annals. As a Roman historian , Tacitus had to be a Republican: in his life and

01 f., and towards Greeks, 506; on Paullus Fabius Persicus, 511; as a historian , 6; the Oratio Claudi Caesaris, 359, 501. Claud

lius Sulla Felix, misses the consulate, 377. Cornelius Tacitus, the historian ; his origin, 490; as a traditionalist historian,

ornelius Tacitus, the historian; his origin, 490; as a traditionalist historian , 5, 8, 420; his Annals, 1, 5, 507 f., 517; Histor

aesarian centurion, 70. Cremona, 74, 79, 251. Cremutius Cordus, A., historian , 487, 489. Crete, allotted to the Liberators, 1

ts of consulate, 67; deserts Caesar, 67 f. Labienus, T., orator and historian , 486, 489. Laelius, C., novus homo and friend o

the Emperor Galba, 386, 422, 511. Livii, 19, 340, 422. Livius, T., historian , 6; on Camillus, 305; Caesar, 317; Alexander, 441

nt of Magnus from Mytilene, 35, 76, 262; as a secret agent, 407; as a historian , 459; honoured at Mytilene, 263; descendants, 356

to, M., the Censor (cos. 195 B.C.), 26, 85; as a landowner, 452; as a historian , 508. Porcius Cato, M. (‘Uticensis’), and the C

ius’, In Ciceronem, 135. Sallustius Crispus, C., grandnephew of the historian , 267, 385; his gardens, 380; his son, 384; remove

Cimber, L., Caesarian and assassin, 95, 102 f., 206. Timagenes, Greek historian , 486. Tisienus Gallus, defends Nursia, 210; wit