ed by a recent catastrophe. 1 So, too, were the Aemilii:2 but neither house resigned its claim to primacy. The Claudii, howev

ore and heart of Sulla’s party and Sulla’s oligarchy was the powerful house of the Caecilii Metelli, whom some called stupid.

ing coalition is revealed in the relations and alliances between that house and two other groups. The first is the Claudii: i

ion of the patrician Servilii and ruthless to recapture power for her house . 5 Her brother, Q. Servilius, husband of Horten

, but supremely great in spirit. 1 C. Julius Caesar, of a patrician house newly arisen from long decay, largely by help fro

tritt in die Geschichte (1938). 3 His mother was an Aurelia, of the house of the Aurelii Cottae. For the stemma, showing al

te of his recalcitrance towards Poppaedius the Marsian in his uncle’s house ). Further, his kinsman, L. Porcius Cato (cos. 89)

ed, Pompeius kept up that connexion by marrying another woman of that house . 2 The alliance with the Metelli, by no means une

ers-on of the Scipiones. But the power and splendour of that imperial house , the conquerors of Carthage and of Spain, belonge

the Metelli had given him a pointed reminder of the dignitas of their house . 4 It was the oligarchy of Sulla, manifest and

of principle nor of class, the presence of members of the same noble house on opposing sides will be explained not always by

as a patrician and proud of it. He boasted before the people that his house was descended from the immortal gods and from the

nus and the goddess Vitellia through an ancient and extinct patrician house of the early Republic. 2 Some said that Cicero’s

r), cf. Suetonius, Tib. 2, 2. For their intermarriage with a dynastic house of Capua c. 217 B.C., Livy 23, 2, 1 ff. The Fabii

he Plautii from Tibur. 1 The Marcii are probably a regal and priestly house from the south of Latium; 2 and the name of the L

d Caesar, the popular politician, with his public boast of the Julian house , descended from the kings of Rome and from the im

of Caesar’s arms and of Venus Genetrix, the ancestress of the Julian house (July 20th to 30th). Octavianus again sought to

. PageBook=>124 later, a dark episode Antonius arrested at his house certain of the veteran soldiers of his bodyguard,

intrigue to maintain the newly retrieved eminence of his illustrious house . Philippus and Marcellus were both desperately an

l stock, deriving his descent on the maternal side from the Cilnii, a house that held dynastic power in the city of Arretium

nt colleagues deposed the criminal from office, the mob plundered his house ; the Senate, by a violent usurpation of authority

r of provinces, but now a peaceful antiquary, found harbourage in the house of Calenus. 2 Foresight and good investments pr

s a very wealthy man: his villas in the country and the palatial town house once owned by Livius Drusus cried out for confisc

mp;c). The name might really be ‘Machares’, which occurs in the royal house of Pontus. 3 Tacitus, Ann. 3, 28. Ch. XV PHIL

alem Pacorus set up a king, Antigonus, of a cadet branch of the royal house . The damage and the disgrace were immense. But th

e noble Calvinus is a solitary and mysterious figure. It was from his house that Caesar set forth on the Ides of March; 4 and

inius and to Caesar, governed in Judaea, though the ancient Hasmonean house , now decadent, retained title and throne. 3 In th

were older still. Long ago the nobles of Rome, not least the dynastic house of the patrician Claudii, had enhanced their powe

sar’s heir with the Senate and People of Rome, the star of the Julian house blazing on his head; in the air above, the gods o

stiny of imperial Rome. To Venus, the divine ancestress of the Julian house , Jupiter NotesPage=>304 1 Virgil, Aen. 6,

l propriety—or rather, impropriety. Crassus was a noble, from a great house , the grandson of a dynast who had taken rank with

The novus homo of the revolutionary age and the heir of the Claudian house were perhaps not so far apart in this matter and

. Sulpicius Quirinius had no connexion with the ancient and patrician house of the Sulpicii he belonged to the municipium of

o, cf. E. Groag, P-W XIII, 1378, on the mysterious connexion with the house of Messalla (Tacitus, Ann. 12, 22). 4 Namely th

ite was M. Papius Mutilus (cos. suff. A.D. 9), of an ancient dynastic house . Two other consuls in this period, though not loc

nd the vanquished. The Princeps himself dwelt on the Palatine, in the house of Hortensius:5 this was the centre, but only a p

ilius Taurus. 6 Agrippa now lived in state, sharing with Messalla the house of Antonius. 7 Spacious pleasure-gardens attested

ge into open day in the court life of the ruler of the Julio-Claudian house . A court soon develops, with forms and hierarch

State. 3 In portraiture and statuary, Augustus and the members of his house are depicted, not always quiet and unpretentious,

no new thing in the history of Rome or in the annals of the Claudian house . The hereditary succession of a Roman youth to mo

f collateral connexions, the husbands or the sons of the women of his house . Most of them were already of consular rank. Se

sely bound by ties of kinship or personal alliance with the Caesarian house . Scarcely less prominent the Valerii, though esca

Julia would abolish the only tie that bound Tiberius to the reigning house . Tiberius was not consulted; when he knew, he vai

enate, was emboldened to studious neglect of the head of the Claudian house . 5 Tiberius, who honoured, if ever a Republican n

rix and Divus Julius. Mars and Venus were the ancestors of the Julian house . The temple of Mars the Avenger had been vowed by

lf a solemn and comprehensive oath of loyalty to the ruler and to his house (3/2 B.C.). 6 In regions where submission to ki

fanatical yet rational devotion to the person of Augustus and to the house of Caesar. No less comprehensible was the loyalty

n the more unpopular of his partisans. M. Titius owed benefits to the house of Pompeius. He had made an ill requital. The Pom

patron of letters. When a mediocre poet from Corduba delivered in his house a lame panegyric of Cicero, deflendus Cicero es

3, 23, 4 ff. Pollio harboured him when he was expelled from Augustus’ house . 7 Seneca, Controv. 10, praef. 8. 8 Pliny, NH

incipate of Augustus belongs the last consul of the ancient patrician house of the Scipiones. Their name and their mausoleum

to Rome, settled there with the company of his clients, the patrician house of the Claudii had been an integral part of the h

distinction of Aemilii and Claudii, the Domitii, a dynastic plebeian house of fairly recent nobility, would yet, to the cont

nd the Scribonii, issue of the daughter of Sex. Pompeius. Nor was the house of Sulla extinct an obscure grandson in the Princ

nus Aelianus (ILS 986) is probably an Aelius Lamia by birth, of which house after the consul of A.D. 3 no direct descendants

knights and freedmen, courtiers male and female. Quies preserved the house of the Cocceii through many generations; 3 but it

our a brief taste of revenge when scandal and crime rent the reigning house or when a powerful upstart, Gallus, Lollius or Se

before long to Octavianus. Along with Agrippa, Messalla occupied the house of Antonius on the Palatine. 2 Pollio had been mo

been sincere in his principles:3 but the Roman knight who filled his house with the statues of Republican heroes was a snob

8, 33, 39; his death, 44, 61; character of his oratory, 245; his town house , 380. Hortensius Hortalus, M., impoverished gra

o’s verdict, 192.; His character, 122, 138, 320 f.; wealth, 195; town house , 195, 380; as an advocate, 149 ff.; as a wit, 152