whelming in bulk. I have been driven to make a bold decision in the interests of brevity and clearness—to quote as much as poss

ted a tradition of service to the State that could transcend material interests and combine class-loyalty with a high ideal of Ro

, positive with the initiation of laws. The use of this weapon in the interests of reform or of personal ambition became a mark o

ientela among the plebs and by due subservience towards the financial interests , might have perpetuated in Rome and Italy its har

ing all popular causes, but none that were hopeless or hostile to the interests of property and finance, and at the same time car

o liberate Rome from the domination of the Marian faction for Sulla’s interests and for his own. 6 The career of Pompeius opene

t of the Mithridatic War, voted by the Lex Manilia, for the financial interests were discontented with Lucullus, the Senate’s gen

Italian or provincial. He had shown that he was not afraid of vested interests . But Caesar was not a revolutionary. He soon disa

tutions of the Free State, but very precisely for the dignity and the interests of their own order. Liberty and the laws are high

y will often be rendered, on a cool estimate, as privilege and vested interests . It is not necessary to believe that Caesar pla

with Republicans in a new and precarious front of security and vested interests led by the Dictator’s political deputy until a ne

uestion. Pompeius was probably desirous of conciliating the financial interests at this time. 3 For the list, Drumann-Groebe,

etters and pamphlets, travelled, intrigued and negotiated in Caesar’s interests NotesPage=>071 1 BG 3, 5, 2; 4, 21, 1 an

thods earned them the name of populares were hostile to the financial interests and eager, from selfish or disinterested motives,

In Pisonem 64), was aedile in 45 (Ad Att. 13, 45, 1). He had business interests in Africa (Ad fam. 12, 29) and probably large est

, namely his own person. Italy was held to be firm for conservative interests . No doubt: the propertied classes looked with dis

lves, held preferment, office, or provinces from the Dictator. Vested interests prevailed and imposed the respectable pretext of

ns, the Liberators were at once confronted by a solid block of vested interests . They were careful to profess in public an intent

ion of March 17th corresponded with political facts and with personal interests , it was not altogether foolish to hope for normal

eaks was averted, the veterans were kept in hand. Property and vested interests seemed secure from revolution or from reaction. 5

patronage. Their employment in the first place for his own political interests calls neither for surprise nor for excuse. Rumour

whispered. But Cicero himself hoped to profit, tirelessly urging the interests of his friend Atticus in a matter concerning land

nded upon a delicate equilibrium between the support of the Caesarian interests , especially plebs and veterans, and the acquiesce

tasteful to the sentiments of soldiers and officers, ruinous to their interests . Remonstrance was addressed to Antonius: the mili

erty, of suitable and conservative sentiments and ready to defend his interests against Roman tribunes. The family appears to hav

actor. That facile and partial interpretation will be repulsed in the interests , not of Octavianus, but of the truth. The politic

k=>153 The auctoritas of the Senate was naturally managed in the interests of the party in possession. Further, the discreti

l, did exist the propertied classes; and it was presumably in their interests that an alliance between the wealthiest members o

should not be narrowly Roman, but commend itself to the sentiment and interests of Italy as a whole. An aspiration rather than a

naturally and always most strongly in evidence on the side of vested interests . In times of peace and prosperity it commands a w

as oppressing the Republic and exploiting the constitution in its own interests . Hence the appeal to liberty. It was on this plea

s the reverse of a bellicose character. A nice calculation of his own interests and an assiduous care for his own safety carried

uttering a palpable truth. 2 On a rational calculation of persons and interests , it was likely that Antonius would regain the sup

a revolution. Caesar, being in close contact with powerful financial interests and representatives of the landed gentry, was ave

whom were absent from Rome, ailing in health or remote from political interests . 2 The interval of a year carried off three, Ser.

ntonius, and his agent Manius, sought to exploit the confusion in the interests of his absent brother. 1 They played a double gam

The sentiments of the soldiery veered round to Octavianus where their interests clearly lay. Octavianus, for his part, divorced h

s of the generals their soldiers had an acute perception of their own interests as well as a strong distaste for war: it would be

ctavianus to assert himself as the true Caesarian by standing for the interests of the legions. But his errors were not fatal Oct

B.C. the domination of the Caesarian faction, founded upon the common interests of leaders and soldiers and cemented by the most

e Republic after the end of all the wars. Though a formidable body of interests was massed in defence of the new order, it lacked

hree ends at once. The tribune Livius Drusus, working in conservative interests and supported by a powerful group of nobiles, yet

ir own weakness, were unswervingly loyal to Roman authority and Roman interests , by whomsoever represented, by Pompeius, by Cassi

a due guarantee of his dignitas and pledge of civil concord or vested interests there was work to be done. The restored Republic

e domination for the future. After the assassination of Caesar vested interests averted disturbance and imposed the settlement of

verted disturbance and imposed the settlement of March 17th. Vested interests were now more widely spread, more tenacious, more

fits of political power, debarred from alliances with those financial interests with whom they once had shared the spoils of the

rchic Princeps robbed the other principes of power and honour. In the interests of an ordered commonwealth, consulate and militar

the two orders, which with separate functions but with coalescence of interests not only represented, but were themselves the gov

er which Augustus claimed sovranty, while not seriously impairing the interests or the prestige of Rome, none the less called for

However it be (and scandal has probably embellished the topic in the interests of Tiberius), Gaius wasted away and perished far

broider, any loss sustained by Livy the historians did not excite the interests of biographers and scholiasts as did the poets. B

rds clients, 70; on the res publica, 53; pride of birth, 68; literary interests , 459 f.; Caesar and Cicero, 137 ff.; see also Div