. The happy outcome of the Principate might be held to justify, or at least to palliate, the horrors of the Roman Revolution:

amillus saved Rome from the Gauls, had vanished utterly by now, or at least could show no more consuls. The Sulpicii and Manl

nia eastwards were in the hands of men loyal to the government, or at least not dangerous; 3 and all the kings, princes and t

ar that subsequent accounts have been guilty of attributing a part at least of the cult of Divus Julius to that very differen

ompeians whose good sense should guarantee peace. For that period, at least , a salutary pause from political activity: with t

e three disgraced consulars, not all dubious characters. Gabinius, at least , an old Pompeian partisan, author of salutary leg

is true, were disappointed or ungrateful: yet of the whole number, at least eight subsequently became consuls. Only two of th

an Oriental despot himself. In the West, in the Gallic provinces at least , the inherited and personal preponderance of the

. Possibly ‘Rufio’, not ‘Rufinus’, cf. Münzer in P-W IA, 1198. 6 At least seventy millions (Dio 48, 36, 4f.). 7 Plutarch,

e was not the heir, of a family with municipal repute and standing at least not all centurions were rustic and humble in orig

and P. Hostilius Saserna, can be distinguished, of whom the first at least was a senator (Münzer, P-W VII, 2512 ff.). If the

n. The antithesis is incomplete and of no legal validity. At the very least , colonial Romans or other wealthy and talented in

gods, and through all the frauds of pedigree and legend could at the least lay claim to a respectable antiquity. The Aelii L

ese are exceptions rather than examples. The governing oligarchy, not least the dynastic houses of the plebeian nobility, had

ilies that had long since been incorporated in the Roman State, or at least subjected to Roman influences. In a wide region o

menacing tone. D. Brutus was in despair. 3 NotesPage=>097 1 At least according to Nicolaus, Vita Caesaris 27, 106 2

bt Antonius desired them to be away from Rome: a temporary absence at least might have been admitted by the friends of Brutus

Octavianus will best be left to emerge from his actions. One thing at least is clear. From the beginning, his sense for reali

a placuit ut ea lecta de reversione primum coeperim cogitare. ’ So at least on the surface, which is all that we know. Yet An

the Balkans, had sent in advance to Brundisium, or farther, a part at least of the reserves of money which he needed for his

he awkward fact that Octavianus at Brundisium in April, for a time at least , had control both of certain funds destined for t

r, withdrew more and more from active politics. Yet his repute, or at least his influence, is sufficiently demonstrated by hi

for his part exerted every art to win the confidence of Cicero, or at least to commit him openly to the revolutionary cause.

at they strive most carefully to conceal. But certain topics, not the least important, may never come up for open debate. The

e of public emergency was the excuse for sedition. But the Antonii at least kept faith among themselves: the younger brother

minded champion of concord and the Commonwealth. The legionaries at least were sincere. From personal loyalty they might fo

rsion of a military leader might sometimes have to be enforced, or at least accelerated, by the arguments of a common humanit

The claim urged for D. Brutus might perhaps be defended: he was at least a magistrate and held his province through legal

rium maius here stated is rather antiquarian in character, to say the least . In neither of these speeches does Cicero mention

ate and senior statesmen. Without armed aid from the provinces, or at least loyal support from the provincial governors, usur

uctoritas of the Senate NotesPage=>167 1 Phil. 5. Something at least of Calenus’ speech can be recovered from Dio (46,

lina, it would not do to condemn a Roman citizen unheard. At the very least Antonius should be brought to trial, to answer fo

g in concert with each other and presumably with Antonius. Lepidus at least seems to have made no secret of his agreement wit

soon as he had served the purposes of the enemies of Antonius. So at least he inferred from the measures passed in the Senat

r against Antonius. NotesPage=>189 1 Ad fam. 10, 21, 4. 2 At least he was with Sex. Pompeius in 39 B.C. (Velleius 2,

mpany and such expedients. For Antonius there was some palliation, at least when consul he had been harried by faction and tr

orst extremities could sometimes be avoided, among the aristocracy at least . Sulla had many enemies among the nobiles, but ce

manders in his civil wars naturally fare better; 3 but two of them at least , having passed over to the Liberators, curtailed

r combined armies succeeded in dealing with L. Antonius, that was the least of his difficulties. He might easily be overwhelm

urated by Pollio, ‘te duce’. The Golden Age is to be fulfilled, or at least inaugurated, by a child soon to be born. The ch

celebrated in 149 B.C. They were therefore due to recur in 39 B.C. at least on one calculation. The Etruscan seer Vulcanius a

secure an accommodation between her brother and her husband or so at least it was alleged, in order to represent Antonius in

ography, cf. F. Blumenthal, Wiener Studien XXXVI (1914), 84 f., or at least influenced by court tradition, which embellishes

e lay in the East, with another woman. But that was not yet apparent, least of all to Antonius NotesPage=>226 (No Note

Triumvirs. Their iron rule in Italy, while it crushed liberty, had at least maintained a semblance of peace in the four years

ecame consul for the second time, and his influence, not total but at least preponderating, may perhaps be detected in the co

eech would be well matched with the temper of a military age. Some at least of the merits of the plain style, which could cla

esar the Dictator became a subject of literary warfare, for a time at least , until his heir discountenanced an uncomfortable

ich demanded no singular gift of perspicacity: it is the merit of the least pretentious of contemporary writers, Cornelius Ne

en birth to twin children, not a matter of any importance hitherto at least in so far as concerned Roman politics, the rival

etail. It is strange that neither Velleius (2, 82, 2 f.) nor Livy (at least to judge by Per. 131) fully exploited this attrac

en alluded to may be the wives of certain associates of Octavianus at least Terentilla is presumably Terentia, the wife of Ma

vessels of gold for domestic and intimate purposes. Messalla wrote at least three pamphlets against Antonius (Charisius, GL 1

ken as fair proof that the Triumvirate had come to an end, legally at least . PageBook=>278 steps to have his position

t-grandson of Sulla. Historic names might convey the guarantee, or at least advertise the show, of support from the Roman ari

iopolis, in Cleopatra’s portion of Cilicia Aspera, was founded, or at least named, in his honour: this conjecture is confirme

εὐκατηγʋρήτʋνϛ (Plutarch, Antonius 58). The hypothesis of forgery, at least partial, should not summarily be dismissed. It is

e less the will was held genuine, and did not fail in its working, at least on some orders of the population, for it confirme

idea and practice were older still. Long ago the nobles of Rome, not least the dynastic house of the patrician Claudii, had

olitics and to thwart the popular tribune or military dynast. Such at least was the plea and profession. The local gentry, wh

by certain melancholy reflections to the same course of action, or at least of acquiescence. The better sort of people in Ita

s, the repercussions of a Roman civil war would soon be felt. Some at least of the triumphs soon to be held by Caesarian mars

the word ‘pax’ can seldom be divorced from notions of conquest, or at least compulsion. It was Rome’s imperial destiny to com

If the young despot were not willing of his own accord to adopt—or at least publish— some tolerable compromise with Senate an

en conceded since Actium to other proconsuls, and to one commander at least who was perhaps not a proconsul and was certainly

appeared in 23 B.C.). Propertius uses it but once, ‘dux’, however, at least twice. 1 As late as the publication of the last b

lization, and therefore the strengthening, of despotic power. Such at least was the conception of Tacitus when he referred el

Republican constitution should operate unhampered—and that it did, at least in the earlier years of his presidency. 5 Augustu

ous A. Terentius Varro Murena. No doubt about any of these men, or at least no candidate hostile to the Princeps. Taurus stoo

to his indiscretion, or his ambition. A conspiracy was hatched or at least discovered. The author was Fannius Caepio, Republ

lar Games should be celebrated precisely in that year; 5 and it is at least remarkable that certain Odes of Horace (published

to Rhodes has coloured earlier history. PageBook=>343 Some at least of the perils which this critical year revealed m

Antonius may have been allowed to retain senatorial rank, in name at least . As soon as a census came they would forfeit it,

n who was ‘trib. mil. leg. x geminae | in Hispania annis XVI’. 4 At least to begin with, cf. ILS 2687. For subsequent devel

riestly families tracing descent unbroken from gods and heroes, or at least from a long line of local magnates, bound by ties

alentus (clearly of non-Roman extraction), held a minor magistracy at least perhaps as promotion for a special service to Aug

gustus in the first years masked or palliated some of its maladies at least no juvenile consuls are attested for some time. N

re expected to use that freedom. On the other hand, the candidate, at least for the consulate, would do well to seek the appr

for legates of consular standing. Yet this was apparent by 12 B.C at least , when four or five large commands already existed

vancement. Of his political adherents, a number were unamiable, or at least unpopular, like Titius, Tarius and Quirinius. Tha

f in duration and ill- starred. 1 Pride of birth, prejudicial or at least unprofitable while the Triumvirs ruled in Rome, n

tion was acute and intense. The consular Fasti reveal the best, or at least the most alert and most astute, but not the whole

Cornelius Dolabella, father of the consul of A.D. 10, ib., C 1345; at least two men of the name of Cornelius Sisenna, ib., C

y continued thus to be recruited. 3 Calvisius and Taurus each held at least two priesthoods; 4 the excellent Sentius Saturnin

, like the Aelii Lamiae. 9 NotesPage=>382 1 He was pontifex at least as early as 64 B.C., Macrobius 3, 13, II. 2 Cic

d as his own. Down to 13 B.C., Augustus and Agrippa conducted or at least superintended the foreign and frontier policy of

nk and was commonly reckoned as praetorian. Yet on three occasions at least in the Principate of Augustus, Galatia was govern

s or politicians were always futile or disastrous. The Romans were at least preserved from the dreary calamities that so ofte

loose from the Caesarian party, alienated his deputy and a section at least of his adherents. While Augustus lived, he mainta

, and next to them the Claudian connexion. NotesPage=>420 1 At least , so Seneca says (De clem. 1, 9, 10): ‘cedo, si sp

lla’s family-relations are exceedingly complicated. He was married at least twice (one of his wives was probably a Calpurnia,

e family of that general could with decency permit. 4 The soldiers at least were quite glad to see Tiberius, a cautious and c

hosen Princeps and the well-staged deception imposed by Augustus, the least honest and the least Republican of men, preyed up

e well-staged deception imposed by Augustus, the least honest and the least Republican of men, preyed upon the conscience of

ade. PageNotes. 447 1 Odes 3, 6, 1 ff. 2 Ib. 1, 2, 29 f. 3 At least by Augustus, Res Gestae 10: ‘eo mor|[t]uo q[ui ci

features of Caesar the Dictator, some of them recently acquired or at least enhanced. Romulus was a king, the favourite of pl

of the Perusine War: they subsequently regained their property, or at least compensation. History does not record, or legend

At Carthage there stood an altar of the Gens Augusta reproducing, at least in part, the sculptures of the Ara Pacis Augustae

Eastern provinces when they were reconquered from Antonius. Later at least , soon after the territory of Paphlagonia was anne

e imperator without worshipping power in the eastern fashion. Such at least was the theory in so far as concerned Gallia Narb

The aristocracy knew the truth and suffered in bitter impotence, not least when they derived profit and advancement from the

made for hostile propaganda, it will have to be conceded, at the very least , that his native caution was happily seconded by

constancy in the last emergency, if believed, would reveal one man at least who was killed though begging for life. 5 It was

on this interesting document have not been preserved. Of the style at least he will have approved, if it recalled the unprete

us and Pollio, tenacious of life themselves, each produced one son at least . Daughters, however, were the heirs of the Gadita

end. But Gallus propagated the Asinii with six sons, of whom three at least attained to consular rank:4 a direct descendant w

same time, however, a new scourge arose which, for the aristocracy at least , counterbalanced other benefits. The Senate bec

lier in the founding of the New State. Politics were abolished, or at least sterilized. As a result, history and oratory suff

on that was to stand outside his monument, the Res Gestae]5 or at the least , it may be conjectured that some such document wa