Roman State, the manner and fashion of dynastic politics changes but little ; and though noble houses suffered defeat in the s

Thrace to the shore of Pontus and the mouth of the river Danube. A little apart stands M. Licinius Crassus, who commanded

and to provide for all his brothers and sisters; 3 the second was of little account, and the youngest, P. Clodius, brilliant

spend judgement about the guilt of the Civil War. 3 Pompeius had been little better, if at all, than his younger and more acti

ade by Caesar. The heir to Caesar’s name, his grand-nephew, attracted little attention at the time of his first appearance in

la prosecuted Ap. Claudius Pulcher in 51 (Ad fam. 8, 6, 1), so he had little choice when it came to civil war. Caesar designat

. In itself, the process is natural enough; and it is confirmed not a little by subsequent and unimpeachable history. Enemies

s, bankers’ sons both. Caelius came from Tusculum and probably needed little help. 5 Plancius, from Cicero’s own Volscian coun

athering in the strongholds and the recruits of his adversaries, with little resistance. Cingulum owed recent benefits to Labi

the next year, Hirtius and Pansa, the level of social eminence fell a little ,1 but was to rise again in 42 with two of the mar

f the next eighteen months. Among the survivors, a few Caesarians, of little weight, and some discredited beyond remedy: for t

n Brutus and Cassius during the months of April and May lurked in the little towns of Latium in the vicinity of Rome, they gat

war. Even had the Liberators been willing to pay it, they could find little to encourage them abroad. The execution of their

d Att. 15, 1, 3: ‘non minus se nostrorum arma timere quam Antoni. ’ A little later Hirtius sent a warning letter to Cicero, Ad

on and heir; that the relationship by blood was distant was a fact of little moment in the Roman conception of the family, bar

Caesar’s family inherited the remnant of his private fortune mattered little for the power rested with the leaders of the Caes

law (cf. M. A. Levi, Ottaviano Capopartei (1933), 76 ff.), it matters little . PageBook=>116 as well as extreme Republic

an faction. Yet Octavianus’ relatives were not numerous; 2 and he got little NotesPage=>127 1 His arguments may be disc

sent but their chance might come. Octavianus’ other relatives were of little consequence. Q. Pedius, a knight’s son, legate in

impartiality. 1 It was too late. He had few illusions about Pompeius, little sympathy with his allies. Yet he found himself, n

of Caesar and the guilty knowledge of his own inadequacy. He knew how little he had achieved for the Republic despite his tale

proconsul of Macedonia, Illyricum and Achaia. Cicero had acquired no little facility in situations of this kind, loudly invok

tionary change in the East alarmed the friends of Antonius: there was little time to be lost, for the beginning of hostilities

the armies of the provinces. Depressed by the revived Dictatorship to little but a name, the consulate never afterwards recove

r, the daughter of the orator Hortensius, they abated their demands a little , but did not NotesPage=>195 1 Pliny, NH 35

ised more. 1 For the rest, the prospects of Brutus and Cassius left little to be desired. Their plan was simple to hold up t

nate Octavianus proposed measures of alleviation and compromise, with little effect save to excite the suspicions of the soldi

fresh from his second consulate, with long experience of warfare and little success as a general. The Pact of Puteoli broug

t power at Rome. His brother-in-law the consular P. Servilius carried little weight if still alive. 1 Lepidus, married to a ha

rs. The ruin of Lepidus had no doubt been carefully contrived, with little risk to its author but a fine show of splendid co

and and sea. 1 The formulation, though not extravagant, was perhaps a little premature. But it contained a programme. Octavian

d poetry reproduced some of their Republican vigour and independence, little of their grace. His style was dry and harsh, carr

s effective, than the spoken or written word of Roman statesmen. In little more than twenty years a generation and a school

nia, Ahenobarbus (the only known governor in this period). Cyrene, of little importance as a province, was perhaps governed by

(Dio 49, 39, 2 f.). About C. Fonteius Capito (cos. suff. 33) precious little is known. One of the negotiators at Tarentum in 3

any of these men had never yet sat in the Roman Senate. That mattered little now, it is true. They NotesPage=>269 1 App

vigour and talent, not ancestral imagines and dead consuls. Hence no little doubt whether the motley party of Antonius with a

. In the military colonies and they were numerous there can have been little difficulty. Though many of the veterans had serve

and supplies were on his side: he might delay and fight a battle with little loss of Roman blood, as fitted the character of a

self is all a mystery—and a topic of controversy. There may have been little fighting and comparatively few casualties. A larg

a potestas for life in 30 B.C. (Dio 51, 19, 6), he seems to have made little use of it before 23. See further below, p. 336.

ad a political programme, he advocated the existing order, reformed a little by a return to ancient practices, but not changed

us ‘(ib. 3, 12). In fact, the changes he proposes are few and modest, little more than coercion of tribunes and more power for

iscover authentic relics of Cicero in the Republic of Augustus:2 very little attention was paid to him at all, or to Pompeius.

generals operating in northern Italy in this period is a matter of no little difficulty. 5 In Spain C. Antistius Vetus and L

proconsul of Crete or Cyprus; and the Prefect of the Guard knew what little power resided in the decorative office and title

g nobiles to his person, to his family and to the new system, with no little success. But there must be no going back upon his

nquets, but on less exacting occasions, draped in all her pearls, and little else: her attire was valued at a mere forty milli

. The consulate was the monopoly of the nobiles: after the consulate, little occupation, save a proconsulate, usually brief in

f consular proconsuls. The Senate retained Africa, a province of no little importance from its constant and arduous wars: th

nd Baetica) and the island of Cyprus. 1 This looked well and mattered little . In 27 B.C., the Senate provided proconsuls for e

exceptional. Vinicius is a close parallel; it is unfortunate that so little is known of the careers of L. Tarius Rufus and C.

the company of his intimates. Octavianus inherited the policy and no little part of the personnel, for the names of Balbus, O

tives the Senate and People still retained in foreign policy mattered little in comparison with the fact that the Princeps, in

tical show. The taciturn and business-like Agrippa would have been of little use. Nor would Taurus, the other soldier and admi

dict his return. 3 Much happened in that dark and momentous interval, little can be known. 4 With the steady and public progre

us Rufus, though a personal friend of Augustus, probably commanded as little authority as he deserved; Lollius was a bitter en

nd the class war; and many of the principal actors of the tragedy had little of the traditional Roman in their character. Augu

rce of arms: some of his greatest triumphs had been achieved with but little shedding of blood. The Princeps, now a monopolist

acrificing all emotion to pietas, firm in resolution but sombre and a little weary. The poem is not an allegory; but no contem

ities of reconciliation, there must still have been Romans who were a little shocked at hearing the army of the Roman People d

British Academy, Raleigh Lecture, 1937). PageBook=>470 It is a little surprising that the rich vocabulary of politics w

portunity in the Curia or in the law courts to utter sentiments of no little frankness and vigour. PageNotes. 481 1 Tacitu

he resentful Pollio rose and walked out. 6 Pollio professed to find little to his taste in the New State. Pollio was himself

from the Caesarian leader. But the Caesarians themselves seem to fare little better. The vaunting Cornificius vanished utterly

informers. The position of Augustus was so strong that the evil found little encouragement. Tiberius, however, was insecure. T

ss against Roman tradition. The banker Atticus was more typical, if a little narrow, in his conception of real history he stud

monarchy. By the end of Augustus’ reign, however, there remained but little of the Catonian faction or of the four noble hous

e cool shade of Tibur Plancus could take his ease and reflect with no little complacency that throughout his campaigns, for al