, or at least could show no more consuls. The Sulpicii and Manlii had lost prominence. The Servilii, old allies of the Not

sar had counted upon capitulation or a short and easy war. They had lost the first round. Then a second blow, quite beyond

rply for eleven years. But Brutus, after Pharsalus, at once gave up a lost cause, receiving pardon from Caesar, high favour,

reputation it was that he never let down his friends. Where Pompeius lost supporters through inertia, vanity or perfidy, Ca

3 Some of them he lent to his ally, Caesar the proconsul, and some he lost . 4 Caesar profited by the example and by the erro

played his hand with cool skill. The Liberators and their friends had lost , at once and for ever, the chance of gaining an a

ubsidies; and he later made a grant to Servilia. Rome and Italy, if lost , could be recovered in the provinces, as Pompeius

did not dare to show themselves before the Roman People, all was not lost . The Dictator was dead, regretted by many, but no

bbed by Servilia when he embarked upon an all too familiar recital of lost opportunities. 3 The Ludi Ceriales had apparent

ble. If he lingered until the expiration of his consular year, he was lost . His enemies might win the provincial armies. Bru

njust peace to be better than the justest of wars. Then the fair name lost credit. So much talk was there of peace and conco

(he was augur for the space of 55 years), and Cn. Domitius Calvinus, lost to history for thirty months after the Ides of Ma

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

us. ’ PageBook=>166 surviving epistle to Cicero. His style had lost none of its elegance: he protested good will and

letter written by Cicero to Octavianus, the Roman and the Republican lost all patience. NotesPage=>170 1 The evidenc

nt runs, through a defect of his eyesight1 and believing that all was lost , Cassius fell upon his sword. Such was the first

rius, are not heard of again. 2 As Brutus exclaimed, quoting from a lost tragedy (Dio 47, 49, 2), τλ μον άρϵτή, λόγος ἄρ

rther, from duty to his ally and to the Caesarian party, Antonius had lost the better part of two years, sacrificing ambitio

the diplomacy of Maecenas. Lacking either of them he might have been lost . Antonius was induced to come to Tarentum in the

me would scarcely have retained their hold upon a generation that had lost leisure and illusions and took no pains to concea

’ PageBook=>250 thoughts and darker operations, which it never lost so long as the art was practised in the classical

ide when war came. 1 The men were dead, and their fashion of poetry lost favour rapidly. Young Propertius came too late. T

sed, Antonian consuls would be in power at Rome. Antonius had already lost the better part of two years not Ventidius but th

30, is moderate two legions cut to pieces, further eight thousand men lost on the retreat. Tarn (CAH x, 75) fixes the loss a

g other enormities NotesPage=>282 1 The truth of the matter is lost for ever. Octavianus had the first view of the do

the funeral oration delivered by Tiberius). PageBook=>317 and lost in war. 1 His murders and his treacheries were no

ssus would command armies again. Yet, apart from these survivals of a lost cause, Rome could boast in 27 B.C. some eleven vi

en the Princeps’ two steadfast allies of early days there was no love lost . The men of the Revolution can scarcely be descri

at least. As soon as a census came they would forfeit it, if they had lost their fortunes. After Actium certain cities of It

iberty during the Bellum Perusinum and committed suicide when all was lost . 4 NotesPage=>383 1 For examples, cf. belo

of Rome, fulsome in praise for the government and bitter in rebuke of lost causes and political scapegoats. The work was ded

ince; in the pacification of its southern boundaries King Amyntas had lost his life; and though there was no permanent estab

se probably not abundant; and two pages of the manuscript of Dio were lost at this point. Innocent trust in the fraudulent V

this period. Certain campaigns, deliberately omitted by Velleius and lost from Dio, or unknown to him, may belong here. 2

the Princeps, conducted wars under their own auspices. But the Senate lost the other two armies. In 12 B.C. Augustus took ov

en created. After Actium, no place for them. 1 But the lesson was not lost . Augustus perpetuated the premium on specializati

f a man who was legate of Augustus in a province the name of which is lost but which earned him ornamenta triumphalia for a

rvice expired, were dismissed in the years 7-2 B.C. But no ground was lost during the decade when Tiberius was absent from t

n. The greatest of all was Maecenas. After 23 B.C. Maecenas gradually lost ground. When life ebbed along with power, the des

revealed the bitter frustration of his dearest hopes. 1 They were not lost upon Tiberius or upon the principes, his rivals.

his inhuman composure the despairing complaint against Varus for the lost legions. 1 In A.D. 13 the succession was publicly

s (cos. suff. 1 B.C.) was in charge of Moesia (now that Macedonia had lost its army). 2 In the three years of the rebellion

1 Tacitus, Hist. 2, 95. PageBook=>441 Not until libertas was lost did men feel the full pride of Rome’s imperial de

s succeeded: other patrons of literature were left far behind. Pollio lost his Virgil. Messalla had to be content with the

had everything to gain from the new order. Both Virgil and Horace had lost their paternal estates in the confiscations that

1 Juvenal 8, 1. 2 lb. 3, 60 ff. PageBook=>491 The nobiles lost power and wealth, display, dignity and honour. Ba

ian faction suffered heavy loss through loyal or stubborn adhesion to lost causes Pompeius, Libertas and Antonius. Cato’s so

1, 49 (ultimate and damning). PageBook=>504 The lesson was not lost . Nero was the descendant of Ahenobarbus, of Anton

and incompetent, bears in those epithets the blame for three legions lost not all his own fault. 2 The most eminent of the

nic traitor ’morbo proditor’. 1 Fools or fanatics perished along with lost causes: the traitors and time-servers survived, e