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1 (1960) THE ROMAN REVOLUTION
o the last battle in Spain. Then he followed Antonius for five years. Loyal to Caesar, and proud of his loyalty, Pollio at th
s, threatened in his dignitas, with his acta needing ratification and loyal veterans clamorous for recompense, was constraine
o give private guarantees of good behaviour, public demonstrations of loyal acquiescence. 5 The three principes now dominated
the other provinces from Macedonia eastwards were in the hands of men loyal to the government, or at least not dangerous; 3 a
aughter, namely L. Domitius Ahenobarbus and M. Calpurnius Bibulus. To loyal support of Cato, Ahenobarbus and Brutus joined a
es, the Pompeian general Afranius and the orator Cicero, pathetically loyal to a leader of whose insincerity he could recall
placing them, according to the traditional Roman way, in the hands of loyal partisans, or of reconciled Pompeians whose good
. To his contemporaries, Marcus Brutus, firm in spirit, upright and loyal , in manner grave and aloof, seemed to embody that
uncle Cato and Pompeius his father’s murderer. The patricians were loyal to tradition without being fettered by caste or p
r his former adversaries, of a frank and generous race. Gaul remained loyal during the Civil War. Pompeius Magnus counted a
ince, as he reminded the ungrateful men of Hispalis. 5 Gades had been loyal to Rome since the great Punic War, and Caesar fil
war against Jugurtha. 1 In the East kings, dynasts and cities stood loyal to Pompeius as representative of Rome, but only s
financiers, the cream and pride of the equestrian order, old friends, loyal associates or grateful clients. Balbus, Oppius an
of local factions. Etruria and Umbria, though wavering, had remained loyal to Rome: the propertied classes had good reason t
Minatus Magius, a magnate of the Samnite community of Aeclanum, stood loyal to Rome, raising a private army conspicuous on Su
st eminent of the Caesarians already held office and preferment, were loyal to Antonius or to settled government, he must tur
geBook=>129 Octavianus turned for help to friends of his own, to loyal Caesarian adherents, to shady adventurers. Good f
the vile proconsul; 4 and the blameless chieftains of Balkan tribes, loyal allies of the Roman People, were foully done to d
r Pharsalus. Not so the personal adherents of the dynast, fanatically loyal to the claims of pietas. Thapsus and Munda thinne
d senior statesmen. Without armed aid from the provinces, or at least loyal support from the provincial governors, usurpation
nascence of the Republican and Pompeian cause, was so strong that the loyal dispatches which Lepidus continued to send to the
Q. Cornificius, proconsul of Africa Vetus in 44 B.C., remained there, loyal to the Senate against Antonius and refusing to re
istory was to commemorate shining examples of courage or defiance, of loyal wives and faithful slaves; 5 and tales of strange
of local aristocrats supported Caesar; 4 and some will have remained loyal to the Caesarian party. Certain wealthy families,
ρον κϵίνῳ μαχϵ ται. 5 Suetonius, Divus Aug. 13, 2 (M. Favonius, the loyal Catonian). 6 Appian, BC 4, 136, 575. 7 Plutar
ilized regions Umbria, Etruria and the Sabine country, which had been loyal to Rome then, but had fought for the Marian cause
accusations of vice and duplicity perhaps do less than justice to the loyal and open character of Antonius, his position as t
e need to destroy Pompeius without delay. For the moment Antonius was loyal to the Caesarian alliance; but Antonius, who came
ame or epithet of divinity. 5 His statue was now placed in temples by loyal or obedient Italian municipalities. 6 At Rome the
e and a sense of destiny had triumphed over incalculable odds. He had loyal and unscrupulous friends like Agrippa and Maecena
ne of Caesar’s officers and a senator before the assassination, was a loyal Caesarian, at first a partisan of Antonius. 5 L.
industry. Long ago he deserted politics, save for a brief interval of loyal service to Pompeius in Spain, and devoted his ene
and Canidius, above, p. 200. PageBook=>268 Antonius had been a loyal friend to Caesar, but not a fanatical Caesarian.
tradition there was also a reminder in the person of the young Curio, loyal to his father’s friend, his step-father Antonius.
of avowed enemies by no means left a Senate unreservedly and reliably loyal it was packed with the timid and the time-serving
library of Pergamum, no less than two hundred thousand volumes. 1 The loyal efforts of Calvisius were not accorded general cr
ne man, however, stood firm, the uncompromising Pollio. He had been a loyal friend of old to Antonius, of which fact Antonius
7 Scribonius Curio, however, was executed—perhaps this true son of a loyal and spirited father disdained to beg for mercy :8
f Asia. 1 P. Canidius, the last of Antonius’ marshals, also perished. Loyal to Antonius, he shared in the calumny against his
e vassal princes, well aware of their own weakness, were unswervingly loyal to Roman authority and Roman interests, by whomso
t accommodate itself to the wishes of the chief men in his party. For loyal service they had been heavily rewarded with consu
Who had not been? Neither Gallus nor Crassus is even mentioned by the loyal historian Velleius Paterculus, hence all the more
id to him at all, or to Pompeius. Genuine Pompeians there still were, loyal to a family and a cause—but that was another matt
rator by the legions. 1 A second consulate was not the only reward of loyal service—he was granted in 30 B.C. the right of no
ecently the chief men of the Caesarian party had remained steadfastly loyal to Caesar’s heir even in the absence of a full me
as ever, and Agrippa continued to play his characteristic role of the loyal and selfless adjutant, the ‘fidus Achates’, unobt
ius cunning and temperance: Octavianus had been too ambitious to be a loyal partner. Now that one man stood supreme, invested
ly (until recently provincial), vigorous and prosperous regions, were loyal to the government of Rome now that they had passe
causes of friction and consolidate an alliance perhaps by no means as loyal and unequivocal as the Roman People was led to be
on of an opulent freedman and an intimate friend of the Princeps. The loyal Vedius constructed, to honour Augustus, a Caesare
was now aged fifty-seven. The crisis could not long be postponed. A loyal but not ingenuous historian exclaims that the who
The enemies of Tiberius, the careerists honest or dishonest, and the loyal servants of whatever happened to be the governmen
e exile. 3 That was excessive. There were other symptoms. Nemausus, a loyal and patriotic city of Narbonensis, cast down the
fferings to Apollo, his patron. 1 Other materials were available. The loyal citizen might gaze upon Augustus in the shape of
the famous shield recording the cardinal virtues of Augustus. 1 Many loyal towns possessed their own copies of the Fasti con
worship of Augustus and the Goddess Rome. 2 Asia is incited by that loyal proconsul, the patrician Paullus Fabius Maximus,
re from reprisals as well as formidable in attack. Labienus came of a loyal Pompeian family reduced in circumstances: he live
Book=>489 Velleius, a typical government writer, is unswervingly loyal to Tiberius and to L. Aelius Seianus, the chief m
able extinction. The better cause and the best men, the brave and the loyal , had perished. Not a mere faction of the nobility
these four families, the Catonian faction suffered heavy loss through loyal or stubborn adhesion to lost causes Pompeius, Lib
ily by one generation only. 3 Nor are the new families ennobled for loyal service in the years of peace and the Principate
ior (Tarraconensis), to a descendant of the Republican nobility and a loyal servant of the government, Ser. Sulpicius Galba:
nemies kept silence; and the grandson of Vinicius was the patron of a loyal and zealous historian. On the other hand, Lollius
um puer artium’, than is revealed by Horace’s charming ode and by the loyal effusions of Ovid, he might not stand in such sta
, libertate atque fortunis per ilium frui. ’ PageBook=>520 The loyal town-council of the colony of Pisa showed more re
ecialization in, 355, 395 f.; removed from politics by Augustus, 353; loyal to the dynasty, 476. Arpinum, 86. Arretium, 8
army, 70, 456; patriotism, 465; Republicanism, 465. Gallia Comata, loyal to Caesar, 74 f.; in 44 B.C., 110, 165; under the
f the Titulus Tiburtinus, 398 f.; with Gaius Caesar in the East, 429; loyal to Tiberius, 429, 434; his origin, 362; wealth, 3
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