, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means , without the prior permission in writing of Oxfor

ld suffice. A programme, it is true, he developed, negative but by no means despicable. 1 NotesPage=>015 1 H. Strasbur

vival given new life by the party of the Gracchi and converted into a means of direct political action, negative with the vet

e to achieve distinction, save through the questionable and hazardous means of the tribunate. Yet two men stood out in this y

g another woman of that house. 2 The alliance with the Metelli, by no means unequivocal or unclouded, endured for some fiftee

armed usurpation, tried to reinforce his predominance by the peaceful means of a new dynastic alliance. He saw the way at onc

4. Marcellus’ flogging of a man of Comum had been premature and by no means to the liking of Pompeius (Ad Att. 5, 11, 2). 3

dour and military Cassius, was of the Epicurean persuasion and by no means a fanatic. 2 As for the tenets of the Stoics, the

ed a volume was a Roman quality, not an alien importation. The word means courage, the ultimate virtue of a free man. With

ad and front of the nobilitas, paramount in public dignity, but by no means invulnerable to scrutiny of morals and merit Scip

financial operations, not for any personal profit, but to acquire the means for bounty and benevolence. 5 No details confirm

suffect consuls as well. For all their admitted talents, it is by no means likely that the Dictator would have given the con

n, on whom see E. Schwartz, P-W II, 230), but is suspect. It is by no means clear that it suited his plans to make a violent

is evident and admitted. He belonged to a class of Roman nobles by no means uncommon under Republic or NotesPage=>104

two agrarian laws passed in the consulate of Antonius. It is by no means clear that the behaviour of Antonius went beyond

sal to elect a pair of censors (ib. 2, 98 f.) clearly patronage and a means of admitting partisans to the Senate in an orderl

ality. 2 Ad fam. 11, 2. 3 Ad Att. 15, 8, 1. But Hirtius was by no means favourable to the Liberators, ib. 14, 6, I ff.

m disorder. Supported by the plebs and the veterans, he possessed the means to split the Caesarian party. For his first desig

ttack and despoil him. 1 The provenance of these resources is by no means clear; neither is the fate of the private fortune

had always been consistent in his political ideal, though not in the means he adopted to attain it. His defence can hardly c

however, have been influenced by circumstantial rumours. It was by no means unlikely that Caesar would be entangled and defea

d by Cicero on January 1st for coolly disregarding the law were by no means adequate or unequivocal (Phil. 5, 7 ff.). Firstly

d when Caesar defeated Pompeius yet the following of Caesar was by no means homogeneous, and the Dictator stood above parties

forefront of political speakers, and the spirited Caelius, were by no means the only exponents of this Attic tendency in Roma

vinity, Caesar’s heir as Apollo, Antonius as Dionysus. 5 It was by no means evident how they were to operate a fusion Notes

s in a very difficult position. The secession of avowed enemies by no means left a Senate unreservedly and reliably loyal it

ty. The new recruits were inferior to Italians, it is true, but by no means contemptible if they came from the virile and mar

d perhaps able to invoke tribunician power)1 Octavianus possessed the means to face and frustrate any mere constitutional opp

rried imperium maius over the provinces of the Senate. Which is by no means necessary, cf. W. Kolbe, in the volume Aus Roms Z

anced powers, as after the end of the Triumvirate, still gave him the means to initiate and direct public policy at Rome if n

τεῖαι. Compare Appian, BC 1. 2, 7. PageBook=>325 The choice of means did not demand deep thought or high debate in the

r. The position of the Princeps and his restored Republic was by no means as secure and unequivocal as official acts and of

onsular and praetorian provinces gradually developed; and it is by no means certain that it held good for the public province

fe with her was not easy. 4 An added complication was Augustus, by no means insensible, it was rumoured, to those notorious c

nsus, and hence eligible for equestrian posts; 5 further, it is by no means unlikely that sons of equestrian families from th

to represent the Roman People, for it was a ruling aristocracy by no means narrow and exclusive. The generous policy of Caes

lla Barbatus Appianus. 3 These were the closest in blood, but by no means the only near relatives of the Princeps. C. Octav

ent dignity. XXVI. THE GOVERNMENT PageBook=>387 THOUGH by no means as corrupt and inefficient as might hastily be im

o remove causes of friction and consolidate an alliance perhaps by no means as loyal and unequivocal as the Roman People was

p;c). PageBook=>423 So Livia worked for power. But it is by no means certain that Silvanus was popular with Tiberius.

inceps enacted the measures of 18 B.C. in virtue of auctoritas and by means of his tribunicia potestas. 5 PageNotes. 443

6 Georgics 2, 532 ff., cf. 167 ff. PageBook=>451 It is by no means certain what class of cultivator the Georgics of

not available. Recruits from Italy south of the Apennines were by no means abundant. On the other hand, northern or provinci

h but little shedding of blood. The Princeps, now a monopolist of the means of influencing opinion, used all his arts to pers

tations of the rich, or lacked either the taste for good books or the means of acquiring them, there were visible admonitions

us to the ridiculous, it will be observed that the Princeps was by no means as majestic and martial in appearance as his effi

ncy became a commodity widely advertised by his successors, but by no means widely distributed. Augustus alleged that in the

orded by Quintilian, criticized Livy for ‘Patavinitas’. 3 It is by no means certain that Quintilian himself understood the po

essful novi homines of the Revolution and of the New State were by no means exempt from the infertility or the ill fortune th

5 The second and third wives of Nero bore the now historic but by no means antique names of Poppaea Sabina and Statilia Mess

at supported Pompeius. The patrician Lentuli were numerous, but by no means talented in proportion. The fact that L. Domitius

ing more important than political liberty; and political rights are a means , not an end in themselves. That end is security o

tribunicia potestas which, though elsewhere modestly referred to as a means of passing legislation, nowhere betrays its formi