sasters and the rise of dynastic houses of the plebeian nobility. But neither Valerii nor Fabii stand in the forefront of his o

depressed by a recent catastrophe. 1 So, too, were the Aemilii:2 but neither house resigned its claim to primacy. The Claudii,

of a monarch. Caesar would have been the first to admit it: he needed neither the name nor the diadem. But monarchy presupposes

Romuli faece sententiam’). Again, ‘Sallust’ (Ad Caesarem 2, 9, 3) is neither just nor relevant when he observes: ‘unius tamen

nduct wholly to be predicted. Brutus might well have been a Caesarian neither he nor Caesar were predestined partisans of Pompe

isans. 2 Civil war might cut across families: as this was a contest neither of principle nor of class, the presence of member

ns and soldiers, scribes and sons of freedmen. 2 These categories are neither alarming nor novel. In theory, every free-born ci

territories, a venerable history and proud traditions. The extension neither of the Roman citizenship nor of municipal institu

ication of Italy is often dated much too early. That it can have been neither rapid nor easy is demonstrated by the facts of ge

ited his plans to make a violent demonstration against the Liberators neither Antonius nor the Caesarian party were securely in

r employment in the first place for his own political interests calls neither for surprise nor for excuse. Rumours circulated b

counselled refusal of the perilous inheritance. But he kept his head, neither dazzled by good fortune nor spurred to rash activ

. Antonius confronted the mutineers at Alba Fucens. They would listen neither to argument nor to bribes: what he offered was mi

poil him. 1 The provenance of these resources is by no means clear; neither is the fate of the private fortune of Caesar the

e he wavered between Pompeius and the enemies of Pompeius, trusted by neither . In Cato he admired yet deplored the rigid adhere

al of all civil wars. 3 After March 17th, the sharp perception that neither the policy nor the party of Caesar had been aboli

the advocates of concord and a settlement based upon compromise were neither fools nor traitors. If they followed Cicero there

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

y named in the plebiscite of June 1st. The proposal of Antonius was neither unreasonable nor contumacious. As justice at Rome

y opinion you will be wiser not to make meddling proposals for peace: neither the Senate nor the People approves of them nor do

y of destroying Antonius and elevating Caesar’s heir commended itself neither to the generals of the western provinces nor to t

ffect that salutary economy. Octavianus was not among its members but neither was D. Brutus. The envoys were instructed to appr

ius had been thwarted and defeated at Mutina. That was enough. It lay neither in the plans nor even in the power of Caesar’s he

his uncle, the elderly and blameless Republican L. Julius Caesar. Yet neither of these men perished, and the murderers claimed

he unscrupulous: even youth became a commendation, when possession of neither traditions nor property could dull the edge of ac

f pietas. 2 Fulvia, if anybody, knew the character of her husband: he neither would nor could go back upon his pledges of allia

d on the seas adjacent would have destroyed Octavianus. But there was neither unity of command nor unity of purpose among his m

ties that bound him to Cleopatra more closely than to Glaphyra, there neither is, nor was, any sign at all. Nor did he see the

a personification of an era in its infancy, its parents likewise are neither celestial nor apocalyptic, but a Roman father wit

y Salvidienus. Antonius had rejected those offers. As yet, however, neither his predominance nor his prestige were gravely me

r duped. Ahenobarbus kept away from Sex. Pompeius, who gave guarantee neither of victory nor even of personal security he had r

rian party and monarchy over all the world. Of the Caesarian leaders, neither could brook an equal. Should Antonius come again

vast conquests in Illyricum, including the whole of Bosnia: which is neither proved nor probable. PageBook=>241 The wor

or and poet, perished in Africa, commanding an army for the Republic; neither Valerius Cato, the instructor of young poets, nor

54) and Dio (49, 41, 1 ff.) are lavish of detail. It is strange that neither Velleius (2, 82, 2 f.) nor Livy (at least to judg

sensualist belongs to popular and edifying literature. Cleopatra was neither young nor beautiful. 3 But there are more insiste

eir kinsmen. He might be able to employ sea-power with a mastery that neither Pompeius nor the Liberators had achieved when the

old both Armenia and Parthia in check. Yet against Parthia Octavianus neither bore resentment nor threatened war. Instead, he n

an invader and elusive from its very lack of order and cohesion, was neither strong in war nor aggressive in policy. Adulation

and even of ideas, that were current in the previous generation will neither evoke surprise nor reveal to a modern inquirer an

s the brother of Terentia, the wife of the all-powerful Maecenas. Yet neither Maecenas nor Murena’s half- brother, the virtuous

station of suitable opinions. Maecenas was there. Again, Augustus had neither the taste nor the talent for war: Agrippa might b

n provincial in extraction. In purpose and in effect that measure was neither revolutionary nor outrageous; and the recruitment

celebrated officially: in truth the latter was the more important. On neither occasion is evidence recorded of vital changes co

tion of provinces between Princeps and Senate in 27 B.C. was likewise neither final nor systematic. Augustus might be requested

n of Augustus, remembered his past and loathed his person, they could neither compete with the Divi filius nor hope to supplant

Caesar, the heir presumptive. The youngest child, Claudius, displayed neither grace of form nor intellectual promise. But even

ty and an absentee landlord. It was observed with malicious glee that neither of the consuls who gave their names to the Lex Pa

ondet saecula qui rursus Latio. 4 The character of the epic hero is neither splendid nor striking. That was not intended. The

cuous exponents of the movement were T. Labienus and Cassius Severus, neither of whom possessed the social and material advanta

The New State established as the consolidation of the Revolution was neither exclusive nor immobile. While each class in socie