ggs, Professor F. Münzer, Mr. A. D. Peck and Miss M. V. Taylor—to say nothing of the alacrity and the patience of the readers o

is attractive, cf. JRS XXVIII (1938), 113 ff. About Gabinius’ origin, nothing is known. But his wife Lollia (Suetonius, Divus J

body. His first speech before the People was flat and verbose, saying nothing . 3 No happier in the Senate, the conqueror of the

ell as public for hating Caesar, the lover of Servilia. 1 There was nothing to preclude an alliance with Pompeius. Praetor-de

around the court, would bring in the inevitable verdict. After that, nothing for Caesar but to join the exiled Milo at Massili

y monarchy or the brotherhood of man. The Stoic teaching, indeed, was nothing more than a corroboration and theoretical defence

2 Below, p. 95. PageBook=>060 Without a party a statesman is nothing . He sometimes forgets that awkward fact. If the l

re or fantastic names by chance recorded once and never again, to say nothing of more than two hundred unknown to history, the

torial and even a patrician pedigree for certain Octavii. Trouble for nothing : there was solid and authentic testimony at Velit

e Revolution had barely begun. A unity in terms of geography but in nothing else, the peninsula had been a mosaic of races, l

meant the curbing of the oligarchy, promotion for merit. Yet there is nothing revolutionary about the choice of his candidates

sans be dissolved, Brutus agreed. 4 Demonstrations of sympathy cost nothing . Money was another matter. The Liberators sought

Italy rather than with the troops and in the provinces. Yet they were nothing new or alarming in the holders of office and powe

t for a month. Various intrigues were devised against him but came to nothing . When he returned, it was to discover with dismay

nds. All conventions are baffled and defied by Caesar’s heir. Not for nothing that the ruler of Rome made use of a signet- ring

f bribes. With his years, his name and his ambition, Octavianus had nothing to gain from concord in the State, everything fro

ally eludes inquiry. Antonius did not press the charge perhaps it was nothing more than a clumsy device to discredit the young

ovinces of Crete and Cyrene; of their whereabouts and true intentions nothing was known. But late in October disquieting news

nt. 2 Of the origin and family of M. Agrippa, friends or enemies have nothing to say: even when it became safe to inquire or pu

have nothing to say: even when it became safe to inquire or publish, nothing at all could be discovered. 3 Before long a very

e same amicable attitude. 5 Again, after the assassination of Caesar, nothing but NotesPage=>140 1 Ad Att. 16, 7, ι; Phi

ero had first made the acquaintance of Caesar’s heir in April. 2 Then nothing more for six weeks. In June, however, he recogniz

consul. 5 The author of this audacious proposal represented it to be nothing less than ‘laying the foundations of constitution

ably an urgent dispatch from the governor of Cisalpine Gaul. Though nothing could be done while Antonius was still consul, Ci

esmen and patriots himself, L. Piso and P. Servilius. 8 From the rest nothing was to be expected. Cicero distrusted for differe

ay have expected the swift fall of Mutina. Against that fait accompli nothing could be done, and Antonius, his rights and his p

ght to Gallia Cisalpina under a law passed by the Roman People to say nothing of condoning the rank conferred upon a private ad

. Cicero insisted that the criminal should be put to death: there was nothing to choose between Dolabella and any of the three

mably Lucanian in origin. 7 About L. Caninius Gallus (cos. 37 B.C.) nothing is known, save that his father married a first co

. From the beginning, the faction of Octavianus invited those who had nothing to lose from war and adventure, among the ‘founda

inal and irrevocable, the last struggle of the Free State. Henceforth nothing but a contest of despots over the corpse of liber

had not acquired and practised the arts of the military demagogue for nothing . He entered the camp of Lepidus, with the name of

cation, the latter is probably L. Cornelius Cinna. Of Balbus himself, nothing is recorded between 40 and 19 B.C. 7 Dio 48, 30

e admiral M. Mindius Marcellus from his own town of Velitrae:1 to say nothing of aliens and freedmen, of which support Pompeius

y of Q. Laronius (cos. suff. 33) and indeed of his subsequent history nothing at all is known. 2 Destined ere long to a place i

Ad fam. 12, 25, 1: ‘Minotauri, id est Calvisi et Tauri’): after that, nothing till his consulate and service as an admiral. Pre

confidence. The young man became formidable. As a demagogue he had nothing to learn: as a military leader he needed to show

Pompeius Magnus but also to his client Theophanes. 2 The example was nothing novel or untimely: it revealed a habit and create

ntonius’ devotion to drink and to Cleopatra. Antonius retorted it was nothing new, but had begun nine years ago: Cleopatra was

all the misrepresentation and invective of Republican politics to say nothing of the recent ‘constitutional’ crisis of the cons

of Octavianus presented a fair show of restored liberty, and resigned nothing of value. Ostensible moderation was only a step t

hority over a large provincia, namely Spain, Gaul and Syria. That and nothing more. 1 For the rest, proconsuls were to govern t

writers stand closest to the government. On the whole, better to say nothing of Caesar, or for that matter of Antonius, save a

ent so strong and a body of administrators so large and coherent that nothing should shatter the fabric, that the Commonwealth

red to a pair of curatores of praetorian rank. The censors abdicated, nothing done. PageNote. 339 1 Dio 54, 4, 1 (22 B.C.).

tion and publicity. 2 PageNote. 343 1 Seneca, Epp. 94, 46. It was nothing less than the sallustian epigram ‘nam concordia p

us was able to bequeath sixty million sesterces in ready cash, to say nothing of slaves and cattle in their thousands. The fune

Roman aristocracy went back to Latin or to Sabine ancestors to say nothing of the Kings of Rome. 4 NotesPage=>364 1 S

t Balbus began as a millionaire in his own right. Agrippa rose out of nothing : he came to own the whole of the peninsula of Gal

emorated the glory and the vanity of the great Pompeius. Of all that, nothing more. Domitius and Titius were the last commoners

ypt could furnish information about taxation and fiscal policy to say nothing of the food supply and policing of a great capita

the period 16–13 B.C., but inaccurately). Suetonius and Tacitus know nothing of this ‘conspiracy’. The fact that Cinna was con

n the loyalty and tried merit of certain novi homines. For many years nothing had been heard of Lollius and Vinicius. Their eme

rip him of that honour, ostentatious in scruple when scruple cost him nothing . He could wait for Lepidus’ death. Better that he

t and promotion depended upon the patronage of the government. To say nothing of the patent vice or rapacity of the greater nov

m or at the theatre, rallying in defence of a constitution that meant nothing to them, and leaping with avidity upon any dramat

as its patron. 6 Now Titius usurped that position. 7 Auximum could do nothing but the Roman plebs remembered. When Titius presi

f ability; and much of the hostile testimony that could be adduced is nothing more than the perpetuation of the schematic contr

of a nobleman, almost the last of the Marcelli. 6 He should have had nothing to complain of under the new dispensation. Pollio

, 393, 401, 431; attitude towards Tiberius, 425; descendants, 499 f.; nothing known to his discredit, 509. Vinicius, M. (cos.