s of military provinces gain admittance to the narrative. The immense number of characters mentioned in a brief and compressed

rol the State and secure the domination of the most powerful of their number . Motum ex Metello consule civicum bellique caus

tricians continued to wield an influence beyond all relation to their number ; and the nobiles, though a wider class, formed ye

29, I, &c, cf. M. Gelzer, Die Nobilität der r. Republik, 77 f. A number of men from Picenum, of the tribus Velina, are at

the municipia of Italy; 2 and he contracted ties of friendship with a number of great landowners of the class and rank of M. T

uence of Crassus, the consular power of Caesar, and the services of a number of tribunes; further, less obtrusive and barely t

ape across the Adriatic carrying with him several legions and a large number of senators, a grievous burden of revenge and rec

his predecessor. He recruited his legates of the Gallic Wars (ten in number from 56 B.C. onwards) from the company of his rel

6 Some, it is true, were disappointed or ungrateful: yet of the whole number , at least eight subsequently became consuls. Only

ficially constituted, irregular settlements of immigrants and a large number of citizens by this date. L. Decidius Saxa, made

It is evident enough that Caesar’s new senators, some four hundred in number , comprised adherents from all over Italy. Like th

action retained the mark of its origin. A long time passes before any number of senators emerge on his side. When four years h

iptions all told they set one hundred and thirty senators and a great number of Roman knights. 3 Their victory was the victory

at Atina, a Volscian town, perhaps not of senatorial rank. 3 A large number of local aristocrats supported Caesar; 4 and some

verflowing with the creatures of the Triumvirs: before long it was to number over a thousand. 5 Scorn and ridicule had greeted

, it is alleged, they saluted as imperator, but reviled Octavianus. A number of them were put to death. 5 A body of nobles had

oeuvred him. Along with the defeated generals Furnius, Tisienus and a number of Antonian or Republican partisans, the consul t

their own estates. It may be supposed that the escape of the greater number was not actively impeded. The remainder were put

litic and perhaps necessary. Of the legionaries of Pompeius a great number , being servile in origin, lacked any right or sta

l leadership of the State, stood an array of consulars, impressive in number but not in dignity, recent creations almost all.

ive families (not all, of course, sons of Roman knights: there were a number of sons of highly respectable houses of praetoria

ions, there was still to be found in the higher ranks of the Senate a number of men who had come to maturity in years when Rom

ii; and there is no sign when Atratinus and Fonteius changed sides. A number of the younger nobiles remained, however, some to

, 1). 2 Gades had five hundred citizens with the knight’s census, a number surpassed by no town of Italy save Patavium (Stra

ωμαίων ὁμʋγνωμʋνʋῦν ἔχʋɩ. PageBook=>293 the Senate and a large number of Roman knights: they followed him from convicti

asters. In ships Antonius had the preponderance of strength; as for number of legions it was doubtful whether the enemy coul

untz(jahreshefte XXV (1929), 70 ff.) deduced from the gentilicia of a number of soldiers of eastern origin the fact that they

by Pompeius, by Cassius, or by Antonius. Octavianus deposed a certain number of petty dynasts or city tyrants. The greater vas

dispensation of Sulla the Dictator, the public provinces were ten in number . Now they were only eight, about as many as the S

llowed up the old Caesarian party but secured the adhesion of a large number of Republicans and could masquerade as a national

of the Antonian faction in the towns of Italy had local enemies. A number of victims of the purge probably belonged to the

rth or provincial origin was no bar. Of the great plebeian marshals a number had perished Salvidienus a traitor to his friend

of the military monarchy. Twenty-eight colonies in Italy and a large number in the provinces honoured Augustus as their patro

d in the Revolution, by purchasing the lands of the proscribed. Their number and their gains must have been very great: during

it could abate its rhythm without any danger of reaction. The greater number of his partisans had already been promoted and re

cribed term, but the son of a Roman knight commonly had to wait for a number of years. Which was fitting. Knights themselves w

five large commands already existed. 4 It was some time before their number increased through division of provinces, through

o be the certain avenue of advancement. Of his political adherents, a number were unamiable, or at least unpopular, like Titiu

Pannonicum. 6 NotesPage=>390 1 Cf. JRS XXIII (1933), 19 ff. A number of legions recently withdrawn from Spain reinforc

s in their turn would have commanded in the north. Moreover a large number of legionary soldiers, their service expired, wer

g an equestrian official, the praefectus vigilum. 1 In the meantime a number of permanent boards of senators had been establis

ors. 7 Casual or continuous employment was thus devised for a large number of consulars. An anomalous dignity remains to be

choice of members varying with the occasion. None the less, a certain number of prominent and representative figures in the Ca

t that the Princeps, in virtue of his imperium controlled the greater number of the military regions directly, and all provinc

ich were present Gaius Caesar, the adopted son of the Princeps, and a number of distinguished personages, among them (it may b

the rule of monarchy more easily than the primacy of one of their own number . Augustus knew it. The ambition of the nobiles mi

tions of the dynasty grew ever more complex, producing by now a large number of collateral connexions, the husbands or the son

high treason. 6 Circumstantial reports of the revels of Julia, of the number and variety of her lovers, were propagated by rum

. The profiteers from war and proscriptions had bought land. Though a number of these men may have practised commerce and migh

come before the courts; but politics are probably at the bottom of a number of recorded causes célèbres. L. Nonius Asprenas,