nators the names of some four hundred can be identified, many of them obscure or casually known. 1 The remainder have left no r

eian Claudii Marcelli, who emulated the Scipiones in their great age: obscure for a century, they emerge again into sudden prom

clouded truth and equity. The nature of the political crisis is less obscure . Caesar and his associates in power had thwarted

trabo at Asculum, he had been led or carried in a Roman triumph. From obscure years of early manhood some said that he served a

gt;081 and after. From sheer reason and weight of numbers, from the obscure or fantastic names by chance recorded once and ne

The patrician P. Sulla was joined by the nobilis C. Antonius and the obscure M. Cispius, a man of character and principle who

t the early admissions to power and nobility at Rome much will remain obscure and controversial. In itself, the process is natu

example three of the praetors of 44 B.C., dim figures, the bearers of obscure names, the first and perhaps the last senators of

s Sabinus (cos. 39 B.C.), on whom below, p. 199. PageBook=>094 obscure men. 1 That might be expected: it is the earliest

ily and repute of certain Italici now admitted to the Senate must not obscure the numerous new senators from certain older regi

he survivors of the Catonian party, Pompeians such as Q. Ligarius and obscure individuals like D. Turullius or Cassius of Parma

would not allow them to take over their provinces. 1 What happened is obscure the provinces in question may have been allotted

oman politics. NotesPage=>111 1 The situation in Syria is very obscure . The quaestor C. Antistius Vetus was still appare

rable to the Liberators. 3 So much in public. What happened next is obscure . The enemies of Antonius, taking new courage, may

the ancients and the parliamentary theories of the moderns sometimes obscure the nature and sources of political power at Rome

d government, he must turn his hopes and his efforts towards the more obscure of the Caesarian novi homines in the Senate, or,

2 Octavianus may already have numbered among his supporters certain obscure and perhaps unsavoury individuals, such as Mindiu

) and the two consuls of 53, M. Valerius Messalla Rufus, who lived on obscure and unrecorded (he was augur for the space of 55

o be secured. The people chose him as consul along with Q. Pedius, an obscure relative of unimpeachable repute, who did not sur

adversaries might head the list: the bulk is made up by the names of obscure senators or Roman knights. The nobiles were not n

ade for the coast of the Adriatic. Ventidius’ march and movements are obscure . Pollio retired north- eastwards and held Venetia

Balbus was probably in Spain at the same time as Peducaeus; 6 and the obscure admiral M. Lurius, never heard of before and only

roperty. 6 The earlier activities of both Lepidus and Ap. Pulcher are obscure probably tortuous. 7 The principal members of t

Civil Wars. C. Helvius Cinna, the learned author of an elaborate and obscure poem called Smyrna, was torn to pieces by the Rom

s to defend their cities ; 5 and a brigand called Cleon, born in an obscure Phrygian village, harried and destroyed the invad

admirals like Insteius from Pisaurum, Q. Didius and M. Oppius Capito, obscure persons, and the two marshals whom Antonius had t

rmed violence and revived during the War of Perusia, were intensified obscure ancestry, NotesPage=>276 1 The order of ev

Antonius concentrated his forces in the neighbourhood. Then all is obscure . Months passed, with operations by land and sea o

1 There is a mysterious calamity in these years unexplained in cause, obscure in date. C. Cornelius Gallus the Prefect of Egypt

extraction and other connexions of this remarkable person are highly obscure (P-W V A, 706 ff.). Nor is his nomenclature const

consular ancestors—if their parents were senatorial at all, they were obscure and low in rank. These legates were direct appoin

Acilius Glabrio, proconsul of Africa c. 25 B.C. (PIR2, A 71), and the obscure M. Primus, proconsul of Macedonia c. 24-23 B.C. (

were in the main the work of others, and his unique primacy must not obscure the reality from which it arose the fact that he

nd, 142 ff. The equestris militia in the time of Augustus is a highly obscure subject. The post of praefectus cohortis does not

ing the Revolution, can boast rich and regular corps of novi homines, obscure or illustrious, some encouraged by grant of the l

as would be expected, supplied soldiers: the two Poppaei came from an obscure community in that region. 6 Larinum, a small town

ar to be his augmentation of the Senate by the promotion of adherents obscure or even provincial in extraction. In purpose and

nces were formidable and fantastic. He neglected no relative, however obscure , however distant, no tie whatever of marriage or

partisans like Agrippa and Maecenas, and by other adherents like the obscure admiral M. Lurius. 2 As proconsul of Gaul or as

the three legates who governed Spain for Pompeius. Of the others, the obscure Petreius was also in high repute as a military ma

s Lentulus. 4 The situation in the Balkans in these years is doubly obscure . The army of Macedonia may still have been retain

Ann. 4, 71, cf. 3, 24. 3 lb. 3, 24. 4 The whole affair is highly obscure . The conspiracy and death of Paullus (Suetonius,

assius did not go unscathed. This man, an able and vigorous orator of obscure origin, resembling a gladiator in appearance,8 wa

ppi, ancient plebeian houses, were the first to go. 1 The line of the obscure but newly ennobled Appuleii was extinguished with

the daughter of Sex. Pompeius. Nor was the house of Sulla extinct an obscure grandson in the Principate of Augustus produced c

suff. 30 B.C.) lasted longer. 6 PageNotes. 499 1 She married the obscure T. Ollius (Tacitus, Ann. 13, 45), of a Picene fam

e government, has been at work here, eager to enhance or to invent an obscure origin, a repulsive character and evil deeds agai

; remitted by Augustus, 351; new taxation, 352, 411. Teidius, Sex., obscure senator, 94. Temples, built by viri triumphales

, 303; no descendants, 498. Tullius Cicero, Q., 64, 67. Turius, L., obscure senator, 81. Turranius, C. (pr. 44 B.C.), obscu

, 67. Turius, L., obscure senator, 81. Turranius, C. (pr. 44 B.C.), obscure person, 91. Turranius, C., praefectus annonae, 35

d Marsian, 91. Vibidius, disreputable novus homo, 456. Vibienus, C, obscure senator, 94. Vibii Visci, perhaps from Brixia, 36