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1 (1960) THE ROMAN REVOLUTION
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Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same co
ts or connexions not explicitly mentioned in the text. In some way or other most of the consuls and governors of military pro
could not treat his subject with freedom and with veracity. It was no other than Claudius, a pupil of Livy. 3 His master had
is Principate was a syndicate. In truth, the one term presupposes the other . The career of the revolutionary leader is fantas
s heir, at the head of a new coalition, built up from the wreckage of other groups and superseding them all. The policy and
The Samnites, Sulla’s enemy and Rome’s, had been extirpated; and the other Sabellic peoples of the Apennine were broken and
the Licinii, great soldiers and distinguished orators, not to mention other houses of repute. 4 The Marcii, in ancient dignit
nd counsel the first stormy years of the renovated oligarchy. 5 Among other eminent houses of the plebeian nobility in the Ma
is revealed in the relations and alliances between that house and two other groups. The first is the Claudii: in addition to
cius Cato. 1 With these three groups were linked in some fashion or other almost all the chief members of the government, t
rches of Münzer, RA, 328 ff. For the stemma, see Table II at end. The other children were Q. Servilius Caepio (P-W 11 A, 1775
t Servilia would not be thwarted by that accident. She cast about for other allies. About this time Cato married Marcia, the
ich he had inherited from an ambitious and demagogic parent. 2 Cato’s other investment showed smaller prospect of remuneratio
taken as evidence of Etruscan influence on the family at some time or other , cf. J. Duchesne, Ant. cl. III (1934), 81 ff. 2
the one of them turned against the People when elected consul and the other lent his services to Crassus. But alliance with C
write political satire with impunity. 1 Pompeius was also related to other families of the local gentry, the men of substanc
ies for Pompeius in Spain and in the war against Mithridates. 5 Among other Picene partisans may be reckoned T. Labienus, and
bribery he secured the election of the military man L. Afranius. The other place was won by Metellus Celer, who, to get supp
, Caesar 14; Pompeius 47). Münzer (RA, 338 f.) argues that this is no other than Brutus, adopted by his maternal uncle Q. Ser
Q. Caepio Brutus’ (Cicero, Phil. 10, 25, &c). For a discussion of other views, cf. Münzer in P-W 11 A, 1775 ff. PageBoo
, that was no unmixed advantage. The Marcelli were rash but unstable, other consuls timid or NotesPage=>040 1 On his a
opposing parties in command of votes at Rome. Moreover, Antonius and other adherents of Caesar, elected tribunes for the nex
, provoked by his ruthless ambition, by his acts of arrogance towards other principes and by his support, when consul and pro
ous and arbitrary fashion. As a consequence of the law of 52 B.C. the other provinces from Macedonia eastwards were in the ha
Att. 9, 18, 2. The laudatory epithets here attached by Cicero to the other consulars will not mislead: too much is known abo
many times in the past. Exceptions had been made before in favour of other dynasts; and Caesar asserted both legal and moral
disreputable scoundrels on the one side and high-born patriots on the other is as schematic and misleading as the contrast be
and Messalla, received military commands in the Civil War. Among the other eleven consulars only one was an active partisan,
ort of daring agents. There was no scope for talent or ideas on the other side. The newer movements in literature were spon
ienus was encouraged to hope for the consulate. 7 Other Pompeians and other men from Picenum might be captured by the arts, t
and from the kings of Rome. 2 Patrician and plebeian understood each other . The patrician might recall past favours conferre
es and the Lentuli, stood by the oligarchy. But Caesar claimed, among other patricians, the worthy Ti. Claudius Nero, whom Ci
pe). PageBook=>071 in Gaul and in the Civil Wars. 1 There were other representatives of his class, excellent men. Ma
plete and of no legal validity. At the very least, colonial Romans or other wealthy and talented individuals from the towns o
us was quaestor in Hispania Ulterior under Pollio, who reports, among other enormities, that he had a Roman citizen burned al
nce of the rehabilitated Gabinius. 2 That assembly now harboured many other clients whom Cicero had once defended, not, as Ga
governing class at Rome had not always disdained the aristocracies of other cities. Tradition affirmed that monarchs of forei
n politics, the agitation spread and involved the allies. Reminded of other grievances and seeing no redress from Rome after
e on an early dedicatory inscr. beside Lake Fucinus, CIL I2, 387. For other new senators of non-Latin stock, Calvisius and St
rs he was the first knight’s son to become consul. He was correct but other novi homines, socially more eminent, had not been
ted as aedile there on an early inscr., ILS 6231. 3 Phil. 8, 27 and other evidence, cf. Gelzer, P-W X, 987. 4 For the lis
ve the vacant place when he resigned and departed to the Balkans. The other consul, the redoubtable M. Antonius, took cover.
Macedonian legions. For how long, no indication. For the present, the other provinces of the West were a counterbalance to D.
dependent kingdom of Egypt. Nor was trouble likely to come from the other Caesarian military men or recent governors of pro
the acquiescence of the Senate. A move to one side would alienate the other . Hitherto Antonius had neglected the avenging of
ns. They knew what the last extended command in Gaul had meant. Two other measures of a Caesarian and popular character wer
cided. Servilia promised her influence to get the measure revoked. No other decision was taken. For the present, the Liberato
t for the moment: at need, he would always be able to purchase one or other of the ten members of the tribunician college.
he Republicans. The calculation was hazardous but not hopeless on the other side, certain moderates and Republicans might be
His relations with Octavianus did not improve. Neither trusted the other . To counter that danger and outbid his rival the
aling the insecurity of his position. The blow was to fall from the other side, from the plebs, from the veterans and from
o go quietly for the present but their chance might come. Octavianus’ other relatives were of little consequence. Q. Pedius,
vidimus. ’ 3 Nicolaus, Vita Caesaris 18, 53; Velleius 2, 60, 1 and other sources, all deriving from the Autobiography of A
ribe him as ‘Q. Salvius imp. cos. desig. ’ (BMC, R. Rep. 11, 407). No other authority gives ‘Salvius’ as his name: had he tak
he grandfather, Pro Cluentio 153. The Maecenas present along with two other Etruscans, M. Perperna and C. Tarquitius, at the
nus at a quite early date. Along with Pansa in this context certain other names are mentioned, P. Servilius, L. Piso and
nus marched on Rome, however, no news was heard of P. Servilius: like other consulars averse from Antonius but unwilling to c
e one side and a gracious disposition to please and to flatter on the other . Cicero came close to being a neutral in the Ci
the meeting of the Senate in the Temple of Tellus, when Cicero, like other statesmen, spoke for security and concord. Peace
his name. ’6 Octavianus was but a youth, he lacked auctoritas. On the other hand, he was the heir of the Dictator, a revoluti
hold judgement over the dead at all, improper to adduce any standards other than those of a man’s time, class and station. Ye
rancour and impudent defamation like the invectives against Piso. The other speeches against Antonius, however, may be counte
ver partisan in tone, cannot altogether suppress the arguments of the other side, whether they employ to that end calumny or
the background, emerging from time to time, Philippus, Servilius and other schemers, patent but seldom noticed, and Balbus n
asual evidence reveals the fact that Piso’s Epicurean familiar was no other than the unimpeachable Philodemus from Gadara, a
ditious, Antonius could be no true consul of the Roman People. On the other hand, the adversaries of Antonius deserved full r
way eastwards: he had sent legates in advance, the one to Syria, the other to secure for him the legions in Egypt. Yet the E
thus forced to disown their compromising ally. It was Calenus and no other who proposed a motion declaring Dolabella a publi
came dispatches from Lepidus and Plancus, acting in concert with each other and presumably with Antonius. Lepidus at least se
ed to risk a battle at Mutina. He was defeated but not routed; on the other side, Hirtius fell. In the field Antonius was rap
Senate should have deceived nobody. The two armies lay against each other for a time. A small river ran between the camps.
as soon given. As Octavianus moved up the Flaminia, he instructed the other consul to revoke the decrees of outlawry against
se was found in later generations. He composed his own autobiography; other apologists artfully suggested that the merciful r
Tullius Cicero. The Caesarian leaders proscribed their relatives and other personages of distinction more as a pledge of sol
ates have behaved as they did, could security and power be won in any other way. The consequences of compelling a general to
ly had to pay the costs of civil war, in money and land. There was no other source for the Caesarians to draw upon, for the p
dence of the principes, but not less to be deplored, were the gaps in other ranks and orders. The bulk of the nobiles, both e
rian in origin. 5 These were among the earliest to find mention. Then other marshals and consuls turn up L. Cornificius, whos
rgument for concord. Brutus and Antonius might have understood each other and compromised for peace and for Rome: the aveng
obeyed a warning dream which had visited his favourite doctor. 2 The other wing of the NotesPage=>204 1 Appian, BC 4,
uggested that the imposition should be spread out and equalized. Then other cities in alarm joined the ranks of discontent. O
P. Servilius, Octavianus got no help. He was actively hindered by the other consul, L. Antonius, who, aided by the faithful a
s for the prestige of the victor of Philippi was overwhelming. On the other side, they championed liberty and the rights of t
nd Plancus. He heard the reproaches of the one and the excuses of the other ; he learned the full measure of the disaster. Whe
occeius Nerva was present, a friend of Antonius but acceptable to the other party. 2 Under their auspices a full settlement
1 B.C.) informed the learned Asconius that, as a matter of fact, none other than he, Gallus, was the wonder-child:3 no eviden
, among the earliest of whom may fairly be reckoned a Claudian of the other branch, Ap. Claudius Pulcher, one of the consuls
rom Tarentum, were passing through the Straits of Messana to join his other fleet from the Bay of Naples. Pompeius won an eas
tivity, and governor of all Spain for Octavianus the year after. No other nobilis can be found holding military command und
g men of talent or desperate ambition. As admission to the Senate and other forms of patronage rested in the hands of the Tri
onsular list of that year, of unprecedented length: it contains seven other names. Hitherto he had promoted in the main his m
he Scipiones. In this year the admiral Q. Laronius became consul; the other six were commended by no known military service t
ces of Agrippa, the soldier and engineer, were solid and visible: the other minister Maecenas had been working more quietly a
rom politics and the cultivation of private virtue; and some brand or other of Pythagorean belief might suitably commend itse
rors, though not averse from an interest in Pythagoreanism, or in any other belief and practice, was sustained by an insatiab
race to his new patron. In the company of statesmen, diplomatists and other poets, such as the tragedian Varius Rufus, they j
nation, others from ambition. Ahenobarbus with Antonius, Messalla and other nobles in the alliance of Caesar’s heir, had show
who received a vast domain, embracing Galatia, Pisidia, Lycaonia and other regions, from the river Halys south-westwards to
of territories, for Cleopatra received no greater accession than did other dynasts ; 2 but her portion was exceedingly rich.
ic to cities and to prominent individuals. He rewarded Theopompus and other Cnidians, Potamo the son of Lesbonax from Mytilen
., with especial reference to Satyrus (IOSPE I2, 691), but mentioning other caesarian partisans in the East. for Theopompus a
ì ’Aϕρὸδє[ὶ]τηϛ θεòν πιϕανῆ καì κoιὸν τὸῦ ἀνθρωπὶνὸυ βὶὸυ σωτῆρα. For other cities, cf. L. R. Taylor, The Divinity of the Rom
Sempronia, daughter of L. Atratinus, is mentioned in IG 112, 866 and other inscriptions. The admiral Atratinus served in Sic
ut Salvia Titisenia, Rufilla, Tertulla and Terentilla ? 2 Against the other charge he composed an unedifying tract entitled D
ir expiry, as in 37 B.C. This was what Antonius did in 32 B.C. On the other , the statement and attitude of Octavianus is perf
but retained the power, as was apparent, not only to Antonius, but to other contemporaries for Antonius, who, more honest, st
from the Vestal Virgins and read it out to the Senate of Rome. Among other things, Antonius reiterated as authentic the pare
ce the unfamiliar role of a champion of polite letters, alleged among other enormities NotesPage=>282 1 The truth of t
dour, clamouring for a crusade against the foreign enemy. Yet, on the other hand, the united front was not achieved merely th
under the command of Canidius comprised nineteen of his legions: the other eleven made up the garrison of Egypt, Cyrene, Syr
cement and communications. The fleet and the army were tied to each other . For their combined needs, Antonius abandoned the
mpeian Q. Nasidius and by M. Octavius, of a consular family. 6 On the other side the fleet of Octavianus faced the Antonians.
to beg for mercy :8 his mother Fulvia would have approved. There were other victims. As for the Antonians later captured, fou
he distinguished renegade M. Licinius Crassus (cos. 30 B.C.). 2 The other provinces of the East, not so important because t
from its pride of place, lest the capital of empire be transferred to other lands. The propaganda of Octavianus had skilfully
d him the title of imperator, which had been conceded since Actium to other proconsuls, and to one commander at least who was
repercussions of the clash with Crassus, any hint of the attitude of other proconsuls. Had he firm allies or kinsmen among t
rm ‘princeps’, but not as part of any official titulature. There were other principes in the State, there could not fail to b
consulare: as proconsul, he was merely the equal in public law of any other proconsul. In fact, his province was large and fo
ith being a Pompeian. 5 The Emperor and his historian understood each other . The authentic Pompeius was politically forgotten
n the one side Catilina in hell, tormented by furies for ever, on the other an ideal Cato, usefully legislating among the ble
ncus no doubt acquiesced, adding his voice to the chorus. Pollio, the other ex-Antonian and former public enemy, still nursed
rendered by Rome, Italy and the West in 32 B.C., subsequently by the other regions of the Empire. 3 Caesar Augustus possesse
2, D 150. 4 CIL VI, 16357, cf. PIR2, C 1474. 5 The extraction and other connexions of this remarkable person are highly o
late. It was Sex. Appuleius, a kinsman of the Princeps. 1 Nor are the other consuls of the age of the Revolution and the year
an L. Arruntius wholly convincing (22 B.C.). Augustus adopted certain other specious measures that appeared to provide solid
ant of Senate and People, nor the leadership of his party Agrippa and other party-magnates would have their word to say about
e was stubborn and domineering. He would yield to Augustus, but to no other man, and to Augustus not always with good grace.
he tradition, though not the blood, of M. Livius Drusus as well. Like other Romans of ancient aristocratic stock, Tiberius co
e no hereditary succession, for two reasons, the one juristic and the other personal. Augustus’ powers were legal in definiti
Scaurus and Cn. Cinna were not especially favoured Scaurus, like some other Republicans and Pompeians, never reached the cons
thing is heard again of the consular L. Gellius Poplicola or of three other Antonian admirals at Actium. 1 Nobiles were req
not at first belong to it, but takes time to develop. Notice, on the other hand, frequent praefecti classium; and the positi
the first Prefect of the land, at the head of three legions. Certain other provinces subsequently acquired by Augustus were
ate after Sulla contained many members of equestrian families. 5 Like other senators outside the circle of the consular famil
service at last became quaestor. 1 Contemporary and parallel are two other municipal partisans, from Treia in Picenum and fr
local magnates, bound by ties of blood and marriage to their peers in other towns, and desperately proud of birth. 1 Of some
Papius Mutilus (cos. suff. A.D. 9), of an ancient dynastic house. Two other consuls in this period, though not locally identi
plebs of Rome knew how they were expected to use that freedom. On the other hand, the candidate, at least for the consulate,
when aedile several years before had organized his private slaves and other suitable individuals into a company for suppressi
ar, Augustus had filled one place with his own candidate, leaving the other for free election. Compare Caesar’s practice, for
ker and man of fashion, not altogether approved of by Augustus; 3 the other , a critic of exacting taste, so they said, had Ov
ter. In the Principate of Augustus a Sulla, a Metellus, a Scaurus and other nobles did not rise to the consulate. 4 With so f
descended from Aemilii and Scipiones. 3 Pliny, NH 35, 8. Observing other frauds, old Messalla Rufus had taken to writing f
ia. No less resplendent in its way was the fortune that attended upon other partisans of Augustus. Unfortunately the partners
ing dynasty, by prominent partisans like Agrippa and Maecenas, and by other adherents like the obscure admiral M. Lurius. 2
ht to designate a praetor every year, that did not matter. There were other ways. The system broadens as it descends from c
Italicum: a descendant was Prefect of Egypt under Augustus. 3 On the other , his grandfather had helped Ti. Claudius Nero in
eps, conducted wars under their own auspices. But the Senate lost the other two armies. In 12 B.C. Augustus took over Illyric
rdinate authors. Many important military operations are barely known, other campaigns no doubt have lapsed into oblivion. N
19 B.C.)2 Augustus himself repaired the Via Flaminia. 3 The charge of other roads radiating from Rome, fell to some of his ge
Paullus Aemilius Lepidus, colleagues who proved discordant with each other and perhaps recalcitrant to the Princeps. They ma
be four men of consular rank, together with three praetorians and two other senators. 7 Casual or continuous employment was
us Fabius Maximus. 4 On all sides the monarchic Princeps robbed the other principes of power and honour. In the interests o
usiness. The committee, comprising the consuls, one member from every other board of magistrates and fifteen senators chosen
the paramount questions of governmental policy. That was the work of other bodies, which kept and left no written records. T
nferred that the motion was inspired in every sense of the term, that other public proposals of those momentous sessions had
ons a Cn. Dom[itius], who can hardly be anybody else. On this, and on other religious activities of Calvinus, cf. E. Bormann,
ates, the soldier and the diplomat. The one advocated a republic, the other monarchy. The contrast was unreal, the choice did
ess-like Agrippa would have been of little use. Nor would Taurus, the other soldier and administrator. Even lawyers could hav
as left in 6 B.C. with the two boys, the one in his fourteenth, the other in his eleventh year. The Princeps had broken loo
, P. Quinctilius Varus (cos. 13 B.C.) had married the daughter of the other . 1 Paullus Fabius Maximus (cos. 11 B.C.) had take
end from that family: which cannot be proved. As perhaps with certain other families in the time of Augustus, genealogical cl
something of a party. 1 The Scipiones were all but extinct; 2 but the other great branch of the Cornelii, the Lentuli, rising
Like the Cornelii Lentuli, Piso was no enemy of Tiberius. There were other nobles with influential connexions, such as that
Livius Drusus Libo (cos. 15 B.C.), whose connexions are unknown. The other relationships are tortuous and difficult to expla
nd bring back the head of the exile. 3 That was excessive. There were other symptoms. Nemausus, a loyal and patriotic city of
ory of the Alpine War. Like P. Silius for the favourite Drusus on the other flank of the convergent advance, Lollius may have
m public life. He dwelt in Rome as a private citizen. Even though the other Caesar, Lucius, when on his way to Spain succumbe
e he had married Claudia Pulchra, the daughter of Marcella. Varus had other useful connexions. 4 A new party becomes discer
A. Caecina Largus, the son of one of Augustus’ faithful generals, the other A. Caecina Severus (perhaps a relative): German
iberius and revealed itself in his public acts and utterances. On the other hand his enemies were alert to prosecute their ad
ll as national on the one side Rome and all the gods of Italy, on the other the bestial divinities of Nile. 2 Phoebus, to be
ble Samnite family now reconciled to Rome: it might be added that the other was a Picene. That was no palliation. These men b
ian Tacitus; no less evident that it was slow in operation and due to other causes than the legislation of Augustus,2 for lux
xport dancing-girls or a millionaire like Balbus. But there were many other towns in Spain and Gallia Narbonensis that soon m
s from Italy south of the Apennines were by no means abundant. On the other hand, northern or provincial Italy, above all the
y guided literature through individual patronage. As in politics, the other classes were susceptible to auctoritas, taking th
tudies of the learned Varro, to revive interest in Roman religion and other national antiquities. As yet, however, no systema
y in serious efforts and by the best poets. 3 The Princeps succeeded: other patrons of literature were left far behind. Polli
, 263 f. 6 Ib. 12, 190 f. 7 Ib. 8, 626. PageBook=>464 Like other literary compositions fostered by the government,
to members of the pacific and non-political order in society. On the other hand, their genius was not the creation of the Au
iolanium preserved with pride the statues of the Liberators. 2 On the other hand, Bononia was in the clientela of the Antonii
e battle-cry and the justification of Caesar’s heir. Antonius, on the other hand, was remiss, willing even to admit an accomm
return of one of the assassins, Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus. Nor, on the other hand, had he refused to proscribe Cicero, an ally
s no doubt: he spent one half of the year instructing his pupils, the other in writing books. 7 PageNotes. 482 1 Tacitus,
of the Monarchy. Caesar, with the alliance of the Aemilii and certain other patrician houses, prevailed over Pompeius and the
ly tree of the Julio-Claudians. Other families related in some way or other to the reigning dynasty died out before long. The
, betrothal or marriage, with paradoxical and fatal results, dragging other families down to ruin. 1 A descendant of Pompeius
had no known progeny from his alliance with the patrician Fabii; and other novi homines disappear utterly or prolong their f
n the consulate, the Picene Q. Poppaeus Secundus, were unmarried. The other Poppaeus, a military man, left a daughter. 1 Quir
ne of his sons married Junia Calvina, of the blood of Augustus; 4 the other enjoyed a brief tenure of the Principate that Aug
ew scourge arose which, for the aristocracy at least, counterbalanced other benefits. The Senate became a high court of jus
n of Vinicius was the patron of a loyal and zealous historian. On the other hand, Lollius was a political scapegoat, while Qu
the aristocracy: it was cheerfully adopted by the snobbish fervour of other classes in society. It is precisely the sons of R
Tacitus observes. 4 The New State might be called monarchy, or by any other name. That did not matter. Personal rights and pr
orms. Indeed, it was inconceivable that a Roman should live under any other dispensation. Hence Libertas could be invoked as
garded. PageBook=>524 While the Princeps lived, he might, like other rulers, be openly worshipped as a deity in the pr
sar, 49, 90; Pompeian partisans from, 28, 31, 88, 90; Caesarians, 92; other men from Picenum, 200; Augustan novi homines, 3
o, see Cornelius. Scribonia, wife of Octavianus, 213, 219, 229; her other husbands, 229. Scribonia, wife of Sex. Pompeius
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