d with the separate persons of Octavianus the Triumvir, author of the proscriptions , and Augustus the Princeps, the beneficent magist

Caesar displayed coherence in thought and act when he inaugurated the proscriptions and when he sanctioned clemency, when he seized p

an alien rule. Italy suffered devastation and sacking of cities, with proscription and murder of the best men; for the ambitions of

and at intervals. Restored to power by a military despot, enriched by proscription and murder, and growing ever fatter on the spoil

eir leader himself, when war broke out, made savage threats of Sullan proscriptions . 3 The prince of all the bankers and financiers

ans, from senators down to soldiers and freedmen? There were to be no proscriptions . But Caesar acquired the right to sell, grant or

ne man gave his vote for absolution and remained unmolested until the proscriptions were duly instituted. Octavianus could afford to

ere were many men alive who remembered Sulla. Often enough before now proscriptions had been the cause of secret apprehension, the pr

o give a measure of their ruthlessness, the Triumvirs inaugurated the proscriptions by the arrest and execution of a tribune of the R

e Triumvirs were pitiless, logical and concordant. On the list of the proscriptions all told they set one hundred and thirty senators

9 ff. who perhaps emphasizes too much the impersonal character of the proscriptions . PageBook=>192 Roman class-feeling and the

hrough family connexions and social influence, had been able to evade proscription , such as the father of Brutus and others. The dec

guise of partisan zeal, men compassed, for profit or for revenge, the proscription of private enemies. Many a long-standing contest

ly was now decided. The Coponii were an ancient family of Tibur:3 the proscription of a Coponius may fairly be put down to Plancus.

rty. Freedmen, as usual, battened upon the blood of citizens. 1 The proscriptions may not unfairly be regarded as in purpose and es

as in purpose and essence a peculiar levy upon capital. As in Sulla’s proscription , nobiles and political adversaries might head the

ll the Dictatorship of Caesar as an age of gold. 4 Thinned by war and proscription , the Senate was now replenished to overflowing wi

enure of office, stricken by shame and horror, it was alleged, at the proscriptions which it was his duty to announce. 3 If the three

fter the triumph of the Caesarian generals and the institution of the proscriptions he knew where he stood. Brutus himself was no s

llio, who evaded the challenge with a pointed sneer at the man of the proscriptions . 4 As the siege continued and hunger pressed up

a host of noble Romans and respectable knights, the survivors of the proscriptions , of Philippi, of Perusia. With this moral suppo

on of the angry dynasts at Brundisium portended a renewal of warfare, proscriptions and the desolation of Italy, with a victor certai

ed the son of Pompeius the Great and refused to pardon the man of the proscriptions . During the campaign in Sicily the presence of Ma

ME UNDER THE TRIUMVIRS PageBook=>243 IT was ten years from the proscriptions , ten years of Triumviral despotism. Despite repea

toms of consolidation, political and social. There were to be no more proscriptions , no more expulsions of Italian gentry and farmers

nvoked his help for the creation of public libraries. 2 Escaping from proscription , though his own stores of learned books were plun

34, 3 f. PageBook=>256 sentiments of the beneficiaries of the proscriptions , newly acquired along with their wealth and statu

strange mixture of the old and the new. Despite the losses of war and proscriptions , there was still to be found in the higher ranks

ro might be more remunerative for every purpose; and the blame of his proscription was profitably laid upon Antonius, dead and disgr

cero. PageBook=>322 would pretend that internecine war and the proscription of ‘boni viri’ could ever produce an exemplary ki

y literature. The past was recent and tangible the Ides of March, the proscriptions and Philippi were barely twenty years distant. Th

cking reform and provoking revolution. The knights paid for it in the proscriptions for knights were the principal and designated vic

kly won over. But the aristocracy were slow to forgive the man of the proscriptions . The Princeps had his revenge. He did not care to

To replenish the ranks of the nobiles, mercilessly thinned by war and proscriptions , a new generation was growing up, and along with

l were intended to counsel and encourage. The profiteers from war and proscriptions had bought land. Though a number of these men may

prevailed a conspiracy of silence about the victims of civil war and proscriptions , except for such as could usefully be revived to

l Wars, Antonius and Lepidus with the ultimate responsibility for the proscriptions and the most abominable actions of the Triumvirs.

rdus, whose vivid pages proscribed to all eternity the authors of the proscriptions ,5 survived the Principate of Augustus. He was pro

fortune or to a brief renascence before the end. Others that survived proscription and battle by good fortune, diplomacy or the cont

ower, stripped of their estates and steadily thinned by a progressive proscription . As under the Republic, the normal method for an

=>514 They could be safe and happy at last. As a survivor of the proscriptions stated, ‘pacato orbe terrarum, res[titut]a re pub

enemies of the Fatherland, Sex. Pompeius as a pirate. Perusia and the proscriptions are forgotten, the coup d’état of 32 B.C. appears

168, 170; Mutina and after, 173 ff.; the Triumvirate, 188 f.; role in proscriptions , 191 f.; campaign and Battle of Philippi, 202 ff.

utina, 174; joins Antonius, 180; his conduct defended, 180 f.; in the proscriptions , 193; in 42 B.C., 202; in the Cisalpina, 189, 207

., 181 ff.; and the consulate, 182 f., 185 f.; Triumvir, 188; role in proscriptions , 191; campaign of Philippi, 202 ff.; Perusine War

, 87 f.; his Dictatorship, 17, 52; comparison with Caesar, 47, 51 f.; proscriptions , 65, 190; Sullan senators, 78; Sullan creatures,

to Pansa, 134. Fulvia, wife of M. Antonius, 63; alleged role in the proscriptions , 191; in the Perusine War, 208, 209, 210, 211, 21

ction of Octavianus, 133; commanding armies, 201, 355; victims of the proscriptions , 195; in 32 B.C., 290; at Gades and Corduba, 292;

, 198; towards Caesar, 59; in the party of Caesar, 61 ff., 94; in the proscriptions , 192, 195; casualties at Philippi, 205 f.; under

92; refuses to help Liberators, 102; helps Servilia, 102, 192; in the proscriptions , 192 f.; relations with Antonius and Octavianus,

358. Procurators, 356. Profiteers, Caesarian, 76 f., 380; in the proscriptions , 191, 194 f.; from the Civil Wars, 351, 354, 380

ves, 384, 466. Propertius Postumus, C., Augustan senator, 384, 466. Proscriptions , 190 ff. Provinces, control of, in 60–58 B.C.,

nd the consulate, 182 f.; disagreements with Brutus, 147 f., 183 ff.; proscription and death, 192; Pollio’s verdict, 192.; His chara

enators and knights in the Republic, 12, 14; transference through the proscriptions , 194 ff., 243, 290, 351; owned by the partisans o