e four families was now joined the faction of Cato. Of his allies and relatives , Lucullus and Hortensius were dead, but the group

hough the cause were indifferent or even distasteful. Of Caesar’s own relatives by blood or marriage, certain were neutral. 3 The

ice, whatever their deserts. The Catilinarian P. Cornelius Sulla (a relative of the Dictator Sulla) had been prosecuted in the

lic Wars (ten in number from 56 B.C. onwards) from the company of his relatives , friends and political associates, varying widely

a Junia, daughter of Decimus. 5 Appian, BC 2, 26, 102. (Curio was a relative of his, Dio 40, 63, 5.) PageBook=>070 cons

ee Table III at end. Balbus himself, on the maternal side, was a near relative of Pompeius (Suetonius, Divus Aug. 4, 1). 4 Cic

y and kinsmen provide the nucleus of a Roman faction. Yet Octavianus’ relatives were not numerous; 2 and he got little NotesPag

uietly for the present but their chance might come. Octavianus’ other relatives were of little consequence. Q. Pedius, a knight’s

career under the auspices of Cato. 2 Most of his friends, allies and relatives followed Cato and Pompeius in the Civil War. Serv

ying news, would facilitate a revolution in the East. The friends and relatives of Brutus and Cassius at Rome, whatever they knew

limits. The Senate did not choose its own members, or determine their relative standing. On no known practice or theory could th

onia, Hortensius, the son of the great orator and one of his own near relatives . 3 When all was ready, and the decision at last t

machinations’, revealed their authors, and rebuked to their faces the relatives of Caesar (presumably Philippus and Marcellus) wh

ed him, Brutus, in anticipation, wrote to Cicero, interceding for his relatives . Cicero answered with a rebuke. 4 Octavianus wa

ured. The people chose him as consul along with Q. Pedius, an obscure relative of unimpeachable repute, who did not survive the

lar victim, M. Tullius Cicero. The Caesarian leaders proscribed their relatives and other personages of distinction more as a ple

entio, passim. 9 Appian, BC 4, 47, 201 f. This Sittius presumably a relative of P. Sittius of Nuceria had spent money on Cales

utus. When Brutus left Italy, he was accompanied or followed by his relatives Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus and M. Licinius Lucullus

43. 2 C. Marcellus (cos. 50 B.C.) was still alive: for the sons and relatives of the others the only record in the years 43–39

Yet Pompeius still retained in his following persons of distinction, relatives , friends or adherents of his family. 1 Scaurus hi

of which matter, as a landowner with comfortably situated friends and relatives , he possessed ample knowledge. Though the varie

therwise unknown); 38, cf. Dio 49, 25, 2 (Oppius Statianus, perhaps a relative of the Antonian admiral, M. Oppius Capito). 2 P

a in the year 31 B.C. (Dio 51, 7, i), is otherwise unknown: perhaps a relative of the Caesarian legate C. Didius (Bell. Hisp, 40

g them Turullius and Cassius of Parma ; 3 young Sentius Saturninus, a relative of Libo, had also been among the companions of Po

). Cf. C. Cichorius, Hermes XXXIX (1904), 461 ff. Seianus had several relatives of consular rank (Velleius 2, 127, 3), cf. Table

n: perhaps the son of Brutus’ friend (Plutarch, Brutus 50), perhaps a relative of Lucilius Hirrus. 2 The Augustan moneyer L. V

ear, the consulate in his thirty-third with alleviations for favoured relatives , modest for the young Claudii, scandalous for Mar

s. 3 These were the closest in blood, but by no means the only near relatives of the Princeps. C. Octavius his father and his m

on of family alliances were formidable and fantastic. He neglected no relative , however obscure, however distant, no tie whateve

xile and might never return. On her own side of the family she lacked relatives who might be built up into a faction. 2 To be sur

r of Galba, the future emperor (Suetonius, Galba 4, 1), was a distant relative . Likewise Livia Medullina, who died on her weddin

inus will not have forgotten altogether that his father had married a relative of Tiberius. 4 Many men of merit had shared with

rought stability to the régime by discouraging the hopes of rivals or relatives . One danger, ever menacing, was still averted by

as well as for discrediting, a political suspect. This Silanus was a relative of M. Junius Silanus (cos. A.D. 19) to whom Julia

the ancient nobility like the Calpurnii and the numerous branches and relatives of the Cornelii Lentuli, men of more recent stock

ugustus’ faithful generals, the other A. Caecina Severus (perhaps a relative ): Germanicus, nephew and adopted son of Tiberius,

it discordia civis), sic mihi praecipue pulvis Etrusca dolor. 2 A relative had fallen in the War of Perusia. 3 Propertius’ d

to make a speech. Such was auctoritas. Maecenas and Sex. Appuleius (a relative of the Princeps) happened to be defending a man p

, 157, 208; his death, 211. Antonius, M. (cos. 44 B.C.), family and relatives of, 63, 64, 103; early career, 41, 43, 76, 90, 94

Roman nobles from, 84; Marian and Caesarian partisans, 90 f., 193 f.; relatives of Velleius Paterculus, 383. Canidia, witch, 20

29, 237, 238, 239, 327, 368; proconsul of Spain, 292; descendants and relatives , 423, 426, 493. Claudius Pulcher, Ap., paramour

273 f., 277, 280; character and ambitions, 274; alleged designs, 283; relative unimportance, 274; end of Cleopatra, 298 f.; the

203; campaign of Philippi, 203 ff.; his suicide, 206. His allies and relatives , 44 f., 69, 95, 163, 198, 205 f., 492 f.; his cha

ly treated by Caesar, 56; derided by Pompeius, 74; his wives, 20, 21; relatives , 21 f., 44. Licinius Lucullus, M. (cos. 73 B.C.

f Neptune, 228; Bellum Siculum, 228 ff.; defeat and death of, 231 f.; relatives , 228, 424 f. Pompeius, Sex. (cos. 35 B.C.), 200

45 ff.; his strategy, 49, 90, 102; his death, 50. His family, 28 f.; relatives , 30 f.; descendants, 228, 423, 425, 496 f.; adher

x., 252; his origin and poetry, 466 f.; on Cornelia, 467; friends and relatives , 384, 466. Propertius Postumus, C., Augustan se

rts to Octavianus, 282; proconsul of Africa, 328, 339; his family and relatives , 269. Sempronius Gracchus, last of the Gracchi,

moirs, 484; freedom of speech, 482; a supporter of the monarchy, 512; relatives and connexions, 198, 238, 269, 279, 423, 425; des