sar must be reduced to due subordination. After Sulla’s ordinances, a restored oligarchy of the nobiles held office at Rome. Pom

i and the Nerones. The lesser was to prevail. The patricians in the restored oligarchy held rank not so much from resources of

laudius Pulcher) furnished a suitable and visible inauguration of the restored aristocracy, being the son and the husband of wom

ageBook=>054 State in his ambition and the modest magistrate who restored the Republic. In its treatment of Caesar the insp

by his latest change of front came back to earlier alliances. Sulla restored the oligarchic rule of the nobiles. Thirty years

enobarbus). PageBook=>062 were debarred from public life until restored by the Dictator. 1 Two of the three, Gabinius and

But the Marian party had been defeated and proscribed by Sulla. The restored oligarchy, established by violence and confiscati

no difference to that. When the tyrant fell and the constitution was restored , would Antonius be strong enough to hold party an

They had no further plans the tyrant was slain, therefore liberty was restored . A lull followed and bewilderment. Sympathizers

ed for ever. Thoughtful men reflected that its powers could easily be restored one day under another appellation. At the end of

Caesarian faction: power and patronage rested in his hands. Antonius restored an exile but only NotesPage=>107 1 Phil, 1

made his decision to return, Cicero did not know that unity had been restored in the Caesarian party. Again, in the first two s

judgement of the historian Sallustius. After Pompeius and Crassus had restored the power of the tribunate, Roman politicians, wh

eful and necessary had not the Republic been rescued from tyranny and restored to vigour? Octavianus had the veterans, the plebs

lished. Whatever the outcome of the armed struggle, it could never be restored . Despotism ruled, supported by violence and confi

rusalem surrendered (July, 37 B.C.). The authority of Rome had been restored . It remained to settle the affairs of the East up

. 8 Above, p.113. PageBook=>234 disturbances, order had been restored by land and sea. 1 The formulation, though not ex

from the town of Mantua. Pollio’s good offices may have preserved or restored the poet’s estate so long as he held Cisalpina, b

, destined himself for divinity, but not before his rule on earth has restored confidence between men and respect for the gods,

suls, under the immediate rule of Octavianus presented a fair show of restored liberty, and resigned nothing of value. Ostensibl

in semblance and in theory the sovranty of Senate and People had been restored . It remains to discover what it all amounted to.

consulate under the new order. The position of the Princeps and his restored Republic was by no means as secure and unequivoca

vive the imperium consulare, ostensibly reduced when the Republic was restored . Such were the powers of Augustus as consul and

e of civil concord or vested interests there was work to be done. The restored Republic needed a friendly hand to guide its coun

w a great people. Ruin had been averted but narrowly, peace and order restored but would it last? And, more than security of per

his mandate and even of the sincerity of his intentions, the Princeps restored certain provinces to proconsuls: they were merely

irinus. ’2 Thus did Virgil hail the end of fratricidal strife and the restored rule of law. The perverse ingenuity and positive

anger of any premature manifestation of hereditary monarchy; they had restored unity by secret compulsion, with Agrippa as deput

d the rule of one man. No sooner destroyed, the Triumvirate had to be restored . The alliance of equals had proved unsatisfactory

ssembly should recover dignity and efficiency when the Free State was restored , Octavianus and Agrippa carried out a purificatio

purified assembly that received from the hands of Italy’s leader the restored Republic did not belie its origin and cannot evad

h no prospect of the consulate but safe votes for the Princeps in his restored and sovran assembly of all Italy. Names more fa

to discern under what conditions they were liberated from control and restored to Republican freedom. That there was change an

d the Republic to be used as they had used it. To the People Augustus restored freedom of election. Fed by the bounty and flatte

the aristocracy. From one fraud Augustus was debarred. He had already restored the Republic once he could not do it again. Not

iod 25-19 B.C., eight come of new families against five nobles. 3 The restored Republic, it is evident, meant no restoration of

orm, but it could not be abolished by a statesman who claimed to have restored the Free State. That was left to Augustus’ succes

otten families were discovered in obscurity, rescued from poverty and restored by subsidy to the station and dignity of their an

led up the gaps. The Senate which acclaimed Augustus and the Republic restored could show an imposing roll of consulars, perhaps

Raetia, Noricum and Judaea. PageBook=>395 To the Senate he had restored no military territories, but only, from time to t

ers that are attested in his Principate. No sooner was the Free State restored than Augustus hastened to palliate any inconvenie

d at Massilia a few days after Tiberius’ return, the Claudian was not restored to his dignitas. 2 No honour, no command in war a

nt ideals of duty, piety, chastity and frugality. 4 How could they be restored ? About the efficacy of moral and sumptuary legi

man virtue. Augustus might observe with some satisfaction that he had restored a quality which derived strength from memories of

To witness the induction or rather to confer the grant, for Augustus restored election to the People, in pointed contrast to An

gainst the moral code and later clamoured loudly that Julia should be restored from exile. 5 Too prudent or too grateful to atta

w crop. The generation that grew to manhood in the happy prime of the restored Republic makes a poor enough showing, with Ovid t

ed after his death when the Roman People was saved from despotism and restored to Libertas. The Roman People grieved at the de

ory, and so became vulnerable to propaganda. Augustus claimed to have restored Libertas and the Republic, a necessary and saluta

, 146, 151, 157 f., 420, 504, 506 f.; in the party of Marius, 19, 65; restored to power by Sulla, 17 ff.; attitude towards Pompe