io 37, 43, 3. 9 Dio 37, 44, 3. PageBook=>033 Pompeius on his return , lacking valid excuse for armed usurpation, tried

Some might hope to persuade Pompeius, making him sacrifice Caesar in return for alliance with the oligarchy. Cicero took hear

tween the legions of Spain and the hosts of all the East, and then to return , like Sulla, to victory and to power. 4 Caesar,

on of a Dictatorship for life seemed to mock and dispel all hope of a return to normal and constitutional government. His rule

ned to silence for a time. With the suppression of the Dictator and return to normal government, the direction of the State

d not Lepidus only there was P. Servilius his brother-in-law, soon to return from the governorship of Asia. 2 The alternativ

nder his provincial command, that Brutus and Cassius would be able to return to Roman political life. 4 NotesPage=>117

devotion to his son and heir. Loyalty could only be won by loyalty in return . Caesar never let down a friend, whatever his cha

concord or of dissension were frustrated. Brutus and Cassius did not return to Rome and the rival Caesarian leaders were reco

er November he slips out of history for four years: the manner of his return shows that he had not been inactive. 5 The Caesar

the province of Asia for Caesar with some credit in 46-44 B.C. On his return to Rome late in the summer Servilius embarked upo

emnants of the Pompeians and the sometimes hoped for but ever delayed return to settled conditions threw him into a deep depre

departing to Greece and remaining there till the end of the year, to return under happier auspices when Hirtius and Pansa wer

Senate on August 1st and some prospect that Brutus and Cassius might return to political life. 1 Cicero turned back. Near V

nother). 5 Ib. 11, 7, 2. PageBook=>141 deference. 1 Cicero’s return provoked an incident, but gave no indication that

were moving swiftly. In his account of the reasons that moved him to return , Cicero makes no mention of the Ludi Victoriae Ca

fluence the public policy of Antonius. When he made his decision to return , Cicero did not know that unity had been restored

d in the background. For Cicero, in fear at the prospect of Antonius’ return with troops from Brundisium, there was safety in

is kind: to his Scipio, Cicero was to play the Laelius. Again, on his return from exile, Cicero hoped that Pompeius could be i

ies at Rome and in Italy, he had every reason to demand safeguards in return for compromising on his right to Gallia Cisalpina

ad been levied to meet the demands of the armies of the Republic. The return was small and grudging; 3 and the agents of the L

t policy. But his words belied him he did not cease to urge Brutus to return to Italy. After a council with Servilia he launch

t. Caesar the Dictator pardoned his adversaries and facilitated their return to public life. The Triumvirs, however, decided t

e atque ingenii stetit, ea iudicandum de homine est. ’ 2 Pardon and return after a year is attested by ILS 8393. 3 Nepos,

nfiscation. 8 But a capital levy often defeats its own purpose. The return was at once seen to be disappointing. From virtue

y the demands of their soldiers for land and money. Octavianus was to return to Italy to carry out the settlement of the veter

ρ . PageBook=>210 his way to Spain; 1 and now he might bar the return of Octavianus’ best marshal and last hope. The Tr

es for himself and for Libo. The proscribed and the fugitives were to return . To Antonius, now urgently needed in the East,

e assassins, for whom there could be no pardon from Caesar’s heir, no return to Rome. But the young Pompeius was despotic and

ric: in public, the official panegyric. Freedom of speech could never return . Freedom, justice and honesty, banished utterly

Greece. 2 In Ecl. 8, 6-13 Virgil addresses Pollio, anticipating his return and triumph, in a tone and manner that would have

ry and the traditions of a family, a dynasty, a whole people; 4 and a return to the religious forms and practices of Rome woul

. | PageBook=>264 Roman army reached Ctesiphon, it might never return . Antonius proposed to march through a friendly Ar

that had prospered and grown rich from the revenues of the East, the return she gained from her export of soldiers, financier

his symbol of victory in civil war. What Rome and Italy desired was a return , not to freedom—anything but that—but to civil an

al programme, he advocated the existing order, reformed a little by a return to ancient practices, but not changed, namely the

r definition and ostensible restriction of his powers in that sense a return to constitutional government, in so far as his au

2 B.C. (Paullus Aemilius Lepidus and L. Munatius Plancus) announced a return to Republican practices and a beginning of social

tum’. 6 Horace himself was only one generation better. Here again, no return to Republican prejudices of birth. In the Princip

surge of successful speculators. But Augustus did not suffer them to return to their old games. The great companies of public

l was intended to fall to Agrippa and the two Claudii. Agrippa on his return from the East went to Illyricum and fought a camp

aracter. It took an astrologer, the very best of them, to predict his return . 3 Much happened in that dark and momentous inter

nnexion were in low water: Tiberius lived on in exile and might never return . On her own side of the family she lacked relativ

t appears to have been broken. He had already begged to be allowed to return , and his plea had been reinforced by the repeated

influences and powerful advisers that evade detection. But even now, return was conditional on the consent of Gaius; and Tibe

succumbed to illness and died at Massilia a few days after Tiberius’ return , the Claudian was not restored to his dignitas. 2

in composition, as might be expected. In the six years following the return to power of Tiberius, along with descendants of t

is own Republican and Pompeian antecedents. Like the departure, the return of Tiberius will have changed the army commands.

rs of that year. He departed to the eastern provinces. At once on his return in 19 B.C., and again in the next year, he was of

who composed the hymn, extolled, along with peace and prosperity, the return of the old morality: iam Fides et Pax et Honos Pu

preferred to stay in the provinces or drift to the towns rather than return to a hard living in some valley of the Apennines.

the debauched grammarian Q. Remmius Palaemon were noted for the rich return they secured from their vines. 1 But the advoca

Hellenism and from the Alexandrian models of the previous age, by the return to earlier and classic exemplars, to the great ag

ans; and when uniting with Antonius at Brundisium he had condoned the return of one of the assassins, Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus

d subsidy by a military leader, the enemy of their class, acquired in return for the cession of their power and ambition. Prid

chy to be the best form of government. It was also primeval, fated to return again when a state had run through the whole cycl

epublic, 324; on the departure of Tiberius, 420; M. Lollius, 429; the return of Tiberius, 431; the accession of Tiberius, 437;