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1 (1960) THE ROMAN REVOLUTION
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five years. Loyal to Caesar, and proud of his loyalty, Pollio at the same time professed his attachment to NotesPage=>
in the Republic of Augustus as the ministers and agents of power, the same men but in different garb. They are the governmen
in opposition to the Senate. The Equites belonged, it is true, to the same social class as the great bulk of the senators: t
eless or hostile to the interests of property and finance, and at the same time carefully soliciting the aid of young nobile
e in the religion of the Roman State, that of pontifex maximus. 5 The same year furnished an added testimony of his temper.
into the fray, and slashed the bill to pieces. Yet he claimed at the same time that he was doing a good service to Pompeius
in 54 B.C. (Ad fam. 3, 4, 2), that of Cn. Pompeius probably about the same time (ib.). The younger son, Sextus, married the
January 44 B.C. Caesar was voted the Dictatorship for life. About the same time decrees of the Senate ordained that an oath
tructive. Though in different words, Virgil, Horace and Livy tell the same tale and point the same moral. 1 Yet speculatio
erent words, Virgil, Horace and Livy tell the same tale and point the same moral. 1 Yet speculation cannot be debarred fro
est neither of principle nor of class, the presence of members of the same noble house on opposing sides will be explained n
17, 1) to have belonged to a proscribed family. Yet he is surely the same person as C. Vibius Pansa, tribune in 51 B.C. (Ad
ghly probable that the Caesarian Curtius, or Curtius Postumus, is the same person as the notorious Rabirius Postumus, so nam
st have contained in high proportion the sons of Roman knights. 1 The same arguments hold for Caesar’s Senate, with added fo
ents hold for Caesar’s Senate, with added force, and render it at the same time more difficult and less important to discove
136 (a Tusculan consul who deserted and became consul at Rome in the same year). On the Plautii, Münzer, RA, 44. 2 W. Sch
and M. Herennius Picens (cos. suff. A.D. 1) presumably belong to the same family. 3 So Cicero described him (Pliny, NH 7,
evolutionary about the choice of his candidates for the consulate the same principle holds as for his legates in the Gallic
. Early in April Decimus Brutus set out for Cisalpine Gaul; about the same time, it may be presumed, Trebonius went to Asia,
esar. Antonius was an intrepid and dashing cavalry leader: yet at the same time a steady and resourceful general. He command
statesman. His own security and the maintenance of order dictated the same salutary policy. By force of argument and persona
i; ceterum regendis provinciis prisca virtute egit’ (Ann. 6, 32). The same historian’s cool treatment of the virtuous Empero
terms, probably with honest intent, not merely to deceive; about the same time, Antonius delivered a speech before the Peop
all men know, drove Brutus to his doom on the field of Philippi. The same phantom bore heavily on Antonius and stayed the h
narius, otherwise unknown, was a general at Philippi and probably the same person as the Antonian Pinarius Scarpus, cf. Münz
: ‘M. Agrippae pater ne post Agrippam quidem notus. ’ Agrippa was the same age to within a year as Octavianus, and is said t
ompeius, but not placing obstacles in his way. 4 After Pharsalus, the same amicable attitude. 5 Again, after the assassinati
he choice between capitulation and destruction. Six years before, the same policy precipitated war between the government an
rried by tribunes. This treatise was published in 51 B.C. About the same time Cicero had also been at work upon the Laws,
Ambition can be legitimate and laudable. De gloria was written in the same year as a pendant to De officiis. 4 Cicero define
na, NotesPage=>162 1 Phil. 3. In a speech to the People on the same day he states: ‘deinceps laudator provincia Galli
ot abate his efforts. As a patriotic demonstration he proposed on the same day yet another statue in the Forum, for the dead
talent. He quoted, mocked and refuted the Antonian manifesto. On the same evening, in a tone of pained surprise and earnest
fought his way through Italy to the sea coasts. 1 Arruntius did the same . 2 The Arruntii were an opulent family at Atina,
n 42 B.C.; 4 a Triumvir’s uncle, C. Antonius, becomes censor in the same year; then both disappear. 5 Two honest men, L. P
ad only recently passed his twentieth birthday: Agrippa’s age was the same to a year. Salvidienus, the earliest and greatest
erse the Parthians. 4 Pollio may have departed to Macedonia about the same time if he came to Rome to assume the insignia of
. Rep. 11, 564 f. (coins of his admiral Q. Nasidius, honouring at the same time Pompeius Magnus and the god of the sea). 5
tator’s new senators. The younger Balbus was probably in Spain at the same time as Peducaeus; 6 and the obscure admiral M. L
o on the Palatine he had already dedicated a temple in 36 B.C. In the same year Cn. Domitius Calvinus, victorious from Spa
rius consul in 29. M. Valerius, cos. suff. 32, clearly belongs to the same family. 4 Above, p. 199 f. 5 Sallust, BJ 85,
o is known only from coins (BMC, R. Rep. II, 517 ff.): perhaps of the same family as antonius’ army commander in the invasio
oming abolition of another Roman province. 3 The Triumvir pursued the same policy, to its logical end. The province of Cilic
is own person for the Ptolemies. Caesar Augustus was therefore at the same time a magistrate at Rome and a king in Egypt. Bu
ture is confirmed by the existence of a city called Titiopolis in the same region (after M. Titius). 3 Pliny NH 9, 121; Ma
n emotions might be impelled by certain melancholy reflections to the same course of action, or at least of acquiescence. Th
.C., Calvisius on May 26th, Autronius on August 16th, probably of the same year: Autronius may not have been the immediate s
M. Licinius Crassus may have made his peace with Octavianus about the same time—on terms, namely the consulate. 2 Even Aheno
-W VI A, 346). 4 CIL 12, p. 50 and p. 77. 5 Res Gestae 13. At the same time the ancient ceremony of the Augurium Salutis
careful supervision. Other regions in turn might be subjected to the same salutary treatment, for nobody could believe that
Pompeius Magnus governed Spain in absence through his legates. At the same time he acquired a quasi-dictatorial position in
observed that the pay of Augustus’ military guard was doubled at the same time—and that in virtue of the Senate’s decree. 1
of 23 B.C. ‘A. T[erentius … ] V[ar]ro Murena’ (CIL ι2, p. 28) is the same person as the Terentius Varro in Dio (53, 25, 3)
his side if he removed an unpopular person and exorbitant powers. The same reasons counselled Augustus to depart. Others as
on had hitherto separated senators from knights. They belonged to the same class in society, but differed in public station
r entry to the Senate. The concordia ordinum thus achieved was at the same time a consensus Italiae, for it represented a co
d Q. Lepidus: the latter was finally elected. 1 After an interval the same trouble recurred. The year 19 B.C. opened with Au
advancement in the Principate. The game of politics is played in the same arena as before; the competitors for power and we
ame arena as before; the competitors for power and wealth require the same weapons, namely amicitia, the dynastic marriage a
During the last fourteen years, they had seldom been together in the same place. Demanded by the needs of government, the s
h material and a better tradition took their place. Augustus in the same year promulgated regulations of pay and service w
a contemporary poet. 4 The kingdom of Noricum was annexed about the same time. 5 Then came the turn of Illyricum and the B
pa, who subdued the Pannonians and Dalmatians (12-9 B.C.). 4 In the same years Drusus with the legions of the Rhine and
cumulative, were almost without exception praetorian in rank. At the same time, as more senators reached the consulate, stu
o the government, Maecenas knew no peer and left no successor. In the same year as Maecenas, Horace died: Virgil had gone el
nterval of five years (that is, in A.D. I); and three years later the same distinction was proclaimed for Lucius, his junior
rports to derive from Augustus’ accusations against his daughter. The same source can be detected in Pliny, NH 21, 9; Dio 55
ter composing the relations of Rome and Parthia, in the course of the same year Gaius proceeded to settle order in the depen
s year Augustus had drawn up his last will and testament. 4 About the same time, it may be inferred, three state-papers were
and changed the personnel, but not the character, of government. The same men who had won the wars of the Revolution now co
mnia invexere. ’ 5 Propertius 4, 11, 47 f. PageBook=>443 The same proud insistence on the inherited virtue of class
ue rapidly extended to cover the provinces as well as Italy, with the same accepted terminology and standards. Beside provin
legibus ambae invictae gentes aeterna in foedera mittant. 6 In the same years the historian Livy was already at work upon
i or Antonius at Actium, the ultimate result might have been much the same for the Domitii: prominent among the Liberators a
s political, justice less a matter of partisan interpretation. At the same time, however, a new scourge arose which, for the
wn-council of the colony of Pisa showed more restraint, but meant the same thing, when they celebrated the ‘Guardian of the
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