s with indulgence both the political orator who fomented civil war to save the Republic and the military adventurer who betr

had less exacting standards. The great work of Pollio has perished, save for inconsiderable fragments or supposed borrowin

f the Roman Republic2 he might rise to the praetorship but no higher, save by a rare combination of merit, industry and prot

le to give inner coherence and courage to make the reforms that might save and justify the rule of class and privilege. The

obarbus). PageBook=>025 to few at Rome to achieve distinction, save through the questionable and hazardous means of t

shown or pretended of Pompeius; to reject a bill, no argument needed save that the measure was aimed at the People’s genera

Milo, to the dismay and grief of the Optimates, who strove in vain to save him. 7 Measures were passed to check flagrant abu

nacious proposals that both dynasts should surrender their armies and save the Commonwealth. Curio became a popular hero,

at and so was Pompeius. After long wavering Pompeius chose at last to save the oligarchy. Further, the proconsul’s proposals

nd Roman than many have fancied; and no Roman conceived of government save through an oligarchy. But Caesar was being forced

His colleague Piso thwarted that move, but was unable or unwilling to save the Caesarian C. Sallustius Crispus, a young man

enhanced its degradation. Even Cato admitted the need of bribery, to save the Republic and secure the election of his own k

At the time of Caesar’s death, the armies were held by his partisans, save that certain arrangements were still pending the

he Republic precluded a full and revealing account of his associates, save honourable mention of three tribunes and a legion

derided them as torpid and bibulous. 2 Hirtius and Pansa might yet save the Republic, not, as some hoped, by action, but

summer the cause of ordered government was still not beyond hope: to save it, what better champion than a patriot who boast

mpromised in public. Then Octavianus urged Cicero to come to Rome, to save the State once again, and renew the memory of the

nmity would ever prevent him from allying with his bitterest enemy to save the State. 5 Plancus soon followed the unimpeacha

gainst the spirit of the constitution8 but they might be necessary to save the State. Of that the Senate was supreme judge.

of irrevocable measures. Under the threat of war a compromise might save appearances: which did not meet the ideas of Cice

t was Cicero’s protégé, the ‘divine youth whom Providence had sent to save the State’. 5 Octavianus and his army grew daily

ictory by protecting the mother of Brutus. 4 Atticus was also able to save the knight L. Julius NotesPage=>192 1 Ther

origin. 7 About L. Caninius Gallus (cos. 37 B.C.) nothing is known, save that his father married a first cousin of M. Anto

s proposed measures of alleviation and compromise, with little effect save to excite the suspicions of the soldiery. Riots b

a for a time against the generals of Octavianus. Then all is a blank, save that he negotiated with the Republican admiral Ah

in Rome his paradoxical triumph. 1 Ventidius is not heard of again save for the ultimate honour of a public funeral. 2 So

othed to Octavianus. 2 Lepidus had several children. Their destiny, save for the eldest son, is unknown. They were surely

44, 3). None of these men ever commanded armies, so far as is known, save Autronius and M. Acilius (Glabrio), later procons

tiable curiosity, a tireless industry. Long ago he deserted politics, save for a brief interval of loyal service to Pompeius

s’ vassal rulers were retained almost wholly by the victorious rival, save that in Egypt he changed the dynasty and substitu

e national sanction for his arbitrary power and a national mandate to save Rome from the menace of the East. A kind of plebi

zens with the knight’s census, a number surpassed by no town of Italy save Patavium (Strabo, p. 169). For numerous knights a

an invasion of Asia and Syria there was no danger to be apprehended, save when civil war loosened the fabric of Roman rule.

om Egypt in 28 B.C. With the proconsul of Macedonia no link is known, save that each was once a partisan of Antonius. 3 Who

ries were not forgotten. 2 It would not do to revive such memories, save by covert apology, or when an official historian

ole, better to say nothing of Caesar, or for that matter of Antonius, save as criminal types. The power and domination of Au

1 ff. 3 Apart from the Acta Triumphalia, no record of any fighting save when Taurus was there (Dio 51, 20, 5). Orosius, h

s and disinterested Proculeius, an intimate friend of Augustus, could save him. Proculeius had openly deplored the fate of G

middle period of the Principate of Augustus shows very few new names, save for a Passienus and a Caecina, unmistakable in th

m could prevail alone. Neither law nor oratory would carry a man far, save when a conspicuous dearth of ability drove a grou

aloof, majestic and heroic. Livia might seldom be visible in public save at religious ceremonies, escorted by Roman matron

the monopoly of the nobiles: after the consulate, little occupation, save a proconsulate, usually brief in tenure. The cons

ilicia. No senator might depart from Italy and visit the provinces, save permission obtained. 1 Nor could he now discover

thus more highly favoured in the matter of political matches than any save Drusus (the husband of the younger Antonia) and t

patrium nisi nomen habet Romanus alumnus. 4 Augustus stepped in to save the race, imposing severe restriction upon the fr

bove. Political invective was vigorous, ferocious but indiscriminate, save when there was a government in being. Then it mus

extinction in the revolutionary age, learned from adversity no lesson save the belief that poverty was the extremest of evil

as a date than as an agent. Other allies of the Princeps are omitted, save for Tiberius, whose conquest of Illyricum under t

s mainly prosopographical, and it is draw up according to gentilicia, save that Augustus, members of his family, and Roman e