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1 (1960) THE ROMAN REVOLUTION
two periods, the first of deplorable but necessary illegalities, the second of constitutional government. So well did he succ
dmen were not despised. Above all, it was necessary to conciliate the second order in state and society, the Roman knights, co
05 ff. The patriciate was in very low water in the last decade of the second century B.C. 3 Ever since M. Marcellus, cos. II
rth and beauty gained them advantageous matches and an evil repute. 5 Second and more important by far is that enigmatic facti
). Of the daughters, one was married to Q. Marcius Rex (cos. 68), the second and best known to Q. Metellus Celer (cos. 60). Th
children were Q. Servilius Caepio (P-W 11 A, 1775 ff.), Servilia, the second wife of L. Lucullus (Plutarch, Lucullus 38, cf. P
eft in poverty and to provide for all his brothers and sisters; 3 the second was of little account, and the youngest, P. Clodi
essed close kin in certain houses of the moderate nobility; 3 and his second wife, Pompeia, doubly recalled the Sullan party s
evailed, supported by Crassus, by Cato and by the Metelli. 8 Then a second defeat. The tribune L. Flavius brought forward
er with Caesar. The three met at Luca and renewed the compact, with a second consulate for Pompeius and Crassus and, after tha
tion or a short and easy war. They had lost the first round. Then a second blow, quite beyond calculation: before the summer
er dynastic policy she ruthlessly employed the three daughters of her second husband, whom she gave in marriage to C. Cassius
and Ser. Sulpicius Galba. 3 Münzer, RA, 12 ff. 4 Ib. 347 ff. Her second husband was D. Junius Silanus (cos. 62). An inscr
, 268, cf. the inscr. CIL XI, 1994: ‘Vel. Vibius Ar. Pansa Tro. ’ His second cognomen, Caetronianus (ILS 8890), derives from a
nd by the composition of a speech in reply, the pamphlet known as the Second Philippic:3 it was never spoken the adversaries w
o enlist but helped them with generous subsidies. 1 On the first or second day of February the envoys returned, lacking Sulp
us, an official dispatch to the Senate, which probably arrived in the second week of the month. 2 After departing from Italy
oited by Cicero. 6 The Senate refused. The sword decided. 7 For the second time in ten months Caesar’s heir set out to march
SCRIPTIONS PageBook=>187 CAESAR’S heir now held Rome after the second attempt in ten months. The first time he had soug
others were of no importance. Lepidus himself, however, was to have a second consulate in the next year, with Plancus as his c
rried out, in two stages, the first to provide money for the war, the second to reward the Caesarian legions after victory.
ened was bad enough. After the victory of the Caesarians impended the second act in social revolution. The foundations of th
ian party, P. Servilius, grasped the prize of intrigue and ambition a second consulate from the Triumvirs (41 B.C.), like his
torian standing, and the aristocrat Domitius Calvinus, fresh from his second consulate, with long experience of warfare and li
. Aemilius Scaurus was the son of Mucia, Pompeius’ third wife, by her second husband. Sex. Pompeius had married a daughter of
5. Her first husband was Cn. Lentulus Marcellinus (cos. 56 B.C.). The second is a problem. Her daughter Cornelia, married to P
paign of Philippi. Then silence again until he becomes consul for the second time in 40 B.C., with no record of his activity,
ll is known. 2 Destined ere long to a place in war and administration second only to Agrippa was T. Statilius Taurus (cos. suf
post of Siscia, an advanced buttress for the defence of Italy; in the second he pacified the coast of Dalmatia and subdued the
rew steadily in strength. In 33 B.C. Octavianus became consul for the second time, and his influence, not total but at least p
. Memmius (pr. 58 B.C.) and of Fausta, Sulla’s daughter (Milo was her second husband). Ch. XVIII ROME UNDER THE TRIUMVIRS
s a relative of the Antonian admiral, M. Oppius Capito). 2 Plancus’ second imperatorial salutation (ILS 886) may have been w
;c. (Cinna): Cinna was the son of Pompeia, daughter of Magnus, by her second marriage, namely, with L. Cornelius Cinna, praeto
k=>276 THE year 33 B.C. opened with Octavianus as consul for the second time: with its close, the triumviral powers were
, no danger of an Antonian rising in Italy in defence of Libertas, no second War of Perusia. The surest guarantee provided als
t of empire for a new capital. 7 Camillus was hailed as Romulus, as a second founder and saviour of Rome—‘Romulus ac parens pa
e men, or at least no candidate hostile to the Princeps. Taurus stood second only to Agrippa as a soldier and an administrator
and Spain, he had thrice been acclaimed imperator by the legions. 1 A second consulate was not the only reward of loyal servic
is at least remarkable that certain Odes of Horace (published in the second half of 23 B.C.) should contain such vivid and ex
geNote. 346 (No Notes) PageBook=>347 Augustus might not be a second Caesar: he lacked the vigour and the splendour of
ies. Before long Marcellus, Tiberius and Drusus would be available to second or to replace him. Even they would not suffice. I
cellas, who soon became available for matrimonial alliances, from the second the two Antonias, daughters of M. Antonius. The
the death of his wife Cornelia in 16 B.C. He died soon after and her second husband Barbatus died in his consulate. PageBoo
e earliest noble supporters of the faction. 4 Then he rose higher his second was an Aemilia Lepida in whose veins ran the bloo
, the daughter, it may be presumed, of that Aelius Gallus who was the second Prefect of Egypt,6 and who was subsequently to ad
udius 26, 2). 1 Suetonius, Galba 5, 2. Galba’s father had married a second wife, Livia Ocellina, from a distant branch of Li
. PageBook=>404 Ten years later, when Augustus departed on his second visit to the provinces of the West, Statilius Tau
ugustus, who waived the name of Romulus, could justly claim to be the second founder of Rome. A government had been establis
nciples. The first Prefect had succumbed to a political intrigue, the second had been unsuccessful in his invasion of Arabia.
was solemnized. In the next year a son was born, named Gaius. When a second son, Lucius, followed in 17 B.C. the Princeps ado
f Germanicus, and fell a victim to the intrigues of Messallina. 5 The second and third wives of Nero bore the now historic but
e East, 428; his fall, 489, 509; his alleged virtues, 488. Aemilia, second wife of Pompeius Magnus, 31 f. Aemilia Lepida,
n, 62, 111, 165, 197, 327, 368; in the campaign of Philippi, 205; his second consulate, 189, 227; governor of Spain, 227, 332;
), her marriages, 378, 421, 422. Marcellus, see Claudius. Marcia, second wife of Cato, 24, 36. Marcia, wife of Paullus F
rtorius, Q., from Nursia, 90; his Etruscan partisans, 129. Servilia, ( second ) wife of L. Lucullus, 21. Servilia, wife of Ap.
82; appointed an envoy, 172; relations with Octavianus, 182, 189; his second consulate, 197, 208; career, character and connex
rtain childless matches and does not carry his descendants beyond the second generation. IV. THE AEMILII LEPIDI This is ba
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