litical dynasts Pompeius, Crassus and Caesar to control the State and secure the domination of the most powerful of their numb

homo (in the strict sense of the term the first member of a family to secure the consulate and consequent ennoblement) was a r

were scorned by senators. They did not mind. 1 Some lived remote and secure in the enjoyment of hereditary estates, content w

rs were strong enough to ruin any politician or general who sought to secure fair treatment for provincials or reform in the R

years of political intrigue to maintain the dignitas of the Julii and secure the consulate in his turn. 2 His aunt was the wif

nce be prosecuted by his enemies for extortion or treason. They would secure lawyers reputed for eloquence, high principle and

gnitudo animi, his sacred duty to protect his friends and clients and secure their advancement, whatever their station in life

prospects and ingratiating himself with the nobility to find time to secure the promotion of deserving friends to the station

enate, no novus homo for whom he strove in defiance of the nobiles to secure the consulate. In their political careers he may

ion. Even Cato admitted the need of bribery, to save the Republic and secure the election of his own kinsman Bibulus. 3 Deba

m abroad. The execution of their plot allowed no delay, no attempt to secure a majority of the army commanders for their cause

the veterans were kept in hand. Property and vested interests seemed secure from revolution or from reaction. 5 To be sure, t

ant talents and restless ambition In April Antonius seemed reasonably secure . At home the one menace was assassination. Republ

a, without awaiting the end of his consulate, set out for the East to secure the province of Syria. Antonius had already act

PageBook=>155 the profession of which ideals no party can feel secure and sanguine, whatever be the acts of deception o

lly Caesar to the oligarchs out of sheer patriotism. 2 Octavianus, to secure recognition and power, was ready to pospone for t

or high-minded casuists. The party in control of the government could secure sanction for almost any arbitrary act: at the wor

le and Cicero had dealt with Catilina. In brief, Cicero proposed to secure legitimation, punlica auctoritas, for the privatu

wards: he had sent legates in advance, the one to Syria, the other to secure for him the legions in Egypt. Yet the East was no

s and cemented by the most binding and personal of pledges, offered a secure hope of concord at last. The reconciled leaders

cenas were exhausted. At last the mediation of Octavia was invoked to secure an accommodation between her brother and her husb

he line of the Dinaric Alps, but not beyond it. If war came, he would secure Italy in the north-east from an invasion from the

double object was triumphantly achieved. 1 Not only this. A general secure of the loyalty and the affection of his troops do

a Roman province and the Mede in alliance, the Roman frontier seemed secure enough. Only a few months passed, however, and th

ng kingdoms of Egypt and Judaea in the south and south-east, Rome was secure on that flank and could direct her full effort to

Only then and only thus could the Empire be made solid, coherent and secure . In the West municipal self-government was alread

=>275 is not certain that her ambition was greater than this, to secure and augment her Ptolemaic kingdom under the prote

ar for domination against Antonius Antonius must not be mentioned. To secure Roman sanction and emotional support for the ente

hen the new year had been eagerly awaited, for it brought a chance to secure constitutional sanction for the young adventurer.

, 3 ff.; Plutarch, Antonius 58. PageBook=>284 was compelled to secure the loyalty of his legions by paying a donative.

People. In this atmosphere of terror and alarm Octavianus resolved to secure national sanction for his arbitrary power and a n

3082). PageBook=>290 Antonius, the Roman imperator, wishing to secure ratification for his ordering of the East, was in

ority on rhetoric, must have been a man of some substance if he could secure senatorial rank for two of his sons. 4 CIL 12,

k to do in the West and in the North. To serve the policy of Rome and secure the eastern frontiers, it was enough to invoke th

quals and rivals, the proconsuls of the military provinces. Egypt was secure , or deemed secure, in the keeping of a Roman knig

the proconsuls of the military provinces. Egypt was secure, or deemed secure , in the keeping of a Roman knight. But what of Sy

treasure of Egypt. 2 Liberty was gone, but property, respected and secure , was now mounting in value. The beneficial workin

s-conscious Republicanism of Cato or of Brutus would not have found a secure haven. The uncontrolled libertas or ferocia of Po

rity the partisans of Augustus, were well aware of what was afoot. To secure the domination of the Caesarian party, the consol

position of the Princeps and his restored Republic was by no means as secure and unequivocal as official acts and official his

the only military province in the East except Egypt. Egypt might seem secure , governed by a viceroy of equestrian rank yet the

Princeps. The Caesarian party was installed in power: it remained to secure domination for the future. After the assassinatio

e widely spread, more tenacious, more tightly organized. Capital felt secure . A conservative party may be very large and quite

e for the existing order even had he the will, he lacked the power to secure admission to the Senate for numerous Italians. Th

without competition, held it without ostentation or danger, and lived secure as a senior statesman, much in demand on decorati

working of the lot after an interval of five years. But favour could secure curtailment of legal prescriptions, and that not

in Jahreshefte XVIII (1915), Beiblatt 51, would not be sufficient or secure support, for it may belong to another L. Piso at

is daughter he sought finally to make Tiberius harmless, his own sons secure . Though absent, Tiberius still had a following; t

Quirinius and Tarius Rufus. With such champions, property might rest secure . The author of the most eloquent commendations

hom possessed the social and material advantages that rendered Pollio secure from reprisals as well as formidable in attack. L

ion. As under the Republic, the normal method for an ambitious man to secure distinction and advancement was through the condu

ise the excellent P. Memmius Regulus, a pillar of the Roman State and secure himself, though married for a time to Lollia Paul

nt prayer that he might lay the foundations of the new order deep and secure . 2 He had done more than that. The Roman State, b

There could be one answer or none. Whatever his deserts, his fame was secure and he had made provision for his own immortality