he blamed the original alliance of Pompeius and Caesar. 2 When Pollio set out to narrate the history of the Roman Revolutio

ted into a ruinous political force by the tribune C. Gracchus when he set them in control of the law-courts and in oppositi

t;029 1 H. M. Last, CAH IX, 349. This was presumably the conception set forth by Sallust in his Histories. 2 Comm. pet.

ve, though a witty man and an orator as well as a soldier. 5 Pompeius set all his hopes on the next year. By scandalous bri

As for Bibulus, he smarted still beneath the humiliation of authority set at nought and fruitless contests with the consul

pre-ordained; and history has sometimes been written as though Caesar set the tune from the beginning, in the knowledge tha

ir dangerous ambitions. In name and function Caesar’s office was to set the State in order again (rei publicae constituen

manent ordering of the State. It was too difficult. Instead, he would set out for the wars again, to Macedonia and to the e

this is only a Caesar of myth or rational construction, a lay-figure set up to point a contrast with Pompeius or Augustus

ays passed, did it become safe for them to be seen in public. The mob set up an altar and a pillar in the Forum, offering p

n may have been allotted on March 18th. Early in April Decimus Brutus set out for Cisalpine Gaul; about the same time, it m

ld, it was easy to pretend that Antonius strove from the beginning to set himself in the place of the Dictator and succeed

s of partisan interpretation. Though Antonius may not have desired to set himself in’ Caesar’s place, he is not thereby abs

tavianus. In pursuance of his Caesarian policy, Antonius caused to be set up in the Forum a statue of Caesar with the inscr

this point that Dolabella, without awaiting the end of his consulate, set out for the East to secure the province of Syria.

ield up his command. The threat of force would be necessary. Antonius set out for Brundisium on October 9th, proposing ther

or to march on Rome himself? 2 Octavianus took the supreme risk and set out for Rome. With armed men he occupied the Foru

ate and many private persons swore an oath of allegiance,2 the consul set out for the north to join the remaining legions a

d to celebrate the clemency and magnanimity of the Dictator,4 he soon set to work upon a vindication of Cato, which he publ

appeared unshakable. At last, after long doubt and hesitation, Cicero set out for Greece. He sailed from Pompeii on July 17

al derived its shape from his own disappointments. In the Republic he set forth the lineaments and design, not of any progr

ibertas and such fair names. 4 In the autumn of 44 B.C. Caesar’s heir set forth to free Rome from the tyranny of the consul

the services of Lepidus to the Roman State, a gilded statue should be set up on the Rostra or in any part of the Forum that

ld fail he proclaimed in public and prayed in secret. 1 The embassy set forth. It comprised three consulars Piso, Philipp

Hirtius, though rising weak and emaciated from his bed of sickness, set out for the seat of war and marched up the Flamin

e day after the defeat he got the remnants of his army into order and set out along the Aemilia towards the west, making fo

. Brutus for his part will continue the fight against all powers that set themselves above the law. ’6 On receipt of an e

he sword decided. 7 For the second time in ten months Caesar’s heir set out to march on Rome. He crossed the Rubicon at t

ogical and concordant. On the list of the proscriptions all told they set one hundred and thirty senators and a great numbe

e legions which were to be led against the Republicans, the Triumvirs set apart the territories of eighteen of the most wea

ut observe the Roman knight from Picenum, Q. Sosius, who attempted to set fire to the public archives (Cicero, De natura de

ursia. On the monument erected in memory of the war the men of Nursia set an inscription which proclaimed that their dead h

and privileges over the East, rewarded friends and punished enemies, set up petty kings or deposed them. 1 So did he spend

16 include Pompeius, Antonius agreed to armed co-operation. When he set sail in advance with a few ships from a port in E

is provided by the fact that the magistrates of the colony of Casinum set up a ‘signum concordiae’ on October 12th (ILS 378

ebs clamoured for bread and peace. Following the impeccable precedent set by the soldiers, they constrained the Caesarian l

in the Greek cities or to opportunist brigands. At Jerusalem Pacorus set up a king, Antigonus, of a cadet branch of the ro

e end of 33 B.C.3 By then, it was presumed, the State would have been set in order and the organs of government repaired or

overnmental proclamations also decreed that a golden statue should be set up in the Forum with an inscription to announce t

s a solitary and mysterious figure. It was from his house that Caesar set forth on the Ides of March; 4 and Caesar had dest

ble: the other minister Maecenas had been working more quietly and to set purpose. It was his task to guide opinion gently

rant in contrast with his earlier life. No matter: Sallustius at once set the fashion of a studied archaic style and short

rs, the breaking of his empire into separate kingdoms; and they could set before them the heirs and the marshals of Caesar,

aristocrat, though he might turn a verse with ease, or fill a volume, set no especial value. But it was now becoming eviden

or the future in the eastern lands. Antonius discovered the men and set them up as kings without respect for family or dy

man to lean more heavily on the support of eastern allies. Antonius set out upon his great campaign, leaving Syria in the

al city of Media, some five hundred miles away. Antonius neglected to set a firm hold on Armenia by planting garrisons over

of Antonius should be Roman, not regal. Not so Munatius Plancus, who set himself to win the favour of Cleopatra, pronounce

ook=>296 Then the odds moved more heavily against him. Desertion set in. Certain of the vassal princes went over to th

riumph. Her firm and defiant end, worthy of a Roman noble in ferocia, set final consecration on the myth of Cleopatra: de

honour was done to the founder in the years after Actium. Caesar had set his own statue in the temple of Quirinus: Caesar’

aimed a firm determination to fight to the end against any power that set itself above the laws, would have known the true

he restored Republic needed a friendly hand to guide its counsels and set in order its imperial dominions and a firm author

w no policy but his. She had a son, C. Marcellus. On him the Princeps set his hopes of a line of succession that should be

ony. 2 Wars waged between Romans with veteran armies on either side set a high standard of mobility, supply and strategy,

istrative hierarchy in the first century of the Principate until they set a provincial emperor upon the throne and found a

e visible evidences of military despotism. Next year Augustus himself set out on a tour of the eastern provinces (22-19 B.C

atory Princeps or for consorts in his powers. In 27 B.C. Augustus had set out for the West without delay; and of the first

the later years. It could, however, be urged that the new command was set up as a result of the campaigns of Piso. The firs

minate the varied composition of the élite of the governing class, to set forth the manner in which the principes were empl

vianus competed to adorn the city of Rome. Augustus soon after Actium set about restoring temples; and the principes viri p

scenes of all public transactions. The era of cabinet government has set in. The Senate was no longer a sovran body, but a

young adventurer. The hazards and intrigues of the revolutionary era set a high premium on secret counsel and secret diplo

vilia. When Augustus took counsel with his consort, he was careful to set down his views in writing beforehand. The dominan

ed the gains of Drusus in Germany: he was now to depart from Rome and set in order the affairs of the East (no doubt with a

ter conducting a census as the colleague of Augustus, Tiberius Caesar set out for Illyricum (August, A.D. 14). The health

th, A.D. 14, the Princeps died at Nola in Campania. Tiberius, who had set out for Illyricum, was recalled by urgent message

of the government and the Index rerum a se gestarum, which was to be set up on tablets of bronze in front of the Mausoleum

ervative reformers. 4 Augustus claimed both to revive the past and to set standards for the future. In this matter there st

He caused their statues, with inscribed record of their deeds, to be set up in his new Forum, where the temple of Mars Ult

ccepted terminology and standards. Beside provincial paragons will be set the figure of the earliest Narbonensian senator w

cent and contemporary history had been preserved, they would no doubt set forth the ‘lessons of history’ in a vivid and con

dants in three generations. 4 Even slaves could be commended Augustus set up a monument in honour of a girl who had produce

out to begin, the Senate voted that an altar of Pax Augusta should be set up. The monument was dedicated three or four year

so much for himself. At the colony of Acerrae in Campania a centurion set up an altar to the young princes with a verse ins

ard by official policy in the capital. At Potentia in Picenum a sevir set up a replica of the famous shield recording the c

e was the defence of Gaul against the German invader. When the Romans set out to conquer Germany, they intended to employ t

e Caesarian leader at Philippi: he was not there. After the example set by Caesar the Dictator, clemency became a commodi

rying his Historiae no farther than the year 67 B.C. Pollio, however, set himself to describe the fall of the Republic from

ing loyalty ’pietatis immobilis erga principem’. 2 It might have been set up under any reign. Such men deserved to succeed.

e stage for the grim tragedy of the Julio- Claudians has already been set , the action has begun. Like Sallustius and Pollio

orum virorum. ’ The method of these prosopo- graphical studies was to set forth ‘quis a quo ortus, quos honores quibusque t

e simplicitatis iuvenem Cn. Domitium. ’ PageBook=>511 Augustus set especial store by the patriciate. The last renasc

B.C.), 69, 94, 143, 163, 197; actions in 44 B.C., 97, 102, 107, 109; sets out for Syria, 124, 166; actions in the East, 171