en at Philippi. The parties of Pompeius and of Caesar had hardly been strong or coherent enough to seize control of the whole

ributing property or changing the value of money. The financiers were strong enough to ruin any politician or general who soug

L. Marcius Philippus and Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, were not strong political men. But Philippus had recently married

last, with Ap. Claudius Pulcher for colleague (54 B.C.). Neither was strong enough to harm Pompeius; and Ap. Pulcher may alre

ly deprived him of his office (Plutarch, Pompeius 54). But there were strong and authentic rumours the year before, cf. Ad Q.

eady to bring their levies at his command. Magnus, it might seem, was strong enough to prevent civil war, free to negotiate wi

enuine, or even contemporary, they would provide valuable evidence of strong anti-capitalistic tendencies; cf. 1, 8, 3: ‘verum

up on Caesar’s side, holding commands in the Civil Wars, without any strong political ties to explain NotesPage=>063 1

li, Bell. Afr. 56, 3. The clientela of the Pompeii, however, was very strong , cf. Cato’s words to Pompeius’ son, ib. 22, 4 f.

nd hated the Roman poor. C. Maecenas from Arretium is named among the strong and steadfast knights who offered public oppositi

the families proscribed by Sulla, regions where Marian influence was strong furnished partisans. The military man C. Carrinas

the tyrant fell and the constitution was restored, would Antonius be strong enough to hold party and government together? N

Italy, and the Caesarian armies in the provinces would have been too strong . The Liberators had not planned a seizure of po

n Syria Bassus had stirred up civil war two years before, seizing the strong place of Apamea. His forces were inconsiderable,

. Deplored by the Liberators, the lack of leaders in the Senate was a strong factor for concord. The surviving consulars kept

g. He would then have to postpone the avenging of Caesar until he was strong enough, built up by Republican help, to betray th

peace. The new consuls had a policy of their own, if only they were strong enough to achieve it. Public pronouncements on

a effutuisti, hic sumpsisti mutuum. PageBook=>152 humour and a strong sense of the dramatic; and Cicero enjoyed among c

was clearly unassailable; when proconsul, his position, though not so strong , was valid in this, that he held his extraordinar

ippus and Ser. Sulpicius, a respectable and cautious jurist without strong political ties or sentiments. In the north winter

nds beyond the sea, from Illyricum to Egypt. About Cassius there were strong rumours in the first days of February:1 from Brut

bed to his wounds; Antonius soon increased his lead, for his army was strong in cavalry. Brutus had none; and the exhilaration

rdened by the renascence of the Republican and Pompeian cause, was so strong that the loyal dispatches which Lepidus continued

s of Pompeius. He did not wish to be nor could he have subjugated the strong Caesarian sympathies of officers and men: they fo

legions established in Italy,3 while Pollio held the Cisalpina with a strong army. 4 At first there was delay. Octavianus tu

miral Staius Murcus. When Octavianus arrived, the Caesarian fleet was strong enough to force the passage. Their supremacy at

Saxa, they arrived in the vicinity of Philippi, where they took up a strong position astride the Via Egnatia, invulnerable on

s and seized temple- treasures. The consul L. Antonius retired to the strong place of Praeneste in the neighbourhood of Rome.

ifficulties. He might easily be overwhelmed by the Antonian generals, strong in prestige and mass of legions. But the Antoni

f Antonian or Republican partisans, the consul threw himself into the strong city of Perusia and prepared to stand a brief sie

tidius and Pollio were ready to fight. The caution of Plancus was too strong for them. 5 There was no mutual confidence in t

soldiers had an acute perception of their own interests as well as a strong distaste for war: it would be plain folly to figh

us rival for the leadership of the Caesarian party. The young Caesar, strong in the support of the plebs and the veterans, wou

vaded Sicily from the south with the army of Africa, fourteen legions strong . Operations began on July 1st. The fighting was

d. In the first campaign he conquered Pannonian tribes and seized the strong post of Siscia, an advanced buttress for the defe

onius appeared the preponderant partner in a divided Empire. With the strong kingdoms of Egypt and Judaea in the south and sou

to have his acta confirmed. Among them was the conquest of Armenia, a strong argument in his favour. But Armenia was outweighe

sius took the lead and delivered a speech in praise of Antonius, with strong abuse of Octavianus; he proposed a motion of cens

es remained, however, some to the very end. Most significant is the strong Republican following of one already denounced as

der and elusive from its very lack of order and cohesion, was neither strong in war nor aggressive in policy. Adulation, perve

t build up, for Rome, Italy and the Empire, a system of government so strong and a body of administrators so large and coheren

r public life and for politics (the perennial quies) often proved too strong . There was an ancient and reputable family among

only one consul in office, C. Sentius Saturninus. There was need of a strong hand, and Saturninus was the man to exert himself

the German bodyguard of the Statilii, perhaps one hundred and thirty strong . 2 For the basis of calculation (which omits ce

gument for assigning to him the inscr. from Tibur (ILS 918) is not so strong . Cf. n. 8. 2 Josephus, AJ 16, 344, &c. The

7, c. 130). The central government under the Principate, however, was strong enough to do without such a prohibition. 3 BCH

berius’ departure. 1 Not at all: both the Princeps and his party were strong enough to stand the strain. Though a certain lull

onia, the great plebeian family of the Domitii boasted a solitary but strong support, not far below monarchic hope. The Marcel

ff.; 215 ff. PageBook=>447 The Roman People could not be pure, strong and confident without pietas, the honour due to

c revival of religion is a large topic; and a movement so deep and so strong cannot derive its validity or its success from me

ly soldiers for warfare all over the world. They were united now, and strong , a nation wrought by war out of alien stocks and

ns Itala virtute propago! 1 The New State of Augustus glorified the strong and stubborn peasant of Italy, laboriously winnin

oraries affected to admire. There was another side to that. Yet the strong suspicion of fraud is not enough to lame the effi

the country districts of Gaul and Galatia. National memories were not strong in the western lands: in the East the fact that t

d tribe of prosecutors and informers. The position of Augustus was so strong that the evil found little encouragement. Tiberiu