them Republican in sentiment. Hence a deliberately critical attitude towards Augustus. If Caesar and Antonius by contrast are

influence of their clientela among the plebs and by due subservience towards the financial interests, might have perpetuated i

poch of Rome’s history but could show a Claudius intolerably arrogant towards the nobiles his rivals, or grasping personal powe

inertiam. ’ 3 Plutarch, Cato minor 2 (anecdote of his recalcitrance towards Poppaedius the Marsian in his uncle’s house). Fur

had not even been a senator. The decay of the Republic, the impulsion towards the rule of one imperator, were patent and impres

s of Pompeius. When the great imperator, returning, landed in Italy towards the end of the year 62 B.C. with prestige unpar

to form, with the ultimate decision to turn on the dynast’s attitude towards Caesar and towards Cato. Pompeius prolonged his o

ultimate decision to turn on the dynast’s attitude towards Caesar and towards Cato. Pompeius prolonged his own possession of Sp

enemies, provoked by his ruthless ambition, by his acts of arrogance towards other principes and by his support, when consul a

rogant temper was noted by contemporaries, who recalled his behaviour towards certain of the principes of the Sullan oligarchy,

osed duties, to family, class and equals in the first place, but also towards clients and dependents. 4 No NotesPage=>057

o Rome. Allied both to Pompeius and to Caesar, Balbus gradually edged towards the more powerful attraction. In the last decade

mies of Italy. Caesar in his invasion pressed swiftly through Picenum towards Corfinium, gathering in the strongholds and the r

nging of Caesar and prevented his cult; he had professed conciliation towards the assassins, with impunity. The disloyal Caesar

ad of statues of Caesar. Hence a new complication in Roman politics towards the end of July. The recrudescence of public diso

nt them the harmless provinces of Crete and Cyrene. Brutus left Italy towards the end of the month, not before publishing a las

re publishing a last edict. He affirmed the loyalty of the Liberators towards the Roman constitution, their reluctance to provi

nius or to settled government, he must turn his hopes and his efforts towards the more obscure of the Caesarian novi homines in

ianus to seduce the moderate Caesarians by an appeal to their loyalty towards the memory of the Dictator, to their apprehension

distinction and power. The sentiments which the young man entertained towards his adoptive parent were never revealed. The whol

e consul’s legions which were moving along the eastern coast of Italy towards Cisalpine Gaul, or to march on Rome himself? 2

ds to try his chances in the colonies of Etruria and the region lying towards Ravenna. He now established a base at Arretium, t

From his father Philippus inherited comfortable tastes, a disposition towards political neutrality and a fair measure of guile.

Octavianus has sometimes been condemned for cold and brutal treachery towards a parent and a benefactor. That facile and partia

above, p. 25. PageBook=>147 recalled his career. His hostility towards Antonius was declared and ferocious. But Cicero’s

olabella! 2 The supreme enormity Antonius, by demonstrative affection towards his own wife, made a mock of Roman decorum and de

s did not forget the insult to his dignitas. Such was the situation towards the end of March. The efforts of diplomacy, hones

Mutina. In the battle Pansa himself was wounded, but Hirtius arriving towards evening fell upon the victorious and disordered t

got the remnants of his army into order and set out along the Aemilia towards the west, making for Gallia Narbonensis and the s

s able to enter Gallia Narbonensis unmolested. He reached Forum Julii towards the middle of the month. The confrontation with

lant missives from Cicero, Brutus trudged onwards. He reached Plancus towards the end of June. Their combined forces amounted t

λλα ς βίβλοις αὐτὰ συνέγραψαν ϕ’ αυτ ν. These stories went a long way towards compensating the lack of prose fiction among the

t family). 4 Appian, BC 4, 40, 170: for later enmity of that family towards Plancus, cf. Velleius 2, 83, 3. below, p. 283.

native chieftains. Then, crossing into Asia, he met Cassius at Smyrna towards the end of the year 43. Cassius had a success to

l, confident in the loyalty of his friend. When Octavianus returned towards the end of the summer, it was to find that Antoni

B.C. his marshal Canidius pacified Armenia and embarked on campaigns towards the Caucasus. 4 In the disposal of the vassal kin

in a masterly campaign had already reduced the peoples beyond Armenia towards the Caucasus, and Canidius was waiting with his l

-east, Rome was secure on that flank and could direct her full effort towards the north or the north-east, oriented now on the

Censorinus had as well. Other partisans may already have been verging towards Caesar’s heir or neutrality with safeguards, in f

mperial destiny to compel the nations to live at peace, with clemency towards the subject and suppression of the rest: pacisq

. He turned first to the provinces of the West, setting out from Rome towards the middle of the year 27. In absence, distinct p

19 B.C.)2. Frail and in despair of life, Augustus returned to Rome towards the middle of 24 B.C. He had been away about th

cheerful subservience to their new rulers, or boisterously, as though towards a popular entertainer. Despite such powerful advo

iscarded certain useless or unsound members, lacking claims of pietas towards the Princeps, service to the Caesarian cause and

f the Guard were two administrative posts in Rome created by Augustus towards the end of his Principate. The praefectus annonae

in the main by Latium, Campania and the region from Etruria eastwards towards Picenum and the Sabine land. Now they came from a

son of the consul of 33 B.C. Augustus disapproved of his assiduities towards Julia, cf. Suetonius, Divus Aug. 64, 2. 4 P. Vi

practice of awarding ornamenta triumphalia instead of a triumph began towards 12 B.C. (Dio 54, 24, 8; Suetonius, Tib. 9, 2).

of his own blood. He had surmounted scandal and conspiracy, merciless towards Julia and the five nobiles her allies; and in A.D

ng small coins to a fund in honour of the Princeps: the proceeds went towards dedications in the temples. 2 That was not all. W

licy of Augustus: a noticeable spread and intensification of the cult towards the year 2 B.C. reflects his overt designs for th

cos. 39 B.C.), 91, 93, 111, 199 f., 236 f., 255, 308, 327; his pietas towards Caesar, 221; in Africa, 110; his consulate, 221;

anidius Crassus, P. (cos. suff. 40 B.C.), 189, 220, 268; his campaign towards the Caucasus, 224, 264; in 35–33 B.C., 265, 266;

33; his Antonian blood, 495; the manner of his accession, 415; policy towards the chieftains of Comata, 501 f., and towards Gre

accession, 415; policy towards the chieftains of Comata, 501 f., and towards Greeks, 506; on Paullus Fabius Persicus, 511; as

s of, 412; their part in the cult of Augustus, 474. Clients, duties towards , 57, 70, 157. Clodia, wife of Metellus Celer, 2

holy, 56; ambition, 25, 42, 56, 145; clemency, 51, 65, 159; on duties towards clients, 70; on the res publica, 53; pride of bir

party of Marius, 19, 65; restored to power by Sulla, 17 ff.; attitude towards Pompeius, 30 f., 43 ff., 198; towards Caesar, 59;

ower by Sulla, 17 ff.; attitude towards Pompeius, 30 f., 43 ff., 198; towards Caesar, 59; in the party of Caesar, 61 ff., 94; i

gatives, 404 f.; of ideals, 506; detestation of Agrippa, 344; rancour towards Augustus, 479 ff., 490 ff.; their survival largel

in Illyricum, 329, 390, 394, 400; in Germany, 393, 401, 431; attitude towards Tiberius, 425; descendants, 499 f.; nothing known