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1 (1960) THE ROMAN REVOLUTION
, stepson and son by adoption of Augustus, consort in his powers. Not until that day was the funeral of the Free State consum
n legislation. NotesPage=>039 1 The proposal was not published until 53, when Hirrus was tribune. Cato nearly deprived
ally. He needed Caesar for counterbalance against the Catonian party until he made final choice between the two. Cato, stand
the Senate as a solemn duty. 3 The legion was not withdrawn, however, until the next year, along with another previously lent
s claim to stand for the consulate in absence and retain his province until the end of the year 49 B.C. are still matters of
als of Pompeius in Spain were outmanœuvred and overcome. Yet even so, until the legions joined battle on the plain of Pharsal
security and vested interests led by the Dictator’s political deputy until a new leader, emerging unexpected, at first tore
and Ahenobarbus). PageBook=>062 were debarred from public life until restored by the Dictator. 1 Two of the three, Gab
roconsul he encouraged their aspirations, but he did not satisfy them until the Civil War had begun. In Gaul beyond the Alp
to extort a privilege but to destroy Rome. They nearly succeeded. Not until they had been baffled and shattered in war did th
the memory of defeat and suffering. There could be no reconciliation until a long time had elapsed. Sulla recognized merit
ain friends counselled, was wisely postponed. Nor would he enter Rome until he had got into touch with persons of influence a
to Dolabella and Antonius some two months earlier, was now prolonged until the end of 39 B.C. But Antonius proposed to excha
statesman, all that was too long and too slow. He would have to wait until middle age: his laurels would repose on grey hair
tional backing. He would then have to postpone the avenging of Caesar until he was strong enough, built up by Republican help
was, Antonius took alarm. Rome was becoming untenable. If he lingered until the expiration of his consular year, he was lost.
mphed at the end of 45 B.C. (CIL 12, p. 50): he is not heard of again until his consulate, August 43 B.C. Pinarius, otherwise
red into a premature championing of the Republic. He resolved to wait until January 1st before appearing in the Senate. But O
t and sent to Atticus in July (Ad Att. 16, 2, 6), the De officiis not until November (ib. 16, 11, 4). 5 This may perhaps be
s also decided that governors should continue to hold their provinces until relieved by the authority of the Senate. This cov
utem in id consilium ab universo populo. ’ 2 Therefore it was legal until the legislation of Antonius (and of his agents) s
is agents) should have been declared null and void. That was not done until early in February. The arguments invoked by Cicer
ing Comata: that province he would hold for the five years following, until Brutus and Cassius should have become consuls and
ve become consuls and have vacated their consular provinces, that is, until the end of the year 39 B.C., probably the date or
urpation in the East and seizure of a dozen legions was not confirmed until more than two months had elapsed. For the Repub
Cassius) to be closely dated. According to Gelzer, Brutus did not act until he had news of the session of November 28th, when
elected, one man gave his vote for absolution and remained unmolested until the proscriptions were duly instituted. Octavianu
Liberators. Cicero could have escaped through indecision he lingered until too late. His murder disgraced the Triumvirs and
rson called Marcius. 4 L. Staius Murcus was active for the Republic until killed by Sex. Pompeius. A. Allienus disappears c
the friends of Brutus, the faithful Lucilius, remained with Antonius until the end. 7 The rest of them, irreconcilable or ho
is, nor was, any sign at all. Nor did he see the Queen of Egypt again until nearly four years had elapsed. On the havoc of
about that. The Triumvirate was now prolonged for another five years until the end of 33 B.C.3 By then, it was presumed, the
n to Pompeius, many took service under Antonius and remained with him until they recognized, to their own salvation, the bett
ister equitum. 1 After that, no word or hint of this eminent consular until his attempt to bring legions across the Ionian Se
cross the Ionian Sea for the campaign of Philippi. Then silence again until he becomes consul for the second time in 40 B.C.,
ould claim to be traditional and Roman, might be prized and preserved until threatened by a complete change of taste, by a re
e Dictator became a subject of literary warfare, for a time at least, until his heir discountenanced an uncomfortable theme.
ccupations, in his earliest verses showing the bitterness of his lot, until a balanced and resilient temperament reasserted i
gdoms. Other arrangements were made from time to time, but it was not until the winter of 37-36 B.C. that the principalities
pera conceded to Cleopatra did not come under direct Roman government until a century had elapsed. A large measure of decen
he marshal betrayed his leader and his friend. Since that catastrophe until recently the chief men of the Caesarian party had
powers in law. No trace hitherto of their employment. 3 It was not until this year that the Princeps thought of exerting t
eir recruited followers and friends from the camps of his adversaries until in the end, by stripping Antonius, it not merely
her Republicans and Pompeians, never reached the consulate, Cinna not until more than thirty years had elapsed. But some peri
eserved traces of its origin as a private army in the Revolution. Not until A.D. 6, when large dismissals of legionaries were
nies and municipia. Spain and Narbonensis, along with northern Italy ( until recently provincial), vigorous and prosperous reg
l and administrative hierarchy in the first century of the Principate until they set a provincial emperor upon the throne and
Augustus. He may have hoped to renew the work in 22 B.C.: he delayed until 18 B.C., the year of the introduction of the new
eloped system could show in the last years of the Princeps’ life. Not until 5 B.C. do suffect consuls become frequent and reg
f twenty-five:1 he was a patrician. The novus homo Cicero had to wait until he became a senior consular before acquiring the
y the real resources of power and the only serious danger. It was not until a century elapsed after the Battle of Actium, unt
anger. It was not until a century elapsed after the Battle of Actium, until Nero, the last of the line of Augustus, had peris
gy. 3 Res Gestae 12. The monument was not completed and inaugurated until 9 B.C. PageBook=>390 The army now numbered
C.) and governed Gallia Comata (17-16 B.C.)3 After that, a long lapse until Lollius emerges as guide and counsellor to the yo
s supplied the aediles with a body of fire-fighting slaves it was not until A.D. 6 that he took the step of appointing an equ
cially constituted the first president was Messalla. He held the post until his death. Ateius Capito followed, then the aged
pose of Augustus was flagrant, and, to Tiberius, criminal. It was not until after his departure that Augustus revealed the ra
ut a dreary and precarious old age, or rather a brief term of despair until Gaius succeeded to the throne and the public safe
. PageNotes. 440 1 Tacitus, Hist. 2, 95. PageBook=>441 Not until libertas was lost did men feel the full pride of
en sheep’, down to Junia Calvina, ‘festivissima puella’, who survived until the last year of the Emperor Vespasian. 2 PageN
inst both Nerva and Trajan. 8 He was duly relegated, but not executed until the beginning of the reign of Hadrian. Another br
f Augustus, tough and lively to the end, Messalla with failing powers until A.D. 13.7 NotesPage=>512 1 Velleius 2, 83,
into titles official or conventional, were already there. It was not until 2 B.C. that Augustus was acclaimed pater patriae.
of the Stoics, is Roman and military. 2 He would not desert his post until a higher command relieved him, his duty done and
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