ome. 3 Before the sovran people he might boast how he had led them to victory in a mighty contest and had broken into the citad

alled stupid. 1 Their heraldic badge was an elephant, commemorating a victory against the Carthaginians. 2 The Metelli prevaile

e again from the alliance with Sulla. Q. Metellus Pius led an army to victory for Sulla and became consul with him in 80 B.C. T

younger Lucullus, proconsul of Macedonia, carried the arms of Rome in victory through Thrace to the shore of Pontus and the mou

ssessed, eager for revenge, looked to Caesar’s consulate, or Caesar’s victory and the rewards of greed and ambition in a war ag

ain and the hosts of all the East, and then to return, like Sulla, to victory and to power. 4 Caesar, it is true, had only a

ries and the divided counsels of his adversaries secured the crowning victory . But three years more of fighting were needed to

who would deal with neutrals as with enemies. Spain might bring them victory after all. The agonies of a long flirtation with

n. Victory could only be won by adopting the adversary’s weapons; and victory no less than defeat would be fatal to everything

d until more than two months had elapsed. For the Republican cause, victory now seemed assured in the end. Consternation desc

ied the raw recruits. 5 The carnage was tremendous. With a glorious victory to the credit of the patriotic armies and all the

ἒργα σὺν∈ὐταξ ίᾳ καὶ σιωπῇ γιγνόμ∈να ἐΦ ορῶσιν. PageBook=>175 victory at Mutina was deceptive and ruinous. The ingeniou

rmy was strong in cavalry. Brutus had none; and the exhilaration of a victory in which his legions had so small a share could n

deed of revolution. On April 27th all Rome celebrated the glorious victory of Mutina. As the month of May wore on, rejoicing

dred and thirty senators and a great number of Roman knights. 3 Their victory was the victory of a party. 4 Yet it was not thei

senators and a great number of Roman knights. 3 Their victory was the victory of a party. 4 Yet it was not their principal purp

and he had already secured a guarantee for the event of a Republican victory by protecting the mother of Brutus. 4 Atticus was

e money for the war, the second to reward the Caesarian legions after victory . War and the threat of taxation or confiscation

ities of Italy. 3 What had already happened was bad enough. After the victory of the Caesarians impended the second act in soci

s brother. For the Vinicii, above, p. 194. PageBook=>201 for victory or defeat in the eastern lands, became the prover

ldier, he could not afford to resign to Antonius the sole credit of victory . The battle was indecisive. Brutus on the right f

bus on the Ionian Sea and Sex. Pompeius in Sicily. 8 It was a great victory . The Romans had never fought such a battle before

scation in Italy. A victor, but lacking the glory and confidence of victory , Octavianus returned to Italy. On the way he fell

enobarbus kept away from Sex. Pompeius, who gave guarantee neither of victory nor even of personal security he had recently put

to join his other fleet from the Bay of Naples. Pompeius won an easy victory . In the night a tempest arose and shattered the r

egan on July 1st. The fighting was varied and confused. Agrippa won a victory at Mylae but Octavianus himself was defeated in a

or the contest that was imminent but for the peace that was to follow victory in the last of all the civil wars. NotesPage=&g

ne person; the latter role would be sensibly enhanced by the glory of victory in Parthia or by a defeat, constraining the Roman

good terms, for Mede and Parthian had at once quarrelled after their victory . NotesPage=>265 1 Velleius 2, 82, 3. Livy,

ism followed rather than preceded the War of Actium. Only then, after victory , did men realize to the full the terrible danger

hattered and swept away the kings of the East, carrying the eagles in victory to the Euphrates and the Caucasus? NotesPage=&g

It is uncertain whether Antonius designed to fight a naval battle for victory or to escape from the blockade. 5 On the morning

cred union of all Italy. But the young Caesar required the glory of a victory that would surpass the greatest in all history, R

l, the foreign woman— sequiturque, nefas, Aegyptia coniunx. 1 The victory was final and complete. There was no haste to pur

murder could serve no useful purpose : he even claimed that after his victory he spared all Roman citizens who asked to be spar

rovinces. The exaltation of peace by a Roman statesman might attest a victory , but it portended no slackening of martial effort

s revived (Dio 51, 20, 4). PageBook=>304 policy and an omen of victory was then embodied in the dedication of the Ara Pa

. R. Vindex appears on coins. 3 Nobody was deceived by this symbol of victory in civil war. What Rome and Italy desired was a r

bably wider, not merely to the oath of allegiance but to the crowning victory of Actium and the reconquest of all the eastern l

the aftermath of Actium, gradually recede and lose ground just as the victory itself, on quieter reflection an uncomfortable ma

lterior (on the Spanish legates, below, p. 332 f.). M. Vinicius won a victory in Gaul in 25 B.C. (Dio 53, 26, 4). In Syria a ce

ial language had celebrated the crusade of all Italy and the glorious victory of Actium for Actium was the foundation-myth of t

r the talent for war: Agrippa might be his minister, the organizer of victory and warden of the military provinces; or, failing

fice, Crassus, Titius and M. Junius Silanus. Others, spared after the victory , retained rank and standing, like Sosius and Furn

re by Octavianus to finance his war against Antonius. 2 The spoils of victory and the revenues of the East now revivified the e

le legions Salvidienus Rufus and Cornelius Gallus led whole armies to victory . Salvidienus and Gallus are symbols of the Revolu

past the generals of the Republic had commonly devoted the profits of victory to the construction of roads and public buildings

new Forum, where the temple of Mars Ultor stood, itself a monument of victory and the scene of martial ceremonies. This gallery

, spontaneous and admirable. To Virgil the Transpadane, Actium is the victory of Italy, not of Rome only. This conception does

k=>472 Perusia, Philippi and Actium all had their portents. With victory , the flood of miracles and propaganda was sensibl

it was not merely Augustus and his party that prevailed it meant the victory of the non-political classes. NotesPage=>513

a spontaneous uprising of all Italy, Philippi is transformed into the victory of Caesar’s heir and avenger alone. 1 Agrippa ind

l, 270 f., 275; true character, 289; as a myth, 440 f.; as an Italian victory , 453. Administration, imperial, 387 ff.; role o