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1 (1960) THE ROMAN REVOLUTION
onsul with him in 80 B.C. The Dictator himself had taken a Metella to wife . The next pair of consuls (P. Servilius Vatia and
a married Caecilia Metella, daughter of Delmaticus and previously the wife of M. Aemilius Scaurus, the princeps senatus. Ser
atus. Servilius’ mother was a sister of Balearicus, and Ap. Pulcher’s wife was his daughter. The table in Münzer, RA, 304, s
est known to Q. Metellus Celer (cos. 60). The youngest Clodia was the wife of L. Licinius Lucullus (cos. 74), who divorced h
n were Q. Servilius Caepio (P-W 11 A, 1775 ff.), Servilia, the second wife of L. Lucullus (Plutarch, Lucullus 38, cf. P-W II
L. Lucullus (Plutarch, Lucullus 38, cf. P-W II A, 1821), and Porcia, wife of L. Domitius Ahenobarbus (cos. 54). 2 The sis
to a Clodia, then to a Servilia, cf. above, n. 1 and p. 20, n. 5. The wife of M. Terentius Varro Lucullus is not known. Pa
s with birth but no weight. NotesPage=>022 1 The family of his wife Tertulla is not known. But his elder son, M. Cras
ge=>024 1 Plutarch, Cato minor II (67 B.c.). The identity of his wife is inferred from the inscr. ILS 9460. 2 His fat
e presumably trying to capture this useful orator. Terentia, Cicero’s wife , afraid lest he should divorce her and marry Clod
of the Julii and secure the consulate in his turn. 2 His aunt was the wife of Marius. Caesar, who took Cinna’s daughter in m
lose kin in certain houses of the moderate nobility; 3 and his second wife , Pompeia, doubly recalled the Sullan party she wa
III (1938), 113 ff. About Gabinius’ origin, nothing is known. But his wife Lollia (Suetonius, Divus Julius 50, 1) may well b
f. Pliny, NH 22, 11). PageBook=>032 abruptly divorcing his own wife , took Metella’s daughter, Aemilia. 1 When Aemilia
a new dynastic alliance. He saw the way at once. Having divorced his wife , the half-sister of Celer and Nepos, a woman of f
ece Atia, widow of C. Octavius (his daughter Marcia, however, was the wife of Cato); and Marcellinus had been a legate of Po
Caecilia Metella and husband of a Servilia, he gave one daughter for wife to Pompeius’ elder son, another to Cato’s nephew
that was not the only incentive, for Clodius’ widow, Fulvia, was his wife , Antonius his friend, Ap. Pulcher his enemy. 2 Ca
the younger son was dead, the elder followed Caesar, for all that his wife was a Caecilia Metella. 6 NotesPage=>064 1
Dolabella, a sinister and disquieting figure, whom the choice of his wife and daughter imposed. 2 The Aemilii and the Ser
inscription from Cos (L’ ann. ép., 1934, 84) shows that P. Servilius’ wife was a Junia, daughter of Decimus. 5 Appian, BC
late of 56 B.C. Octavius left three children, an Octavia by his first wife , by Atia another Octavia and a son, C. Octavius.
nsulate: yet he gave his daughter Marcia (by an earlier marriage) for wife to Cato. Philippus was a wealthy man and a ‘pisci
supreme enormity Antonius, by demonstrative affection towards his own wife , made a mock of Roman decorum and decency. 3 Th
. 9, 47. 3 Ad Att. 9, 10, 2 4 Appian, BC 4, 17, 65. 5 e.g., the wife praised in ILS 8393. 6 Ib. 4, 16, 64: πολλὰ δ’
warning to others: he had recently shown conspicuous kindness to the wife and family of Antonius the public enemy, thereby
ul, L. Antonius, who, aided by the faithful and imperious Fulvia, the wife of M. Antonius, and his agent Manius, sought to e
es, lacking instructions, doubted the veracity of his brother and his wife . Salvidienus made his way back from Spain throu
bsent Antonius (not omitting a Cappadocian mistress) and insulted his wife Fulvia. 3 Further, he composed poems of tradition
atic mission to Sicily and gave pledge of his sentiments by taking to wife Scribonia,4 who was the sister of that Libo whose
nius went from Syria to Egypt and lurked in Egypt, while in Italy his wife and his brother not NotesPage=>214 1 Appia
mother of Antonius, who had fled to Sicily. Ti. Claudius Nero and his wife also came to Greece about this time. PageBook=&
giance. The compact was sealed by a matrimonial alliance. Fulvia, the wife of Antonius, had recently died in Greece. Antoniu
8892). 2 M. Aemilius Scaurus was the son of Mucia, Pompeius’ third wife , by her second husband. Sex. Pompeius had married
conduct with Cleopatra (Appian, BC 4, 38, 161; Pliny, NH 33, 50). The wife of Octavianus’ kinsman Q. Pedius (cos. suff. 43)
Epp. 1, 12). 7 The daughter of Scribonia, above, p. 229. Pulcher’s wife is not known, but there is a link somewhere with
Sallustius’ alleged adultery with Fausta, Sulla’s daughter and Milo’s wife (Gellius 17, 18); and Lenaeus, the freedman of Po
sped possession of all Galatia, murdering a tetrarch and a tetrarch’s wife , his own daughter. 3 But Deiotarus died in the ye
03 ff.: he is the Gellius infamously derided by Catullus (88-91). His wife Sempronia, daughter of L. Atratinus, is mentioned
ributes of a king or a god. Years before, in the company of his Roman wife , Antonius had been hailed as the god Dionysus inc
or, but merely a brief chapter in his amours, comparable to Eunoe the wife of the prince of Mauretania ; 3 nor was the forei
d it was nothing new, but had begun nine years ago: Cleopatra was his wife . As for Octavianus, what about Salvia Titisenia,
ociates of Octavianus at least Terentilla is presumably Terentia, the wife of Maecenas, not unknown to subsequent scandal.
nce by Maecenas. 2 The author was a son of the relegated Lepidus: his wife , Servilia, who had once been betrothed to Octavia
: but a knight as powerful as C. Cornelius Gallus could easily take a wife from the noblest houses in Rome. 4 On this topi
ty-dynasts had come to grief. Murena was the brother of Terentia, the wife of the all-powerful Maecenas. Yet neither Maecena
other. 3 Augustus could not forgive a breach of confidence. Maecenas’ wife was beautiful and temperamental. Life with her wa
Seius became Prefect of the Guard and Viceroy of Egypt; he married a wife from the patrician family of Cornelius Maluginens
). There was even a Mummia Achaica (Suetonius, Galba 3, 4), the first wife of C. Sulpicius Galba (cos. suff. 5 B.C.). Note t
2 C 1102 and 1103. The younger married Paullus after the death of his wife Cornelia in 16 B.C. He died soon after and her se
ctable, his adherents shared in his social ascension. Agrippa’s first wife had been one of the prizes of the Civil Wars. She
e patrician Fabius Maximus. 3 As for the upstart Quirinius, his first wife was an Appia Claudia, daughter of one of the earl
(cf. Seneca, De ben. 2, 27, 1). 6 Tacitus, Ann. 3, 22. His divorced wife Aemilia Lepida dishonestly pretended that she had
the poet Propertius entered the Senate. This man had married well his wife was Aelia Galla, the daughter, it may be presumed
trabo, L. Aelius Seianus. Seius, the son of a Terentia, had married a wife from a patrician family. Seianus had brothers, co
6, 2). 1 Suetonius, Galba 5, 2. Galba’s father had married a second wife , Livia Ocellina, from a distant branch of Livia’s
ike his father, was much in demand as a match. After the death of his wife (an Aemilia Lepida) he withstood the matrimonial
. The propaganda of Octavianus had been merciless against Fulvia, the wife of Antonius; and Rome had fought a national war a
Hadrian was managed, when Trajan was already defunct, by Plotina his wife and by the Prefect of the Guard. 2 It is eviden
n of Tiberius became irksome; and some spoke of estrangement from his wife , embittered by the politic necessity of preservin
had benefited from that relationship. Yet even had Livia not been the wife of the Princeps, her son under the revived aristo
er of the other. 1 Paullus Fabius Maximus (cos. 11 B.C.) had taken to wife Marcia, the granddaughter of Augustus’ stepfather
d extravagant, a skilled charioteer. 5 NotesPage=>421 1 Varus’ wife was Claudia Pulchra (PIR2, C 1116), daughter of M
eir mother’s prayers, but not with equal fortune. 1 The elder took to wife Julia, daughter of Julia and granddaughter of Aug
lity which can show highly eminent connexions at this time: the first wife of P. Quinctilius Varus was the aunt of this Aspr
father of L. Volusius Saturninus (cos. suff. 12 B.C.); that consul’s wife was Nonia Polla (OGIS 468). 5 Objects bestowed
alla Corvinus. See further above, p. 423, n. 1. 5 Through his first wife Appia Claudia (CIL VI, 15626), sister of Messalla
iberius was not consulted; when he knew, he vainly interceded for his wife . Augustus was unrelenting. He at once dispatched
er’, alleging a liaison that went back to the time when Julia was the wife of Agrippa. On the greater importance of Iullus A
Shortly after this, probably in A.D. 3, he got Aemilia Lepida for his wife . Groag suspects that Livia had something to do wi
ullus could hardly be accused of adultery with Julia, for she was his wife . Connivance in her misconduct may have been invok
y never let out a secret. It will be recalled that Seius Strabo had a wife from one branch of the patrician Cornelii Lentuli
offence with mild remedies and incomplete redress, into a crime. The wife , it is true, had no more rights than before. But
ther of the consuls who gave their names to the Lex Papia Poppaea had wife or child. 2 One of them came of a noble Samnite f
Ib. 3, 5, 1. 5 Ib. 2, 7, 14. 6 Ib. 4, 1, 127 ff. 7 Aelia Galla, wife of Postumus (3, 12), who is presumably C. Propert
he lament which he composed in memory of a Roman matron, Cornelia the wife of Paullus Aemilius Lepidus, reveals a gravity an
could be firm. PageNotes. 468 1 She was a protégée of Marcia, the wife of Paullus Fabius Maximus (Ex Ponto 1, 2, 136 ff.
ted everywhere, especially when the guarantors had disappeared. 1 The wife of C. Octavius fell asleep in the temple of Apo
f Antonius and Octavia. Of the family of Brutus, his sister, Cassius’ wife , was the last. She died at the age of ninety-thre
inated with two characters symbolic of the doom of a class, Claudius’ wife , the beautiful and abandoned Valeria Messallina,
on in A.D. 39. Presumably an ally of Gaetulicus, cf. PIR2, C 354: his wife was a Cornelia (Dio 59, 18, 4). 2 Balbus’ daugh
descendants even of a Triumviral consul. 10 PageNotes. 500 1 His wife had given birth to six children, Tacitus, Ann. 3,
, so far ignored, is the woman of Nemausus Pompeia Marullina, sister, wife or mother of an eminent military man of the time,
pt up their feud (Suetonius, Nero 4); and Plancina his granddaughter, wife of Cn. Piso (cos. 7 B.C.), was accused of poisoni
der the Principate, 397. Aeclanum, 82, 88, 356, 383. Aelia Galla, wife of C. Propertius Postumus, 384, 466. Aelii Lamiae
428; his fall, 489, 509; his alleged virtues, 488. Aemilia, second wife of Pompeius Magnus, 31 f. Aemilia Lepida, betro
ia Lepida, great-granddaughter of Augustus, 432, 495. Aemilia Lepida, wife of Galba, 386. Aemilii, 10, 18 f., 26, 69, 242,
acian king, 74. Caecilia Attica, 238, 257, 345. Caecilia Metella, wife of Scaurus and of Sulla, 20, 31. Caecilia Metella
ilia Metella, daughter of Creticus, 22, 36, 43, 64. Caecilia Metella, wife of the son of Lentulus Spinther, 45. Caecilii M
01. Calpetanus Statius Rufus, C., Augustan senator, 361. Calpurnia, wife of Caesar, 36, 98. Calpurnia, wife of Messalla
ugustan senator, 361. Calpurnia, wife of Caesar, 36, 98. Calpurnia, wife of Messalla Corvinus, 423. Calpurnii, 19, 85, 163
282. Calpurnius Bibulus, M. (cos. 59 B.C.), 24, 34, 39, 44 f.; his wife , 24, 58. Calpurnius Crassus Frugi Licinianus, C,
57, 184; his clientela among the Transpadani, 465; his brothers, 64; wife , 69, 492; descendants, 492; see also M. Junius Br
a, see Cornelius. Claudia, exemplar of female virtue, 444. Claudia, wife of Brutus, 45, 58. Claudia, wife of Cn. Pompeiu
ar of female virtue, 444. Claudia, wife of Brutus, 45, 58. Claudia, wife of Cn. Pompeius (the son of Magnus), 45. Claudia,
us), 45. Claudia, daughter of P. Clodius, 189, 209. Claudia, Appia, wife of Quirinius, 379, 425. Claudia Pulchra, wife o
09. Claudia, Appia, wife of Quirinius, 379, 425. Claudia Pulchra, wife of P. Quinctilius Varus, 421, 434. Claudii, 10,
in the Bellum Perusinum, 210, 383; in Greece, 215, 227; divorces his wife Livia Drusilla, 229. Claudius Nero, Ti. (cos. 1
t of Augustus, 474. Clients, duties towards, 57, 70, 157. Clodia, wife of Metellus Celer, 20, 23, 74, 149. Clodia, wif
70, 157. Clodia, wife of Metellus Celer, 20, 23, 74, 149. Clodia, wife of L. Lucullus, 20, 21, 23. Clodia, wife of Q. Ma
, 20, 23, 74, 149. Clodia, wife of L. Lucullus, 20, 21, 23. Clodia, wife of Q. Marcius Rex, 20, 23. Clodius Pulcher, P.
238; her sons, 422; exemplar of female virtue, 444, 467. Cornelia, wife of C. Calvisius Sabinus (cos. A.D. 26), 498. Co
ellinus, Cn. (cos. 56 B.C.), 35, 36, 44; his son a Caesarian, 64; his wife Scribonia, 229. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus,
155, 418, 516. Domitia, daughter of Ahenobarbus (cos. 16 B.C.) and wife of Passienus Crispus, 384, 501. Domitia Lepida,
tress of Caesar, 275. Fabia Numantina, 377, 421, 496. Fabia Paullina, wife of M. Titius, 379. Fabii, 10, 18, 68, 84, 85, 1
2–40 B.C., 202, 210; his death, 213; related to Pansa, 134. Fulvia, wife of M. Antonius, 63; alleged role in the proscript
ancus, 511; the Ars poetica, 460, 461; his patrons, 460. Hortensia, wife of Q. Servilius Caepio, 23 f., 196. Hortensii, 49
us, 357, 394, 412, 476. Judas, the Galilaean insurgent, 476. Julia, wife of C. Marius, 25. Julia, sister of Caesar, 112.
ulia, wife of C. Marius, 25. Julia, sister of Caesar, 112. Julia, wife of P. Sulpicius Rufus, 65. Julia, mother of M. An
Julius Viator, Ti., freedman’s son in militia equestris, 354. Junia, wife of Cassius, 69, 116; her funeral, 492. Junia, m
us Libo, M. (cos. 15 B.C.), a mysterious character, 422, 425. Lollia, wife of A. Gabinius, 31. Lollia Paullina, her pearls
8, 360. Lucceius, L., opulent friend of Pompeius, 35, 407. Lucilia, wife of Cn. Pompeius Strabo, 30. Lucilius, friend of
disdains the senatorial career, 359; decline and death, 409, 412; his wife Terentia, 277, 341; name and origin, 129. Maece
marriages, 378, 421, 422. Marcellus, see Claudius. Marcia, second wife of Cato, 24, 36. Marcia, wife of Paullus Fabius
ellus, see Claudius. Marcia, second wife of Cato, 24, 36. Marcia, wife of Paullus Fabius Maximus, 421, 468, 496. Marci
anum, see Res Gestae. Mos maiorum, nature of, 315 f. Mucia, third wife of Pompeius Magnus, 32, 33, 228. Mucius Scaevola,
Mucius Scaevola, Q. (cos. 95 B.C.), 32. Mummia Achaica, illustrious wife of C. Sulpicius Galba, 377, 511. Munatius Plancus
ustan novi homines, 360 f.; vicious novi homines, 456. Nonia Polla, wife of L. Volusius Saturninus, 424. Nonii Asprenates,
l of, 15, 32, 36, 39, 55, 107, 238, 239, 242, 369 ff., 395. Paullina, wife of M. Titius, 379. Pax, 2, 9, 156, 303 f., 470,
8. Plinius Rufus, L., partisan of Sex. Pompeius, 228, 232. Plotina, wife of Trajan, 415; her origin, 502. Plotius Plancu
ste for, 13, 94, 246, 358 f., 363, 513 f.; see also Quies. Pompeia, wife of Caesar, 25. Pompeia, daughter of Magnus, 269
nsian, secretary of Caesar, 74, 79. Pomponia, daughter of Atticus and wife of Agrippa, see Caecilia Attica. Pomponius Atti
te leader, 87. Pontus, client kingdom of, 260, 366. Poppaea Sabina, wife of Nero, 499. Poppaedius Silo, Marsian, in the
a bachelor, 452, 498. Populares, 11, 16, 61, 65, 72, 153. Porcia, wife of L. Domitius Ahenobarbus (cos. 54 B.C.), 21, 24
ia, wife of L. Domitius Ahenobarbus (cos. 54 B.C.), 21, 24. Porcia, wife of M. Calpurnius Bibulus (cos. 59 B.C.), 24; marr
ion, 70. Scaurus, see Aemilius. Scipio, see Cornelius. Scribonia, wife of Octavianus, 213, 219, 229; her other husbands,
e of Octavianus, 213, 219, 229; her other husbands, 229. Scribonia, wife of Sex. Pompeius, 213; her descendants, 425, 496
, wife of Sex. Pompeius, 213; her descendants, 425, 496 f. Scribonia, wife of M. Licinius Crassus Frugi, 497. Scribonii, 4
Q., from Nursia, 90; his Etruscan partisans, 129. Servilia, (second) wife of L. Lucullus, 21. Servilia, wife of Ap. Claud
rtisans, 129. Servilia, (second) wife of L. Lucullus, 21. Servilia, wife of Ap. Claudius Pulcher (cos. 54 B.C.), 23, 45.
yricum, 329, 390, 429; as a friend of Augustus, 376; origin, 362; his wife , 379; descendants, 435, 500. Sittius, of Cales,
206, 210; his fate, 199, 227; his origin, 91. Statilia Messallina, wife of Nero, 499. Statilii, from Lucania, 237, 382, 4
uilt by viri triumphales, 241, 402; Augustus’ repairs, 447. Terentia, wife of Cicero, 24, 69. Terentia, wife of Maecenas,
Augustus’ repairs, 447. Terentia, wife of Cicero, 24, 69. Terentia, wife of Maecenas, 277, 334, 358; beauty of, 342; scand
in Syria, 329 f. Terrasidius, T., officer of Caesar, 89. Tertulia, wife of M. Crassus (cos. 70 B.C.), 22. Tertulia, alleg
pate, 328, 349; legate of Syria, 398; his unpopularity, 376, 478; his wife , 379; no descendants, 498. Titulus Tiburtinus,
6, 88, 284 ff., 466, 470. Trajan, the Emperor, 415, 501, 517 f. his wife , 502. Tralles, 262. Transpadana, allegiance o
., 176; alleged death-bed advice, 177; character and policy, 133; his wife , 134; no consular descendants, 498. Vibius Post
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