unded owes to the supreme example and guidance of Münzer: but for his work on Republican family-history, this book could har

aturally owe much, but do not derive entirely, from this illuminating work —in an earlier form and draft they were the substa

the provinces. Yet the new dispensation, or ‘novus status’, was the work of fraud and bloodshed, based upon the seizure of

us, Hist. 1, 1–3, will give some idea of the introduction to Pollio’s work on the Civil Wars. Cf. below, p. 9. PageBook=&g

Triumvirate to the War of Actium and the Principate of Augustus: the work appears to have ended when the Republic went down

pupil of Livy. 3 His master had less exacting standards. The great work of Pollio has perished, save for inconsiderable f

istory, but the most revolutionary changes in Roman politics were the work of families or of a few men. A small party, zealo

seize power through civil strife and hold it, supreme and alone. His work done, the Dictator resigned. The conquest of Ga

nd legitimate authority. Such venturesome expedients are commonly the work of hot blood and muddled heads. The error was dou

elerato latrone atque egenti. ’ 6 Strabo, p. 249, describes Sulla’s work oύĸ έπαύσατo π⍴ȋν ἢ πἀντας τoύς ὲν òνóµατι ∑αυνιτ

ar is evident and important no occasion, therefore, to exaggerate his work , in motive or in effects. That he was aware of th

ons, but a class in society and a party in politics. But even now the work had much farther to go in so far as Italy was con

he consul: the leaflets and the bribes of Octavianus were doing their work . To restore discipline Antonius ordered summary e

lebrate the clemency and magnanimity of the Dictator,4 he soon set to work upon a vindication of Cato, which he published, i

was published in 51 B.C. About the same time Cicero had also been at work upon the Laws, which described in detail the inst

‘laying the foundations of settled government’; and the crown of the work is summed up in the claim that the Free State has

lectures of philosophers. It may be presumed that his agents were at work in Macedonia and elsewhere. He was aided by the r

his predominance nor his prestige were gravely menaced and there was work to be done in the East. Antonius departed for Syr

Of his victories the more considerable part, it is true, had been the work of his lieutenants. His health was frail, scanty

osnia: which is neither proved nor probable. PageBook=>241 The work and services of Agrippa and of Taurus in Illyricu

s baggage for the last journey,3 he proceeded to compose a monumental work on the theory and practice of agriculture, of whi

d spurred his youth to imprudent NotesPage=>247 1 His greatest work , the Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum, i

ry recently discovered in the Basilica Aemilia may belong to Paullus’ work in 34 B.C. (Dio 49, 42, 2): there was, however, a

a new policy had become discernible, the prime agents were already at work . But the acts of the young dynast even now can ha

luable additions and corrections may be expected from the forthcoming work of Mr. M. Grant on the aes coinage of the period.

tor and the contriving of a new cult, that was Octavianus’ policy and work , not his. The contrast did not escape the Republi

the plebiscite of the year 32: that act was but the beginning of the work that Augustus the Princeps was later to consummat

eak through and follow Cleopatra in flight to Egypt. Treachery was at work in the land-army. Canidius the commander sought t

paid, demobilized or employed. He sent Agrippa at once to Italy. The work must begin without delay. He had not gone farther

h not as great as many believed, were sobering lessons; and there was work to do in the West and in the North. To serve the

out the ‘optimus status civitatis’. The character and purpose of this work have been variously, sometimes extravagantly, est

ht of restoring the Republic— not that he did so. 3 To Suetonius, the work of Augustus was the creation of a ‘novus status’.

l provinces of the West, were now deprived of proconsuls. Whether the work of conquest and pacification went on, or whether

unsubdued, called for attention. A beginning had been made; 3 and the work of conquest was to be prosecuted. 4 As for the pr

is dignitas and pledge of civil concord or vested interests there was work to be done. The restored Republic needed a friend

yrenean springs and solace in the composition of his autobiography, a work suitably dedicated to Agrippa and Maecenas. In hi

t: but the deeds for which he secured the credit were in the main the work of others, and his unique primacy must not obscur

s and Actium declined honours and triumphs and went quietly about his work , his reward not applause or gratitude but the sen

unds for the opinion that, if Augustus died, Agrippa would make short work of the Princeps’ young nephew. 2 The nobles hated

fairly be represented that the secret coup d’etat of 23 B.C. was the work of Livia as well as of Agrippa and a triumph for

nce. That was not enough for Augustus. He may have hoped to renew the work in 22 B.C.: he delayed until 18 B.C., the year of

PIR1, V 169. Horace dedicated Odes 2, 9 to Valgius; on his botanical work , Pliny, NH 25, 4. PageBook=>376 For the up

ent and bitter in rebuke of lost causes and political scapegoats. The work was dedicated to the grandson of his patron. 4

ok=>385 Influences more secret and more sinister were quietly at work all the time women and freedmen. The great politi

l the ambition of the Princeps or justify his mandate. There was hard work to be done in the provinces and on the frontiers,

potestas. 2 The deputy was soon on his travels again and back at his work . After a sojourn of four years as vicegerent of t

they were later called. 4 Frontinus, De aq. 99 and 102. 5 On the work of the consuls of 8 B.C., ILS 5923 a–d; the first

etermine the paramount questions of governmental policy. That was the work of other bodies, which kept and left no written r

He now gave way what Livia had been unable to achieve was perhaps the work of political influences and powerful advisers tha

Papia Poppaea of the year A.D. 9.1 Regeneration was now vigorously at work upon the Roman People. The New Age could confiden

ples should be repaired. 1 Whose hand would Heaven guide to begin the work of restoration? cui dabit partis scelus expiand

of the Fortunate Isles, where nature provided all fruits without the work of man’s hand, might meditate for a moment on the

n of the ancient peasant Republic, thus adding a sublime crown to the work of earlier generations which had transformed the

dera mittant. 6 In the same years the historian Livy was already at work upon the majestic and comprehensive theme of his

hardly have been sent farther. Poetry and history were designed to work upon the upper and middle classes of a regenerate

lled their resources and tightened their alliances. Thus did Servilia work for her family, capturing the Aemilian connexion.

or an historian. The author of the Annals was moved to despair of his work . ‘Nobis in arto et inglorius labor. ’5 PageNote

y and debarred from attacking the head of the government, has been at work here, eager to enhance or to invent an obscure or

cos. suff. A.D. 8), novus homo, 363, 434, 436. Aqueducts, Agrippa’s work , 241, 402; cura aquarum, 403. Aquillius Florus, A

the Bellum Siculum, 231 f.; marries Caecilia, 238; in Illyricum, 240; work on aqueducts, 241 f., 403; at the bedside of Atti