Yet the ‘Restoration of the Republic’ was not merely a solemn comedy, staged by a hypocrite. […] That would merely substitute one form of biography for another. […] Not that women were merely the instruments of masculine policy. […] The ten years’ war in Italy not merely corrupted their integrity: it broke their spirit. […] ILS 7848); ‘Maecenas’ is a gentilicium, not merely a cognomen (cf.