rominent Lutatius, whose name recalled a great naval battle and whose father had defeated the Cimbri; there were several famil

he identity of his wife is inferred from the inscr. ILS 9460. 2 His father , Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus (cos. 96), was very inf

nitiative three legions from the tenants, clients and veterans of his father , and led his army to liberate Rome from the domin

5 Plutarch, Pompeius 6. Prosecuted for peculations committed by his father , he was saved by Philippus, Hortensius and by the

e Republic they postponed vengeance, but did not forget a brother and father slain by the young Pompeius in a foul and treache

mp. Cn. Pompei 58), hence probably a Claudius Marcellus. Likewise the father of Marcellinus (cos. 56), cf. P-W IV, 1390. 2 N

by the Pompeians; likewise L. Marcius Philippus, the prudent son of a father who had passed unscathed through the faction-wars

ibunes and the advocacy of reform for his personal ambition. Like his father before him, Pompeius could not be described as a

earliest legates in Gaul were T. Labienus, Q. Titurius Sabinus, whose father served with Pompeius in Spain (Sallust, Hist. 2,

and financiers, C. Rabirius Postumus, was an ardent Caesarian. 4 His father , C. Curtius, is designated as a leader of the equ

d friends of Pompeius; 3 and it will not have been forgotten that his father had secured Latin rights for the Transpadane comm

t Caesar had the advantage of propinquity and duration. In Verona the father of the poet Catullus, no doubt a person of substa

Balbus. Gallus came from Forum Julii (Jerome, Chron., p. 164 H). His father was called Cn. Cornelius (ILS 8995), and may be a

inct patrician house of the early Republic. 2 Some said that Cicero’s father was a dyer of clothes: others carried his lineage

impoverished plebeian family (his grandfather was a great orator, his father a good-natured but careless person), the years of

Philippus and Marcellus hardly reveal distinction or vigour. From his father Philippus inherited comfortable tastes, a disposi

heir attitude or activities at this time. NotesPage=>128 1 His father , L. Marcius Philippus (cos. 91, censor 86), was a

s half- sister Octavia, only the name is known (ILS 8963); he was the father of Sex. and of M. Appuleius, consuls in 29 B.C. a

d (Sallust, Hist. 3, 83 M) is presumably a member of this family. The father was L. Maecenas (ILS 7848; cf. Nicolaus 31, 133?)

ect and correctly transmitted we might have here not Maecenas but his father (so Münzer, P-W xiv, 206). About the last three n

e and perhaps unsavoury individuals, such as Mindius Marcellus, whose father had been active as a business man in Greece. Mind

. Appian, BC 5, 102, 422. On his profiteering, Ad fam. 15, 17, 2; his father ,ib. 13, 26, 2. 2 Phil. 11, 11 ff.; 13, 26 ff.

nd social influence, had been able to evade proscription, such as the father of Brutus and others. The decadence of legal auth

out L. Caninius Gallus (cos. 37 B.C.) nothing is known, save that his father married a first cousin of M. Antonius (Val. Max.

s parents likewise are neither celestial nor apocalyptic, but a Roman father with virtus to bequeath NotesPage=>218 1 H

ion in the poem that the consul there invoked was shortly to become a father . The sister of Octavianus had a son, Marcellus, b

h have ruled over a world that had been pacified by the valour of his father pacatumque reget patriis virtutibus orbem. 1

family. 1 Scaurus his step-brother was with him, and Libo his wife’s father . 2 Likewise an odd Republican or two and certain

eius was despotic and dynastic in his management of affairs, like his father trusting much to alien or domestic adherents. Whe

nfluential connexions. Herself in the direct line of the Claudii (her father , slain at Philippi, was a Claudius adopted in inf

ed the discreet and ambiguous policy recommended by the examples of a father and a grandfather, not hastening to declare himse

ng to declare himself too openly for his step-brother Octavianus: his father , through diplomacy, hoped to get him an early con

ber 3rd). Pompeius made his escape and, trusting to the fame of his father in the eastern lands, raised a private army of th

ar’s heir from hatred of his triumviral uncle (who had proscribed his father ) or from a motive of family insurance not uncom

lus Aemilius to complete the Basilica Aemilia, left unfinished by his father ; and L. Marcius Philippus after his Spanish trium

g of Egypt,1 but when he abode there as consort of Egypt’s Queen, the father of her children who were crowned kings and queens

, however, was executed—perhaps this true son of a loyal and spirited father disdained to beg for mercy :8 his mother Fulvia w

ex. Pompeius and again to Antonius, thence to the better cause. 3 The father of Norbanus had been general, along with Saxa, in

of equestrian rank, T. Flavius Sabinus the tax gatherer, who was the father of a Roman Emperor. 3 By the time of the Flavian

ocurators. 6 Magius was highly respectable. Some said that Vitellius’ father was a freedman no doubt he had many enemies. L. A

uccumbing to the vile embraces of a ‘municipalis adulter’. 2 Seianus’ father , Seius Strabo, may have been no more than a knigh

b., C 62; M. Aemilius Scaurus, ib., A 405; Lentulus Maluginensis, the father of the cos. suff. of A.D. 10, ib., C 1393; Cornel

ather of the cos. suff. of A.D. 10, ib., C 1393; Cornelius Dolabella, father of the consul of A.D. 10, ib., C 1345; at least t

east two men of the name of Cornelius Sisenna, ib., C 1454-6; and the father of C. Sulpicius Galba (cos. suff. 5 B.C.), cf. Su

by no means the only near relatives of the Princeps. C. Octavius his father and his mother Atia were each twice married. Henc

prosecuting the assassin C. Cassius under the Lex Pedia. 1 Velleius’ father served as an equestrian officer. 2 After equestri

(Suetonius, Divus Claudius 26, 2). 1 Suetonius, Galba 5, 2. Galba’s father had married a second wife, Livia Ocellina, from a

whose name he took and carried for a time (ib., 4, 1), and, like his father , was much in demand as a match. After the death o

2, 112, 4; Dio 55, 34, 6; 56, 12, 2; ILS 921 (near Tibur). 7 Piso’s father , of philhellenic tastes, had been proconsul of Ma

, the enemy of both Caesar and Pompeius, had fallen at Pharsalus; his father was the great Republican admiral. The Aemilii p

h not seeking closer relationship with the reigning dynasty. From his father Piso inherited, along with the love of letters, g

nt L. Volusius Saturninus will not have forgotten altogether that his father had married a relative of Tiberius. 4 Many men of

of a Tiberius (Cicero, Ad Att. 5, 21, 6), i.e., probably of Tiberius’ father or grandfather. This Q. Volusius may be the fathe

bably of Tiberius’ father or grandfather. This Q. Volusius may be the father of L. Volusius Saturninus (cos. suff. 12 B.C.); t

nal debauch the Forum and the very Rostra from which the Princeps her father had promulgated the laws that were to sanction th

Tacitus, Ann. 4, 1 (Seianus). 3 Suetonius, Tib. 13, 1. 4 lb. His father had been active in Narbonensis for Caesar (ib. 4,

rength of body and intractable temper which he had inherited from his father might have been schooled in the discipline of the

ius came of a wealthy and talented family, newly ennobled through his father , admiral at Actium, consul in 22 B.C., and the au

n, cf. the Sabine Sp. Ligustinus (Livy 42, 34) who inherited from his father one iugerum of land and the ‘parvum tugurium’ in

traditional. Republican sympathies were openly expressed. From his father Cassius inherited a connexion with the Transpadan

her Cassius inherited a connexion with the Transpadani; 1 and Brutus’ father had been besieged at Mutina by Pompeius. In the t

sons had broken a leg. 4 The great jurist M. Antistius Labeo, whose father , one of the assassins of the Dictator, had commit

es sustentabatur; neque tamen effugit magnae fortunae pericula. ’ His father had been executed in A.D. 14 by Asprenas the proc

have seemed destined to achieve power in the end. Inheriting from his father not only great estates but boundless popularity w

y and treacherous. Of the Sulpicii, Ser. Galba and his ugly hunchback father could display no real talent, but owed advancemen

cted inter consulares, 349 f. Furnius, C. (cos. 17 B.C.), saves his father , 299; legate in Spain, 333; consul, 373. Gabini

dubious authenticity, 59, 85. Junius Brutus, M. (tr. pl. 83 B.C.), father of the tyrannicide, 19, 27, 148. Junius Brutus,

taly, 87, 285 f.; oath sworn to, 285. Livius Drusus Claudianus, M., father of Livia Drusilla, 199, 206, 229. Livius Drusus L

vius, C., equestrian grandfather of Augustus, 112, 359. Octavius, C., father of Augustus, 35, 36, 112, 378. Octavius, M., An