rough mortgages the ancestral property of senators, and thus built up large estates in Italy. Among senators were great holde

bly deriving their origin from Picenum, a region where they possessed large estates and wide influence. 1 Cn. Pompeius Strabo

is escape across the Adriatic carrying with him several legions and a large number of senators, a grievous burden of revenge

scued by the able defence of an eloquent lawyer to whom he had lent a large sum of money. 2 He now stood with Caesar and comm

gainst Pompeius; and his consular brother had been won to Caesar by a large bribe. 5 Servilius belonged to a branch of Servil

s over all the world. The disinterested and enlightened Postumus lent large sums of money to the King of Egypt, who, unable t

έλ∊ι’; 3 Dio 43, 47, 3. The total may not really have been quite so large . 4 Ib. 43, 49, 1. Caesar clearly contemplated a

ies officially constituted, irregular settlements of immigrants and a large number of citizens by this date. L. Decidius Saxa

1). He had business interests in Africa (Ad fam. 12, 29) and probably large estates there the later saltus Lamianus? 2 Ad A

2 For example, Q. Poppaedius Silo, cf. Plutarch, Cato minor 2. 3 A large part of Italy must have been outside the control

esented in the Roman Senate, even by renegades. Pompeius Strabo had a large following in Picenum:3 but these were only the pe

est Caesarians, were moderate men and lovers of peace, representing a large body in the Senate, whether Caesarian or neutral.

at Cassius was expected there. 3 Further, Cassius might appeal to the large armies in Syria. It was probably at this point th

money which he needed for his campaigns. It would be folly to leave a large treasure behind him, a temptation to his enemies.

ime, he might indeed have silenced his conscience and acquiesced in a large measure of authoritative government at Rome. He w

h was sordid and degrading. But if the enterprise and the profits are large enough, bankers and merchants may be styled the f

s. 1 The Aemilian name, his family connexions and the possession of a large army turned this cipher into a factor. Both sides

in the past. 2 To contest the validity of such grants was to raise a large question in itself, even if it were not coupled w

family at Atina, a Volscian town, perhaps not of senatorial rank. 3 A large number of local aristocrats supported Caesar; 4 a

ue, did not intervene; but Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus, coming up with a large part of the fleet of Brutus and Cassius, reinforc

Octavia. 7 Pollio the consul was Antonius’ man, and Pollio had had a large share in negotiating the treaty he is an agent he

rdani will also have felt the force of the Roman arms Antonius kept a large garrison in the Balkans, perhaps seven legions. 2

2 The western frontier of his dominions was the sea. He maintained a large fleet here, protecting the coast from Albania dow

5 The winter passed, and in the spring of 37 Antonius sailed with a large fleet from Athens to Italy. Once again he found t

Artavasdes. He turned the land into a Roman province, leaving there a large army under the tried general Canidius. With Media

t come under direct Roman government until a century had elapsed. A large measure of decentralization was inevitable in the

d tribute to the rulers of Rome. The Empire of the Roman People was large , dangerously large. Caesar’s conquest of Gaul bro

lers of Rome. The Empire of the Roman People was large, dangerously large . Caesar’s conquest of Gaul brought its bounds to

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ere may have been little fighting and comparatively few casualties. A large part of the fleet of Antonius either refused batt

e Triumvirate, and after its nominal decease, proconsuls had governed large provinces, taken imperatorial acclamations and ce

or a period of ten years, in the form of proconsular authority over a large provincia, namely Spain, Gaul and Syria. That and

equal in public law of any other proconsul. In fact, his province was large and formidable, comprising the most powerful of t

god to the subject populations. Above all, he stood at the head of a large and well organized political party as the source

ted after the conference of Luca, Pompeius, Crassus and Caesar took a large share of provinces. From 55 B.C. they held Gaul,

governor, with several legates as his subordinates. 2 Provinces so large and so important called for proconsuls of consula

ire, a system of government so strong and a body of administrators so large and coherent that nothing should shatter the fabr

he East and autonomous municipalities in the West, the Empire was too large for one man to rule it. Already the temporary sev

ot only this the war in Spain was not yet over. Gaul and the Balkans, large regions with arduous tasks to be achieved, might

ly swallowed up the old Caesarian party but secured the adhesion of a large number of Republicans and could masquerade as a n

htly organized. Capital felt secure. A conservative party may be very large and quite heterogeneous. Cicero, when defining th

pillar of the military monarchy. Twenty-eight colonies in Italy and a large number in the provinces honoured Augustus as thei

ts origin as a private army in the Revolution. Not until A.D. 6, when large dismissals of legionaries were in prospect, did t

y five miles from Velitrae. 2 No certain evidence: but he purchased large estates in Picenum (Pliny, NH 18, 37). There are

he father-in-law of P. Servilius Rullus (tr. pl. 63 B.C.), possessing large estates in Samnium (De lege agraria III, 3, cf. 8

difference between the policy of the two rulers will be explained in large measure by circumstances by the time Augustus acq

iptions. The Princeps had his revenge. He did not care to exclude any large body of nobiles from the Senate. But the master o

standing. Yet this was apparent by 12 B.C at least, when four or five large commands already existed. 4 It was some time befo

and financiers had cast greedy eyes a generation before; and in Egypt large estates were now owned and exploited by members o

Balbus died, he was able to bequeath to the populace of Rome a sum as large as Caesar had, twenty-five denarii a head. 1 But

enerals in their turn would have commanded in the north. Moreover a large number of legionary soldiers, their service expir

able aedileship, but was sustained till his death, with the help of a large staff of slaves and workmen which he had recruite

senators. 7 Casual or continuous employment was thus devised for a large number of consulars. An anomalous dignity remains

mifications of the dynasty grew ever more complex, producing by now a large number of collateral connexions, the husbands or

The penalty was severe relegation to the islands and deprivation of a large part of their fortune. The tightening of the ma

ts of the city. 3 The national and patriotic revival of religion is a large topic; and a movement so deep and so strong canno

eeply. 3 The rich grew richer. Their money went into landed property. Large estates grew larger. Prosperity might produce qua

ught to erect the moral and spiritual basis of the New State was in a large measure imaginary or spurious, the creation consc

tories of the Caesarian party over the nobiles. Being recruited in so large a measure from Roman knights of the towns of Ital

entemque togatam. 3 To this identity in origin and sentiment with a large class in Italy Augustus owed much of his success

e presumed that men from Spain and Narbonensis would be discovered in large numbers. 3 There was less need for deception in t

ght legions on the Rhine, brigaded in two armies, are in themselves a large part of the history of the first century of the E

tical, 352. Equites, see Financiers, Knights, Publicani. Estates, large , 12, 14, 28, 31, 82, 89, 195, 380 f., 450 ff. E