ry he secured the election of the military man L. Afranius. The other place was won by Metellus Celer, who, to get support fr

eniently added, the array is impressive and instructive. In the first place , Pompeius and his decorative father-in-law, Q. Me

such palpable and painful testimony. The party of the Republic was no place for a novus homo: the Lentuli were synonymous wit

Brutus’ marriage to a daughter of Ap. Claudius Pulcher certainly took place in 54 B.C. (Ad fam. 3, 4, 2), that of Cn. Pompeiu

and station imposed duties, to family, class and equals in the first place , but also towards clients and dependents. 4 No

could not, or would not, understand that reform or revolution had no place in the designs of his employer. Crassus drew back

deals and loyalties combined in his party. Some played for gain and a place on the winning side for discerning judges like Ca

the religion and archaeology of early Italy, in names of gods and of places . The family name of the Sanquinii recalls the Sab

on invented as ancestor for the Flavii a companion of Hercules: but a place , Vespasiae, with ancient monuments of the Vespasi

k=>092 in the courts of Rome, making enemies and friends in high places . 1 Pollio was with Caesar when he crossed the Rub

consul; for Caesar had intended that Dolabella should have the vacant place when he resigned and departed to the Balkans. The

at. To carry through a Roman revolution in orderly form, in the first place the powers of the highest magistracy, the auctori

C. Flavius, Brutus’ friend, approached Atticus with an invitation to place himself at the head of a consortium of bankers. 5

Bassus had stirred up civil war two years before, seizing the strong place of Apamea. His forces were inconsiderable, one or

tonius had ample reserves of patronage. Their employment in the first place for his own political interests calls neither for

pretend that Antonius strove from the beginning to set himself in the place of the Dictator and succeed to sole and supreme p

ion. Though Antonius may not have desired to set himself in’ Caesar’s place , he is not thereby absolved from ambition, consid

ing of Caesar, and was ready to exploit every advantage. In the first place , the urban plebs, fanatically devoted to the memo

against Antonius, the young revolutionary needed an army in the first place , after that, Republican allies and constitutional

ed by the pretensions of Antonius, alarmed at his power. In the first place , the consuls- designate, Hirtius and Pansa, whose

Brutus and Cassius out of the consulate of 41 B.C. and get one of the places for his son, praetor in 44. 6 His mother was a

the guidance of a small group of enlightened aristocrats. 1 There was place in the NotesPage=>144 1 For this conceptio

rivate virtues of Cicero, his rank in the literature of Rome, and his place in the history of civilization tempt and excuse t

perem fore. ’ PageBook=>169 that Cicero would usurp the vacant place . 1 Later, after both consuls had fallen, Brutus i

re terrorist. 1 Condemnation and apology, however, are equally out of place . 2 The Triumvirs were pitiless, logical and con

lish a military dictatorship and inaugurate a class-war, there was no place left for hesitation. Under this conviction a Roma

eized temple- treasures. The consul L. Antonius retired to the strong place of Praeneste in the neighbourhood of Rome. And no

ed). 6 Ib. 48, 41, 1; Josephus, AJ 14, 393 ff. PageBook=>224 place . There was delay and allegations that Ventidius

n save for the ultimate honour of a public funeral. 2 Sosius took his place as governor of Syria,3 and, accompanied by Herod,

modified and completed. It will be convenient to mention later in one place the territories and kingdoms according to the ord

subsequent history nothing at all is known. 2 Destined ere long to a place in war and administration second only to Agrippa

raditional distinction. New and alien names were prominent in their place , Etruscan or Umbrian, Picene or Lucanian. 4 Rome

serted the cause of Caesar’s friend Theopompus. 5 Now standing in the place of Pompeius and Caesar as master of the eastern l

cal end. The province of Cilicia was broken up entirely. Kings in the place of proconsuls and publicara meant order, content

nd adherents in the garb of peace, with concealed weapons. Taking his place between the two consuls, he spoke in defence of h

uilty of a grave misdemeanour in leaving Italy without sanction. 2 In place of Sosius and Ahenobarbus he appointed two nobles

the East men might fear lest the city be dethroned from its pride of place , lest the capital of empire be transferred to oth

e parent. 1 The design of conquering either Britain or Parthia had no place in the mind of Augustus. Passing through the sout

rcise of auctoritas. 5 Such old-fashioned libertas was fatally out of place . Murena soon fell a victim to his indiscretion, o

5. PageBook=>335 The Republic had to have consuls. To take the place of Murena in the supreme magistracy, Augustus app

octors and his enemies. On July 1st he resigned the consulate. In his place a certain L. Sestius took office another exercise

d to refrain from holding the supreme magistracy year by year. In the place of the consulate, which gave him a general initia

s the Princeps, service to the Caesarian cause and protection in high places . The Caesarian partisans and the successful reneg

une or a better calculation in treason, they would have held pride of place among the grand old men of the New State, honoure

t order in state and in society, the consulate brought nobility and a place in the front ranks of the oligarchy. No new sys

ing. It almost looks as though, in each year, Augustus had filled one place with his own candidate, leaving the other for fre

nt. 6 Yet beside the great soldiers and politicians there was still a place for nobles in their own right, without special or

but could never have created. The power of the People was broken. No place was left any more for those political pests, the

ng the last fourteen years, they had seldom been together in the same place . Demanded by the needs of government, the separat

provincial colonies. Fresh material and a better tradition took their place . Augustus in the same year promulgated regulati

the emphasis laid by Augustus on military service that he would even place two senators’ sons in charge of a single regiment

s. A great school of admirals had also been created. After Actium, no place for them. 1 But the lesson was not lost. Augustus

n A.D. 2, after the disgrace and death of Lollius, Quirinius took his place with C. Caesar. 3 Three or four years later he wa

posts in the city of Rome; and knights as well as senators have their place in the different councils of state. Roman knights

experience in the frontier provinces, the consulate, and, no doubt, a place in councils of State. Silius had conducted mounta

moral programme of the New State was designed to keep women in their place : the name of Livia is never mentioned by an offic

Even if he succeeded, the nobiles would not put up with Cinna in the place of Augustus. 1 Cinna was one of themselves, noble

the tornen’ that doomed him. Iullus Antonius may have aspired to the place of Tiberius as stepfather of the princes; and Jul

led in the discipline of the camp or the playing-field: it was out of place at Court. His coeval, Germanicus’ young brother C

e earlier wars of conquest were now dead, decrepit or retired, giving place to another generation, but not their own sons the

rom the towns of Italy, and especially from the provinces, took their place , the rigour of whose parsimony was not relaxed ev

us and Lucretius. Those free and passionate individuals could find no place or favour in the civic and disciplined academies

ot more frequently drawn upon. Tota Italia would not have been out of place . The Princeps’ own form and features were repro

uld first speak, he bade the frogs be silent. No frog croaked in that place ever again. When Caesar’s heir entered Rome for t

eted to the clientela of Caesar Augustus and the dynasty in the first place , and through the dynasty to Rome and the Empire.

ts ready acceptance. The lower classes had no voice in government, no place in history. In town or country there was poverty

rts of Italy and the civilized regions of the West prospered in their place . When Claudius proposed to admit to the Roman Sen

and of language perished also, when servility and adulation took the place of libertas and virtus, that was hard for a patri

are entered under their conventional or most familiar names. Names of places are included when important for their political a

ugustan novi homines, 362, 364; a Catilinarian rising there, 89; as a place for recruiting, 126, 186. Pietas, 157, 163, 201