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Often appears with: treaties, truces, and peacemaking · conquest, plunder, and captives · winter quarters in vescia · theatre and performance · temple of concord · tarentum retaken · supply, logistics, and encampment · staged sham fight · spoils of war · spoils and crowns · siege of troilium · siege and fortification
Usually: narrative (4) · detachment (2) · the fall of the great (1) · censure (1) · humor (1) · indignation (1)
“He said openly, "Rome, then, has also got a Hannibal; as we won Tarentum, so have we lost it.” Plutarch, Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans · observation
“Ah! unhappy Roman people, to be ground by the jaws of such a slow devourer!” C. Suetonius Tranquillus (trans. Alexander Thomson, rev. T. Forester), The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: Tiberius · wit
“In truth, my dear Tiberius, I do not think, that amidst so many difficulties, and with an army so little disposed for action, any one could have behaved more prudently than you have done.” C. Suetonius Tranquillus (trans. Alexander Thomson, rev. T. Forester), The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: Tiberius · insight
“All the silver and brass were lodged in the treasury, no share of this part of the spoil being given to the soldiers.” Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 · observation
With snow covering the land, the consul withdraws troops to winter quarters, receives a triumph with detailed spoil and gold crowns, besieges Troilium and other forts, and negotiates a truce with the Faliscians before further campaigning.
to three thousand. The spoil, of which the quantity was very great, the whole substance of the Samnites being collected in a few cities, was given up to the soldiers. 46. The snow had now entirely covered the face of the country, and they could no longer dispense with the shelter of houses: the consul therefore led home his troops from Samnium. While he was on his way to Rome, a triumph was decreed him with universa…
After Tarentum is taken, Fabius claims it as his own victory by ordering slaughter, sells many Tarentines into slavery, sends gods’ imagery away, and sets Hercules in the Roman capitol.
being accordingly executed, while the Tarentines hurried to defend the town on the side attacked, Fabius received the signal from the Bruttian, scaled the walls, and entered the town unopposed. Here, we must confess, ambition seems to have overcome him. To make it appear to the world that he had taken Tarentum by force and his own prowess, and not by treachery, he commanded his men to kill the Bruttians before all …
During Lucius Anicius Gallus’s Roman triumph after taking Genthius, Polybius describes a ridiculous staged performance with Greek flute-players, sham fighting, and boxing amid musical contests.
[Sidenote: A scene in a Roman theatre.] +14.+ Lucius Anicius, who had been praetor, after his victory over the Illyrians, and on bringing Genthius prisoner to Rome with his children, while celebrating his triumph, did a very ridiculous thing. He sent for the most famous artists from Greece, and having constructed an immense theatre in the circus, he brought all the flute-players on the stage together first. Their na…
After returning from Germany, Tiberius celebrates a delayed triumph, honors Bato of Pannonia at Ravenna, gives the people a mass dinner, dedicates temples of Concord and Castor and Pollux, and names himself and his brother.
dedicated the temple of Concord [323], and that of Castor and Pollux, which had been erected out of the spoils of the war, in his own and his brother's name. XXI. A law having been not long after carried by the consuls [324] for his being appointed a colleague with Augustus in the administration of the provinces, and in taking the census, when that was finished he went into Illyricum [325]. But being hastily recal…