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Often appears with: religious persecution and toleration · volscians expelled from games · vestricius spurinna · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · temple of concord built on massacre site · statues for cottius · providence and divine governance · proscriptions · panic and indignation · myth and the gods of the nations · mobilization and recruitment · laodice
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“Thus Antony went out of the senate with the highest possible reputation and esteem; for it was apparent that he had prevented a civil war, and had composed, in the wisest and most statesman-like way, questions of the greatest difficulty and embarrassment.” Plutarch, Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans · insight
“All which excited the people to such indignation, that they would not defer the funeral, but, making a pile of tables and forms in the very market-place, set fire to it; and everyone, taking a brand, ran to the conspirators' houses, to attack them.” Plutarch, Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans · vivid
After Caesar’s assassination, Antony fends off further conspirator action, secures senate approval of a pardon and provincial assignments, then uses Caesar’s funeral speech to inflame the crowd.
formidable, should, at Caesar's entrance into the senate, when the deed was to be done, be amused outside by some of the party in a conversation about some pretended business. So when all was proceeded with, according to their plan, and Caesar had fallen in the senate-house, Antony, at the first moment, took a servant's dress, and hid himself. But, understanding that the conspirators had assembled in the Capitol, a…
Augustine criticizes the Senate’s building of the Temple of Concord on the site of the Gracchi’s sedition and massacres, arguing it mocks the gods and ignores why Discord would be worshipped instead.
26. _Of the various kinds of wars which followed the building of the temple of Concord._ But they supposed that, in erecting the temple of Concord within the view of the orators, as a memorial of the punishment and death of the Gracchi, they were raising an effectual obstacle to sedition. How much effect it had, is indicated by the still more deplorable wars that followed. For after this the orators endeavoured not …
Heracleides brings Laodice and Alexander Balas to Rome; Alexander appeals for help to recover Antiochus’s kingdom, and the Senate authorizes their return, enabling Heracleides to recruit mercenaries.
[Sidenote: The Senate’s decree in favour of Alexander and Laodice.] Then Heracleides entered the Senate, bringing Laodice and Alexander with him. The youthful Alexander first addressed the Senate, and begged the Romans “to remember their friendship and alliance with his father Antiochus, and if possible to assist him to recover his kingdom; or if they could not do that, at least to give him leave to return home, and…
The senate orders the games celebrated; Volscian presence is restricted when Attius Tullius warns privately of potential wrongdoing, and a decree sends Volscians out before night, provoking panic and then indignation as if polluted.
had been carried into the senate-house deprived of the use of all his limbs, is reported to have returned home on his own feet, after he had discharged his duty. The senate decreed that the games should be celebrated on as magnificent a scale as possible. To those games a great number of Volscians came at the suggestion of Attius Tullius. Before the games had commenced, Tullius, as had been arranged privately with M…
Pliny reports that the Senate, at the emperor’s request, decreed a triumphal statue to Vestricius Spurinna for restoring the king of the Bructeri, and also honored Spurinna’s son Cottius after his death.
XXI To PAISCUS As I know you eagerly embrace every opportunity of obliging me, so there is no man whom I had rather be under an obligation to. I apply to you, therefore, in preference to anyone else, for a favour which I am extremely desirous of obtaining. You, who are commander-in-chief of a very considerable army, have many opportunities of exercising your generosity; and the length of time you have enjoyed that p…