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Often appears with: crime and punishment · civil war and rebellion · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · tarquinius testimony · spoils of war · septimuleius · roman triumph · revolution and the fall of states · rank, class, and social order · publication of court calendar · political legitimacy and consent · opimius
Usually: narrative (5) · injustice endured (3) · detachment (3) · indignation (2) · ambition and its cost (1) · confronting death (1)
“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
“He made public the rules of proceeding in judicial causes, hitherto shut up in the closets of the pontiffs; and hung up to public view, round the forum, the calendar on white tablets, that all might know when business could be transacted in the courts.” Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 · insight
Livy turns to internal Roman politics: Cneius Flavius becomes curule aedile, publishes court calendar rules, dedicates the Temple of Concord, and the resulting conflict culminates in Fabius’s census measures against plebeian “rabble.”
Pelignians, and Ferentans, warned by the example of their disasters, sent deputies to Rome to solicit peace and friendship; and these states, on their submissive applications, were admitted into alliance. 46. In the same year, Cneius Flavius, son of Cneius, grandson of a freed man, a notary, in low circumstances originally, but artful and eloquent, was appointed curule aedile. I find in some annals, that, being in a…
The senate hears the letters, removes Lentulus from office, detains the conspirators, and questions Tarquinius, whose claim about Crassus is rejected and treated as false.
too, was the twentieth year since the Capitol was burned; a year which the augurs, from certain omens, had often said would be stained with the blood of civil war." The letter then being read, the senate, when all had previously acknowledged their seals,[224] decreed that Lentulus, being deprived of his office, should, as well as the rest, be placed in private custody.[225] Lentulus, accordingly, was given in charge…
Caius is killed and decapitated; Septimuleius presents his head to Opimius for its gold reward, the victors’ brutality includes throwing bodies into the river and forbidding mourning, while Opimius later builds the Temple of Concord.
a truth, that they were both taken alive by their enemies, and that Philocrates embraced his master so close, that they could not wound Caius until his servant was slain. They say that when Caius's head was cut off, and carried away by one of his murderers, Septimuleius, Opimius's friend met him, and forced it from him; because, before the battle began, they had made proclamation, that whoever should bring the head …
Facing Maximin’s advance, the Senate elects Maximus and Balbinus as co-emperors, then prepares defenses of Italy; popular sedition results in producing a Gordian heir as Caesar.
Maximin.—Part II. The virtues and the reputation of the new emperors justified the most sanguine hopes of the Romans. The various nature of their talents seemed to appropriate to each his peculiar department of peace and war, without leaving room for jealous emulation. Balbinus was an admired orator, a poet of distinguished fame, and a wise magistrate, who had exercised with innocence a…
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…