Temple of jupiter

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Often appears with: temples, shrines, and sacred places · war against the volsci · treaties, truces, and peacemaking · terminus omen · tarquin spoils · tarpeian mount · suessa pometia · strategy and the aims of war · religious persecution and toleration · rank, class, and social order · public finance and debt · political legitimacy and consent

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“Cato came forward, and meeting the people in this hurry and clamor, did all he could to comfort and encourage them, and somewhat appeased the fear and amazement they were in, telling them that very likely things were not so bad in truth, but much exaggerated in the report.” Plutarch, Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans · observation

Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans primary

Plutarch · c. 100 CE (composed over time)
(1096/1424)

After a late-night report of total loss near Thapsus, Utica panics; Cato calms the people, convenes a council of three hundred men in the temple of Jupiter, and begins managing their next decisions.

overthrown, for his part he would not stay at Rome, but would retire from the cruelty and inhumanity of Scipio, who had already uttered fierce and proud threats against many. But what Cato had looked for, fell out sooner than he expected. Late in the evening came one from the army, whence he had been three days coming, who brought word there had been a great battle near Thapsus; that all was utterly lost; Caesar had…

Roman History, Books I-III primary

Titus Livius (Livy) · c. 30–17 CE; composed over more than forty years (extant Books I–III are within this span)
BOOK I > BOOK I[1] (53/63)

Livy contrasts Tarquin’s tyranny in peace with competent generalship, describing campaigns against the Volsci, conquest of Suessa Pometia, and his wealth-funded plan to build the Temple of Jupiter.

a pair of companies to make single companies, and out of single companies to make a pair: and when the companies had thus been doubled, he appointed centurions over them. Nor was Tarquin, though a tyrannical prince in time of peace, an incompetent general in war; nay, he would have equalled his predecessors in that art, had not his degeneracy in other ways likewise detracted from his merit in this respect. He first …

Roman History, Books I-III primary

Titus Livius (Livy) · c. 30–17 CE; composed over more than forty years (extant Books I–III are within this span)
BOOK I > BOOK I[1] (55/63)

After taking Gabii, Tarquin makes peace with the Aequi and renews treaties with the Etruscans, then starts the Temple of Jupiter on the Tarpeian Mount using omens like Terminus’s stability and a miraculous found head.

gain the sense of public calamities became extinguished, till the state of Gabii, destitute of counsel and assistance, surrendered itself without a struggle into the power of the Roman king. Tarquin, having thus gained possession of Gabii, made peace with the nation of the Aequi, and renewed the treaty with the Etruscans. He next turned his attention to the affairs of the city. The chief of these was that of leaving…

Letters of Pliny primary

Pliny the Younger (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) · c. 97–c. 112 CE (letters collected/arranged for publication by Pliny)
(35/158)

Pliny commissions Annius Severus to place a purchased bronze statue of an old man in a temple in Pliny’s native province, requesting a pedestal and engraved name.

XXVII -- To BAEBIUS MACER IT gives me great pleasure to find you such a reader of my uncle's works as to wish to have a complete collection of them, and to ask me for the names of them all. I will act as index then, and you shall know the very order in which they were written, for the studious reader likes to know this. The first work of his was a treatise in one volume, "On the Use of the Dart by Cavalry"; this he …

The Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 primary

Pliny the Younger (Publius Caecilius Secundus) · c. 96–113 CE (composition of the letters collected as First Series, Volume 1)
Book of his correspondence, and which show us Pliny acting as Governor of the province of Pontus and Bithynia. He had been sent there because the finances of many of the cities had been allowed to fall into a shocking state, and because the Emperor wanted a man whom he could thoroughly trust to put them straight. No doubt Pliny, while flattered at this proof of Trajan's regard, felt the severance from his friends and ordinary pursuits which this term of absence necessitated. But compare his attitude with that of Cicero as Governor of Cilicia! Cicero crawled on the outward journey, and when he reached his destination he counted the days to his return like a bullied school-boy counts the days to the end of the term. He writes to his friends in the capital, begging and praying of them that they will prevent his being obliged to stay for a second year. All his thoughts are of Rome and how to return there. The wretched provincials bore him to distraction; he yearns for the wider arena of the capital in which to play the swelling part to which he aspires. There is, in short, not a trace in Cicero's letters from his province to show that he took the slightest interest in his new surroundings. Pliny displays a far different spirit. He reminds us more of the Colonial Governor of our own day. He is interested in the past history and traditions of the country, he is anxious that the cities shall have good water supplies, good baths, good theatres, good gymnasia. He is for ever suggesting to the Emperor that he should send architects to consult with him on some important public work. And these letters disclose to us what a wonderful system of organised government the Roman Empire possessed. Pliny even writes to Trajan to ask permission that an evil-smelling sewer may be covered over in a town called Amastria. If all the governors of the provinces wrote home for orders on such points, the Emperor must indeed have been busy, and some of his replies to Pliny show that Trajan hinted very plainly that a governor ought to have some initiative of his own. None the less, the tenour of this correspondence proves that Trajan held the threads of government very jealously in his own hands. When Pliny suggested the establishment of a small fire-brigade in Nicomedia, where the citizens had stood enjoying the aesthetic beauty of a disastrous fire which destroyed whole streets, instead of putting it out, Trajan sharply vetoed the suggestion, on the ground that the Greeks were factious people and would turn even a fire-brigade to illicit and seditious purposes. > BOOK III. (7/24)

Pliny declines to keep a newly bought Corinthian bronze sculpture at home and instead commissions Annius Severus to prepare a pedestal for it at a temple, likely the Temple of Jupiter.

for walking, saying, "If you were a student, you could not waste your hours like that," for he considered that all time was wasted which was not devoted to study. Such was the application which enabled him to compile all those volumes I have enumerated, and he left me one hundred and sixty commonplace books, written on both sides of the scrolls, and in a very small handwriting, which really makes the number of the v…