Gai Suetoni Tranquilli De vita Caesarum libri I-II: Iulius, AugustusAlyn and Bacon, 1918 - 373 pages |
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... Octavian Family Page 46. 1. Velitris : Velitrae , modern Velletri , a picturesque town on a spur of Monte Artemisio on the southern slope of the Alban Hills , overlooking the Pomptine Marshes , twenty - six miles by rail from Rome . It ...
... Octavian Family Page 46. 1. Velitris : Velitrae , modern Velletri , a picturesque town on a spur of Monte Artemisio on the southern slope of the Alban Hills , overlooking the Pomptine Marshes , twenty - six miles by rail from Rome . It ...
Page 195
... Octavian . According to Velleius ( II . 87. 3 ) , he was the last of Caesar's assassins to perish . He is men- tioned by Horace ( Ep . I. 4. 3 ) , but is to be distinguished from the Cassius Etruscus of Horace , Sat. I. 10. 61 f . He ...
... Octavian . According to Velleius ( II . 87. 3 ) , he was the last of Caesar's assassins to perish . He is men- tioned by Horace ( Ep . I. 4. 3 ) , but is to be distinguished from the Cassius Etruscus of Horace , Sat. I. 10. 61 f . He ...
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... Octavian . Horace ad- dresses him in the seventh Ode of the first book . See Drumann , Gesch . Roms , IV.2 223 ff . quibusdam : their names are not known . 13. conditorem urbis : as founder of the empire , second founder of the city ...
... Octavian . Horace ad- dresses him in the seventh Ode of the first book . See Drumann , Gesch . Roms , IV.2 223 ff . quibusdam : their names are not known . 13. conditorem urbis : as founder of the empire , second founder of the city ...
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... Octavian after Actium triumphed over Cleopatra and Egypt , not over Antony . 23. quanquam expers belli albeit having no part in the war ; not because of his years , as Suetonius states , but on account of his weak health and at his ...
... Octavian after Actium triumphed over Cleopatra and Egypt , not over Antony . 23. quanquam expers belli albeit having no part in the war ; not because of his years , as Suetonius states , but on account of his weak health and at his ...
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... Octavian undisputed sole ruler . The twelve years of joint rule , it will be observed , are divided into two parts by primum and deinde . 8. novissime , etc .: the last period in this brief summary of Augustus's rule is defined by the ...
... Octavian undisputed sole ruler . The twelve years of joint rule , it will be observed , are divided into two parts by primum and deinde . 8. novissime , etc .: the last period in this brief summary of Augustus's rule is defined by the ...
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Page 30 - ... ad Ciceronem, item ad familiares domesticis de rebus, in quibus, si qua occultius perferenda erant, per notas scripsit, id est sic structo litterarum ordine, ut nullum verbum effici posset : quae si qui investigare et 25 persequi velit, quartam elementorum litteram, id est D pro 7 A et perinde reliquas commutet. feruntur et a puero et ab adulescentulo quaedam scripta, ut ' Laudes Herculis ', tragoedia 'Oedipus...
Page 17 - Pompei copias, quae sub tribus legatis M. Petreio et L. Afranio et M. Varrone in Hispania erant, invasit, professus ante inter suos, ire se ad exercitum sine duce et inde reversurum ad ducem sine exercitu.
Page 97 - ... plerumque mittebat, prout quique monitione indigerent. Etiam libros totos et senatui recitavit et populo notos per edictum saepe fecit, ut orationes Q. Metelli "de Prole Augenda" et Rutili "de Modo Aedificiorum," quo magis persuaderet utramque rem non.
Page 3 - Amitae meae luliae maternum genus ab regibus ortum, paternum cum diis inmortalibus coniunctum est. Nam ab Anco Marcio sunt Marcii Reges, quo nomine fuit mater ; a Venere lulii, cuius gentis familia est nostra. Est ergo in genere et sanctitas regum, qui plurimum inter homines pollent, et caerimonia deorum, quorum ipsi in potestate sunt reges.
Page 62 - Ita mihi salvam ac sospitem rem p. sistere in sua sede liceat atque eius rei fructum percipere, quem peto, ut optimi status auctor dicar et moriens ut feram mecum spem, mansura in vestigio suo fundamenta rei p. quae iecero.
Page 66 - Leges retractavit et quasdam ex integro sanxit, ut sumptuariam et de adulteriis et de pudicitia, de ambitu, de maritandis ordinibus. Hanc cum aliquanto severius quam ceteras emendasset, prae tumultu recusantium perferre non potuit nisi adempta demum lenitave parte poenarum et vacatione trienni data auctisque praemiis.
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Page 4 - Geminus in his (jeminus in historia, Marcus Bibulus in edictis, C. Curio pater in orationibus. De hac significare videtur et Cicero in quadam ad Axium epistula referens Caesarem in consulatu confirmasse regnum, de quo aedilis cogitarat. Tanusius adicit Crassum paenitentia vel metu diem caedi destinatum non obisse et idcirco ne Caesarem quidem signum, quod ab eo dari convenerat, dedisse ; convenisse autem Curio ait, ut togam de umero deiceret.
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