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Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 23 (ed. Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University), chapter 24 (search)
light hold, piling up from both sides they overwhelmed arms, men and horses, so that hardly ten men escaped. For after very many had been killed by tree-trunks and broken branches, and the rest of the troops were alarmed by the unforeseen calamity, the Gauls under arms, surrounding the whole defileHere also it is difficult to believe that saltus is used as another word for forest, since the whole silva vasta (§ 7) could hardly be surrounded by the Gauls. Cf. Frontinus I. vi. 4. Even in 43 B.C. there were still remnants of forest along the Aemilian Way; ib. II. v. 39. slew them, while but few out of so many were captured, —the men who were making their way to a bridge over a river, but were cut off, since the bridge had by that time been occupied by the enemy. There Postumius fell fighting with all his might to avoid capture. Spoils taken from his body and the severed head of the general were carried in triumph by the Boians to the temple which is most revered in their land.
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero , Allen and Greenough's Edition., Life of Cicero. (search)
d it soon became clear that there could be no peace except by the complete victory of a single aspirant for the supremacy. Octavianus at first joined with the Senate against Antony, but he soon broke with the constitutional authorities, and, in B.C. 43, formed with Antony and Lepidus the coalition known as the Second Triumvirate. A merciless proscription at once began. Octavianus had every reason to be grateful to Cicero, but he was of a cold and ungenerous nature, and when Antony demanded hisst of proscribed citizens. Cicero was at this time at his Tusculan villa. He made a half-hearted attempt to escape from Italy, but was overtaken near his villa at Formiae by the soldiers of the triumvirs, and met his death with firmness (Dec. 7, B.C. 43). Antony satisfied his hatred by indignities to the mangled remains. The career of Cicero is a remarkable example of a sudden rise, followed by an utter collapse and fall. His rise was the natural result of his own ability, industry, and ambiti
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero, Allen and Greenough's Edition., section 1 (search)
propinquus, kinsman. It is not known what was the relationship of Tubero to Cicero. Tubero: Q. Aelius Tubero, the prosecutor, was the son of L. Aelius Tubero, the Pompeian commander, and was lying sick on board his father's ship at the time when Ligarius prevented the landing in Africa (see Introd., p. 2?5 of text). Cicero throughout the speech conveys the impression that personal resentment was at the bottom of Q. Tubero's action in opposing the pardon of Ligarius. Pansa: C. Vibius, cos. B.C. 43 (see Phil. xiv), at this time a leading supporter of Caesar. He was a petitioner for Ligarius. quo me vertam, which way to turn. necessarius: Cicero's necessitudo to Pansa appears to have consisted in their working together in behalf of Ligarius. ut . . . esset (obj. of fecerit), that it is no longer a new case.
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, FIDES, AEDES (search)
altar: 'Fidei Aug(ustae) sacr(um) ' as Fi(lio) Dei Aug(ustus) sacr(avit). See his Bilder aus der Geschichte des Kapitols (Rome, 1899, 31); Journ. Brit. and Amer. Arch. Soc. iv. 39-47; HCh 323; Town Planning Review xi. (1927), 162. (Hulsen, Festschrift an Kiepert 211-214), rather than outside (Hermes 1883, 115-116; Rosch. ii. 709). It was used for meetings of the senate (Val. Max. iii. 17; App. BC i. 16), and on its walls were fastened tablets on which international agreements were probably inscribed (Ann. d. Inst. 1858, 198 ff.). In 43 B.C. a great storm tore off some of these tablets (Cass. Dio xlv. 17. 3; Obseq. 128). The diplomata of honorably discharged soldiers were also fastened up here (CIL iii. pp. 902, 916; Suppl. p. 2034). The temple contained a painting by Apelles of an old man teaching a youth to play the lyre (Plin. xxxv. 100), but nothing is known of its appearance, construction or later history (Jord. i. 2. 42; RE vi. 2281-2283; Rosch. i. 1481-1483 ; WR 133-134).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, GENIUS POPULI ROMANI (search)
GENIUS POPULI ROMANI (aedicula ? new/s, nao/s, you= *geni/ou tou= dh/mou Cass. Dio) : (1)a shrine dedicated to the Genius of the Roman people, near the temple of Concord in the forum, mentioned twice in connection with prodigies in the years 43 and 32 B.C. (Cass. Dio xlvii. 2. 3; 1. 8. 2), and on an inscription (CIL vi. 248) found between the clivus Capitolinus and the basilica Iulia. Aurelian ' genium populi Romani aureum in rostris posuit ' (Chron. 148 ; cf. Becker, Top. 320), which probably means that the shrine was close to the rostra, and this agrees with the order in Not. (Reg. VIII; see Jord. i. 2. 377; DE iii. 467-468; RE vii. I 66). (2) According to the calendars (Fast. Amit. Arval. ad vii Id. Oct., CIL i². p. 245,214, 331) sacrifices were offered on 9th October to the Genius populi Romani, Felicitas and Venus Victrix in Capitolio, and therefore there was probably a shrine or altar of this Genius on the Capitol also. Whether it was dedicated to the Genius alone, or to the
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, ISIS, AEDES (search)
mpus Martius (Apul. Met. xi. 26: reginae Isidis quae de templi situ sumpto nomine Campensis propitiatur; Not. Reg. IX), near the Saepta (Iuv. vi. 528-529: in aedem Isidis antiquo quae proxima surgit ovili; Mart. ii. 14. 7), and the evidence of fragments of the Marble Plan and sculpture (see below) makes it reasonably certain that it was just west of the Saepta, between it and the temple of Minerva, in the space between the Vie del Seminario, S. Ignazio, del Gesa, and the Palazzo Altieri. In 43 B.C. the triumvirs voted to erect a temple to Isis and Serapis (Cass. Dio xlvii. 15. 4), but it is not known whether this temple was actually built or not. Tibullus (i. 3. 27-30: picta docet templis multa tabella tuis ... ante sacras fores) and Ovid (A.A. i. 77: nec fuge linigerae Memphitica templa iuvencae; Am. ii. 13. 7) speak of a temple or temples of Isis as a conspicuous resort of women, especially of prostitutes, a characteristic also of the later temple (Iuv. ix. 22; Mart. ii. 14. 7; x. 4
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, IUPPITER OPTIMUS MAXIMUS CAPITOLINUS, AEDES (search)
lut. de Iside 71 ; cf. Ov. Fast. i. 201), and the Sibylline books that had been kept in a stone chest (Dionys. iv. 62), but the temple treasure was carried in safety to Praeneste by the younger Marius (Plin. NH xxxiii. 16). The rebuilding was taken in hand by Sulla (Val. Max. ix. 3. 8; Tac. Hist. iii. 72), who is said to have brought the white marble Corinthian columns of the Olympieion in Athens to Rome for this temple (Plin. NH xxxvi. 45). They do not seem to have been used, for coins of 43 B.C. Add a coin of the gens Volteia (Babelon, ii. 565 ; BM. Rep. i. 388. I, where it is dated after 83 B.C.). The temple was areostyle, and its pediment was dedicated 'tuscanico more,' probably with statues of gilt bronze (Vitr. iii. 3. 35, quoted on p. 255). See BC 1925, 169-176. It is also represented, with its lofty podium, on one of the Boscoreale cups (Mon. Piot, v. (1899) pl. xxxvi. 2; Rostowzew, History of the Ancient World, ii. Rome, 186), where an eagle is clearly visible in the pedime
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, NAUMACHIA CAESARIS (search)
NAUMACHIA CAESARIS an artificial pond constructed by Julius Caesar in MINORE CODETA (q.v.) in the campus Martius for the sham naval conflicts that were part of the celebration of his fourfold triumph in 46 B.C. (Suet. Caes. 39; Cass. Dio xliii. 23; App. BC ii. 102). This basin was filled up in 43 B.C. in consequence of an epidemic in the city, and has left no trace (Suet. Caes. 44; Cass. Dio xlv. 17).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, SEP. HIRTII (search)
SEP. HIRTII the tomb of A. Hirtius, consul in 43 B.C. in the campus Martius (Liv. Epit. 119; Veil. ii. 62). Its exact location is unknown (cf. SEP. PANSAE).
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, SEP. PANSAE (search)
SEP. PANSAE the tomb of C. Pansa, consul in 43 B.C., in the campus Martius (Liv. Epit. 119; Veil. ii. 62). In 1899 a travertine block with a dedicatory inscription to Pansa was found at the corner of the Corso Vittorio Emanuele and the Vicolo Savelli (NS 1899, 435; BC 1899, 280-285 =CIL vi. 34048. ), and another sepulchral inscription of a Pansa, probably the grandson of the consul of 43, is reported to have been found about 400 metres from this point (CIL vi. 3542). The tomb, therefore, was probably somewhere north of the theatre of Pompeius (Mitt. 1903, 52; HJ 496).
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