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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 50 (search)
Boethius, Consolatio Philosophiae, Book One, Prosa 4: (search)
Boethius, Consolatio Philosophiae, Book Two , Prosa 3: (search)
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Julius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 30 (search)
But as the senate declined to interpose in the business, and his enemies declared that they would enter into no compromise where the safety of the republic was at stake, he advanced into Hither-Gaul,A.U.C. 705.
and, having gone to the circuit for the administration of justice, made a halt at Ravenna, resolved to have recourse to arms if the senate should proceed to extremity against the tribunes of the people who had espoused his cause.
This was indeed his pretext for the civil war; but it is supposed that there were other motives for his conduct.
Cneius Pompey used frequently to say, that he sought to throw every thing into confusion, because he was unable, with all his private wealth, to complete the works he had begun, and answer, at his return, the vast expectations which he had excited in the people.
Others pretend that he was apprehensive of being called to account for what he had done in his protests of the tribunes; Marcus Cato having sometimes declared, and that, too, with a
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Augustus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 20 (search)
He conducted in person only two foreign wars;
the Dalmatian, whilst he was yet but a youth; and, after
Antony's final defeat, the Cantabrian. He was wounded
in the former of these wars; in one battle he received a
contusion in the right knee from a stone, and in another,
he was much hurt in one leg and both arms, by the fall of
a bridge.Not a bridge over a river, but a military engine used for gaining
admittance into a fortress. His other wars he carried on by his lieutenants; but occasionally visited the army, in some of the
wars of Pannonia and Germany, or remained at no great
distance, proceeding from Rome as far as Ravenna, Milan,
or Aquileia.
After two years he returned from Germany to
the city, and celebrated the triumph which he had deferred, attended by his lieutenants, for whom he had
procured the honour of triumphal ornaments.A. U. C. 765. Before
he turned to ascend the capitol, he alighted from his
chariot, and knelt before his father, who sat by, to superintend the solemnity. Bato, the Pannonian chief, he sent
to Ravenna, loaded with rich presents, in gratitude for
his having suffered him and his army to retire from a
position in which he had so enclosed them, that they were
entirely at his mercy. He afterwards gave the people a
dinner at a thousand tables, besides thirty sesterces to
each man. He likewise dedicated the temple of Concord,The portico of the temple of Concord is still standing on the side
of the forum nearest the capitol. It consists of six Ionic columns, each
of one piece, and of a light-coloured granite, with bases and capitals
of white marble, and two columns at the angles. The temple of Castor
an