| 1. Cato, Marcus Porcius, Origines, None (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Mackey (2022) 359 |
| 2. Plautus, Asinaria, 259 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •action roles, patient Found in books: Mackey (2022) 353 |
3. Cicero, On Divination, 1.31 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •action roles, patient Found in books: Mackey (2022) 353| 1.31. Quid? multis annis post Romulum Prisco regte Tarquinio quis veterum scriptorum non loquitur, quae sit ab Atto Navio per lituum regionum facta discriptio? Qui cum propter paupertatem sues puer pasceret, una ex iis amissa vovisse dicitur, si recuperasset, uvam se deo daturum, quae maxima esset in vinea; itaque sue inventa ad meridiem spectans in vinea media dicitur constitisse, cumque in quattuor partis vineam divisisset trisque partis aves abdixissent, quarta parte, quae erat reliqua, in regiones distributa mirabili magnitudine uvam, ut scriptum videmus, invenit. Qua re celebrata cum vicini omnes ad eum de rebus suis referrent, erat in magno nomine et gloria. | 1.31. What ancient chronicler fails to mention the fact that in the reign of Tarquinius Priscus, long after the time of Romulus, a quartering of the heavens was made with this staff by Attus Navius? Because of poverty Attus was a swineherd in his youth. As the story goes, he, having lost one of his hogs, made a vow that if he recovered it he would make an offering to the god of the largest bunch of grapes in his vineyard. Accordingly, after he had found the hog, he took his stand, we are told, in the middle of the vineyard, with his face to the south and divided the vineyard into four parts. When the birds had shown three of these parts to be unfavourable, he subdivided the fourth and last part and then found, as we see it recorded, a bunch of grapes of marvellous size.This occurrence having been noised abroad, all his neighbours began to consult him about their own affairs and thus greatly enhanced his name and fame. |
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| 4. Cicero, On Laws, 2.20 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •action roles, patient Found in books: Mackey (2022) 354 |
| 5. Cicero, Philippicae, 13.12 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •action roles, patient Found in books: Mackey (2022) 354 |
6. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 3.69 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •action roles, patient Found in books: Mackey (2022) 359 | 3.69. 1. This king also undertook to construct the temple to Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, in fulfilment of the vow he had made to these gods in his last battle against the Sabines. Having, therefore, surrounded the hill on which he proposed to build the temple with high retaining walls in many places, since it required much preparation (for it was neither easy of access nor level, but steep, and terminated in a sharp peak), he filled in the space between the retaining walls and the summit with great quantities of earth and, by levelling it, made the place most suitable for receiving temples.,2. But he was prevented by death from laying the foundations of the temple; for he lived but four years after the end of the war. Many years later, however, Tarquinius, the second king after him, the one who was driven from the throne, laid the foundations of this structure and built the greater part of it. Yet even he did not complete the work, but it was finished under the annual magistrates who were consuls in the third year after his expulsion.,3. It is fitting to relate also the incidents that preceded the building of it as they have been handed down by all the compilers of Roman history. When Tarquinius was preparing to build the temple he called the augurs together and ordered them first to consult the auspices concerning the site itself, in order to learn what place in the city was the most suitable to be consecrated and the most acceptable to the gods themselves;,4. and upon their indicating the hill that commands the Forum, which was then called the Tarpeian, but now the Capitoline Hill, he ordered them to consult the auspices once more and declare in what part of the hill the foundations must be laid. But this was not at all easy; for there were upon the hill many altars both of the gods and of the lesser divinities not far apart from one another, which would have to be moved to some other place and the whole area given up to the sanctuary that was to be built to the gods.,5. The augurs thought proper to consult the auspices concerning each one of the altars that were erected there, and if the gods were willing to withdraw, then to move them elsewhere. The rest of the gods and lesser divinities, then, gave them leave to move their altars elsewhere, but Terminus and Juventas, although the augurs besought them with great earnestness and importunity, could not be prevailed on and refused to leave their places. Accordingly, their altars were included within the circuit of the temples, and one of them now stands in the vestibule of Minerva's shrine and the other in the shrine itself near the statue of the goddess.,6. From this circumstance the augurs concluded that no occasion would ever cause the removal of the boundaries of the Romans' city or impair its vigour; and both have proved true down to my day, which is already the twenty-fourth generation. The most celebrated of the augurs, the one who changed the position of the altars and marked out the area for temple of Jupiter and in other things foretold the will of the gods to the people by his prophetic art, had for his common and first name Nevius, and for his family name Attius; and he is conceded to have been the most favoured by the gods of all the experts in his profession and to have gained the greatest reputation by it, having displayed some extraordinary and incredible instances of his augural skill. of these I shall give one, which I have selected because it has seemed the most wonderful to me; but first I shall relate from what chance he got his start and by what opportunities vouchsafed to him by the gods he attained to such distinction as to make all the other augurs of his day appear negligible in comparison. |
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7. Ovid, Fasti, 1.446 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •action roles, patient Found in books: Mackey (2022) 353| 1.446. dique putant mentes vos aperire suas. | 1.446. And the gods’ belief that you reveal their thoughts. |
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| 8. Tacitus, Annals, 4.16.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •action roles, patient Found in books: Mackey (2022) 354 |
| 9. Gaius, Instiutiones, 1.130 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •action roles, patient Found in books: Mackey (2022) 354 |
| 10. Gellius, Attic Nights, 1.12.15-1.12.16, 7.7.4 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •action roles, patient Found in books: Mackey (2022) 354, 359 |
| 11. Lactantius, Divine Institutes, 1.36.6, 1.55.2-1.55.4, 5.54.7, 27.8.4-27.8.5, 27.16.15 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •action roles, patient Found in books: Mackey (2022) 353, 354, 359 |
| 12. Macrobius, Saturnalia, 3.13.11 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •action roles, patient Found in books: Mackey (2022) 354 |
| 13. Epigraphy, Cil, 6.1978 Tagged with subjects: •action roles, patient Found in books: Mackey (2022) 359 |
| 14. Flor., Ep., 1.1.7.8 Tagged with subjects: •action roles, patient Found in books: Mackey (2022) 359 |
