| 1. Herodotus, Histories, 1.111 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis Found in books: Nelsestuen, Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic (2015) 2 |
| 2. Cato, Marcus Porcius, On Agriculture, a b c d\n0 "1.5.3" "1.5.3" "1 5 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •temples, shrines, and altars, atrium libertatis Found in books: Buszard, Greek Translations of Roman Gods (2023) 231 |
| 3. Cicero, Letters, 7.11.3 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis Found in books: Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (2007) 216 |
| 4. Cicero, Pro Sestio, 109 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis Found in books: Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (2007) 216 |
| 5. Cicero, Pro Milone, 77, 101 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (2007) 216 |
| 6. Cicero, Pro Marcello, 23 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis Found in books: Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (2007) 216 |
7. Cicero, Philippicae, 2.103-2.104 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis Found in books: Nelsestuen, Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic (2015) 7 | 2.104. But who says that the estate of Varro at Casinum was ever sold at all? who ever saw any notice of that auction? who ever heard the voice of the auctioneer? You say that you sent a man to Alexandria to buy it of Caesar. It was too long to wait for Caesar himself to come! But who ever heard (and there was no man about whose safety more people were anxious) that any part whatever of Varro's property had been confiscated? What? what shall we say if Caesar even wrote you that you were to give it up? What can be said strong enough for such enormous impudence? Remove for a while those swords which we see around us. You shall now see that the cause of Caesar's auctions is one thing and that of your confidence and rashness is another. For not only shall the owner drive you from that estate, but any one of his friends, or neighbors, or hereditary connections, and any agent, will have the right to do so. 41. But how many days did he spend reveling in the most scandalous manner in that villa! From the third hour there was one scene of drinking, gambling, and vomiting. Alas for the unhappy house itself! how different a master from its former one has it fallen to the share of! Although, how is he the master at all? but still by how different a person has it been occupied! For Marcus Varro used it as a place of retirement for his studies, not as a theatre for his lusts. |
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| 8. Cicero, Letters To His Friends, 177.5 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis Found in books: Nelsestuen, Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic (2015) 213 |
| 9. Cicero, Letters, 7.11.3 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis Found in books: Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (2007) 216 |
| 10. Cicero, Letters, 4.14, 7.11.3, 331.3 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •rule, atrium libertatis •atrium libertatis Found in books: Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 296; Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (2007) 216; Nelsestuen, Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic (2015) 7 |
| 11. Cicero, Letters, 7.11.3 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis Found in books: Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (2007) 216 |
| 12. Cicero, De Lege Agraria, 1.23, 2.8 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis Found in books: Clark, Divine Qualities: Cult and Community in Republican Rome (2007) 216 |
13. Cicero, Academica, 1.9 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis Found in books: Nelsestuen, Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic (2015) 7, 213| 1.9. Tum ego Sunt sunt uera *g . an s. vero? inquam “ista Varro. nam nos in nostra urbe peregritis errantisque tamquam hospites tui libri quasi domum deduxerunt, reduxerunt s Aug. ut possemus aliquando qui et ubi essemus agnoscere. tu aetatem patriae tu descriptiones discr. cod. Aug. l Mue. temporum, tu sacrorum iura tu sacerdotum, sacerdotem pm 1 nr tu domesticam tu bellicam bellicam] publicam Aug. disciplinam, tu sedum sedum vel -ium codd. Aug. plerique sedem *g*d regionum locorum tu omnium divinarum humanarumque rerum nomina genera officia causas aperuisti; nos ... aperuisti Aug. civ. 6, 2 plurimum plurimumque s Ald. -que idem p. Gr. quidem poetis a petis *d nostris omninoque Latinis et litteris luminis et verbis attulisti atque ipse varium et elegans omni fere numero poema fecisti, philosophiamque multis locis inchoasti, ad impellendum satis, ad edocendum parum. | |
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| 14. Polybius, Histories, 5.35.13 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis Found in books: Nelsestuen, Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic (2015) 2 |
| 15. Varro, On Agriculture, 1.1.1-1.1.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis Found in books: Nelsestuen, Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic (2015) 213 |
| 16. Varro, Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum, 2a (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis Found in books: Nelsestuen, Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic (2015) 7 |
| 17. Vitruvius Pollio, On Architecture, 1 prae 2 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •cephisodotus, works in atrium libertatis Found in books: Rutledge, Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting (2012) 224 |
| 18. Ovid, Tristia, 3.1.70-3.1.72 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •rule, atrium libertatis Found in books: Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 295 |
| 19. Livy, History, a b c d\n0 "24.16.19" "24.16.19" "24 16 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •temples, shrines, and altars, atrium libertatis Found in books: Buszard, Greek Translations of Roman Gods (2023) 231 |
20. Horace, Odes, 2.1, 2.1.6-2.1.8 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •cephisodotus, works in atrium libertatis •republic, atrium libertatis Found in books: Rutledge, Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting (2012) 224; Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 43 | 2.1. TO POLLIO, WRITING HIS HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WARS You’re handling the Civil Wars, since Metelluswas Consul, the causes, errors, and stages, Fortune’s game, and the heavy friendships of princes, and the un-expiated stain of blood over various weapons, a task that’s filled with dangerous pitfalls, so that you’re walking over embers hidden under the treacherous ashes. Don’t let the Muse of dark actions be long away from the theatre: soon, when you’ve finished writing public events, reveal your great gifts again in Athenian tragedy, you famous defendant of troubled clients, Pollio, support of the Senate’s councils, whom the laurel gave lasting glory in the form of your Dalmatian triumph. Already you’re striking our ears with the sounds, the menace of blaring horns, and the trumpets, already the glitter of weapons terrifies horses, and riders’ faces. Now I seem to hear magnificent leaders, heads darkened, but not with inglorious dust, and all the lands of earth are subdued, but not implacable Cato’s spirit. Juno, and those gods friendly to Africa, who, powerless to avenge the land, withdrew, make funeral offerings to Jugurtha, of the grandchildren of his conquerors. What fields are not enriched with the blood of Rome, to bear witness with their graves to this impious struggle of ours, and the sound, even heard by the Persians, of Italy’s ruin? What river or pool is ignorant of these wretched wars? What sea has Roman slaughter failed to discolour, and show me the shores that are, as yet, still unstained by our blood. But Muse, lest you dare to leave happy themes, and take up Simonides’ dirges again, search out a lighter plectrum’s measures, with me, in some deep cavern of Venus. |
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| 21. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 4.15.3-4.15.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •temples, shrines, and altars, atrium libertatis Found in books: Buszard, Greek Translations of Roman Gods (2023) 231 |
| 22. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, a b c d\n0 12.43 12.43 12 43\n1 "11.29.1" "11.29.1" "11 29 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Nelsestuen, Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic (2015) 2 |
| 23. Strabo, Geography, a b c d\n0 "9.2.31" "9.2.31" "9 2 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •temples, shrines, and altars, atrium libertatis Found in books: Buszard, Greek Translations of Roman Gods (2023) 231 |
| 24. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, On Thucydides, "36" (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •temples, shrines, and altars, atrium libertatis Found in books: Buszard, Greek Translations of Roman Gods (2023) 231 |
25. Suetonius, Iulius, 44.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •rule, atrium libertatis Found in books: Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 295, 296 | 44.2. to reduce the civil code to fixed limits, and of the vast and prolix mass of statutes to include only the best and most essential in a limited number of volumes; to open to the public the greatest possible libraries of Greek and Latin books, assigning to Marcus Varro the charge of procuring and classifying them; |
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26. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 7.115, 35.9-35.10, 36.33 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •rule, atrium libertatis •atrium libertatis •cephisodotus, works in atrium libertatis Found in books: Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 295; Nelsestuen, Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic (2015) 2, 213; Rutledge, Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting (2012) 224 | 35.9. But it was the Dictator Caesar who gave outstanding public importance to pictures by dedicating paintings of Ajax and Medea in front of the temple of Venus Genetrix; and after him Marcus Agrippa, a man who stood nearer to rustic simplicity than to refinements. At all events there is preserved a speech of Agrippa, lofty in tone and worthy of the greatest of the citizens, on the question of making all pictures and statues national property, a procedure which would have been preferable to banishing them to country houses. However, that same severe spirit paid the city of Cyzicus 1,200,000 sesterces for two pictures, an Ajax and an Aphrodite; he had also had small paintings let into the marble even in the warmest part of his hot baths; which were removed a short time ago when the Baths were being repaired. 35.10. His late lamented Majesty Augustus went beyond all others, in placing two pictures in the most frequented part of his Forum, one with a likeness of War and Triumph, and one with the Castors and Victory. He also erected in the Temple of his father Caesar pictures we shall specify in giving the names of artists. He likewise let into a wall in the curia which he was dedicating in the Comitium: a Nemea seated on a lion, holding a palm-branch in her hand, and standing at her side an old man leaning on a stick and with a picture of a two-horse chariot hung up over his head, on which there was an inscription saying that it was an encaustic design — such is the term which he employed — by Nicias. The second picture is remarkable for displaying the close family likeness between a son in the prime of life and an elderly father, allowing for the difference of age: above them soars an eagle with a snake in its claws; Philochares has stated this work to be by him showing the immeasurable power exercised by art if one merely considers this picture alone, inasmuch as thanks to Philochares two otherwise quite obscure persons Glaucio and his son Aristippus after all these centuries have passed still stand in the view of the senate of the Roman nation! The most ungracious emperor Tiberius also placed pictures in the temple of Augustus himself which we shall soon mention. Thus much for the dignity of this now expiring art. 36.33. The 'melitinus' stone exudes a liquid that is sweet and is like honey. When pounded and mixed with wax it cures acute catarrh, spots on the skin and sore throats, and removes sores on the eyelids; and if applied on a wool dressing it causes pains in the uterus to disappear. |
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| 27. Appian, Civil Wars, 4.1-4.51 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis Found in books: Nelsestuen, Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic (2015) 2, 213 |
28. Suetonius, Augustus, 29.5, 35.2, 43.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 295; Nelsestuen, Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic (2015) 2, 213; Rutledge, Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting (2012) 224; Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 43 | 29.5. And many such works were built at that time by many men; for example, the temple of Hercules and the Muses by Marcius Philippus, the temple of Diana by Lucius Cornificius, the Hall of Liberty by Asinius Pollio, the temple of Saturn by Munatius Plancus, a theatre by Cornelius Balbus, an amphitheatre by Statilius Taurus, and by Marcus Agrippa in particular many magnificent structures. 30 |
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29. Tacitus, Annals, 3.72, 4.34 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cephisodotus, works in atrium libertatis •republic, atrium libertatis Found in books: Rutledge, Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting (2012) 224; Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 43| 3.72. Isdem diebus Lepidus ab senatu petivit ut basilicam Pauli, Aemilia monimenta, propria pecunia firmaret ornaretque. erat etiam tum in more publica munificentia; nec Augustus arcuerat Taurum, Philippum, Balbum hostilis exuvias aut exundantis opes ornatum ad urbis et posterum gloriam conferre. quo tum exemplo Lepidus, quamquam pecuniae modicus, avitum decus recoluit. at Pompei theatrum igne fortuito haustum Caesar extructurum pollicitus est eo quod nemo e familia restaurando sufficeret, manente tamen nomine Pompei. simul laudibus Seianum extulit tamquam labore vigilantiaque eius tanta vis unum intra damnum stetisset; et censuere patres effigiem Seiano quae apud theatrum Pompei locaretur. neque multo post Caesar, cum Iunium Blaesum pro consule Africae triumphi insignibus attolleret, dare id se dixit honori Seiani, cuius ille avunculus erat. ac tamen res Blaesi dignae decore tali fuere. 4.34. Cornelio Cosso Asinio Agrippa consulibus Cremutius Cordus postulatur novo ac tunc primum audito crimine, quod editis annalibus laudatoque M. Bruto C. Cassium Romanorum ultimum dixisset. accusabant Satrius Secundus et Pinarius Natta, Seiani clientes. id perniciabile reo et Caesar truci vultu defensionem accipiens, quam Cremutius relinquendae vitae certus in hunc modum exorsus est: 'verba mea, patres conscripti, arguuntur: adeo factorum innocens sum. sed neque haec in principem aut principis parentem, quos lex maiestatis amplectitur: Brutum et Cassium laudavisse dicor, quorum res gestas cum plurimi composuerint, nemo sine honore memoravit. Titus Livius, eloquentiae ac fidei praeclarus in primis, Cn. Pompeium tantis laudibus tulit ut Pompeianum eum Augustus appellaret; neque id amicitiae eorum offecit. Scipionem, Afranium, hunc ipsum Cassium, hunc Brutum nusquam latrones et parricidas, quae nunc vocabula imponuntur, saepe ut insignis viros nominat. Asinii Pollionis scripta egregiam eorundem memoriam tradunt; Messala Corvinus imperatorem suum Cassium praedicabat: et uterque opibusque atque honoribus perviguere. Marci Ciceronis libro quo Catonem caelo aequavit, quid aliud dictator Caesar quam rescripta oratione velut apud iudices respondit? Antonii epistulae Bruti contiones falsa quidem in Augustum probra set multa cum acerbitate habent; carmina Bibaculi et Catulli referta contumeliis Caesarum leguntur: sed ipse divus Iulius, ipse divus Augustus et tulere ista et reliquere, haud facile dixerim, moderatione magis an sapientia. namque spreta exolescunt: si irascare, adgnita videntur. | 3.72. Nearly at the same time, Marcus Lepidus asked permission from the senate to strengthen and decorate the Basilica of Paulus, a monument of the Aemilian house, at his own expense. Public munificence was a custom still; nor had Augustus debarred a Taurus, a Philippus, or a Balbus from devoting the trophies of his arms or the overflow of his wealth to the greater splendour of the capital and the glory of posterity: and now Lepidus, a man of but moderate fortune, followed in their steps by renovating the famous edifice of his fathers. On the other hand, the rebuilding of the Theatre of Pompey, destroyed by a casual fire, was undertaken by Caesar, on the ground that no member of the family was equal to the task of restoration: the name of Pompey was, however, to remain. At the same time, he gave high praise to Sejanus, "through whose energy and watchfulness so grave an outbreak had stopped at one catastrophe." The Fathers voted a statue to Sejanus, to be placed in the Theatre of Pompey. Again, a short time afterwards, when he was honouring Junius Blaesus, proconsul of Africa, with the triumphal insignia, he explained that he did so as a compliment to Sejanus, of whom Blaesus was uncle. â None the less the exploits of Blaesus deserved such a distinction. < 3.72. Nearly at the same time, Marcus Lepidus asked permission from the senate to strengthen and decorate the Basilica of Paulus, a monument of the Aemilian house, at his own expense. Public munificence was a custom still; nor had Augustus debarred a Taurus, a Philippus, or a Balbus from devoting the trophies of his arms or the overflow of his wealth to the greater splendour of the capital and the glory of posterity: and now Lepidus, a man of but moderate fortune, followed in their steps by renovating the famous edifice of his fathers. On the other hand, the rebuilding of the Theatre of Pompey, destroyed by a casual fire, was undertaken by Caesar, on the ground that no member of the family was equal to the task of restoration: the name of Pompey was, however, to remain. At the same time, he gave high praise to Sejanus, "through whose energy and watchfulness so grave an outbreak had stopped at one catastrophe." The Fathers voted a statue to Sejanus, to be placed in the Theatre of Pompey. Again, a short time afterwards, when he was honouring Junius Blaesus, proconsul of Africa, with the triumphal insignia, he explained that he did so as a compliment to Sejanus, of whom Blaesus was uncle. â None the less the exploits of Blaesus deserved such a distinction. 4.34. The consulate of Cornelius Cossus and Asinius Agrippa opened with the prosecution of Cremutius Cordus upon the novel and till then unheard-of charge of publishing a history, eulogizing Brutus, and styling Cassius the last of the Romans. The accusers were Satrius Secundus and Pinarius Natta, clients of Sejanus. That circumstance sealed the defendant's fate â that and the lowering brows of the Caesar, as he bent his attention to the defence; which Cremutius, resolved to take his leave of life, began as follows:â "Conscript Fathers, my words are brought to judgement â so guiltless am I of deeds! Nor are they even words against the sole persons embraced by the law of treason, the sovereign or the parent of the sovereign: I am said to have praised Brutus and Cassius, whose acts so many pens have recorded, whom not one has mentioned save with honour. Livy, with a fame for eloquence and candour second to none, lavished such eulogies on Pompey that Augustus styled him 'the Pompeian': yet it was without prejudice to their friendship. Scipio, Afranius, this very Cassius, this Brutus â not once does he describe them by the now fashionable titles of brigand and parricide, but time and again in such terms as he might apply to any distinguished patriots. The works of Asinius Pollio transmit their character in noble colours; Messalla Corvinus gloried to have served under Cassius: and Pollio and Corvinus lived and died in the fulness of wealth and honour! When Cicero's book praised Cato to the skies, what did it elicit from the dictator Caesar but a written oration as though at the bar of public opinion? The letters of Antony, the speeches of Brutus, contain invectives against Augustus, false undoubtedly yet bitter in the extreme; the poems â still read â of Bibaculus and Catullus are packed with scurrilities upon the Caesars: yet even the deified Julius, the divine Augustus himself, tolerated them and left them in peace; and I hesitate whether to ascribe their action to forbearance or to wisdom. For things contemned are soon things forgotten: anger is read as recognition. < 4.34. The consulate of Cornelius Cossus and Asinius Agrippa opened with the prosecution of Cremutius Cordus upon the novel and till then unheard-of charge of publishing a history, eulogizing Brutus, and styling Cassius the last of the Romans. The accusers were Satrius Secundus and Pinarius Natta, clients of Sejanus. That circumstance sealed the defendant's fate â that and the lowering brows of the Caesar, as he bent his attention to the defence; which Cremutius, resolved to take his leave of life, began as follows:â "Conscript Fathers, my words are brought to judgement â so guiltless am I of deeds! Nor are they even words against the sole persons embraced by the law of treason, the sovereign or the parent of the sovereign: I am said to have praised Brutus and Cassius, whose acts so many pens have recorded, whom not one has mentioned save with honour. Livy, with a fame for eloquence and candour second to none, lavished such eulogies on Pompey that Augustus styled him 'the Pompeian': yet it was without prejudice to their friendship. Scipio, Afranius, this very Cassius, this Brutus â not once does he describe them by the now fashionable titles of brigand and parricide, but time and again in such terms as he might apply to any distinguished patriots. The works of Asinius Pollio transmit their character in noble colours; Messalla Corvinus gloried to have served under Cassius: and Pollio and Corvinus lived and died in the fulness of wealth and honour! When Cicero's book praised Cato to the skies, what did it elicit from the dictator Caesar but a written oration as though at the bar of public opinion? The letters of Antony, the speeches of Brutus, contain invectives against Augustus, false undoubtedly yet bitter in the extreme; the poems â still read â of Bibaculus and Catullus are packed with scurrilities upon the Caesars: yet even the deified Julius, the divine Augustus himself, tolerated them and left them in peace; and I hesitate whether to ascribe their action to forbearance or to wisdom. For things contemned are soon things forgotten: anger is read as recognition. |
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| 30. Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, 10.1.95 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis Found in books: Nelsestuen, Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic (2015) 7 |
| 31. Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, 10.1.95 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis Found in books: Nelsestuen, Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic (2015) 7 |
| 32. Plutarch, Pompey, 24 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis Found in books: Nelsestuen, Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic (2015) 2 |
33. Suetonius, Tiberius, 61.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •republic, atrium libertatis Found in books: Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 43 | 61.3. Every crime was treated as capital, even the utterance of a few simple words. A poet was charged with having slandered Agamemnon in a tragedy, and a writer of history of having called Brutus and Cassius the last of the Romans. The writers were at once put to death and their works destroyed, although they had been read with approval in public some years before in the presence of Augustus himself. |
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| 34. Festus Sextus Pompeius, De Verborum Significatione, "247 s.v. libertatis templum" (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •temples, shrines, and altars, atrium libertatis Found in books: Buszard, Greek Translations of Roman Gods (2023) 231 |
35. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 47.1-47.17, 57.24.2-57.24.3 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis •republic, atrium libertatis Found in books: Nelsestuen, Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic (2015) 2; Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 43 | 47.7. These acts were committed chiefly by Lepidus and Antony; for they had been honoured by the former Caesar for many years, and as they had been holding offices and governorships for a long time they had many enemies., But Caesar seems to have taken part in the business merely because of his sharing the authority, since he himself had no need at all to kill a large number; for he was not naturally cruel and had been brought up in his father's ways. Moreover, as he was still a young man and had just entered politics, he was under no necessity in any case of hating many persons violently, and, besides, he wished to be loved., A proof of this is that from the time he broke off his joint rulership with his colleagues and held the power alone he no longer did anything of the sort. And even at this time he not only refrained from destroying many but actually saved a very large number; and he treated with great severity those who betrayed their masters or friends and very leniently those who helped others. <, Witness the case of Tanusia, a woman of note. She at first concealed her husband Titus Vinius, one of the proscribed, in a chest at the house of a freedman named Philopoemen and so made it appear that he had been killed. Later she waited for a popular festival, which a relative of hers was to direct, and through the influence of Caesar's sister Octavia brought it about that Caesar alone of the triumvirs entered the theatre., Then she rushed in and informed him of her deed, of which he was still ignorant, brought in the chest itself and produced from it her husband. Caesar, astonished, released all of them â for death was the penalty also for such as concealed anyone â and enrolled Philopoemen among the knights. < 47.7. 1. These acts were committed chiefly by Lepidus and Antony; for they had been honoured by the former Caesar for many years, and as they had been holding offices and governorships for a long time they had many enemies.,2. But Caesar seems to have taken part in the business merely because of his sharing the authority, since he himself had no need at all to kill a large number; for he was not naturally cruel and had been brought up in his father's ways. Moreover, as he was still a young man and had just entered politics, he was under no necessity in any case of hating many persons violently, and, besides, he wished to be loved.,3. A proof of this is that from the time he broke off his joint rulership with his colleagues and held the power alone he no longer did anything of the sort. And even at this time he not only refrained from destroying many but actually saved a very large number; and he treated with great severity those who betrayed their masters or friends and very leniently those who helped others.,4. Witness the case of Tanusia, a woman of note. She at first concealed her husband Titus Vinius, one of the proscribed, in a chest at the house of a freedman named Philopoemen and so made it appear that he had been killed. Later she waited for a popular festival, which a relative of hers was to direct, and through the influence of Caesar's sister Octavia brought it about that Caesar alone of the triumvirs entered the theatre.,5. Then she rushed in and informed him of her deed, of which he was still ignorant, brought in the chest itself and produced from it her husband. Caesar, astonished, released all of them â for death was the penalty also for such as concealed anyone â and enrolled Philopoemen among the knights. < 47.8. So Caesar saved the lives of as many as he could; and Lepidus allowed his brother Paulus to escape to Miletus and was not inexorable toward the others. But Antony killed savagely and mercilessly, not only those whose names had been posted, but likewise those who had attempted to assist any of them., He always viewed their heads, even if he happened to be eating, and sated himself to the fullest extent on this most unholy and pitiable sight. And even Fulvia also caused the death of many, both to satisfy her enmity and to gain their wealth, in some cases men with whom her husband was not even acquainted;, at any rate, when he saw the head of one man, he exclaimed: "I knew not this man!" When, however, the head of Cicero also was brought to them one day (he had been overtaken and slain in flight), Antony uttered many bitter reproaches against it and then ordered it to be exposed on the rostra more prominently than the rest, in order that it might be seen in the very place where Cicero had so often been heard declaiming against him, together with his right hand, just as it had been cut off., And Fulvia took the head into her hands before it was removed, and after abusing it spitefully and spitting upon it, set it on her knees, opened the mouth, and pulled out the tongue, which she pierced with the pins that she used for her hair, at the same time uttering many brutal jests., Yet even this pair saved some persons from whom they got more money than they could expect to obtain by their death; and in order that the places for their names on the tablets might not be empty, they inscribed others in their stead. Indeed, with the exception of releasing his uncle at the earnest entreaty of his mother Julia, Antony performed no praiseworthy act. < 47.8. 1. So Caesar saved the lives of as many as he could; and Lepidus allowed his brother Paulus to escape to Miletus and was not inexorable toward the others. But Antony killed savagely and mercilessly, not only those whose names had been posted, but likewise those who had attempted to assist any of them.,2. He always viewed their heads, even if he happened to be eating, and sated himself to the fullest extent on this most unholy and pitiable sight. And even Fulvia also caused the death of many, both to satisfy her enmity and to gain their wealth, in some cases men with whom her husband was not even acquainted;,3. at any rate, when he saw the head of one man, he exclaimed: "I knew not this man!" When, however, the head of Cicero also was brought to them one day (he had been overtaken and slain in flight), Antony uttered many bitter reproaches against it and then ordered it to be exposed on the rostra more prominently than the rest, in order that it might be seen in the very place where Cicero had so often been heard declaiming against him, together with his right hand, just as it had been cut off.,4. And Fulvia took the head into her hands before it was removed, and after abusing it spitefully and spitting upon it, set it on her knees, opened the mouth, and pulled out the tongue, which she pierced with the pins that she used for her hair, at the same time uttering many brutal jests.,5. Yet even this pair saved some persons from whom they got more money than they could expect to obtain by their death; and in order that the places for their names on the tablets might not be empty, they inscribed others in their stead. Indeed, with the exception of releasing his uncle at the earnest entreaty of his mother Julia, Antony performed no praiseworthy act. < 57.24.2. Cremutius Cordus was forced to take his own life because he had come into collision with Sejanus. He was on the threshold of old age and had lived most irreproachably, so much so, in fact, that no serious charge could be brought against him, and he was therefore tried for this history 57.24.3. of the achievements of Augustus which he had written long before, and which Augustus himself had read. He was accused of having praised Cassius and Brutus, and of having assailed the people and the senate; as regarded Caesar and Augustus, while he had spoken no ill of them, he had not, on the other hand, shown any unusual respect for them. 57.24.3. of the achievements of Augustus which he had written long before, and which Augustus himself had read. He was accused of having praised Cassius and Brutus, and of having assailed the people and the senate; as regarded Caesar and Augustus, while he had spoken no ill of them, he had not, on the other hand, shown any unusual respect for them. 4 This was the complaint made against him, and this it was that caused his death as well as the burning of his writings; those found in the city at the time were destroyed by the aediles, and those elsewhere by the magistrates of each place. Later they were republished, for his daughter Marcia as well as others had hidden some copies; and they aroused much greater interest by very reason of Cordus' unhappy fate. |
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| 39. Isidore of Seville, Etymologies, 6.5.1-6.5.2 (6th cent. CE - 7th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •rule, atrium libertatis Found in books: Borg, Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic (2008) 295 |
| 40. Velleius Paterculus, Roman History, 2.86.3 Tagged with subjects: •republic, atrium libertatis Found in books: Scott, An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time (2023) 43 |
| 41. Varro, Hebdomades, 1 chappuis Tagged with subjects: •atrium libertatis Found in books: Nelsestuen, Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic (2015) 7 |
