1. None, None, nan (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Capitol • temples, of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Capitol
Found in books: Konrad (2022) 46; Rüpke (2011) 45
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2. None, None, nan (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Capitol • Capitol, fire of
Found in books: Rosa and Santangelo (2020) 49, 52, 53; Santangelo (2013) 99, 144, 186
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3. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.588-15.589 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Capitol • Capitol, processions
Found in books: Jenkyns (2013) 36; Santangelo (2013) 87
15.589. exsul agam, quam me videant Capitolia regem!”' '. None | 15.589. the cassia bark and ears of sweet spikenard,' '. None |
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4. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Capitol, destiny of • Capitol, potency of • Capitol, processions
Found in books: Jenkyns (2013) 32, 329; Santangelo (2013) 127
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5. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Capitol • Capitol, processions
Found in books: Jenkyns (2013) 158; Konrad (2022) 52
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6. Tacitus, Histories, 1.2, 1.40, 3.71-3.72, 3.85 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Capitol • Capitol, during civil unrest • Capitol, fire of • Capitol, potency of • Cornelius Sulla, L., and the Capitol
Found in books: Baumann and Liotsakis (2022) 175, 179, 187, 188, 189, 190; Bloch (2022) 129; Jenkyns (2013) 135, 136, 179; Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022) 370; Santangelo (2013) 135
| 3.71. \xa0Martialis had hardly returned to the Capitol when the soldiers arrived in fury. They had no leader; each directed his own movements. Rushing through the Forum and past the temples that rise above it, they advanced in column up the hill, as far as the first gates of the Capitoline citadel. There were then some old colonnades on the right as you go up the slopes; the defenders came out on the roofs of these and showered stones and tiles on their assailants. The latter had no arms except their swords, and they thought that it would cost too much time to send for artillery and missiles; consequently they threw firebrands on a projecting colonnade, and then followed in the path of the flames; they actually burned the gates of the Capitol and would have forced their way through, if Sabinus had not torn down all the statues, memorials to the glory of our ancestors, and piled them up across the entrance as a barricade. Then the assailants tried different approaches to the Capitol, one by the grove of the asylum and another by the hundred steps that lead up to the Tarpeian Rock. Both attacks were unexpected; but the one by the asylum was closer and more threatening. Moreover, the defenders were unable to stop those who climbed through neighbouring houses, which, built high in time of peace, reached the level of the Capitol. It is a question here whether it was the besiegers or the besieged who threw fire on the roofs. The more common tradition says this was done by the latter in their attempts to repel their assailants, who were climbing up or had reached the top. From the houses the fire spread to the colonnades adjoining the temple; then the "eagles" which supported the roof, being of old wood, caught and fed the flames. So the Capitol burned with its doors closed; none defended it, none pillaged it.' "3.72. \xa0This was the saddest and most shameful crime that the Roman state had ever suffered since its foundation. Rome had no foreign foe; the gods were ready to be propitious if our characters had allowed; and yet the home of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, founded after due auspices by our ancestors as a pledge of empire, which neither Porsenna, when the city gave itself up to him, nor the Gauls when they captured it, could violate â\x80\x94 this was the shrine that the mad fury of emperors destroyed! The Capitol had indeed been burned before in civil war, but the crime was that of private individuals. Now it was openly besieged, openly burned â\x80\x94 and what were the causes that led to arms? What was the price paid for this great disaster? This temple stood intact so long as we fought for our country. King Tarquinius Priscus had vowed it in the war with the Sabines and had laid its foundations rather to match his hope of future greatness than in accordance with what the fortunes of the Roman people, still moderate, could supply. Later the building was begun by Servius Tullius with the enthusiastic help of Rome's allies, and afterwards carried on by Tarquinius Superbus with the spoils taken from the enemy at the capture of Suessa Pometia. But the glory of completing the work was reserved for liberty: after the expulsion of the kings, Horatius Pulvillus in his second consulship dedicated it; and its magnificence was such that the enormous wealth of the Roman people acquired thereafter adorned rather than increased its splendour. The temple was built again on the same spot when after an interval of four hundred and fifteen years it had been burned in the consulship of Lucius Scipio and Gaius Norbanus. The victorious Sulla undertook the work, but still he did not dedicate it; that was the only thing that his good fortune was refused. Amid all the great works built by the Caesars the name of Lutatius Catulus kept its place down to Vitellius's day. This was the temple that then was burned." '
3.85. \xa0Vitellius was forced at the point of the sword now to lift his face and offer it to his captors\' insults, now to see his own statues falling, and to look again and again on the rostra or the place where Galba had been killed. Finally, the soldiers drove him to the Gemonian stairs where the body of Flavius Sabinus had recently been lying. His only utterance marked his spirit as not ignoble, for when the tribune insulted him, he replied, "Yet I\xa0was your Emperor." Then he fell under a shower of blows; and the people attacked his body after he was dead with the same base spirit with which they had fawned on him while he lived.' '. None |
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7. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Capitol • Capitol, processions • Rome, Capitol • Washington DC, Capitol dome
Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015) 100; Jenkyns (2013) 6; Rosa and Santangelo (2020) 47; Rutledge (2012) 2
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8. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 8.6.13 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Capitol • Capitol (Rome)
Found in books: Edmondson (2008) 89; Talbert (1984) 306
| 8.6.13. To Montanus. You must by this time be aware from my last letter that I just lately noticed the monument erected to Pallas, which bore the following inscription Well, then, am I to consider that those who decreed these extravagant praises were merely gratifying his vanity or were acting like abject slaves ? I should say the former if such a spirit were becoming to a senate, and the latter but that no one is such an abject slave as to stoop to such servilities. Are we to ascribe it then to a desire to curry favour with Pallas, or to an insane passion to get on in the world? But who is so utterly mad as to wish to get on in the world at the price of his own shame and the disgrace of his country, especially when l ''. None |
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9. Vergil, Aeneis, 8.348
Tagged with subjects: • Capitol, destiny of • Capitol, potency of
Found in books: Jenkyns (2013) 331; Santangelo (2013) 124
8.348. aurea nunc, olim silvestribus horrida dumis.''. None | 8.348. the starting eyeballs stared. Then Hercules ''. None |
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