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Cassius Dio, Roman History, 52.34.1

nan Whatever you wish your subjects to think and do, this you should always say and do yourself. In this way you will be educating them, rather than intimidating them through the punishments prescribed by the laws. The former policy inspires zeal, the latter fear; and one finds it easier to imitate that which is good when he sees it actually practised than to avoid that which is evil when he hears it forbidden by mere words.

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1. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 4.92.7, 7.77.2-7.77.3 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 4.92.7. Remembering this, the old must equal their ancient exploits, and the young, the sons of the heroes of that time, must endeavor not to disgrace their native valour; and trusting in the help of the god whose temple has been sacrilegiously fortified, and in the victims which in our sacrifices have proved propitious, we must march against the enemy, and teach him that he must go and get what he wants by attacking some one who will not resist him, but that men whose glory it is to be always ready to give battle for the liberty of their own country, and never unjustly to enslave that of others, will not let him go without a struggle.’ 7.77.2. I myself who am not superior to any of you in strength—indeed you see how I am in my sickness—and who in the gifts of fortune am, I think, whether in private life or otherwise, the equal of any, am now exposed to the same danger as the meanest among you; and yet my life has been one of much devotion towards the gods, and of much justice and without offence towards men. 7.77.3. I have, therefore, still a strong hope for the future, and our misfortunes do not terrify me as much as they might. Indeed we may hope that they will be lightened: our enemies have had good fortune enough; and if any of the gods was offended at our expedition, we have been already amply punished.
2. Xenophon, The Persian Expedition, 5.1.15 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 5.1.15. Furthermore, they got a fifty-oared warship from the Trapezuntians, and put it under the command of Dexippus, a Laconian perioecus. The perioeci were the inhabitants of the outlying Laconian towns; they were free, but not Spartan citizens. This fellow, however, paying no heed to the duty of collecting vessels, slipped away with his man-of-war and left the Euxine. He did indeed get his deserts afterwards; for while engaged in some intrigue at the court of Seuthes See Xen. Anab. 7.2.31-34 . in Thrace he was killed by Nicander the Laconian.
3. Xenophon, The Education of Cyrus, 1.6.25 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 1.6.25. You mean to say, father, said he, that in everything the general must show more endurance than his men. Yes said he, that is just what I mean; however, never fear for that, my son; for bear in mind that the same toils do not affect the general and the private in the same way, though they have the same sort of bodies; but the honour of the general’s position and the very consciousness that nothing he does escapes notice lighten the burdens for him.
4. Cicero, On Friendship, 52 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
5. Cicero, Pro Murena, 38 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
6. Polybius, Histories, 10.3.7 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)
7. Plutarch, Alexander The Great, 4.4-4.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 4.4. And in Alexander’s case, it was the heat of his body, as it would seem, which made him prone to drink, and choleric. But while he was still a boy his self-restraint showed itself in the fact that, although he was impetuous and violent in other matters, the pleasures of the body had little hold upon him, and he indulged in them with great moderation, while his ambition kept his spirit serious and lofty in advance of his years. 4.5. For it was neither every kind of fame nor fame from every source that he courted, as Philip did, who plumed himself like a sophist on the power of his oratory, and took care to have the victories of his chariots at Olympia engraved upon his coins; nay, when those about him inquired whether he would be willing to contend in the foot-race at the Olympic games, since he was swift of foot, Yes, said he, if I could have kings as my contestants.
8. Plutarch, Pelopidas, 2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
9. Suetonius, Iulius, 57 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
10. Tacitus, Annals, 13.35 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
11. Tacitus, Histories, 2.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 2.5.  Vespasian was energetic in war. He used to march at the head of his troops, select a place for camp, oppose the enemy night and day with wise strategy and, if occasion demanded, with his own hands. His food was whatever chance offered; in his dress and bearing he hardly differed from the common soldier. He would have been quite equal to the generals of old if he had not been avaricious. Mucianus, on the other hand, was eminent for his magnificence and wealth and by the complete superiority of his scale of life to that of a private citizen. He was the readier speaker, experienced in civil administration and in statesmanship. It would have been a rare combination for an emperor if the faults of the two could have been done away with and their virtues only combined in one man. But Mucianus was governor of Syria, Vespasian of Judea. They had quarrelled through jealousy because they governed neighbouring provinces. Finally at Nero's death they had laid aside their hostilities and consulted together, at first through friends as go-betweens; and then Titus, the chief bond of their concord, had ended their dangerous feud by pointing out their common interests; both by his nature and skill he was well calculated to win over even a person of the character of Mucianus. Tribunes, centurions, and the common soldiers were secured for the cause by industry or by licence, by virtues or by pleasures, according to the individual's character.
12. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 52.15.2-52.15.3, 52.32, 52.39.3-52.39.4, 53.19, 54.15.4, 68.23 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 52.15.2.  that you and your counsellors should conduct the wars according to your own wishes, all other citizens rendering instant obedience to your commands; that the choice of the officials should rest with you and your advisers; and that you and they should also determine the honours and the punishments. The advantage of all this would be that whatever pleased you in consultation with your peers would immediately become law; 52.15.3.  that our wars against our enemies would be waged with secrecy and at the opportune time; that those to whom any task was entrusted would be appointed because of their merit and not as the result of the lot or rivalry for office; that the good would be honoured without arousing jealousy and the bad punished without causing rebellion. 52.32. 1.  "These matters, then, should be referred by you to the senate, and also those others which are of the greatest importance to the state. For interests which are shared in common should be administered in common. Besides, it is doubtless a quality implanted by nature in all men that they take delight in any marks of esteem received from a superior which imply that they are his equals, and that they not only approve of all decisions made by another in consultation with themselves, as being their own decisions, but also submit to them as having been imposed by their own free choice.,2.  Therefore I say that such business ought to be brought before the senate. Furthermore, all the senators alike, that is, all who are present, should vote on all other matters: but when one of their own number is accused, not all of them should do so, unless the one who is on trial is not yet sitting as a senator or is still in the ranks of the ex-quaestors.,3.  For it is absurd that one who has not yet been a tribune or an aedile should cast a vote against men who have held those offices, or, worse yet, that any one of the latter should vote against men who have been praetors, or one of these last against men who have been consuls. Rather, let the ex-consuls alone have authority to render decisions in the case of all senators, and let the rest of the senators vote only in the cases of senators of a rank equal or inferior to their own. 52.39.3.  For how can men help regarding you with affection as father and saviour, when they see that you are orderly and upright in your life, successful in war though inclined to peace; when you refrain from insolence and greed; when you meet them on a footing of equality 53.19. 1.  In this way the government was changed at that time for the better and in the interest of greater security; for it was no doubt quite impossible for the people to be saved under a republic. Nevertheless, the events occurring after this time can not be recorded in the same manner as those of previous times.,2.  Formerly, as we know, all matters were reported to the senate and to the people, even if they happened at a distance; hence all learned of them and many recorded them, and consequently the truth regarding them, no matter to what extent fear or favour, friendship or enmity, coloured the reports of certain writers, was always to a certain extent to be found in the works of the other writers who wrote of the same events and in the public records.,3.  But after this time most things that happened began to be kept secret and concealed, and even though some things are perchance made public, they are distrusted just because they can not be verified; for it is suspected that everything is said and done with reference to the wishes of the men in power at the time and of their associates.,4.  As a result, much that never occurs is noised abroad, and much that happens beyond a doubt is unknown, and in the case of nearly every event a version gains currency that is different from the way it really happened. Furthermore, the very magnitude of the empire and the multitude of things that occur render accuracy in regard to them most difficult.,5.  In Rome, for example, much is going on, and much in the subject territory, while, as regards our enemies, there is something happening all the time, in fact, every day, and concerning these things no one except the participants can easily have correct information, and most people do not even hear of them at all.,6.  Hence in my own narrative of later events, so far as they need to be mentioned, everything that I shall say will be in accordance with reports that have been given out, whether it be really the truth or otherwise. In addition to these reports, however, my own opinion will be given, as far as possible, whenever I have been able, from the abundant evidence which I have gathered from my reading, from hearsay, and from what I have seen, to form a judgment that differs from the common report. 54.15.4.  Let this explanation apply also to everything that I shall write hereafter. As for the time of which we are speaking, Augustus executed a few men; in the case of Lepidus, however, although he hated the man, among other reasons, because his son had been detected in a plot against him and had been punished, yet he did not wish to put him to death, but kept subjecting him to insult from time to time in various ways. 68.23. 1.  the senate voted to him all the usual honours in great plenty and furthermore bestowed upon him the title of Optimus, or Most Excellent. He always marched on foot with the rank and file of his army, and he attended to the ordering and disposition of the troops throughout the entire campaign, leading them sometimes in one order and sometimes in another; and he forded all the rivers that they did.,2.  Sometimes he even caused his scouts to circulate false reports, in order that the soldiers might at one and the same time practise military manoeuvres and become fearless and ready for any dangers. After he had captured Nisibis and Batnae he was given the name of Parthicus; but he took much greater pride in the title of Optimus than in all the rest, inasmuch as it referred rather to his character than to his arms.
13. Herodian, History of The Empire After Marcus, 4.3.4 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
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subject	book bibliographic info
agrippa (m. vipsanius agrippa)	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 102
aristotle	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219
audience,external	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139
audience,internal	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139
audience	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139
augustus/octavian,clemency of	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 102
augustus/octavian,dios view of	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 69
augustus/octavian,plebs,people,relationship with	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 69
augustus/octavian	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 69
augustus	Martens (2003), One God, One Law: Philo of Alexandria on the Mosaic and Greco-Roman Law, 50
battle scenes	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139
bravery (ἀνδρεία)	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139
brother	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219
caracalla	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139, 219
cassius dio,retirement of in bithynia	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 69
cassius dio,roman history,agrippa-maecenas debate	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 69
cassius dio	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219
clemency (clementia)	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 69, 102
codex vaticanus graecus,historiographical/methodological approach	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 102
codex vaticanus graecus,human nature,view of	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 69
codex vaticanus graecus,information,selection/selectiveness of	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 102
connections with foreign wars,marcus aureliuss view of	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 102
contrasts (in narrative)	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139
cruelty	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219
demosthenes (orator)	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219
dio cassius,on living law ideal in roman imperialism	Martens (2003), One God, One Law: Philo of Alexandria on the Mosaic and Greco-Roman Law, 50
divine	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139
endurance	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139
exile	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 69
fear	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219
friendship	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219
gaius (emperor)	Martens (2003), One God, One Law: Philo of Alexandria on the Mosaic and Greco-Roman Law, 50
geta	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219
goodwill (εὔνοια)	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219
groups	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139
historiography,information,access to	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 102
idleness	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139
imitation (of emperors)	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139
isocrates	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219
julianus (didius)	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139
julius caesar,c.	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 69
julius caesar	Martens (2003), One God, One Law: Philo of Alexandria on the Mosaic and Greco-Roman Law, 50
king/kingship,deified	Martens (2003), One God, One Law: Philo of Alexandria on the Mosaic and Greco-Roman Law, 50
leader(ship)	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139
living law ideal,and roman imperialism	Martens (2003), One God, One Law: Philo of Alexandria on the Mosaic and Greco-Roman Law, 50
living law ideal,deified king	Martens (2003), One God, One Law: Philo of Alexandria on the Mosaic and Greco-Roman Law, 50
livy	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219
maecenas,imperial organization,advice on	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 69
maecenas	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 69
marcus aurelius	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139, 219
marcus aurelius (roman emperor),avidius cassius,rebellion of	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 102
marcus aurelius (roman emperor),clemency of	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 102
marcus aurelius (roman emperor)	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 102
maximinus thrax	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219
monarchy,augustan	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 69
monarchy,behavior of,as education for citizenry	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 69
monarchy,dios view of	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 69
monarchy,information,availability/flow and	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 102
monarchy	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 69
mosaic law,for ordinary people	Martens (2003), One God, One Law: Philo of Alexandria on the Mosaic and Greco-Roman Law, 50
octavian	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219
pertinax	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139
plebs,people,relationship with,perusia,battle of	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 69
plutarch	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219
praise	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139
rhetoric,used by roman emperors	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139
roman imperialism,and living law,ideal	Martens (2003), One God, One Law: Philo of Alexandria on the Mosaic and Greco-Roman Law, 50
senate	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 69
septimius severus	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139, 219
soldiers	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139
speech(es)	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139, 219
suetonius	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219
tacitus (p. cornelius tacitus),principate,attitude towards	Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 69
theory of indifferents,suetonius'	Martens (2003), One God, One Law: Philo of Alexandria on the Mosaic and Greco-Roman Law, 50
thucydides	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219
tyranny/tyrants	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219
violence	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219
virtues	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 139
xenophon	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 219