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Cassius Dio, Roman History, 59.17.3

nan In building the bridge not merely a passageway was constructed, but also resting-places and lodging-room were built along its course, and these had running water suitable for drinking. When all was ready, he put on the breastplate of Alexander (or so he claimed), and over it a purple silk chlamys, adorned with much gold and many precious stones from India; moreover he girt on a sword, too a shield, and donned a garland of oak leaves.

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1. Plutarch, Demetrius, 41.6-41.7 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
2. Plutarch, Pyrrhus, 26.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
3. Suetonius, Caligula, 57.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
4. Tacitus, Annals, 2.33, 3.55 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 2.33.  At the next session, the ex-consul, Quintus Haterius, and Octavius Fronto, a former praetor, spoke at length against the national extravagance; and it was resolved that table-plate should not be manufactured in solid gold, and that Oriental silks should no longer degrade the male sex. Fronto went further, and pressed for a statutory limit to silver, furniture, and domestics: for it was still usual for a member to precede his vote by mooting any point which he considered to be in the public interest. Asinius Gallus opposed:— "With the expansion of the empire, private fortunes had also grown; nor was this new, but consot with extremely ancient custom. Wealth was one thing with the Fabricii, another with the Scipios; and all was relative to the state. When the state was poor, you had frugality and cottages: when it attained a pitch of splendour such as the present, the individual also throve. In slaves or plate or anything procured for use there was neither excess nor moderation except with reference to the means of the owner. Senators and knights had a special property qualification, not because they differed in kind from their fellow-men, but in order that those who enjoyed precedence in place, rank, and dignity should enjoy it also in the easements that make for mental peace and physical well-being. And justly so — unless your distinguished men, while saddled with more responsibilities and greater dangers, were to be deprived of the relaxations compensating those responsibilities and those dangers." — With his virtuously phrased confession of vice, Gallus easily carried with him that audience of congenial spirits. Tiberius, too, had added that it was not the time for a censorship, and that, if there was any loosening of the national morality, a reformer would be forthcoming. 3.55.  When the Caesar's epistle had been read, the aediles were exempted from such a task; and spendthrift epicureanism, after being practised with extravagant prodigality throughout the century between the close of the Actian War and the struggle which placed Servius Galba on the throne, went gradually out of vogue. The causes of that change may well be investigated. Formerly aristocratic families of wealth or outstanding distinction were apt to be led to their downfall by a passion for magnificence. For it was still legitimate to court or be courted by the populace, by the provincials, by dependent princes; and the more handsome the fortune, the palace, the establishment of a man, the more imposing his reputation and his clientèle. After the merciless executions, when greatness of fame was death, the survivors turned to wiser paths. At the same time, the self-made men, repeatedly drafted into the senate from the municipalities and the colonies, and even from the provinces, introduced the plain-living habits of their own hearths; and although by good fortune or industry very many arrived at an old age of affluence, yet their prepossessions persisted to the end. But the main promoter of the stricter code was Vespasian, himself of the old school in his person and table. Thenceforward, deference to the sovereign and the love of emulating him proved more powerful than legal sanctions and deterrents. Or should we rather say there is a kind of cycle in all things — moral as well as seasonal revolutions? Nor, indeed, were all things better in the old time before us; but our own age too has produced much in the sphere of true nobility and much in that of art which posterity well may imitate. In any case, may the honourable competition of our present with our past long remain!
5. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 57.15.1, 59.26.10, 59.28.3 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 57.15.1.  These were the events of that year. In the consulship of Statilius Taurus and Lucius Libo, Tiberius forbade any man to wear silk clothing and also forbade anyone to use golden vessels except for sacred ceremonies. 59.26.10.  The attire, now, that I have described was what he would assume whenever he pretended to be a god; and suitable supplications, prayers, and sacrifices would then be offered to him. At other times he usually appeared in public in silk or in triumphal dress. 59.28.3.  but disdaining to take second place in this union of households, and blaming the god for occupying the Capitoline ahead of him, he hastened to erect another temple on the Palatine, and wished to transfer to it the statue of the Olympian Zeus after remodelling it to resemble himself.
6. Herodian, History of The Empire After Marcus, 1.7.5, 1.15.9, 4.7.3, 4.8.1-4.8.2, 5.3.7 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
7. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 2.3.8 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
8. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 2.3.8 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
9. Servius, Commentary On The Aeneid, 1.720 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
10. Vergil, Aeneis, 2.171-2.175 2.171. and hid himself, refusing to bring forth 2.172. His word of guile, and name what wretch should die. 2.173. At last, reluctant, and all loudly urged 2.174. By false Ulysses, he fulfils their plot 2.175. and, lifting up his voice oracular

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
advisers	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 242
aemilius paullus,m.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
alexander the great	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 242
antigonus i monophthalmus	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240
appearance	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240, 242
asinius gallus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
augustus,conquest of egypt	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 51
augustus,defeats cleopatra	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 51
augustus,takes the treasures of the ptolemies	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 51
barbarians	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 242
caligula,orders transference of olympian zeus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 51
caligula	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240, 242
caracalla	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240, 242
censors,regulate consumption	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
claudius marcellus,m.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
claudius pulcher,app.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
cleopatra	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 51
coherence (narrative)	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240
commodus	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240, 242
cornelius sulla,l.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
dionysus	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240, 242
divine	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240, 242
dress	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240, 242
effeminacy	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240, 242
elagabalus	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240, 242
farnese cup	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 51
frugalitas	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
gladiator	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 242
greece,caligula loots	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 51
hortensius hortalus,q.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
identity,construction of	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
josephus,on caligulas plundering of greece	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 51
julia maesa	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 242
julius caesar,c.,private tastes	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
luxury,and identity	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
luxury,its regulation	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
luxury	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240; Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
macrinus (opellius)	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240, 242
marcus aurelius	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240
memmius regulus,p.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 51
mummius achaicus,l.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
museum,the museum of modern art new york)	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 51
omens	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240
onlookers	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240, 242
parallelism (narrative)	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240
pliny the elder,on luxury	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
pliny the elder	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
pliny the younger	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
politics	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 242
porcius cato the elder,m.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
propaganda (imperial)	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 242
rome,temple of divus augustus,victoria in	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 51
sallust,on luxury	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
senate	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 242
severus alexander	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240, 242
statues	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 242
tacitus,on luxury	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
theatrical(ity)	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240
tiberius	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
tragedy/tragic	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240
tullius cicero,m.,attacks marc antony	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
tyranny/tyrants	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240
wallace-hadrill,a.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
women	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 242
youth/young (rulers)'	Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 240
zeus,olympian	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 51