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Cassius Dio, Roman History, 68.29.1

nan Then he came to the ocean itself, and when he had learned its nature and had seen a ship sailing to India, he said: "I should certainly have crossed over to the Indi, too, if I were still young." For he began to think about the Indi and was curious about their affairs, and he counted Alexander a lucky man. Yet he would declare that he himself had advanced farther than Alexander, and would so write to the senate, although he was unable to preserve even the territory that he had subdued.

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1. Aristophanes, Acharnians, 530 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 530. ἐντεῦθεν ὀργῇ Περικλέης οὑλύμπιος
2. Cicero, On Divination, 1.101 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.101. Saepe etiam et in proeliis Fauni auditi et in rebus turbidis veridicae voces ex occulto missae esse dicuntur; cuius generis duo sint ex multis exempla, sed maxuma: Nam non multo ante urbem captam exaudita vox est a luco Vestae, qui a Palatii radice in novam viam devexus est, ut muri et portae reficerentur; futurum esse, nisi provisum esset, ut Roma caperetur. Quod neglectum tum, cum caveri poterat, post acceptam illam maximam cladem expiatum est; ara enim Aio Loquenti, quam saeptam videmus, exadversus eum locum consecrata est. Atque etiam scriptum a multis est, cum terrae motus factus esset, ut sue plena procuratio fieret, vocem ab aede Iunonis ex arce extitisse; quocirca Iunonem illam appellatam Monetam. Haec igitur et a dis significata et a nostris maioribus iudicata contemnimus? 1.101. Again, we are told that fauns have often been heard in battle and that during turbulent times truly prophetic messages have been sent from mysterious places. Out of many instances of this class I shall give only two, but they are very striking. Not long before the capture of the city by the Gauls, a voice, issuing from Vestas sacred grove, which slopes from the foot of the Palatine Hill to New Road, was heard to say, the walls and gates must be repaired; unless this is done the city will be taken. Neglect of this warning, while it was possible to heed it, was atoned for after the supreme disaster had occurred; for, adjoining the grove, an altar, which is now to be seen enclosed with a hedge, was dedicated to Aius the Speaker. The other illustration has been reported by many writers. At the time of the earthquake a voice came from Junos temple on the citadel commanding that an expiatory sacrifice be made of a pregt sow. From this fact the goddess was called Juno the Adviser. Are we, then, lightly to regard these warnings which the gods have sent and our forefathers adjudged to be trustworthy?
3. Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander, 3.4.5 (1st cent. CE - missingth cent. CE) 3.4.5. ἐνταῦθα Ἀλέξανδρος τόν τε χῶρον ἐθαύμασε καὶ τῷ θεῷ ἐχρήσατο· καὶ ἀκούσας ὅσα αὐτῷ πρὸς θυμοῦ ἦν, ὡς ἔλεγεν, ἀνέζευξεν ἐπʼ Αἰγύπτου, ὡς μὲν Ἀριστόβουλος λέγει, τὴν αὐτὴν ὀπίσω ὁδόν, ὡς Arsitob fr. 10 Ptolem. fr. 8 δὲ Πτολεμαῖος ὁ Λάγου, ἄλλην εὐθεῖαν ὡς ἐπὶ Μέμφιν.
4. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 8.155, 9.119-9.121, 35.131-35.132 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
5. Plutarch, Alexander The Great, 27 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
6. Plutarch, Julius Caesar, 11.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
7. Plutarch, Fabius, 22.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 22.6. However, he removed the colossal statue of Heracles from Tarentum, and set it up on the Capitol, and near it an equestrian statue of himself, in bronze. He thus appeared far more eccentric in these matters than Marcellus, nay rather, the mild and humane conduct of Marcellus was thus made to seem altogether admirable by contrast, as has been written in his Life. Chapter xxi. Marcellus had enriched Rome with works of Greek art taken from Syracuse in 212 B.C. Livy’s opinion is rather different from Plutarch’s: sed maiore animo generis eius praeda abstinuit Fabius quam Marcellus, xxvii. 16. Fabius killed the people but spared their gods; Marcellus spared the people but took their gods.
8. Plutarch, Pompey, 2.2, 46.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
9. Statius, Siluae, 1.1.84-1.1.86 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
10. Suetonius, Iulius, 7.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
11. Tacitus, Annals, 2.73 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 2.73.  His funeral, devoid of ancestral effigies or procession, was distinguished by eulogies and recollections of his virtues. There were those who, considering his personal appearance, his early age, and the circumstances of his death, — to which they added the proximity of the region where he perished, — compared his decease with that of Alexander the Great: — "Each eminently handsome, of famous lineage, and in years not much exceeding thirty, had fallen among alien races by the treason of their countrymen. But the Roman had borne himself as one gentle to his friends, moderate in his pleasures, content with a single wife and the children of lawful wedlock. Nor was he less a man of the sword; though he lacked the other's temerity, and, when his numerous victories had beaten down the Germanies, was prohibited from making fast their bondage. But had he been the sole arbiter of affairs, of kingly authority and title, he would have overtaken the Greek in military fame with an ease proportioned to his superiority in clemency, self-command, and all other good qualities." The body, before cremation, was exposed in the forum of Antioch, the place destined for the final rites. Whether it bore marks of poisoning was disputable: for the indications were variously read, as pity and preconceived suspicion swayed the spectator to the side of Germanicus, or his predilections to that of Piso.
12. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 43.14.6, 51.17.6, 51.22.1-51.22.3, 68.28, 68.30.1 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 43.14.6.  And they decreed that a chariot of his should be placed on the Capitol facing the statue of Jupiter, that his statue in bronze should be mounted upon a likeness of the inhabited world, with an inscription to the effect that he was a demigod, and that his name should be inscribed upon the Capitol in place of that of Catulus on the ground that he had completed this temple after undertaking to call Catulus to account for the building of it. 51.17.6.  So much for these events. In the palace quantities of treasure were found. For Cleopatra had taken practically all the offerings from even the holiest shrines and so helped the Romans swell their spoils without incurring any defilement on their own part. Large sums were also obtained from every man against whom any charge of misdemeanour were brought. 51.22.1.  After finishing this celebration Caesar dedicated the temple of Minerva, called also the Chalcidicum, and the Curia Iulia, which had been built in honour of his father. In the latter he set up the statue of Victory which is still in existence, thus signifying that it was from her that he had received the empire. 51.22.2.  It had belonged to the people of Tarentum, whence it was now brought to Rome, placed in the senate-chamber, and decked with the spoils of Egypt. The same course was followed in the case of the shrine of Julius which was consecrated at this time 51.22.3.  for many of these spoils were placed in it also; and others were dedicated to Jupiter Capitolinus and to Juno and Minerva, after all the objects in these temples which were supposed to have been placed there previously as dedications, or were actually dedications, had by decree been taken down at this time as defiled. Thus Cleopatra, though defeated and captured, was nevertheless glorified, inasmuch as her adornments repose as dedications in our temples and she herself is seen in gold in the shrine of Venus. 68.28. 1.  Trajan had planned to conduct the Euphrates through a canal into the Tigris, in order that he might take his boats down by this route and use them to make a bridge. But learning that this river has a much higher elevation than the Tigris, he did not do so, fearing that the water might rush down in a flood and render the Euphrates unnavigable.,2.  So he used hauling-engines to drag the boats across the very narrow space that separates the two rivers (the whole stream of the Euphrates empties into a marsh and from there somehow joins the Tigris); then he crossed the Tigris and entered Ctesiphon. When he had taken possession of this place he was saluted imperator and established his right to the title of Parthicus.,3.  In addition to other honours voted to him by the senate, he was granted the privilege of celebrating as many triumphs as he should desire. After capturing Ctesiphon he conceived a desire to sail down to the Erythraean Sea. This is a part of the ocean, and has been so named from a person who formerly ruled its shores.,4.  He easily won over Mesene, the island in the Tigris of which Athambelus was king; but as the result of a storm, combined with the strong current of the Tigris and the tide coming in from the ocean, he found himself in serious danger. Athambelus, the ruler of the island in the Tigris, remained loyal to Trajan, even though ordered to pay tribute, and the inhabitants of the Palisade of Spasinus, as it is called, received him kindly; they were subject to the dominion of Athambelus. 68.30.1.  Trajan learned of this at Babylon; for he had gone there both because of its fame — though he saw nothing but mounds and stones and ruins to justify this — and because of Alexander, to whose spirit he offered sacrifice in the room where he had died. When he learned of the revolt, he sent Lusius and Maximus against the rebels.
13. Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, 4.8.1 4.8.1. Alexander ab Hammone rediens ad Mareotin paludem haud procul insula Pharo sitam venit. Contemplatus loci naturam primum in ipsa insula statuerat urbem novam condere:

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
abgar,sheikh	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
alexander	Pinheiro et al. (2015), Philosophy and the Ancient Novel, 151
alexander iii,the great,trajan and	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
alexander the great	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 71
amazaspos,iberian prince	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
antiocheia on orontes,trajans sojourn	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
apelles,the birth of venus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
arabia	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
archives,historical awareness and	Ando (2013), Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, 126
armenia/armenians,war of trajan	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
artaxata	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
assyria,roman province	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
augustus,references alexander the great	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 71
aurum coronarium	Ando (2013), Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, 182
batnai	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
caesennius paetus,governor and general	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
catulus,quintus lutatius	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 71
chamberlin,wilt	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
citizen and subject,boundary between	Ando (2013), Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, 332
cleopatra,and the spoils of egypt	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
cleopatra,her pearl earrings	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
consecration	Ando (2013), Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, 182
cornelius scipio aemilianus,p.,and alexander the great	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28, 230
ctesiphon	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
earthquakes	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
epicureanism	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 71
euphrates/euphrates border,canal project of trajan	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
farasan island	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
gens,julia	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 230
geography,of empire	Ando (2013), Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, 332
germanicus caesar,and alexander	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28, 230
greek democracy and philosophy	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 71
hooper-greenhill,e.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
identity,construction of	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
india	Pinheiro et al. (2015), Philosophy and the Ancient Novel, 151
julius caesar,c.,and alexander the great	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 230
julius caesar,c.,descended from venus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 230
julius caesar,c.,equestrian statue of	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 230
julius caesar,c.,public collection in temple of venus genetrix	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 230
julius caesar,c.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 230
julius caesar,references alexander the great	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 71
lysippus,and alexander the great	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 230
mars,father of rome	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 230
mesopotamia,roman province	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
military legions,ii traiana fortis	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
military legions,vi ferrata	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
museum,and british identity	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
museum,as an agent for social control	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
nabataean kingdom	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
neolithic/chalcolithic age (ca.	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
nicias,his portrait of alexander the great	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28, 230
objects,and context	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
objects,and meaning	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
objects,and power	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
panegyrists,as users of propaganda'	Ando (2013), Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, 126
pedo vergilianus,consul	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
pescennius niger	Ando (2013), Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, 182
pharsalus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 230
pompey the great,and alexander	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28, 230
pompey the great,defeated at pharsalus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 230
ports,trajan and the	De Romanis and Maiuro (2015), Across the Ocean: Nine Essays on Indo-Mediterranean Trade, 55
reagan,nancy	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
relationship with caesars forum	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 230
rome,forum of julius caesar,and alexanders horse	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 230
rome,forum of julius caesar,its collection	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 230
rome,forum of julius caesar	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 230
rome,pantheon	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
rome,temple of divus augustus,victoria in	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
rome,temple of jupiter capitolinus,adorned with spoils of egypt	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
rome,temple of venus genetrix,its collection	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 230
rome/romans,provincialization and parthian wars in the imperial period	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
rufus,publius rutilius	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 71
scaurus,m. aemilius	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 71
severan emperors,and alexander	Pinheiro et al. (2015), Philosophy and the Ancient Novel, 151
severus,accession of	Ando (2013), Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, 182
socrates	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 71
spasinu charax	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
statuary,equestrian	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 230
stoicism	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 71
sulla	Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 71
tigris river	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
trajan,and alexander the great	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28, 230
trajan,emperor	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 345
trajan	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
trajanic policy in the east	De Romanis and Maiuro (2015), Across the Ocean: Nine Essays on Indo-Mediterranean Trade, 55
venus,in the pantheon	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
venus,mother of rome	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 230
vesta,sacred grove of	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 28
victrix	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 230