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Cicero, Brutus, 62

et hercules eae quidem eae quidem F2 : hae quidem M : equidem codd. exstant: ipsae enim familiae sua quasi ornamenta ac monumenta servabant et ad usum, si quis eiusdem generis occidisset, et ad memoriam laudum domesticarum et ad inlustrandam nobilitatem suam. Quam- 20 quam his laudationibus historia rerum nostrarum est facta mendosior. Multa enim scripta sunt in eis eis vulg. : his L quae facta non sunt: falsi triumphi, plures consulatus, genera etiam falsa et ad plebem a plebe maluit Lambinus transitiones, cum homines humiliores in alienum eiusdem nominis infunderentur genus; ut si ego me a M'. Tullio esse dicerem, qui patricius cum Servio Sulpicio consul anno x post exactos reges fuit.

For it was customary in most families of note to preserve their images, their trophies of honour, and their memoirs, either to adorn a funeral when any of the family deceased, or to perpetuate the fame of their ancestors, or prove their own nobility. But the truth of history has been much corrupted by these laudatory essays; for many circumstances were recorded in them which never existed; such as false triumphs, a pretended succession of consulships, and false alliances and elevations, when men of inferior rank were confounded with a noble family of the same name: as if I myself should pretend that I am descended from M'. Tullius, who was a patrician, and shared the consulship with Servius Sulpicius, about ten years after the expulsion of the kings (500 B.C.).

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1. Cicero, Brutus, 61, 57 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

57. dicitur etiam C. Flaminius, is qui tribunus plebis legem de agro Gallico et Piceno viritim dividundo tulerit, qui consul apud Trasumennum Tarsumennum L ; cf. Quint. i. 5, 13 sit tulerit... sit L : tulit... est Schütz interfectus, ad populum valuisse dicendo. Q. etiam Maximus Verrucosus orator habitus est temporibus illis et Q. Metellus, is qui bello Punico secundo cum L. Veturio Philone consul fuit. quem vero exstet et de quo sit memoriae proditum de quo ... proditum incl. Jahn eloquen- tem fuisse et ita esse habitum, primus est M. Cornelius Cethegus, cuius eloquentiae est auctor et idoneus quidem mea sententia Q. Ennius, praesertim cum et ipse eum audi- verit et scribat de mortuo: ex quo nulla suspicio est amici tiae causa esse mentitum mentitum L : ementitum Bake .

2. Cicero, Brutus, 61-62, 57 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3. Cicero, On Old Age, 16 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4. Cicero, Pro Caelio, 37, 34 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

5. Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, 4.4 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4.4. quamquam id quidem etiam duodecim tabulae declarant, tb. 8, 1 Br. condi iam tum solitum esse carmen; quod ne liceret fieri ad ad X in V 2 alterius iniuriam, iniuriam infamiam add. V 2 ( sed C. non ut rep. 4, 12 ipsa legis verba affert ) lege legem V 1 (m. del. 2 ) longe K sanxerunt. nec vero illud non eruditorum temporum argumentum est, quod et deorum pulvinaribus et epulis magistratuum fides praecinunt, quod proprium eius fuit, de qua loquor, disciplinae. mihi quidem etiam Appii appii+ tuberonem K 1 ( etiam +), reliqua in mg. add. K c Caeci carmen, quod valde Panaetius laudat epistola quadam, quae est ad Q. ad Q. V rec s atque X Tuberonem, Pythagoreum pythagoreorum X corr. V 2? videtur. multa multae GR 1 ( corr. 1 ) V 1 ( corr. 2? ) etiam sunt in nostris institutis ducta ductis ducta K autc ab illis; quae praetereo, ne ea, quae repperisse perperisse X peperisse K 2 s repperisse Dav. ( cf. nat. deor. 2, 16 ) ipsi putamur, aliunde didicisse videamur. aliunde didicisse videamur post 13 nostros habet X. suo loco posuit V c

6. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 31.25.2 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

31.25.2. Diodorus, in his account of the funeral of Lucius Aemilius, the conqueror of Perseus, states that it was conducted with the utmost splendour, and adds the following passage: "Those Romans who by reason of noble birth and the fame of their ancestors are pre-eminent are, when they die, portrayed in figures that are not only lifelike as to features but show their whole bodily appearance. For they employ actors who through a man's whole life have carefully observed his carriage and the several peculiarities of his appearance. In like fashion each of the dead man's ancestors takes his place in the funeral procession, with such robes and insignia as enable the spectators to distinguish from the portrayal how far each had advanced in the cursus honorum and had had a part in the dignities of the state.

7. Livy, History, 8.40.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

8. Lucan, Pharsalia, 9.175-9.179 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

9. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 7.139-7.141 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

10. Tacitus, Annals, 14.13 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

14.13. And yet he dallied in the towns of Campania, anxious and doubtful how to make his entry into Rome. Would he find obedience in the senate? enthusiasm in the crowd? Against his timidity it was urged by every reprobate â and a court more prolific of reprobates the world has not seen â that the name of Agrippina was abhorred and that her death had won him the applause of the nation. Let him go without a qualm and experience on the spot the veneration felt for his position! At the same time, they demanded leave to precede him. They found, indeed, an alacrity which surpassed their promises: the tribes on the way to meet him; the senate in festal dress; troops of wives and of children disposed according to their sex and years, while along his route rose tiers of seats of the type used for viewing a triumph. Then, flushed with pride, victor over the national servility, he made his way to the Capitol, paid his grateful vows, and abandoned himself to all the vices, till now retarded, though scarcely repressed, by some sort of deference to his mother.

11. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 16.2-16.3 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aemilius paullus, m.	Galinsky, Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity (2016) 187
agrippina	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
ancestry, importance in roman society	Galinsky, Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity (2016) 186, 187
burial	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
caecilius metellus, q. ( cos . 206 bce)	Balbo and Santangelo, A Community in Transition: Rome between Hannibal and the Gracchi (2022) 295
caesar (julius)	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
cannae, battle of	Balbo and Santangelo, A Community in Transition: Rome between Hannibal and the Gracchi (2022) 295
closure	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
coinage, roman'	Galinsky, Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity (2016) 187
cornelius cethegus, m.	Balbo and Santangelo, A Community in Transition: Rome between Hannibal and the Gracchi (2022) 295
domitian	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
endings, open	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
ennius, q.	Balbo and Santangelo, A Community in Transition: Rome between Hannibal and the Gracchi (2022) 295
fabius maximus verrucosus, q.	Balbo and Santangelo, A Community in Transition: Rome between Hannibal and the Gracchi (2022) 295
fasti triumphales	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
fides	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
flaminius, c.	Balbo and Santangelo, A Community in Transition: Rome between Hannibal and the Gracchi (2022) 295
funeral	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
identity, collective identity	Dinter and Guérin, Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome (2023) 368
laudationes	Balbo and Santangelo, A Community in Transition: Rome between Hannibal and the Gracchi (2022) 295
manius tullius	Galinsky, Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity (2016) 186, 187
marcii family	Galinsky, Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity (2016) 186
nero	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
pharsalus	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
porcius cato, m.	Balbo and Santangelo, A Community in Transition: Rome between Hannibal and the Gracchi (2022) 295
pyrrhus	Balbo and Santangelo, A Community in Transition: Rome between Hannibal and the Gracchi (2022) 295
remembering, remembrance	Dinter and Guérin, Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome (2023) 368
rewriting (of history)	Dinter and Guérin, Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome (2023) 368
ritual, false	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
ritual	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
rome (ancient), coinage	Galinsky, Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity (2016) 187
rome (ancient), funeral/commemorative rituals	Galinsky, Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity (2016) 186
rome (ancient), prominent families	Galinsky, Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity (2016) 186, 187
romulus	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
scipio (africanus)	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
scipio barbatus, l. cornelius cn. f.	Galinsky, Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity (2016) 187
spectacle	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
trasimene	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
triumph, neros	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
triumph	Roumpou, Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature (2023) 129
tullius cicero, m.	Dinter and Guérin, Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome (2023) 368
veturius philo, l.	Balbo and Santangelo, A Community in Transition: Rome between Hannibal and the Gracchi (2022) 295