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Cicero, Republic, 2.58

Nam cum esset ex aere alieno commota civitas, plebs montem sacrum prius, deinde Aventinum occupavit. Ac ne Lycurgi quidem disciplina tenuit illos in hominibus Graecis frenos; nam etiam Spartae regnante Theopompo sunt item quinque, quos illi ephoros appellant, in Creta autem decem, qui cosmoe vocantur, ut contra consulare imperium tribuni pl., sic illi contra vim regiam constituti. For at a time when the State was troubled by debt, the plebeians seized first the Sacred Mount, and then the Aventine Hill. And indeed not even the disciplinary system of Lycurgus was able to hold his subjects, though they were Greeks, under bridle and bit ; for, in Sparta also, in the reign of Theopompus, the five officials called ephors, and in Crete the ten so-called kosmoi, were set up in opposition to the royal authority, just as at Rome the plebeian tribunes were chosen to counterbalance the power of the consuls. **

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1. Cicero, Republic, 1.1, 2.2, 2.57, 2.59 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.1. im petu liberavissent, nec C. Duelius, A. Atilius, L. Metellus terrore Karthaginis, non duo Scipiones oriens incendium belli Punici secundi sanguine suo restinxissent, nec id excitatum maioribus copiis aut Q. Maximus enervavisset aut M. Marcellus contudisset aut a portis huius urbis avolsum P. Africanus compulisset intra hostium moenia. M. vero Catoni, homini ignoto et novo, quo omnes, qui isdem rebus studemus, quasi exemplari ad industriam virtutemque ducimur, certe licuit Tusculi se in otio delectare salubri et propinquo loco. Sed homo demens, ut isti putant, cum cogeret eum necessitas nulla, in his undis et tempestatibus ad summam senectutem maluit iactari quam in illa tranquillitate atque otio iucundissime vivere. Omitto innumerabilis viros, quorum singuli saluti huic civitati fuerunt, et quia sunt haud procul ab aetatis huius memoria, commemorare eos desino, ne quis se aut suorum aliquem praetermissum queratur. Unum hoc definio, tantam esse necessitatem virtutis generi hominum a natura tantumque amorem ad communem salutem defendendam datum, ut ea vis omnia blandimenta voluptatis otiique vicerit. 1.1. Plin. Nat. praef. 7 nec docti/ssimis. †Manium Persium haec le/gere nolo, Iu/nium Congu/m volo. 2.2. Is dicere solebat ob hanc causam praestare nostrae civitatis statum ceteris civitatibus, quod in illis singuli fuissent fere, qui suam quisque rem publicam constituissent legibus atque institutis suis, ut Cretum Minos, Lacedaemoniorum Lycurgus, Atheniensium, quae persaepe commutata esset, tum Theseus, tum Draco, tum Solo, tum Clisthenes, tum multi alii, postremo exsanguem iam et iacentem doctus vir Phalereus sustentasset Demetrius, nostra autem res publica non unius esset ingenio, sed multorum, nec una hominis vita, sed aliquot constituta saeculis et aetatibus. Nam neque ullum ingenium tantum extitisse dicebat, ut, quem res nulla fugeret, quisquam aliquando fuisset, neque cuncta ingenia conlata in unum tantum posse uno tempore providere, ut omnia complecterentur sine rerum usu ac vetustate. 2.57. Sed id, quod fieri natura rerum ipsa cogebat, ut plusculum sibi iuris populus adscisceret liberatus a regibus, non longo intervallo, sexto decimo fere anno, Postumo Cominio Sp. Cassio consulibus consecutus est; in quo defuit fortasse ratio, sed tamen vincit ipsa rerum publicarum natura saepe rationem. Id enim tenetote, quod initio dixi, nisi aequabilis haec in civitate conpensatio sit et iuris et officii et muneris, ut et potestatis satis in magistratibus et auctoritatis in principum consilio et libertatis in populo sit, non posse hunc incommutabilem rei publicae conservari statum. 2.59. †Fuerat fortasse aliqua ratio maioribus nostris in illo aere alieno medendi, quae neque Solonem Atheniensem non longis temporibus ante fugerat neque post aliquanto nostrum senatum, cum sunt propter unius libidinem omnia nexa civium liberata nectierque postea desitum; semperque huic generi, cum plebes publica calamitate inpendiis debilitata deficeret, salutis omnium causa aliqua sublevatio et medicina quaesita est. Quo tum consilio praetermisso causa populo nata est, duobus tribunis plebis per seditionem creatis ut potentia senatus atque auctoritas minueretur; quae tamen gravis et magna remanebat sapientissimis et fortissimis et armis et consilio civitatem tuentibus, quorum auctoritas maxime florebat, quod, cum honore longe antecellerent ceteris, voluptatibus erant inferiores nec pecuniis ferme superiores; eoque erat cuiusque gratior in re publica virtus, quod in rebus privatis diligentissime singulos cives opera, consilio, re tuebantur.
2. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 1.85.6, 1.87.3 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.85.6.  They did not both favour the same site for the building of the city; for Romulus proposed to settle the Palatine hill, among other reasons, because of the good fortune of the place where they had been preserved and brought up, whereas Remus favoured the place that is now named after him Remoria. And indeed this place is very suitable for a city, being a hill not far from the Tiber and about thirty stades from Rome. From this rivalry their unsociable love of rule immediately began to disclose itself; for on the one who now yielded the victor would inevitably impose his will on all occasions alike. 1.87.3.  Remus having been slain in this action, Romulus, who had gained a most melancholy victory through the death of his brother and the mutual slaughter of citizens, buried Remus at Remoria, since when alive he had clung to it as the site for the new city. As for himself, in his grief and repentance for what had happened, he became dejected and lost all desire for life. But when Laurentia, who had received the babes when newly born and brought them up and loved them no less than a mother, entreated and comforted him, he listened to her and rose up, and gathering together the Latins who had not been slain in the battle (they were now little more than three thousand out of a very great multitude at first, when he led out the colony), he built a city on the Palatine hill.
3. Livy, History, 1.6.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
4. Propertius, Elegies, 2.31.3-2.31.8, 2.31.12-2.31.16, 2.32.11-2.32.16 (1st cent. BCE
5. Sallust, Iugurtha, 31.17 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
6. Juvenal, Satires, 3.84-3.85 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
7. Plutarch, Romulus, 9.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 9.4. But when they set out to establish their city, a dispute at once arose concerning the site. Romulus, accordingly, built Roma Quadrata (which means square ),and wished to have the city on that site; but Remus laid out a strong precinct on the Aventine hill, which was named from him Remonium, but now is called Rignarium.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
altar of hercules (ara maxima)	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
apollo, portico of	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
apollo, temple of	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
appian way	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
ara maxima (altar of hercules)	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
aventine hill	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
capitol, potency of	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
cattle in rome	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
cynthia (in propertius)	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
diana	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
gangraena	Walters, Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome (2020) 21
gardens	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
health, equated with the mixed constitution	Walters, Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome (2020) 21
hills of rome	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
immigration	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
jupiter feretrius, temple of	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
lucilius, c. (satirist), on gangraena	Walters, Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome (2020) 21
maecenas, and propertius	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
maecenas, literary patronage	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
memmius, c., menenius agrippa, fable of	Walters, Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome (2020) 18
mixed constitution	Walters, Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome (2020) 18, 21
new gardens	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
palatine hill, aristocratic character	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
patronage, of literature	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
pompey, portico of	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
portico of apollo	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
portico of pompey	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
remus	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
res publica, optimus status of	Walters, Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome (2020) 18
romanus'	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
romulus	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
salus, as health/wellbeing	Walters, Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome (2020) 21
temperatio	Walters, Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome (2020) 21
temple of, apollo	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
temple of, diana	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
temple of jupiter feretrius	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
terentius varro, m. (varro), bodily conceptions in de vita populi romani	Walters, Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome (2020) 21
topography of rome, from propertius	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
tullius cicero, m. (cicero), bodily conceptions in de re publica	Walters, Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome (2020) 18, 21
tullius cicero, m. (cicero), on the mixed constitution	Walters, Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome (2020) 18, 21
umbricius (juvenal)	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120
vertumnus	Jenkyns, God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination (2013) 120