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Plutarch, Lucullus, 42.4
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1. Cicero, Letters, 6.1.17 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
2. Cicero, Letters, 6.1.17 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
3. Cicero, Letters, 6.1.17 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
4. Cicero, Letters, 6.1.17 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
5. Livy, History, 8.40.4, 25.39.14, 25.39.16 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
6. Ovid, Fasti, 1.261-1.262 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) 1.261. And how the treacherous keeper, Tarpeia, bribed with bracelets 1.262. Led the silent Sabines to the heights of the citadel.
7. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 7.75, 13.83, 13.92, 33.147, 34.11-34.12, 34.59, 35.6-35.7, 35.14, 35.26, 36.13 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
8. Plutarch, Crassus, 15.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
9. Plutarch, Lucullus, 42.1-42.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
10. Plutarch, Sulla, 26.1-26.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
11. Tacitus, Annals, 2.37 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 2.37.  In addition, he gave monetary help to several senators; so that it was the more surprising when he treated the application of the young noble, Marcus Hortalus, with a superciliousness uncalled for in view of his clearly straitened circumstances. He was a grandson of the orator Hortensius; and the late Augustus, by the grant of a million sesterces, had induced him to marry and raise a family, in order to save his famous house from extinction. With his four sons, then, standing before the threshold of the Curia, he awaited his turn to speak; then, directing his gaze now to the portrait of Hortensius among the orators (the senate was meeting in the Palace), now to that of Augustus, he opened in the following manner:— "Conscript Fathers, these children whose number and tender age you see for yourselves, became mine not from any wish of my own, but because the emperor so advised, and because, at the same time, my ancestors had earned the right to a posterity. For to me, who in this changed world had been able to inherit nothing and acquire nothing, — not money, nor popularity, nor eloquence, that general birthright of our house, — to me it seemed enough if my slender means were neither a disgrace to myself nor a burden to my neighbour. At the command of the sovereign, I took a wife; and here you behold the stock of so many consuls, the offspring of so many dictators! I say it, not to awaken odium, but to woo compassion. Some day, Caesar, under your happy sway, they will wear whatever honours you have chosen to bestow: in the meantime, rescue from beggary the great-grandsons of Quintus Hortensius, the fosterlings of the deified Augustus!
12. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 58.7.2 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 58.7.2.  (for he was wont to include himself in such sacrifices), a rope was discovered coiled about the neck of the statue. Again, there was the behaviour of a statue of Fortune, which had belonged, they say, to Tullius, one of the former kings of Rome, but was at this time kept by Sejanus at his house and was a source of great pride to him:
13. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.15.4 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.15.4. Here are dedicated brazen shields, and some have an inscription that they are taken from the Scioneans and their allies 421 B.C., while others, smeared with pitch lest they should be worn by age and rust, are said to be those of the Lacedaemonians who were taken prisoners in the island of Sphacteria . 425 B.C.
14. Strabo, Geography, 13.1.54 13.1.54. From Scepsis came the Socratic philosophers Erastus and Coriscus and Neleus the son of Coriscus, this last a man who not only was a pupil of Aristotle and Theophrastus, but also inherited the library of Theophrastus, which included that of Aristotle. At any rate, Aristotle bequeathed his own library to Theophrastus, to whom he also left his school; and he is the first man, so far as I know, to have collected books and to have taught the kings in Egypt how to arrange a library. Theophrastus bequeathed it to Neleus; and Neleus took it to Scepsis and bequeathed it to his heirs, ordinary people, who kept the books locked up and not even carefully stored. But when they heard bow zealously the Attalic kings to whom the city was subject were searching for books to build up the library in Pergamum, they hid their books underground in a kind of trench. But much later, when the books had been damaged by moisture and moths, their descendants sold them to Apellicon of Teos for a large sum of money, both the books of Aristotle and those of Theophrastus. But Apellicon was a bibliophile rather than a philosopher; and therefore, seeking a restoration of the parts that had been eaten through, he made new copies of the text, filling up the gaps incorrectly, and published the books full of errors. The result was that the earlier school of Peripatetics who came after Theophrastus had no books at all, with the exception of only a few, mostly exoteric works, and were therefore able to philosophize about nothing in a practical way, but only to talk bombast about commonplace propositions, whereas the later school, from the time the books in question appeared, though better able to philosophise and Aristotelise, were forced to call most of their statements probabilities, because of the large number of errors. Rome also contributed much to this; for, immediately after the death of Apellicon, Sulla, who had captured Athens, carried off Apellicon's library to Rome, where Tyrannion the grammarian, who was fond of Aristotle, got it in his hands by paying court to the librarian, as did also certain booksellers who used bad copyists and would not collate the texts — a thing that also takes place in the case of the other books that are copied for selling, both here and at Alexandria. However, this is enough about these men.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
acropolis,the stoa poikile	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
aediles	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
aelius sejanus,l.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
aemilius paullus,m.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
ajax	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
andronicus of rhodes	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
antony,marc	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
aphrodite	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
aristotle	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
augustus,his letters collected	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
augustus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
boscoreale	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
caesar	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 144
cato minor	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 143, 144
cicero	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 144
corinthian bronze	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
cornelius scipio aemilianus,p.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
cornelius sulla,l.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
crassus	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 143, 144
cubiculum	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
fortuna	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
gegania	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
hasdrubal	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
house,access to	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
house,spoils displayed on	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
julius caesar,c.,and the civil war	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
julius caesar,c.,and the gallic war	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
julius caesar,c.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
libraries,of apellicon the teian	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
libraries	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
licinius lucullus,l.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
lucullus	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 143
lutatius catulus,q.,his house	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
marcius,l.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
mentor	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
metellus scipio,q.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
papirius cursor,l.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
pliny the elder	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
pompey	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 143, 144
pompey the great,his house	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
pomponius secundus,p.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
rome'	Beneker et al. (2022), Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia, 144
rome,forum romanum,shields displayed in	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
samnites	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
sempronius gracchus,ti.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
semproniusgracchus,c.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
shields	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
sparta	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
sphacteria	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
tarpeia	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
theophrastus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
trees,citrus wood	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
triumph	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
triumphator	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
tullius cicero,m.,his letters collected	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
tullus hostilius	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
tyrannion the grammarian	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
valerius maximus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 127
vergil,his letters collected	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67
vipsanius agrippa,m.,purchases paintings from the cyzicans	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 67