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Suetonius, Vespasianus, 16.3

nan Some say that he was naturally covetous and was taunted with it by an old herdsman of his, who on being forced to pay for the freedom for which he earnestly begged Vespasian when he became emperor, cried: "The fox changes his fur, but not his nature." Others on the contrary believe that he was driven by necessity to raise money by spoliation and robbery because of the desperate state of the treasury and the privy purse; to which he bore witness at the very beginning of his reign by declaring that forty thousand millions were needed to set the State upright. This latter view seems the more probable, since he made the best use of his gains, ill-gotten though they were.

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1. Cicero, In Verrem, 2.1.59-2.1.60, 2.5.127 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
2. Cicero, Pro Sestio, 93 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
3. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 5.39.4 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) 5.39.4.  Then for the first time the commonwealth, recovering from the defeat received at the hands of the Tyrrhenians, recovered its former spirit and dared as before to aim at the supremacy over its neighbours. The Romans decreed a triumph jointly to both the consuls, and, as a special gratification to one of them, Valerius, ordered that a site should be given him for his habitation on the best part of the Palatine Hill and that the cost of the building should be defrayed from the public treasury. The folding doors of this house, near which stands the brazen bull, are the only doors in Rome either of public or private buildings that open outwards.
4. Horace, Odes, 1.37 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.37. and so many of the people followed him, that he was encouraged to come down from the mountains, and to give battle to Antiochus’s generals, when he beat them, and drove them out of Judea. So he came to the government by this his success, and became the prince of his own people by their own free consent, and then died, leaving the government to Judas, his eldest son. 1.37. But as he was avenging himself on his enemies, there fell upon him another providential calamity; for in the seventh year of his reign, when the war about Actium was at the height, at the beginning of the spring, the earth was shaken, and destroyed an immense number of cattle, with thirty thousand men; but the army received no harm, because it lay in the open air.
5. Livy, History, 26.32.4 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
6. Martial, Epigrams, 12.15 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
7. Martial, Epigrams, 12.15 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
8. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 15.77-15.78, 34.29 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
9. Plutarch, Cato The Elder, 19.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
10. Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, 6.1.32 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 6.1.32.  Still I would not for this reason go so far as to approve a practice of which I have read, and which indeed I have occasionally witnessed, of bringing into court a picture of the crime painted on wood or canvas, that the judge might be stirred to fury by the horror of the sight. For the pleader who prefers a voiceless picture to speak for him in place of his own eloquence must be singularly incompetent.
11. Suetonius, Augustus, 31.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
12. Suetonius, Domitianus, 3.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
13. Suetonius, Vespasianus, 16.1, 23.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
14. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 55.10.3, 65.14.5 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 55.10.3.  that the senate should take its votes there in regard to the granting of triumphs, and that the victors after celebrating them should dedicate to this Mars their sceptre and their crown; that such victors and all others who receive triumphal honours should have their statues in bronze erected in the Forum;
15. Ammianus Marcellinus, History, 14.6.8 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) 14.6.8. Some of these men eagerly strive for statues, thinking that by them they can be made immortal, as if they would gain a greater reward from senseless brazen images than from the consciousness of honourable and virtuous conduct. And they take pains to have them overlaid with gold, a fashion first introduced by Acilius Glabrio, See Livy, xl. 34, 5. after his skill and his arms had overcome King Antiochus. At Thermopylae in 191 B.C. But how noble it is, scorning these slight and trivial honours, to aim to tread the long and steep ascent to true glory, as the bard of Ascra expresses it, Hesiod, Works and Days, 289 ff. τῆς δ᾽ ἀρετῆς ἱδρῶτα θεοὶ προπάροιθεν ἔθηκαν | Ἀθάνατοι· μακρὸς δὲ καὶ ὄρθιος οἶμος ἐπ᾽ αὐτὴν, | καὶ τρηχὺς τὸ πρῶτον· ἐπὴν δ᾽ εἰς ἄκρον ἵκηται, | Ῥηιδίη δὴ ἔπειτα πέλει, χαλεπή περ᾽ ἐοῦσα. is made clear by Cato the Censor. For when he was asked why he alone among many did not have a statue, he replied: I would rather that good men should wonder why I did not deserve one than (which is much worse) should mutter Why was he given one?

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
achillas	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
actium	Price, Finkelberg and Shahar (2021), Rome: An Empire of Many Nations: New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, 195
ammianus marcellinus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
ancus marcius	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
antonius,m.	Price, Finkelberg and Shahar (2021), Rome: An Empire of Many Nations: New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, 195
asia	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
augustus,respects brutus image	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
augustus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
capitoline hill	Price, Finkelberg and Shahar (2021), Rome: An Empire of Many Nations: New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, 195
claudius	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
cleopatra vii philopator	Price, Finkelberg and Shahar (2021), Rome: An Empire of Many Nations: New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, 195
dominus et deus,his introversion	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
gabinius,aulus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
galba	Price, Finkelberg and Shahar (2021), Rome: An Empire of Many Nations: New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, 195
goodman,martin	Price, Finkelberg and Shahar (2021), Rome: An Empire of Many Nations: New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, 195
greece	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
impietas against,political use of	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
jerusalem,temples treasures	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
julius caesar,c.,his triumph	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
julius caesar,c.	Price, Finkelberg and Shahar (2021), Rome: An Empire of Many Nations: New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, 195
licinius lucullus,l.,his villa at tusculum	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
lupa	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
martial,praises trajan	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
mediolanum	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
nero	Price, Finkelberg and Shahar (2021), Rome: An Empire of Many Nations: New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, 195
numa popilius	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
objects,and political competition	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
objects,their public versus private context	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
painting,and political competition	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
painting,use in legal proceedings	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
pallas	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
parrhasius	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
pharnaces,king of pontus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
pliny the younger,against pallas	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
pompey the great,his triumph over mithridates	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
pothinus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
praecepta ad filium,on statuary and imagines	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
quintilian	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
remus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,clivus pullius	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,clivus urbius	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,esquiline hill	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,ficus navia	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,ficus ruminalis	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,forum romanum,pictures displayed in	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,forum romanum	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
rome,lacus fagutalis	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,palatine hill,access to	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,palatine hill,and the imperial collection	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,palatine hill	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,porta mugonia	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,quirinal hill	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,regia	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,temple of concordia	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,temple of juno moneta	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,temple of jupiter capitolinus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,temple of lares	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,temple of the penates	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,temple of vesta	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,the arx	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,velia	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
rome,via sacra	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
romulus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
servius tullius	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
suetonius tranquillus,c.	Price, Finkelberg and Shahar (2021), Rome: An Empire of Many Nations: New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, 195
tarquinius priscus	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
titus tatius	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
trajan	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
trees,laurel	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
trees,vine'	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
tullus hostilius	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
verres,c.,his depredations in greece and asia	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 155
vespasian,his avarice	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 77
vespasian	Price, Finkelberg and Shahar (2021), Rome: An Empire of Many Nations: New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, 195