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Valerius Maximus, Memorable Deeds And Sayings, 5.3.1


nanThe senate was placed by the father of our city in the highest rank of honour, yet miserably tore him in pieces in the senate-house; and thought it no crime to take away his life, who had given life to the Roman empire. The notable piety of posterity cannot dissemble: that rude and fierce generation was contaminated with the blood of their founder.


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1. Cicero, On Duties, 1.57 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.57. Sed cum omnia ratione animoque lustraris, omnium societatum nulla est gravior, nulla carior quam ea, quae cum re publica est uni cuique nostrum. Cari sunt parentes, cari liberi, propinqui, familiars, sed omnes omnium caritates patria una complexa est, pro qua quis bonus dubitet mortem oppetere, si ei sit profuturus? Quo est detestabilior istorum immanitas, qui lacerarunt omni scelere patriam et in ea funditus delenda occupati et sunt et fuerunt. 1.57.  But when with a rational spirit you have surveyed the whole field, there is no social relation among them all more close, none more close, none more dear than that which links each one of us with our country. Parents are dear; dear are children, relatives, friends; one native land embraces all our loves; and who that is true would hesitate to give his life for her, if by his death he could render her a service? So much the more execrable are those monsters who have torn their fatherland to pieces with every form of outrage and who are and have been engaged in compassing her utter destruction.
2. Cicero, Letters, 12.45.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3. Cicero, Letters, 12.45.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4. Cicero, Letters, 12.45.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

5. Cicero, Letters, 12.45.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

6. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 2.56.4 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

2.56.4.  For these reasons, they say, the patricians formed a conspiracy against him and resolved to slay him; and having carried out the deed in the senate-house, they divided his body into several pieces, that it might not be seen, and then came out, each one hiding his part of the body under his robes, and afterwards burying it in secret.
7. Livy, History, 1.16.4-1.16.8 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

8. Appian, Civil Wars, 2.147-2.148 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

9. Suetonius, Iulius, 76 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

10. Epigraphy, Cil, 9.2628



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ancestors Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 137
belief,fama Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 137
deification,ascent to heavens Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 137
deification,consecration Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 137
divine origins Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 137
divinity (of a mortal) Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 137
epiphany,of romulus-quirinus Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 137
eternity and timelessness Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 207
funeral,oration Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 137
gods Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 207
honorific titles,julius caesar as pater patriae Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 137
ides of march Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 101
julius caesar,c.,assassination of Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 101
julius caesar,c.,dictatorship of Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 101
julius caesar,c.,victory in civil war as salus Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 101
julius caesar,deification,divinity Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 137
mark antony Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 137
pontifex maximus (chief priest) Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 207
rationalising Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 137
romulus Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 137; Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 207; Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 101
rumour Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 137
sacra (methods,means,and objects of devotion) Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 207
salus,and caesar Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 101
spirit,spiritus' Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 207
temple of quirinus Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 101
temple of salus,statue of caesar in Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 101
theatricality Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 137
varro Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 137