1. Herodotus, Histories, 8.98 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman imperial road system Found in books: Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 380 | 8.98. While Xerxes did thus, he sent a messenger to Persia with news of his present misfortune. Now there is nothing mortal that accomplishes a course more swiftly than do these messengers, by the Persians' skillful contrivance. It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day's journey. These are stopped neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed. ,The first rider delivers his charge to the second, the second to the third, and thence it passes on from hand to hand, even as in the Greek torch-bearers' race in honor of Hephaestus. This riding-post is called in Persia, angareion. |
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| 2. Cicero, Pro Fonteio, 17, 19, 18 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 650, 658 |
| 3. Cicero, Letters To Quintus, 3.1 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •estates, roman, and roads Found in books: Parkins and Smith (1998), Trade, Traders and the Ancient City, 141 |
4. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 2.152 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •roads (viae romanae) Found in books: Ferrándiz (2022), Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms: Gone Under Sea, 118 | 2.152. Timber moreover is of great value for constructing ships, whose voyages supply an abundance of sustece of all sorts from all parts of the earth; and we alone have the power of controlling the most violent of nature's offspring, the sea and the winds, thanks to the science of navigation, and we use and enjoy many products of the sea. Likewise the entire command of the commodities produced on land is vested in mankind. We enjoy the fruits of the plains and of the mountains, the rivers and the lakes are ours, we sow corn, we plant trees, we fertilize the soil by irrigation, we confine the rivers and straighten or divert their courses. In fine, by means of our hands we essay to create as it were a second world within the world of nature. |
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| 5. Livy, History, 9.29.5-9.29.7, 37.7.8-37.7.15 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 650 |
6. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 20.36.2 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 650 | 20.36.2. Next he paved with solid stone the greater part of the Appian Way, which was named for him, from Rome to Capua, the distance being more than a thousand stades. And since he dug through elevated places and levelled with noteworthy fills the ravines and valleys, he expended the entire revenue of the state but left behind a deathless monument to himself, having been ambitious in the public interest. |
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| 7. Augustus, Res Gestae Divi Augusti, 20 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 94 |
| 8. Appian, The Syrian Wars, 9.5.23 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 650 |
9. Tacitus, Annals, 15.18 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •roads (viae romanae) Found in books: Ferrándiz (2022), Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms: Gone Under Sea, 115| 15.18. At Romae tropaea de Parthis arcusque medio Capitolini montis sistebantur, decreta ab senatu integro adhuc bello neque tum omissa, dum aspectui consulitur spreta con- scientia. quin et dissimulandis rerum externarum curis Nero frumentum plebis vetustate corruptum in Tiberim iecit quo securitatem annonae sustentaret. cuius pretio nihil additum est, quamvis ducentas ferme navis portu in ipso violentia tempestatis et centum alias Tiberi subvectas fortuitus ignis absumpsisset. tres dein consularis, L. Pisonem, Ducenium Geminum, Pompeium Paulinum vectigalibus publicis praeposuit, cum insectatione priorum principum qui gravitate sumptuum iustos reditus antissent: se annuum sexcenties sestertium rei publicae largiri. | 15.18. But at Rome trophies over the Parthians and arches were being erected in the middle of the Capitoline Hill: they had been voted by the senate while the issue of the war was still open, and now they were not abandoned â appearances being consulted, though known truth had to be ignored. Moreover, to cloak his uneasiness as to the situation abroad, Nero had the grain for the populace â which had been spoilt by age â thrown into the Tiber, as proof that the corn-supply was not a matter for anxiety. The price was not raised, though some two hundred vessels actually in port had been destroyed by a raging tempest, and a hundred more, which had made their way up the Tiber, by a chance outbreak of fire. He proceeded to appoint three consulars, Lucius Piso, Ducenius Geminus, and Pompeius Paulinus, to supervise the contributions to the national treasury, adding a stricture on the previous emperors, "who with their ruinous expenditure had forestalled the legal revenue: personally, he was making the state a yearly present of sixty million sesterces." |
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| 10. Suetonius, Caligula, 27.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman •roads, roman, building Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 660 |
| 11. Suetonius, Augustus, 49.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman imperial road system •roads, roman •roads, roman, building Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 660; Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 380 |
| 12. Plutarch, Julius Caesar, 5.7 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman •roads, roman, building Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 658 |
13. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 77.16 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 94 | 77.16. 1. Severus was small of stature but powerful, though he eventually grew very weak from gout; mentally he was very keen and very vigorous. As for education, he was eager for more than he obtained, and for this reason was a man of few words, though of many ideas. Toward friends not forgetful, to enemies most oppressive, he was careful of everything that he desired to accomplish, but careless of what was said about him. Hence he raised money from every source, except that he killed no one to get it,,3. and he met all necessary expenditures quite ungrudgingly. He restored a very large number of the ancient buildings and inscribed on them his own name, just as if he had erected them in the first place from his own private funds. He also spent a great deal uselessly in repairing other buildings and in constructing new ones; for instance, he built a temple of huge size to Bacchus and Hercules.,4. Yet, though his expenditures were enormous, he nevertheless left behind, not some few easily-counted tens of thousands, but very many tens of thousands. Again, he rebuked such persons as were not chaste, even going so far as to enact some laws in regard to adultery. In consequence, there were ever so many indictments for that offence (for example, when consul, I found three thousand entered on the docket); but, inasmuch as very few persons prosecuted these cases, he, too, ceased to trouble himself about them.,5. In this connexion, a very witty remark is reported to have been made by the wife of Argentocoxus, a Caledonian, to Julia Augusta. When the empress was jesting with her, after the treaty, about the free intercourse of her sex with men in Britain, she replied: "We fulfil the demands of nature in a much better way than do you Roman women; for we consort openly with the best men, whereas you let yourselves be debauched in secret by the vilest." Such was the retort of the British woman. |
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14. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 10.32, 10.41, 10.58.4, 10.61, 10.77, 10.96.7, 10.110.1 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 372, 379 | 10.32. Trajan to Pliny. Let us not forget that you were sent to your province for the express reason that there seemed to be many abuses rampant there which required correction. And most certainly we must redress such a scandal as that persons condemned to penalties should not only, as you say, be released therefrom without authorisation, but even be placed in stations which ought to be filled by honest servants. So all those who were sentenced within the last ten years and released on insufficient authority must be sent back to work out their sentences, and if there are any whose condemnation dates back beyond the last ten years and are now old men, let us apportion them to fulfil duties which are not far removed from being penal. For it is the custom to send such cases to work in the public baths, to clean out the sewers, and to repair the roads and streets. 10.41. To Trajan. I consider the splendour of your position and the loftiness of your mind, it seems to me most fitting that I should point out to you schemes which would be worthy of your eternal fame and glory, and which would not only be imposing to the imagination, but of great public utility. There lies in the territory of the people of Nicomedia a most spacious lake, * by which marble, grain, timber, and bulky articles can be brought by barges to the high road with but little expense and labour, though it is a very laborious and costly business to take them down on waggons to the sea. ** [ (?) To connect the lake with the sea ] would demand a large supply of workmen, but they are to be found on the spot, for in the country districts labourers are plentiful, and they are still more plentiful in the city, while it is quite certain that all would be perfectly willing to help in an undertaking which would be of profit to everyone. It only remains for you, if you think fit, to send a surveyor or an architect to make careful observations and find out whether the lake lies at a higher level than the sea, for the engineers in this district hold that it is forty cubits higher. I find that one of the earlier kings † dug a trench over the same site, but it is doubtful whether his object was to drain off the moisture from the surrounding fields, or to join the waters of the lake and the river. For the trench was not completed, and it is not known whether the work was abandoned because of the king's death, or because the success of the enterprise was despaired of. But this only fires my desire and anxiety - you will pardon my eager ambition for your glory - that you should complete what the kings merely commenced. |
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| 15. Justinian, Digest, None (5th cent. CE - 6th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 652 |
| 16. Epigraphy, 1074, 1084, 1087A, 1277 Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 654 |
| 17. Epigraphy, Eaor, 5.40.10-5.40.11 Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman, paving Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 240 |
| 18. Epigraphy, Ilalg, None Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 652 |
| 19. Epigraphy, Fira, 3.152 Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman •roads, roman, building Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 658, 659 |
| 20. Aurelius Victor, Aurelius Victor, 13.6 Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman imperial road system Found in books: Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 381 |
| 21. Augustus, Seg, 26.1392, 37.1186 Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman imperial road system Found in books: Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 380, 381 |
| 22. Epigraphy, I. Tyana, 132 Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 652 |
23. Strabo, Geography, 5.3.8 Tagged with subjects: •road building, roman Found in books: Konig and Wiater (2022), Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue, 247; König and Wiater (2022), Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue, 247 | 5.3.8. These advantages accrued to the city from the nature of the country; but the foresight of the Romans added others besides. The Grecian cities are thought to have flourished mainly on account of the felicitous choice made by their founders, in regard to the beauty and strength of their sites, their proximity to some port, and the fineness of the country. But the Roman prudence was more particularly employed on matters which had received but little attention from the Greeks, such as paving their roads, constructing aqueducts, and sewers, to convey the sewage of the city into the Tiber. In fact, they have paved the roads, cut through hills, and filled up valleys, so that the merchandise may be conveyed by carriage from the ports. The sewers, arched over with hewn stones, are large enough in some parts for waggons loaded with hay to pass through; while so plentiful is the supply of water from the aqueducts, that rivers may be said to flow through the city and the sewers, and almost every house is furnished with water-pipes and copious fountains. To effect which Marcus Agrippa directed his special attention; he likewise bestowed upon the city numerous ornaments. We may remark, that the ancients, occupied with greater and more necessary concerns, paid but little attention to the beautifying of Rome. But their successors, and especially those of our own day, without neglecting these things, have at the same time embellished the city with numerous and splendid objects. Pompey, divus Caesar, and Augustus, with his children, friends, wife, and sister, have surpassed all others in their zeal and munificence in these decorations. The greater number of these may be seen in the Campus Martius, which to the beauties of nature adds those of art. The size of the plain is marvellous, permitting chariot-races and other feats of horsemanship without impediment, and multitudes to exercise themselves at ball, in the circus and the palaestra. The structures which surround it, the turf covered with herbage all the year round, the summits of the hills beyond the Tiber, extending from its banks with panoramic effect, present a spectacle which the eye abandons with regret. Near to this plain is another surrounded with columns, sacred groves, three theatres, an amphitheatre, and superb temples in close contiguity to each other; and so magnificent, that it would seem idle to describe the rest of the city after it. For this cause the Romans, esteeming it as the most sacred place, have there erected funeral monuments to the most illustrious persons of either sex. The most remarkable of these is that designated as the Mausoleum, which consists of a mound of earth raised upon a high foundation of white marble, situated near the river, and covered to the top with ever-green shrubs. Upon the summit is a bronze statue of Augustus Caesar, and beneath the mound are the ashes of himself, his relatives, and friends. Behind is a large grove containing charming promenades. In the centre of the plain, is the spot where this prince was reduced to ashes; it is surrounded with a double enclosure, one of marble, the other of iron, and planted within with poplars. If from hence you proceed to visit the ancient forum, which is equally filled with basilicas, porticos, and temples, you will there behold the Capitol, the Palatium, with the noble works which adorn them, and the promenade of Livia, each successive place causing you speedily to forget what you have before seen. Such is Rome. |
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| 24. Epigraphy, Ogis, 483 Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman imperial road system Found in books: Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 378 |
| 25. Epigraphy, Ils, 129, 1366, 23, 231, 2478, 280, 293, 3190, 393, 487, 5381, 5656, 5799, 5801, 5835, 5872, 5922-5935, 5937-5945, 6024, 6328, 6469, 6985, 7024, 5936 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 94 |
| 26. Epigraphy, I.Ephesos, 820 Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman •roads, roman, building Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 660 |
| 27. Epigraphy, Ae, 2007.1228 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: nan |
| 28. Digesta, Digesta, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ferrándiz (2022), Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms: Gone Under Sea, 115, 118 |
| 29. Ancient Near Eastern Sources, R.S., 24 Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman •roads, roman, building Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 660 |
| 30. Epigraphy, Igbulg, 5.5691 Tagged with subjects: •roads, roman Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 653 |
| 31. Epigraphy, Illrp, 229, 448, 465-475, 454 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 654, 655, 656; Konig and Wiater (2022), Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue, 65; König and Wiater (2022), Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue, 65 |
| 32. Epigraphy, Seg, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 650 |
| 33. Epigraphy, Cil, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 653 |
