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216 Consolatio ad Liviam 265–266: “Facta ducis vivent, operosaque gloria rerum; / Haec manet; haec avidos effugit una rogos”.
217 James 1989, pp. 36–37.
218 James 1989, pp. 8, 18–19.
219 James 1989, pp. 64–66, 76, 85.
220 James 1989, p. 115.
221 James 1989, pp. 136–160.
222 Deutsche Bundespost issued the stamp on 10 May 1962 based on the misunderstanding that the Romans established a base there in 38 BCE. The design is a modern reworking of ‘Der Aichelstein’ in the Topographia Archiepiscopatuum Moguntinensis of 1646 by Matthäus Merian der Ältere (1593–1650).
Chapter 8: Assessment
1 Valerius Maximus, 4.3.3: “Antonia quoque, femina laudibus uirilem familiae suae claritatem supergressa, amorem mariti egregia fide pensauit, quae post eius excessum forma
2 Seneca, Consolatio ad Marciam 3.1: “Liuia amiserat filium Drusum, magnum futurum principem …”; cf. Tacitus, Annales 6.51 and Velleius Paterculus 2.97.
3 Tacitus, Annales 11.24 and recorded directly in a Lyon inscription (CIL 13.1668).
4 “Inter imagines vivorum illustris ingeni …qui ipse quoque fecundi ingeni fuit” inscribed on the so-called Tabula Hebana – a bronze tablet found in pieces at Magliano in the Tiber valley in 1947 and 1951, in Gordon 1983, No. 36, pp. 111–112.
5 Renovations were undertaken under Hadrian, possibly including the installation of the Egyptian syenite columns now in the Abbaye d’Ainay, Rozier 2009, 9. Dio 54.32.1 refers to the altar being in use in his own day; the city of Lugdunum continued to flourish until Germanic invaders damaged the aqueducts in around 360 CE, whereafter its fortunes waned; MacKendrick 1971, p. 72.
6 Seneca, Consolatio ad Marciam 3.1: “Liuia amiserat filium Drusum, …iam magnum ducem”.
7 Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz, On War (Vom Kriege), Vol. 1, translated by Col. J.J. Graham, London, 1873, Chapter 3.
8 Theodor Mommsen, Barbara Demandt, Alexander Demandt, A History of Rome Under the Emperors, London, 1996, p. 109.
9 C. Mossé, Alexander: Destiny and Myth, Baltimore, 2004, p. 5–7.
10 D.J. Lonsdale, Alexander the Great: Killer of Men, New York, 2004, p. 202.
11 Lonsdale 2004, p. 197.
12 Lonsdale 2004, pp. 187–203.
13 Lonsdale 2004, pp. 210–211.
14 Lonsdale 2004, p. 199.
15 Lonsdale 2004, p. 213.
16 Timpe 2006, pp. 172–174; Guy MacLean Rogers, Alexander: The Ambiguity of Greatness, New York, 2004, pp. 202–210.
17 John D. Grainger, Alexander the Great Failure, London, 2007.
18 Rogers 2004, pp. 293–294.
19 Kuttner 1995, p. 198. Cassius Dio, 55.5.2, notes that Augustus lost more by Drusus’ death than gained by his victories; and 55.5.1 “he made his formal return [to Rome] and carried the laurel, contrary to custom, into the temple of Jupiter Feretrius” in commemoration of the victory of his stepson.
20 Tacitus, Annales 1.43: “tua, dive Auguste, caelo recepta mens, tua, pater Druse, imago, tui memoria isdem istis cum militibus, quos iam pudor et gloria intrat, eluant hanc maculam irasque civilis in exitium hostibus vertant”.
21 Syme 1978, p. 60 n. 2.
22 Example: C.E. Manning, On Seneca’s “Ad Marciam”, Leiden, 1981, p. 41.
23 Anthony A. Barrett, Caligula: The Corruption of Power, Yale, 1989, p. 3.
24 Seneca, Consolatio ad Marciam 3.1: “In expeditione decesserat ipsis illum hostibus aegrum cum ueneratione et pace mutua prosequentibus nec optare quod expediebat audentibus”.
25 Chester G. Starr, The Roman Imperial Navy 31 BC – AD 324, Cornell, 1941 (third edition), p. 142.
26 W. Rollo, “The Franco-German Frontier”, in C.J. Ellingham, A.G. Russell (eds.), Greece and Rome, VIII, 22, October 1938, p. 49.
27 Suetonius, Claudius 1.4: “Fuisse autem creditur non minus gloriosi quam civilis animi”. The ambiguous word civilis can be translated as ‘of the citizens’, ‘political’, ‘democratic’, even as ‘courteous’.
28 Kuttner 1995, p. 177.
29 Recorded in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers: A Cyclopaedia of Quotations from the Literature of All Ages, New York, 1895, p. 256.
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