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  8. Quote: App. BC i.82. See also: Livy Per. 84.

  9. Plut. Sulla 27; Vell. Pat. ii.24.

  10. App. BC i.79, 84; Plut. Sulla 27; Flor. ii.9.21; Sall. Hist. i.28; Vell. Pat. ii.25; Eutr. v.7; Livy Per. 85.

  11. Plut. Sulla 27.

  12. App. BC i.81.

  13. App. BC i.80–81; Plut. Cras. 6; Dio xxx/xxxv.106; Livy Per. 84.

  14. App. BC i.80.

  15. Diod. xxxviii.9; App. BC i.80; Plut. Pomp. 6–8, Cras. 6; Cic. Phil. v.43–44, Leg. Man. 61; Sall. Hist. v.16; Val. Max. v.2.9; Dio xxx/xxxv.107; Livy Per. 85.

  16. Quote: Plut. Cras. 6.

  17. App. BC i.80; Cic. Pro. Cons. 21; Livy Per. 85.

  18. Plut. Sulla 27.

  19. App. BC i.84; Plut. Sulla 27; Vell. Pat. ii.25; Flor. ii.9.21; Oros. v.20; Eutr. v.7; Livy Per. 85.

  20. App. BC i.85; Plut. Sulla 28, Sert. 6.

  21. Quote: App. BC i.85. See also: Plut. Sulla 28, Sert. 6; Cic. Phil. xii.27, xiii.1.

  22. App. BC i.85; Plut. Sert. 6.

  23. Quote: Plut. Sulla 28. See also: App. BC i.85–86; Sall. Hist. i.29; Diod. xxxviii.16; Vell. Pat. ii.25; Flor. ii.9.21; Eutr. v.7; Livy Per. 85.

  24. App. BC i.86.

  25. Quote: Diod. xxxviii.13. See also: App. BC i.86; Cic. Phil. xii.27.

  26. App. BC i.86; Plut. Pomp. 6; Flor. ii.10.22; Vell. Pat. ii.25.

  27. Quote: Diod. xxxviii.10. See also: Plut. Pomp. 7.

  28. App. BC i.86; Plut. Sert. 6.

  29. App. BC i.87; Sall. Hist. i.30; Vell. Pat. ii.26; Livy Per. 86.

  30. App. BC i.87.

  31. App. BC i.87; Diod. xxxviii.12–13.

  32. App. BC i.87; Plut. Sulla 28; Sall. Hist. i.30–32; Flor. ii.9.21; Vell. Pat. ii.26; Oros. v.20; Eutr. v.8; Livy Per. 87.

  33. App. BC i.87.

  34. App. BC i.87–88; Dio xxx/xxxv.108; Livy Per. 87.

  35. App. BC i.88.

  36. Diod. xxxviii.17; App. BC i.88; Cic. Brut. 311, Nat. Deo. iii.80, Fam. ix.21; Diod. xxxviii.17; Vell. Pat. ii.26; Flor. ii.9.21; Val. Max. ix.2.3; Oros. v.20; Livy Per. 87.

  37. App. BC i.88–89; Eutr. v.8; Livy Per. 87.

  38. App. BC i.89.

  39. Quote: Plut. Sulla 30.

  40. Plut. Pomp. 6.

  41. App. BC i.89; Vell. Pat. ii.28; Pliny NH viii.82.

  42. App. BC i.89–90; Oros. v.20.

  43. App. BC i.90.

  44. Plut. Sulla 28.

  45. Quote: App. BC i.91.

  46. Plut. Sulla 28; Sall. Hist. i.33; Eutr. v.8; Livy Per. 88.

  47. App. BC i.92; Plut. Sulla 29.

  48. App. BC i.92; Plut. Sulla 29; Sall. Hist. i.34.

  49. Quote: Vell. Pat. ii.27. See also: Strabo v.4.11; Livy Per. 88.

  50. App. BC i.93; Plut. Sulla 29, Cras. 6; Strabo v.4.11; Oros. v.20; Eutr. v.8; Livy Per. 88.

  51. Quote: App. BC i.94. See also: Diod. xxxvii.29, xxxviii.15; Vell. Pat. ii.27; Val. Max. xi.8.2, ix.2.1; Strabo v.3.11; Front. ii.9.3; Livy Per. 88.

  52. Dio xxx/xxxv.109.

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  1. Seut. Caes. 77.

  2. Plut. Sulla 30; Dio xxx/xxxv.109.

  3. Quote: Plut. Sulla 30. See also: Dio xxx/xxxv.109; Flor. ii.9.25; Val. Max. ix.2.1; Strabo v.4.11; Oros. v.21.

  4. App. BC i.95.

  5. Quote: Plut. Sulla 31. See also: App. BC i.95; Livy Per. 88.

  6. Plut. Sulla 31; App. BC i.95; Cic. Leg. ii.56; Vell. Pat. ii.28; Dio xxx/xxxv.109; Val. Max. ix.2.1; Pliny NH vii.54; Gran. xxxvi.33; Seut. Caes. 11; Flor. ii.9.25.

  7. Plut. Sulla 31; App. BC i.95; Diod. xxxviii.19; Dio xxx/xxxv.109; Oros. v.21.

  8. Plut. Sulla 31; App. BC i.95; Cic. Verr. ii.3.8, Leg. Agr. ii.56, Rosc. Am. 126; Dio xxx/xxxv.109.

  9. Plut. Sulla 31, Cras. 3, 6; App. BC i.96; Dio xxx/xxxv.109.

  10. Plut. Sulla 32; Sall. Cat. 5, 16, 37, Hist. i.36–37; Flor. ii.9.25; Val. Max. ix.2.1; Ascon. 84, 90–91; Pliny NH xxxiv.12; Oros. v.21; Livy Per. 89.

  11. Plut. Sulla 1; Cic. Rosc. Am. 15–32; Dio xxx/xxxv.109; Oros. v.21.

  12. Quote: Plut. Pomp. 9. See also: Plut. Sulla 31; App. BC i.95–96; Sall. Hist. i.44; Val. Max. v.3.5, vi.2.8, ix.13.2; Eutr. v.8; Oros. v.21; Livy Per. 89.

  13. Quote: Vell. Pat. ii.22. See also: Dio xxx/xxxv.109; Sall. Cat. 37.

  14. Quote: Seut. Caes. 1. See also: Seut. Caes. 74; Plut. Caes. 1; Dio xliii.43; Vell. Pat. ii.41, 43.

  15. App. BC 95, 103; Cic. Rosc. Am. 128; Flor. ii.9.25.

  16. Plut. Sulla 34 Mor. 318.d, 542.f; App. BC i.97; Cic. Phil. ix13; Diod. xxxviii.15; Vell. Pat. ii.27, 61; Livy xxx.45; Val. Max, xi.4.4, ix.2.1; Pliny NH vii.43.

  17. Plut. Sulla 33, Pomp. 9; App. BC i.98; Vell. Pat. ii.28; Livy Per. 89.

  18. App. BC i.3, 98; Cic. Verr. ii.3.82, Leg. Agr. Iii.5–6, 8, Leg. i.42; Oros. v.21.

  19. Plut. Sulla 33.

  20. App. BC i.98–99.

  21. Livy Per. 89.

  22. App. BC i.100, ii.29; Cic. Verr. ii.1.155, Leg. iii.22; Caes. BC i.7; Vell. Pat. ii.30; Ascon. 67, 78; Seut. Caes. 5; Livy Per. 89.

  23. App. BC i.100; Cic. Luc. ii.1; Tac. Ann. 11.

  24. Cic. Fam. i.9.25, iii.6.3, 6.6, 10.6.

  25. App. BC i.100; Sall. Cat. 37; Livy Per. 89.

  26. Cic. Verr. i.37–38, ii.2.77; Vell. Pat. ii.32; Tac. Ann. xi.22.

  27. Cic. Clu. 151, 154, Fam. iii.11.2, Rab. Post. 8–9, Pis. 50; Just. i.2.2.32, ix.2.5.1, xxix.5.25.1, xlvii.5.23.2, 10.5.1–7, 37, xlviii.2.12.4, 5.33.1, 8.1.17.

  28. App. BC i.96, 102; Cic. Leg. Agr. ii.35, 68–70, 78, 81, iii.7, 12; Gran. xxviii.10; Flor. ii.9.25; Livy Per. 89.

  29. Gell. ii.24.11; Amm. xvi.5.

  30. Plut. Pomp. 22, Mor. 203.f-204.a; Cic. Verr. i.54l; Val. Max. v.9.1. See also Brunt, Italian Manpower, ch. 7.

  31. Plut. Sulla 34; App. BC i.103.

  32. Plut. Sulla 33; App. BC i.100; Ascon. 91; Livy Per. 89.

  33. Quote: App. BC i.104. See also: Oros. v.22.

  34. Plut. Sulla 35–36; App. BC i.103–104; Cic. Planc. 51; Sall. Hist. i.50–53; Val. Max. vi.9.6; Pliny NH xxxiii.47.

  35. Plut. Sulla 37.

  36. Quote: Plut. Sulla 37. See also: App. BC i.105; Pliny vii.43.

  37. Quote: Plut. Sulla 37. See also: App. BC i.105; Dio lii.17; Val. Max. ix.3.8; Pliny NH vii.43; Paus. i.20.7, ix.33.6; Livy Per. 90.

  38. Plut. Sulla 38, Luc. 43, Pomp. 15, 81; App. BC i.105–106; Cic. Leg. ii.57; Pliny NH vii.54; Gran. xxxvi.32–33.

  39. Quote: Plut. Sulla 38. See also Plut. Pomp. 15; App. BC i.106.

  40. Cic. Verr. ii.1.123, Fam. xviii.5.2; Dio xliii.50; Vell. Pat. ii.28; Livy Per. 88.

  41. Tribunes: Cic. Verr. i.44, Leg. iii.22, 26; Sall. Cat. 38; Caes. BC i.7; Livy. Per. 97; Vell. Pat. ii.30; Ascon. 76; Tac. Ann. iii.27; Plut. Pomp. 22; App. BC ii.29. Juries: Cic. Verr. ii.2.174, 3.223, Clu. 130, Phil. i.20; Livy. Per. 97; Vell. Pat. ii.32; Ascon 17, 67, 78; Tac. Ann. iii.28; Plut. Pomp. 22. Land: Cic. Leg. Agr. ii.35, 68–70, 78, 81, iii.7, 12.

  42. App. BC i.27–30; Plut. Mar. 29, Cras. 2; Cic. Leg. ii.14, Leg. Agr. ii.35, 68–70, 78, 81, iii.7, 12; “Caes.” BA 56; Livy Per. 69.

  43. Plut. Cras. 12, Cato Min. 26, Caes. 8, Pomp. 50; Cic. Off. ii.58, Verr. ii.3.163, 173, 214–216, ii.5.52, Scaur. 3, Att. xv.9–12; Dio xxxix.24; Ascon. 48; Sall. Hist. ii.44–47, iii.48.

  44. See Syme, Roman Revolution, ch. 5.

  45. Quote: Seut. Tib. 32.

  46. Quote: Dio lxxviii.9.

  47. Plut. Pomp. 16–20, Sert. 6–27; App. BC 108–115; Flor. ii.11; Oros. v.24–25; Livy Per. 90–93, 96.

  48. Plut. Cras. 12, Pomp. 23; Seut. Caes. 19; Sall. Hist. iv.51.

  49. Plut. Caes. 5; Seut. Caes. 6.

  50. See most especially: App. BC 8–29, Mith. 64–113; Plut. Pomp. 31–52, Luc. 5–42, Caes. 14–28, Cras. 14–33; Caes. BC, BG.

  51. Quote: Seut. Caes. 77.

  52. See most especially: Dio liii.1–33; Seut. Aug. 25–31.

  INDEX

  Achaean League, 13–14

  Adherbal (King of Numidia), x, 89–90, 92–93, 97
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  Adriatic Sea, 5, 207, 218, 222, 228, 239

  aediles, 11, 27, 83, 87, 90

  Aegean Sea, 175, 207–208

  Aemilianus, Publius Scipio

  Allies and, 54–55, 163

  confrontation with mobs, 42, 55

  consulship of, 13, 26

  death of, x, 55

  early years, 6–7

  on Gaius Marius, 82

  Homeric wisdom of, 15, 41

  on Jugurtha, 88–89

  legacy of, 56–57

  Polybius, 7, 15

  rise of, 12–15

  rivalry with Claudius, 18, 26

  rivalry with Cornelia, 18

  sack of Carthage, ix, 1, 14–15, 17

  siege of Numantia, 40–41, 88–89

  on Tiberius Gracchus, 41, 42

  Aenaria, 201

  Africana, Cornelia, 17–18, 36, 55, 74, 79

  Africanus, Scipio, 5, 6, 17, 36

  ager publicus (publicly owned land), 24, 27, 29, 54, 68–69

  Ahenobarbus, Gnaeus Domitius, 133, 134

  Alexander the Great, 7, 185

  Algeria. See Numidia

  Allies

  class and, 53

  land and, 54

  Latin Rights for, 72, 163–164

  War Against the Allies, 172

  See also foederati; Italians; Social War; socii

  Alps, 85, 99–100, 102, 106

  Ambrones, xii, 100, 140–141, 144, 148

  anarchy, 8, 46, 150

  Ancharius, 213

  Ancona, 222, 225

  animals

  eagles, 135, 199

  elephants, 94, 108

  locusts, 68

  mules, 135

  Sacred Geese, 50

  annexation

  Greece, 14

  Macedon, 14

  North Africa, 15

  Pergamum, 46

  Spain, 6

  Antiochus. See Eunus

  Anti-Senate, 192–193, 195

  Antonius, Marcus

  Carbo and, 102–103

  consular election and, 156

  Crassus and, 84, 169

  murder of, 212

  oratory and, 66

  Antony, Mark, 227, 264

  Appian

  on Asellio, 182

  on Conflict of the Orders, 3

  on military in Rome, 197

  on social breakdown, 145

  on Sulla, 185

  on Tiberius Gracchus, 30, 36

  on violence, 225

  Apulia, 182–183, 229

  Aquae Sextiae military colony, x, xii, 85–86, 140–142

  Aquillius, Manius (the Elder)

  settlement of Asia and, 49

  trial of, 65–66, 69–70

  Aquillius, Manius (the Younger)

  gold and torture of, 202

  military and, 187–189

  as prisoner, 189

  Second Servile War, 150–151

  Arausio, xi, 126

  Archelaus, 208–209, 214, 217–219

  Ariobarzanes (King of Cappadocia), xii, xiii, 175, 187, 188, 208

  aristocracy, 4, 8, 10, 47, 56, 255

  Aristonicus, ix, x, 48, 49

  Aristotle, 8

  Armenia, xii, 175, 187

  Arminium, 210

  army, of peasants, 48

  Asculum, xiii, 171–172, 177–178, 180

  Asellio, 182, 216

  Asia

  invasion of Mithridates, 189, 202

  role of, 48–50

  with settlement ratified, 65–66, 69

  taxes, 165–166, 228

  with tax-farming contracts, 69

  Asiaticus, Lucius Cornelius Scipio

  fall of, 234–235

  Macedonia and, 216, 226

  military and, 231–234

  assassinations, 169, 177, 186

  See also killings, political

  Assemblies, 9, 10–11, 26

  See also Centuriate Assembly; Plebeian Assembly; Tribal Assembly

  Athenion, 139, 150–151

  Athens, xiii, 56, 209, 213–214, 226

  Attalus III (King of Pergamum), ix, 33, 48, 65, 220

  Augustus, 261–262, 264–265

  Aurelius, Quintus, 248

  Aventine Hill, 76–77, 157

  banditry

  in Sicily, 44

  in Spain, x

  barbarians, 85–86, 119–120, 129–130

  See also Cimbri tribe; Gaul

  Battle of Aquae Sextiae, xii, 140–142

  Battle of Arausio, xi, 124–127, 136

  Battle of Chaeronea, xiii, 217

  Battle of Cynoscephalae, 5

  Battle of Isère River, x, 86

  Battle of Noreia, x, 101

  Battle of Orchomenus, xiii, 218

  Battle of Raudian Plain, xii, 148–149, 212

  Battle of Sacriportus, 236

  Battle of the Colline Gate, xiv, 241–242, 245, 248

  Battle of the Muthul, 104–105

  Battle of Tifata, 232

  Battle of Zama, 5

  Bay of Naples, 201

  Bebius, Gaius, 96

  Bellona. See Temple of Bellona

  Bestia, Lucius Calpurnius, xi, 94–95, 105–106

  Bithynia, xii–xiii, 175, 186–188, 219

  Black Sea, 185, 186, 208, 218

  Bocchus (King of Mauretania)

  Jugurtha and, xi, 112, 118–119, 124

  Sulla and, 122–123, 174

  Bomilcar, 97, 108, 111

  borders

  expansion, 85–86

  Macedonia, 101–102

  protection, 85–86, 101–103, 124–127

  Bosporus, 189

  bounty, gold for heads, 76, 77

  bribery

  corruption and, 47, 49, 65–66

  Numidia and, 88, 90, 94, 102, 105

  Brundisium, 206, 228–229

  Brutus, 264

  Caepio, Quintus Servilius (the Elder)

  Battle of Arausio, xi, 124–127, 136

  exile, 138

  Tolosa Gold, 120–121, 134

  Caepio, Quintus Servilius (the Younger)

  clash with Saturninus, 153–154

  murder of, 177

  Caesar, Gaius Julius

  ambition of, xx, 227

  birth of, xii

  murder of, 264

  proscriptions and, 250

  on republic, 245

  rise of, 263–264

  Caesar, Lucius Julius, 174, 176, 178, 213

  Caesar, Sextus Julius, 169, 174, 177

  Caesaria, Julia, 91–92, 263–264

  Camillus, Marcus Furius, 150

  Campus Martius, 65, 190, 194, 196, 238, 251

  Capitoline Hill, 12, 28, 34–36, 175, 197

  Cappadocia, xii, 175, 186, 187–188, 190

  See also Ariobarzanes

  Capua, 205, 232, 233

  Carbo, Gaius Papirius

  land commission and, 53, 55

  trial and suicide, 78

  tribunate of, 42, 60

  Carbo, Gnaeus Papirius (the Elder)

  defeated by Cimbri, xi, 100–101

  trial and suicide, 102–103, 179

  Carbo, Gnaeus Papirius (the Younger)

  consulship of, 235–237

  death of, 249

  military and, 206, 210, 212, 225–226

  as proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul, 227

  proscriptions and, 247, 249

  against Sulla, 239–241

  Carthage

  colonies, 73, 74

  fall of, ix, 1, 5–6, 12–15, 18, 63

  silver from, 51

  cash economy, in Rome, 43

  Cassius, Gaius, 264

  Castor. See Temple of Castor and Pollux

  Catilina, Lucius Sergius, 248–249

  Cato, Gaius Porcius, 101, 102, 106

  Cato, Lucius Porcius, 179–180

  Cato the Elder, 101

  Carthage and, 12–13

  on corruption and wealth, 17, 19

  criticism of, 56, 79

  Cato
the Younger, xii, 162

  Catulus, Quintus Lutatius

  Cimbri and, 141–144

  suicide of, 212

  Sulla and, 142, 148–149, 199, 200

  triumph of, 151

  cavalry

  Cimbri and, 149

  Equestrian class and, 50

  Mummius and, 10

  Numidian, 88, 107

  Pontic, 188

  Sulla and, 114, 116, 117, 118

  Centuriate Assembly, 9, 253, 264

  Cercina, 201, 202, 209

  Cethegus, Publius Cornelius, 231

  Chaeronea, xiii, 217, 218

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius

  on Asia, 165

  birth of, xi

  on Cinna (cos. 87–84), 223

  composition of On the Orators, 169

  on corruption, 81

  on Crassus, 170

  on expulsion of foreigners, 62

  on Glaucia, 145

  on the Gracchi, 60, 80

  on the grain dole, 68

  influences, 121

  as novus homo, 262

  as optimates and populares, 79–80

  on Philippus, 134

  on Pompey, 227

  on Rutilius, 166

  on Saturninus, 137, 145–146

  on Scaurus, 83

  student in Rome, 220

  on suicide of Carbo, 78

  on Sulpicius, 191

  young staff officer, 180

  Cimbri tribe

  migration of, x, 99–101, 106–107, 131

  military against, xi, 101, 107, 119, 121, 124–127, 140–144, 148–150

  Cinna, Lucius Cornelius (cos. 87–84)

  Cicero on, 223

  with citizenship for Italians, 221

  consulship of, xiii, xiv, 203–205, 215–217

  early years, 204

  military and, 206–213

  Sulla and, 205–206, 221–223

  violence and, 174

  Cinna, Lucius Cornelius (cos. 127), 203

  Circus Flaminius, 246

  Cirta, x, 112, 118, 122

  Cisalpine Gaul, 179, 189, 226, 227, 239, 251

  citizen-farmers, Lex Agraria and, 24–25

  citizens, Latin, 52–53, 71–72, 163–164

  citizens, Roman (populus Romanus)

  colonies for, 71–72, 78

  with killing authorized, 9

  population, 43

  wealth and, 52, 59

  See also noncitizens

  citizenship, Roman

  for Italians, 178–179, 225–226, 229, 255

  land exchanged for, 163

  laws, xiii, 178–179, 182, 206

  loss of, 206

  reform, x, 61–63, 67, 71–72, 161–165, 178–179, 207–208, 225–226, 229, 255

  for Samnites, 207–208

  civil liberty. See libertas

  civitas per magistratum, 163–164

  class

  Allies and, 53

  Athens and upper, 56

  Senate and hierarchy of, 10–11

  See also Equestrian class; peasants

 

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