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Three Notes on Appian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

M. N. Tod
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These words occur in Appian's account of the riot which led to the death of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus in 133 B.C. The tribunician elections had been adjourned from the previous day, and Gracchus, who irregularly sought re-election, had with his supporters taken possession of the temple of Jupiter on the Capitol. The assembly broke up in disorder amid wild rumours that Gracchus had deposed all his colleagues or had declared himself tribune for the following year without election or had actually demanded the diadem. The Senate meanwhile had been in session in the temple of Fides, and upon receipt of the news from the Capitol Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio urged the consul, Publius Mucius Scaevola, to crush the tyrant. When he declared that he would not put any citizen to death without trial, Nasica, calling loudly upon those who desired the safety of their country to follow him, mounted the Capitol at the head of a considerable body of Senators and led the attack on Gracchus and his partisans.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , April 1924 , pp. 99 - 104
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1924

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page 99 note 1 For these see especially E. Kornemann, Zur Geschichte der Gracchenzeit, 3 sqq.

page 100 note 1 Meyer's omission of the note in question from the second edition of his essay (Kleine Schriften, 412) is a tacit admission of the force of Kornemann's polemic.

page 100 note 2 The Roman History of Appian, London, 1889Google Scholar . No change has been made in the revised version published in the Loeb Library, 1913.

page 100 note 3 See F. Münzer's article in Pauly-Wissowa, R.E. IV. 1501 sqq., s.v. Cornelius, No. 354, and the genealogical table, ibid. 1429 sq.

page 100 note 4 E. Meyer (Untersuchungen, 95, note 1) declared that Appian was mistaken in regarding him as already pontifex maximus; but Münzer (op. cit. 1503) and Kornemann (op. cit. 4, note 3) have defended Appian with a cogency which has convinced Meyer himself (Kleine Schriften, 412, note 1).

page 102 note 1 Cf. B.C. ii. 120, iii. 94, v.41; more doubtful are iv. 13, 35, v. II. Porphyrius, de Abstin. iv. 6, uses of the Egyptian priests the phrase εί έντЬς τοί <ί>α <ί>α. Numerous other examples from literature are collected in Liddell and Scott and in the Thesaurus, s.v.

page 102 note 2 I.G. ii.2 1078 (= S.I.G. 3 885), l. 10 sqq., 20 sq.; cf. I.G. ii.2 1079. The inscription is dated by Kirchner and Dittenberger, ca. A.D. 220; but see P. Graindor, Chronologie des Archontes Athéniens, 229 sqq.

page 102 note 3 They are sufficiently dealt with in such standard works as Mommsen, Th., History of Rome (English translation, 1887), iii. 258 sq.Google Scholar ; W. E. Heitland, The Roman Republic, § 857; F. Münzer in Pauly-Wissowa, R.E. ii.A, 1363 sq. For the date see also T. Reinach, Revue Historique, xlv 50 sq.

page 103 note 1 The sole exception is Suidas, who explains ϰρεώστης as ό δανειστής. But the word is never found with this meaning in extant Greek literature, and it seems best to assume that Suidas is here guilty of an inadvertence.

page 104 note 1 See comments ad loc. of Schweighäuser, Strachan-Davidson, and others.

page 104 note 2 A. Zerdik, Quaestiones Appiancae, Part I.