Pvblivs Clodivs and the Acts of Caesar

L. G. Pocock

doi:10.1017/S0009838800006856

Pvblivs Clodivs and the Acts of Caesar

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L. G. Pocock

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‘Tu tuo praecipitante iam et debilitato tribunatu auspiciorum patronus subito exstitisti …; tibi M. Bibulus quaerenti se de caelo seruasse respondit idemque in contione dixit, ab Appio tuo fratre productus, te omnino, quod contra auspicia adoptatus esses, tribunum non fuisse. tua denique omnis actio posterioribus mensibus fuit, omnia quae C. Caesar egisset, quod contra auspicia essent acta, per senatum rescindi oportere; quod si fieret, dicebas te tuis umeris me custodem urbis in urbem relaturum.’

Type: Research Article
Information: The Classical Quarterly , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , April 1924 , pp. 59 - 65

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838800006856 [Opens in a new window]
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^{page 59 note 1} Roman Republic, Vol. III., pp. 173–4.

^{page 59 note 2} Greatness and Decline of Rome (Eng. trans.) Vol. II., p. 30

^{page 59 note 3} Meyer, , Caesar's Monarchic, pp. 103 sqq.Google Scholar

^{page 60 note 1} Ibid. ‘Videte hominis amentiam (cum) persuum tribunatum Caesaris actis inligatus tene-retur…”

^{page 60 note 2} He does this repeatedly in the In Vatinium, e.g. 41, Where he plays on the meanings of this same word oportere.

^{page 61 note 1} Cf. Mommsen, ‘Even Caesar had to learn by experience,‘ etc. On this occasion, I think, he underrates his hero's sagacity.

^{page 61 note 2} Cf. Att. II. 21, 3; 22, 6, etc.

^{page 61 note 3} Cf. Att. II. 19, 2; 25, 2, etc.

^{page 61 note 4} Cf. In Vat. 35; Pro Sest. 15, 33, etc.

^{page 61 note 5} Cf. Att. II. 21, 41, etc.

^{page 61 note 6} Cf. Pro Sest. 15 and 4; Att. II. 19, 4; 20, 2; 21, 6; 22, 2, etc.

^{page 62 note 1} Cf. Plut. Pompey, 31: єίθɩσμέο λλοτρίοις νεκροίς ὢσπερ δρνιν άργδν έπικα ταίρεινíρєɭƲ καί λείψανα πολέμων σπαράσσειν.

^{page 62 note 2} Cf. his attitude at the beginning of his consulsbip; the extension of his proconsular command by the Senate; its votes of thanksgivings for his victories; and cf. (cum grano sails) In Vat. 20.

^{page 62 note 3} Cf. Prou. cons., § 34: ‘one more summer and Gaul will be settled’.

^{page 63 note 1} De domo, 22.

^{page 63 note 2} Cf. Att. III. 8; Dio C, 38. 30; Plutarch, Pompey, 48.

^{page 63 note 3} Cf. Pro Sest. 56.

^{page 63 note 4} Cf. Dio, 38. 30; De domo, 124.

^{page 63 note 5} Cf. Att. III. 8, 3.

^{page 63 note 6} In Vat. 39.

^{page 63 note 7} Att. II. 22. 2, etc.

^{page 63 note 8} Att. X. 4, 3.

^{page 63 note 9} Cf. Pro Sest. 41.

^{page 63 note 10} Cf. Att. III. 8, 3 (May, 58, Hypsaeus); III. 9,2.

^{page 63 note 11} Cf. Pro Sest. 67, 68; De domo, 3, 4, 25.

^{page 63 note 12} Fam. I. 9, 9 and 21.

^{page 64 note 1} Att. IV. 1, 6.

^{page 64 note 2} Cf. Fam. I. 1, 3: ‘quod eum ornasti.’

^{page 64 note 3} Att. IV. 1, 6.

^{page 64 note 4} Cf. De domo, 25–30.

^{page 64 note 5} Cf. Att. IV. 2 and 3.

^{page 64 note 6} Cf. Fam. I. 1, 3: ‘cui qui nolunt tibi sunt inimici quod eum ornasti, ’ and certain other passages.

^{page 64 note 7} ‘Asinus Germanus,’ by Cary, M., The Classical Quarterly, Vol. XVIIIGoogle Scholar., which contains the key to most of the problems of the period and which I have closely followed.

^{page 64 note 8} Cf. Att. I. 14.

^{page 64 note 9} Q. fr. II. 5, 6.

^{page 64 note 10} Cf. Q. fr. II. 5, 3 and Ad fam, I. 9, 9 and 12, and cf. ‘Asinus Germanus.’

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