,
231
,
238
Colline Gate, Battle of the,
92
,
95
,
98
,
100
Colonia Felix,
see
Nola
Comitium,
85
commerce,
see
business; trade
communism,
xxii
competition,
xxi
,
24
,
34
,
115
,
123
Compitalia,
18
,
231
,
237
conservatism,
4
,
194
;
see also
tradition
constitution,
25
,
30
,
76
,
88
; Sulla and,
98
–
9
,
102
,
103
–
4
consulship,
2
–
3
,
23
,
27
,
93
,
94
,
123
–
4
,
125
contraception,
369
cookery,
186
–
7
Corfinium,
54
–
5
,
311
–
12
Corinth,
35
,
36
,
44
,
82
,
342
corn,
see
grain
Cornelia (Cinna’s daughter/Caesar’s wife),
118
–
19
,
197
Cornelia (Pompey’s wife),
292
–
3
,
323
–
4
corruption,
42
–
3
Cotta, Marcus,
159
Crassus, Marcus Licinius: and
55
BC consulship election,
262
,
263
; ambition and greed,
138
–
40
; background and support for Sulla,
89
–
90
,
91
; campaign for praetorship,
157
; and Catiline,
202
–
3
,
206
,
208
,
213
; defeat by Parthians and death,
267
–
9
,
288
; election to consulship,
150
–
53
; implicated in riot,
255
–
6
; profits from position and alienates Sulla,
100
; Ravenna meetings,
259
–
60
,
266
,
272
; rivalry with Pompey,
140
–
41
,
142
,
150
–
53
,
179
,
222
,
223
,
225
–
6
,
255
–
6
; and slaves’ revolt,
147
–
50
; sponsors and defends Caelius,
200
–
201
,
259
; success at Colline Gate,
92
,
98
; u-turn and formation of triumvirate,
227
,
228
,
230
,
232
; unpopularity and proconsulship in Syria,
263
,
264
–
5
;
Crete,
170
,
173
crossroads,
18
,
232
,
233
,
238
Curia,
85
Curio, Gaius Scribonius: becomes tribune and allies with Caesar,
300
–
302
,
304
–
5
; builds theatre,
295
; and Clodius,
215
–
16
,
235
–
6
,
296
; defeat and death in Africa,
318
; and Mark Antony,
235
–
6
,
251
Cursus
,
123
,
125
,
131
,
132
,
134
Cyprus,
270
–
71
,
329
dancing
193
–
4
Deiotarus of Galatia,
314
Delos,
79
–
80
,
170
democracy,
28
,
80
dice,
114
dictatorship,
102
–
3
Dido, Queen of Carthage,
383
‘
Discrimen
’,
xviii
,
xix
Domitian,
xxi
Domitius Ahenobarbus, Lucius: claim to Gaul,
256
–
7
,
260
–
61
,
272
; and consulship,
256
–
7
,
262
,
286
,
289
; defeated by Caesar,
311
–
12
; election for augurate,
303
–
4
; on Pompey,
314
; death,
322
Domitius Ahenobarbus (son),
373
,
375
egalitarianism,
xxi
,
18
Egypt,
10
,
323
–
335
,
368
,
381
;
see also
Alexandria
elections,
14
,
23
,
25
–
6
,
74
,
87
,
93
–
5
,
123
–
4
; for
55
BC consulship,
261
–
3
; for
52
BC consulship,
289
–
92
elephants,
37
,
284
–
5
engineering, military,
273
–
4
,
312
Ephesus,
333
equestrians (
equites
),
93
,
95
,
105
Esquiline Gate,
17
Ethiopia,
285
Euphrates, River,
266
–
7
expansionism,
270
–
71
fasces
,
64
,
102
,
260
fascism,
xx
,
xxii
fashion,
120
,
196
–
7
fatherhood,
112
,
114
–
17
Favonius,
308
,
345
festivals,
20
,
220
–
21
;
see also
Compitalia
fire-brigade, private,
139
fish and pisciculture,
187
,
188
–
9
food, attitudes to,
187
–
9
Forum,
85
,
99
,
103
,
106
–
7
,
131
,
152
; gladiator contests,
143
; law courts,
126
; planned extension,
272
; violence,
253
,
255
,
316
freedom,
see
liberty
fruit,
188
Fulvia (wife of Clodius, then Antony),
251
,
290
,
296
,
354
,
362
,
365
–
6
Gallia Togata,
228
games: animal spectacles,
284
–
6
,
295
–
6
; Caesar and,
120
,
198
,
336
,
356
; chariot-racing,
20
,
122
–
3
; Curio’s spectacular,
295
;
see also
gladiators
Garibaldi, Giuseppe,
55
Gaul,
xvii
,
xviii
; barbarous customs,
245
–
6
; Caesar becomes proconsul,
229
,
231