13 “He lacked the abilities others had” Plut Mar 32 1.
14 “No,” replied Drusus. “Build it” Plut Mor 800f.
15 The allies laid secret plans for an uprising The ensuing war is known as the Social War (from socius, the Latin for “ally”).
16 the devastation of the countryside Florus 2 6 11.
17 He rode off on a hunting trip This Robin Hood–like tale may be a legend.
18 “Either be greater than the Romans” Plut Mar 31.
19 “Sulpicius of all the orators” Cic Brut 203.
20 “The murders and civil disturbances” App Civ 1 55.
21 He imagined that he was the commander-in-chief Plut Mar 45 6.
22 According to Appian, ninety senators died Ibid., 1 103. Elsewhere, Appian gives the number as forty (App Civ 1 95).
23 He still kept company with women Plut Sul 36 1.
24 “This lad will stop anyone else” App Civ 1 104.
25 the most splendid of triumphs The details are largely drawn from App Mith 1 116–17, Plut Pom 45 and Plin Nat Hist 33 151 and 37 13–14.
26 Ships with brazen beaks captured App Mith 1 117.
18. Afterword
Cicero’s letters and his Republic and the Academics are the main sources.
1 We were wandering Cic Acad 1 3 9.
2 “Like the learned men of old” Cic Fam 177 (9 2).
3 “excessive liberty leads” Cic Rep 1 68.
4 “winner of a greater laurel wreath” Plin Nat Hist 7 117.
5 The Republic, when it was handed down to us Cic Rep 5 2.
Sources
1 “The mere statement of a fact” Polyb 12 25b.
2 “the type of man” Cited in Cornell, p 2.
ALSO BY ANTHONY EVERITT
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ANTHONY EVERITT, a sometime visiting professor in the visual and performing arts at Nottingham Trent University, has written extensively on European culture and is the author of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome. He has served as secretary general of the Arts Council of Great Britain. Everitt lives near Colchester, England’s first recorded town, founded by the Romans.
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