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Authors: Adrian Goldsworthy
Tribuni aerarii:
The group registered below the equestrian order in the census. Relatively little is known about them.
Tribunus militum (military tribune):
Six military tribunes were elected or appointed to each Republican legion, one pair of these men holding command at any one time.
Triumph:
The great celebration granted by the Senate to a successful general took the form of a procession along the Via Sacra, the ceremonial main road of Rome, displaying the spoils and captives of his victory and culminated in the ritual execution of the captured enemy leader. The commander rode in a chariot, dressed like the statues of Jupiter, a slave holding a laurel wreath of victory over his head. The slave was supposed to whisper to the general, reminding him that he was mortal.
Triumvir
: In 43
BC
, Antony, Lepidus and Octavian were named as
triumviri rei publicae constituendae
(board of three to reconstitute the state) by the
Lex Titia
proposed by a tribune and passed by the
Concilium Plebis.
The triumvirate was granted dictatorial powers, initially for five years.
Uraeus:
The snake-shaped headband worn at times by the Ptolemies as a symbol of monarchy. Double uraei are typical, probably symbolising the two kingdoms of Egypt. Triple uraei appear on some images identified as Cleopatra, but the precise significance of this is unclear.
Vexillum:
A square flag mounted crosswise on a pole, the
vexillum
was used to mark a general's position and was also the standard carried by a detachment of troops. A general's
vexillum
seems usually to have been red.
Appian,
BC
= Appian,
Civil Wars.
Broughton,
MRR
2 = Broughton, T., & Patterson, M.,
The Magistrates of the
Roman Republic,
Vol. 2 (1951).
Caesar,
BC =
Caesar,
The Civil Wars.
Caesar,
BG
= Caesar,
The Gallic Wars.
CAH
2
IX = Crook, J., Lintott, A., & Rawson, E. (eds.),
The Cambridge Ancient History
2nd edn, Vol. IX:
The Last Age of the Roman Republic, 146â43
BC
(1994).
CAH
2
X = Bowman, A., Champlin, E., & Lintott, A. (eds.),
The Cambridge Ancient History
2nd edn, Vol. X:
The Augustan Empire, 43
BCâAD
69
(1996).
Cicero,
ad Att.
= Cicero,
Letters to Atticus.
Cicero,
ad Fam.
= Cicero,
Letters to his Friends.
Cicero,
ad Quintum Fratrem
= Cicero,
Letters to his Brother Quintus.
Cicero,
Agr
. = Cicero,
Orationes de Lege Agraria.
Cicero,
De reg. Alex. F.
= Cicero, fragment from the
Oration Concerning the King of Alexandria.
Cicero,
Verrines
= Cicero,
Verrine Orations
.
CIG
=
Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum.
CIL
=
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
.
De vir. Ill.
= the anonymous
De viris illustribus.
Dio = Cassius Dio,
Roman History.
Galen,
Comm. In Hipp. Epid., CMG
= K¨hn, C.,
Galenus Medicus
(1821â1833), supplemented by Diels, H. et al. (1918â).
Gellius,
NA
= Aulus Gellius,
Attic Nights.
ILS
= Dessau, H. (ed.),
Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae
(1892â1916).
Josephus,
AJ
= Josephus,
Jewish Antiquities.
Josephus,
BJ
= Josephus,
The Jewish War
.
JRA
=
Journal of Roman Archaeology
.
JRS
=
Journal of Roman Studies.
Livy,
Pers
. = Livy,
Roman History: Periochae.
OGIS
= Dittenberger, W.,
Orientis Graeci Inscriptiones Selectae
(1903â1905).
PIR
1
= Kelbs, E., et al.,
Prosopographia Imperii Romani
(1933â).
Pliny,
Epistulae
= Pliny the Younger,
Letters.
Pliny,
NH
= Pliny the Elder,
Natural History.
Quintilian = Quintilian,
Training in Oratory.
RIB
= Collingwood, R., & Wright, R.,
Roman Inscriptions in Britain
(1965â).
Sallust,
Bell. Cat.
= Sallust,
The Catilinarian War.
Sallust,
Bell. Jug.
= Sallust,
The Jugurthine War.
SEG
= Roussel, P., Tod, M., Ziebarth, E., & Hondius, J. (eds.),
Supplementum
Epigraphicum Graecum
(1923â).
Serv. = Servius.
Strabo,
Geog.
= Strabo,
Geography.
Valerius Maximus = Valerius Maximus,
Memorable Doings and Sayings.
Velleius Paterculus = Velleius Paterculus,
Roman History.
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