Persons: Quotes and links to a source

Quotes by person:

Achilles
What was the name of Achilles among the maidens? What were the Sirens in the habit of singing?
Quote by Tiberius
Stn Tiberius Chapter 70: Interest in literature.

Achilles
Achilles, thy pretended sire
Quote by Priam
Vrg Book II Chapter 22: Death of Priam

Aeneas
That Phrygian eunuch.
Quote by Turnus
Vrg Book XI Chapter 4: A funeral truce

Aeneas
Aeneas, famed for faithful prayer.
Vrg Book VI Chapter 16: Crossing the Styx

Aeneas
A king we had; Aeneas, -- never man in all the world more loyal, just and true, nor mightier in arms!
Vrg Book I Chapter 31: Obituary of Aeneas

Aeneas
For my foeman when we meet will find no goddess-mother near, with hand to hide him in her woman's skirt of cloud, herself in dim, deluding shade concealed.
Quote by Turnus
Vrg Book XI Chapter 2: Lament over Pallas

Agamemnon
There is still a father even in a king
Ovd Ovid XV Chapter 2: 60-142 Pythagoras' Teachings: Vegetarianism

Agamemnon
Then a cruel oracle ordered Agamemnon to sacrifice his innocent daughter, Iphigenia, to pitiless Diana.
Ovd Ovid XV Chapter 2: 60-142 Pythagoras' Teachings: Vegetarianism

Agricola
It was the case of a lofty and aspiring soul craving with more eagerness than caution the beauty and splendour of great and glorious renown. But it was soon mellowed by reason and experience, and he retained from his learning that most difficult of lessons -- moderation.
Agr Chapter 4: His parents

Agricola
Should posterity wish to know something of his appearance, it was graceful rather than commanding.
Agr Chapter 44: Obituary of Agricola

Agricola
When his public and judicial duties required it, he was dignified, thoughtful, austere, and yet often merciful; when business was done with, he wore no longer the official character. He was altogether without harshness, pride, or the greed of gain. With a most rare felicity, his good nature did not weaken his authority, nor his strictness the attachment of his friends.
Agr Chapter 9: In Aquitania

Agricola
He sought to make himself acquainted with the province and known to the army; he would learn from the skilful, and keep pace with the bravest, would attempt nothing for display, would avoid nothing from fear, and would be at once careful and vigilant.
Agr Chapter 5: In Britain

Agrippa
He, the negotiator and arbitrator of the reconciliation, who acted as the ambassador of the patricians to the plebs, and brought them back to the City, did not possess money enough to defray the cost of his funeral. He was interred by the plebeians, each man contributing a sextans towards the expense.
Hor Book II Chapter 33: League with the Latins

Agrippa Postumus
Who, though devoid of worthy qualities, and having only the brute courage of physical strength, …
Ann Book I Chapter 3: Augustus' succession

Agrippa Postumus
For she had gained such a hold on the aged Augustus that he drove out as an exile into the island of Planasia his only grandson, Agrippa Postumus
Ann Book I Chapter 3: Augustus' succession

Agrippa Postumus
The first crime of the new reign was the murder of Postumus Agrippa.
Ann Book I Chapter 6: Murder of Agrippa Posthumus (14 AD)

Agrippina the Elder
Such zeal, he thought, could not be guileless; it was not against a foreign foe that she was thus courting the soldiers. Generals had nothing left them when a woman went among the companies, attended the standards, ventured on bribery, as though it showed but slight ambition to parade her son in a common soldier's uniform and wish him to be called Caesar Caligula.
Quote by Tiberius
Ann Book I Chapter 69: War with the Germans. The bridge over the Rhine

Agrippina the Elder
Prevented the bridge over the Rhine from being destroyed
Ann Book I Chapter 69: War with the Germans. The bridge over the Rhine

Agrippina the Elder
Protesting that she was a descendant of the Divine Augustus and could face peril with no degenerate spirit
Ann Book I Chapter 40: Revolt in Germania. Agrippina leaves the camp

Agrippina the Elder
Livia feeling a stepmother's bitterness towards Agrippina
Ann Book I Chapter 33: Revolt in Germania. Germanicus

Agrippina the Elder
Do you think a wrong is done you, dear daughter, if you are not empress?
Quote by Tiberius
Stn Tiberius Chapter 53: Death of Agrippina

Agrippina the Elder
Agrippina herself too being rather excitable, only her purity and love of her husband gave a right direction to her otherwise imperious disposition.
Ann Book I Chapter 33: Revolt in Germania. Germanicus

Agrippina the Younger
Cluvius relates that Agrippina in her eagerness to retain her influence went so far that more than once at midday, when Nero, even at that hour, was flushed with wine and feasting, she presented herself attractively attired to her half intoxicated son and offered him her person
Ann Book XIV Chapter 2: The Murder of Agrippina Minor. She tries to seduce Nero

Agrippina the Younger
Many years before Agrippina had anticipated this end for herself and had spurned the thought. For when she consulted the astrologers about Nero, they replied that he would be emperor and kill his mother. Let him kill her, she said, provided he is emperor.
Ann Book XIV Chapter 9: The Murder of Agrippina Minor. Her funeral

Agrippina the Younger
Smite my womb
Ann Book XIV Chapter 8: The Murder of Agrippina Minor. Success

Agrippina the Younger
Nothing that was not abominable and a public bane could be born of Agrippina and himself.
Quote by Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
Stn Nero, Chapter 6: The youth of Nero

Agrippina the Younger
Agrippina, who was terrible in her hatred
Ann Book XII Chapter 22: Exile for Lollia

Alcibiades
He avoided and repelled the approaches of everyone, but embraced with kisses and the greatest show of affection Alcibiades, then in his hot youth. And when Apemantus was astonished, and demanded the reason, he replied that he knew this young man would one day do infinite mischief to the Athenians.
Plt Antony Chapter 70: Timon of Athens

Alexander the Great
It is a disagreeable task in the case of so great a man to have to record his ostentatious love of dress; the prostrations which he demanded from all who approached his presence, and which the Macedonian must have felt to be humiliating, even had they been vanquished, how much more when they were victors; the terribly cruel punishments he inflicted; the murder of his friends at the banquet-table; the vanity which made him invent a divine pedigree for himself.
Hor Book IX Chapter 18: Comparison continued.

Alexander the Great
Do you think," said he, "I have not just cause to weep, when I consider that Alexander at my age had conquered so many nations, and I have all this time done nothing that is memorable?"
Quote by Julius Caesar
Plt Caesar Chapter 11: Caesar in Spain. Caesar and Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great
Both had a graceful person and were of noble birth; neither had much exceeded thirty years of age, and both fell by the treachery of their own people in strange lands
Ann Book II Chapter 73: Illness and death of Germanicus. His funeral.

Alexander the Great
No man was less capable of bearing prosperity than he was.
Hor Book IX Chapter 18: Comparison continued.

Alexander the Great
When he drank his destruction at Babylon through the treachery of an attendant.
Gth Chapter 10: Persians and Macedonia.

Alexander the Great
What, pray, would have happened if his love of wine had become stronger and his passionate nature more violent and fiery as he grew older?
Hor Book IX Chapter 18: Comparison continued.

Alexander the Great
He had excelled Alexander in clemency, in self-restraint, and in all other virtues
Ann Book II Chapter 73: Illness and death of Germanicus. His funeral.

Alexander the Great
The aspect of Italy would have struck him as very different from the India which he traversed in drunken revelry with an intoxicated army:
Hor Book IX Chapter 17: Comparison of the Strength of Rome and of Macedonia under Alexander the Great

Amphicrates
Of whom it is told that he left his country and fled to Seleucia, upon the river Tigris, and, being desired to teach logic among them, arrogantly replied, that the dish was too little to hold a dolphin.
Plt Lucullus Chapter 22: Administration of Asia

Antiochus IV Epiphanes
When the Macedonians became supreme, king Antiochus strove to destroy the national superstition, and to introduce Greek civilization, but was prevented by his war with the Parthians from at all improving this vilest of nations; for at this time the revolt of Arsaces had taken place.
His Book V Chapter 8: The Jews. Their history according to Tacitus (cont.)

Antonius Musa
To the physician Antonius Musa, who had cured him of a dangerous illness, they erected a statue.
Stn Augustus, Chapter 59: Further honours.

Antonius Primus
He was brave in battle, ready of speech, dexterous in bringing odium upon other men, powerful amidst civil strife and rebellion, rapacious, prodigal, the worst of citizens in peace, but in war no contemptible ally.
His Book II Chapter 86: Revolt of Vespasian. Primus Antonius

Antonius Primus
All I can say is this, that neither in Antonius nor in Hormus would this foulest of crimes have been a degeneracy from the character of their former lives.
His Book III Chapter 28: Vitellius versus Antonius Primus. The attack continues

Antonius Primus
And everyone else inveighed against him, as an ill-affected and conceited man, nor did they forget the scandals of his early life. Antonius himself failed not to provoke offence by his arrogance and his excessive propensity to dwell on his own services.
His Book IV Chapter 80: Vespasian emperor. Antonius Priscus

Appius Claudius
He had assumed such a new character that from being a stern and bitter enemy of the people he suddenly appeared as their advocate, and trimmed his sails to catch every breath of popular favour.
Hor Book III Chapter 33: The Decemvirate.

Appius Claudius
Appius Claudius, he said, alone was outside the laws, outside all the bonds that held states or even human society together. Let men cast their eyes on that tribunal, the fortress of all villainies, where that perpetual decemvir, surrounded by hangmen not lictors, in contempt of gods and men alike, wreaked his vengeance on the goods, the backs, and the lives of the citizens, threatening all indiscriminately with the rods and axes, and then when his mind was diverted from rapine and murder to lust, tore a free-born maiden from her father's arms before the eyes of Rome, and gave her to a client, the minister of his intrigues -- that tribunal where by cruel decree and infamous judgment he armed the father's hand against the daughter, where he ordered those who took up the maiden's lifeless body -- her betrothed lover and her grandfather -- to be thrown into prison, moved less by her death than by the check to his criminal gratification.
Quote by Verginius
Hor Book III Chapter 57: The case of Appius Claudius (Cont.)

Appius Claudius
Appius Claudius was keenly alive to the chance that he might not be reelected, in spite of his age and the honours he had enjoyed. You could hardly tell whether to consider him as a decemvir or a candidate. Sometimes he was more like one who sought office than one who actually held it; he abused the nobility, and extolled all the candidates who had neither birth nor personal weight to recommend them;
Hor Book III Chapter 35: The Second Decemvirate.

Appius Claudius
By this blood, Appius, I devote thy head to the infernal gods.
Quote by Lucius Icilius
Hor Book III Chapter 48: The death of Verginia.

Appius Claudius Crassinus Inregillensis Sabinus
Appius displayed the same savage temper in the field that he had shown at home, only it was more unrestrained because he was not now fettered by the tribunes. He hated the commons with a more intense hatred than his father had felt, for they had got the better of him and had carried their Law though he had been elected consul as being the one man who could thwart the tribunitian power -- a Law, too, which former consuls, from whom the senate expected less than from him, had obstructed with less trouble.
Hor Book II Chapter 58: War with the Volscians and Aequi.

Appius Claudius Crassus Ingregillensis
The passion and delight of hunting carries men through frost and snow to the forests and the mountains
Hor Book V Chapter 6: War with Veii. Speech of Appius Claudius. Cont.

Appius Claudius Sabinus Inregillensis
Appius Claudius, harsh by nature, and now maddened by the hatred of the plebs on the one hand and the praises of the senate on the other, asserted that these riotous gatherings were not the result of misery but of licence, the plebeians were actuated by wantonness more than by anger.
Hor Book II Chapter 29: Secession of the Plebs (Cont.)

Appius Claudius Sabinus Inregillensis
Appius, partly from his innate love of tyranny
Hor Book II Chapter 27: Secession of the Plebs and Fifth Sabine war

Appuleia Varilia
Her insinuations against himself he did not wish to be the subject of judicial inquiry.
Quote by Tiberius
Ann Book II Chapter 50: Adultery.

Ariobarzanes
Singularly handsome person and noble spirit.
Ann Book II Chapter 4: Commotion in Parthia and Armenia. Gaius Caesar in Armenia (20 BC)

Arminius
With his naturally furious temper
Ann Book I Chapter 59: War with the Germans. Speech of Arminius

Arminius
Famous ... for treachery … towards us.
Ann Book I Chapter 55: War with the Germans. Arminius and Segestes

Arminius
Arminius in his infatuation and ignorance was taking to himself the glory which belonged to another, for he had treacherously surprised three unofficered legions and a general who had not an idea of perfidy, to the great hurt of Germany and to his own disgrace, since his wife and his son were still enduring slavery.
Quote by Marobodus
Ann Book II Chapter 46: War with the Germans. Maroboduus and Arminius (cont.)

Asiaticus
And honoured with the ring of knighthood this same Asiaticus, a slave of infamous character, ever seeking power by unprincipled intrigues.
His Book II Chapter 57: Otho versus Vitellius. Vitellus hears of his victory

Attila
He was a man born into the world to shake the nations, the scourge of all lands, who in some way terrified all mankind by the dreadful rumors noised abroad concerning him.
Gth Chapter 35: Attila the Hun.

Attila
He was short of stature, with a broad chest and a large head; his eyes were small, his beard thin and sprinkled with gray; and he had a flat nose and a swarthy complexion, showing the evidences of his origin.
Gth Chapter 35: Attila the Hun.

Attila
He had given himself up to excessive joy at his wedding, and as he lay on his back, heavy with wine and sleep, a rush of superfluous blood, which would ordinarily have flowed from his nose, streamed in deadly course down his throat and killed him, since it was hindered in the usual passages
Gth Chapter 49: The death of Attila.

Augustus
He had so great a dread of thunder and lightning that he always carried about him a seal's skin by way of preservation.
Quote by Romulus
Stn Augustus, Chapter 90: Dread of thunder.

Augustus
Nine months for common births the Fates decree;
But, for the great, reduce the term to three.
Stn Claudius, Chapter 1: His ancestry: Drusus.

Augustus
He had not even adopted Tiberius as his successor out of affection or any regard to the State, but, having thoroughly seen his arrogant and savage temper, he had sought glory for himself by a contrast of extreme wickedness.
Ann Book I Chapter 10: The reign of Augustus(cont.)

Augustus
We ought to write as we speak
Stn Augustus, Chapter 88: His spelling.

Augustus
He likewise read whole books to the senate.
Stn Augustus, Chapter 89: His literature.

Augustus
It was Augustus who first, under colour of this law, applied legal inquiry to libellous writings provoked, as he had been, by the licentious freedom with which Cassius Severus had defamed men and women of distinction in his insulting satires.
Ann Book I Chapter 72: Prosecutions for Majestas

Augustus
He could not easily bear either heat or cold.
Stn Augustus, Chapter 81: His diseases.

Augustus
Nor half so far triumphant Bacchus drove, With vine-entwisted reins, his frolic team Of tigers from the tall-topped Indian hill.
Quote by Anchises
Vrg Book VI Chapter 31: The future (cont.)

Augustus
he once jocosely rebuked a man, by telling him, You present your memorial with as much hesitation as if you were offering money to an elephant.
Stn Augustus, Chapter 53: His modesty.

Augustus
Then, when by a decree of the Senate he had usurped the high functions and authority of Praetor when Hirtius and Pansa were slain - whether they were destroyed by the enemy, or Pansa by poison infused into a wound, Hirtius by his own soldiers and Caesar's treacherous machinations
Ann Book I Chapter 10: The reign of Augustus(cont.)

Augustus
The infirmities of Augustus increased, and some suspected guilt on his wife's part.
Ann Book I Chapter 5: The death of Augustus

Augustus
I see, even now, a city, destined for Phrygian descendants, than which none is greater, or shall be, or has been, in past ages. Other leaders will make her powerful, through the long centuries, but one, born of the blood of Iulus, will make her mistress of the world.
Quote by Helenus
Ovd Ovid XV Chapter 11: 418-452 Pythagoras' Teachings:Transfers of Power

Augustus
When earth has benefited from him, the celestial regions will enjoy him, and heaven will be his goal.
Quote by Helenus
Ovd Ovid XV Chapter 11: 418-452 Pythagoras' Teachings:Transfers of Power

Augustus
For she had gained such a hold on the aged Augustus that he drove out as an exile into the island of Planasia his only grandson, Agrippa Postumus
Ann Book I Chapter 3: Augustus' succession

Augustus
Behold, at last, that man, for this is he, So oft unto thy listening ears foretold, Augustus Caesar, kindred unto Jove. He brings a golden age.
Quote by Anchises
Vrg Book VI Chapter 30: The future is described

Augustus
His favorite spectacle was the Trojan game acted by a select number of boys, in parties differing in age and station; thinking that it was a practice both excellent in itself, and sanctioned by ancient usage, that the spirit of the young nobles should be displayed in such exercises.
Stn Augustus, Chapter 43: On spectacles.

Augustus
And Pylades he not only banished from the city, but from Italy also, for pointing with his finger at a spectator by whom, he was hissed, and turning the eyes of the audience upon him.
Quote by Cerialis
Stn Augustus, Chapter 45: His personal interest.

Augustus
Our ancestors wanted Janus Quirinus to be closed when throughout the all the rule of the Roman people, by land and sea, peace had been secured through victory. Although before my birth it had been closed twice in all in recorded memory from the founding of the city, the senate voted three times in my principate that it be closed.
Aug The Deeds of the Divine Augustus

Augustus
It was resolved that he should rather be called Augustus, a surname not only new, but of more dignity, because places devoted to religion, and those in which anything is consecrated by augury, are denominated August, either from the word auctus, signifying augmentation, or Ab Avium Gestu, gustuve from the flight and feeding of birds; as appears from this verse of Ennius: When glorious Rome by August augury was built.
Stn Augustus, Chapter 7: The youth of Augustus. Cont.

Augustus
The death of Pansa was so fully believed to have been caused by undue means, that Glyco, his surgeon, was placed in custody, on a suspicion of having poisoned his wound. And to this, Aquilius Niger adds, that he killed Hirtius, the other consul, in the confusion of the battle, with his own hands.
Stn Augustus, Chapter 11: Siege of Modena. Cont.

Augustus
Two others, father and son, who begged for their lives, he ordered to cast lots which of them should live, or settle it between themselves by the sword; and was a spectator of both their deaths for the father offering his life to save his son, and being accordingly executed, the son likewise killed himself upon the spot.
Stn Augustus, Chapter 13: The battle of Philippi

Augustus
But he never made war upon any nation without just and necessary cause;
Stn Augustus, Chapter 21: Military actions in the East

Augustus
He was in such consternation at this event, that he let the hair of his head and beard grow for several months, and sometimes knocked his head against the door-post, crying out, O, Quintilius Varus! give me back my legions!
Stn Augustus, Chapter 23: Varus and the Germans

Augustus
The senate decreed that vows be undertaken for my health by the consuls and priests every fifth year. In fulfillment of these vows they often celebrated games for my life; several times the four highest colleges of priests, several times the consuls. Also both privately and as a city all the citizens unanimously and continuously prayed at all the shrines for my health.
Aug The Deeds of the Divine Augustus

Augustus
To the physician Antonius Musa, who had cured him of a dangerous illness, they erected a statue.
Stn Augustus, Chapter 59: Further honours.

Augustus
He restored the calendar, ... and upon that occasion, called the month Sextilis, by his own name, August,
Stn Augustus, Chapter 31: Religious measures.

Augustus
He was five feet and nine inches in height.
Stn Augustus, Chapter 79: His appearance.

Augustus
On account of the things successfully done by me and through my officers, under my auspices, on earth and sea, the senate decreed fifty-five times that there be sacrifices to the immortal gods
Aug The Deeds of the Divine Augustus

Augustus
He took particular pleasure in witnessing pugilistic contests.
Stn Augustus, Chapter 45: His personal interest.

Augustus
And Pylades he not only banished from the city, but from Italy also, for pointing with his finger at a spectator by whom, he was hissed, and turning the eyes of the audience upon him.
Quote by Cerialis
Stn Augustus, Chapter 45: His personal interest.

Augustus
And when Tiberius, in a letter, complained of the affront with great earnestness, he returned him an answer in the following terms: Do not, my dear Tiberius, give way to the ardour of youth in this affair; nor be so indignant that any person should speak ill of me. It is enough, for us, if we can prevent anyone from really doing us mischief.
Stn Augustus, Chapter 51: On insults.

Augustus
He melted down all the silver statues which had been erected to him
Stn Augustus, Chapter 52: No divine honour for him.

Augustus
Nor was any one ever molested for his freedom of speech, although it was carried to the extent of insolence.
Stn Augustus, Chapter 54: Freedom of speech.

Augustus
Augustus had an easy and fluent way of speaking, such as became a sovereign.
Ann Book XIII Chapter 3: The funeral of Claudius

Augustus
He was handsome and graceful.
Stn Augustus, Chapter 79: His appearance.

Augustus
He then caused all prophetical books, both in Latin and Greek, the authors of which were either unknown, or of no great authority, to be brought in; and the whole collection, amounting to upwards of two thousand volumes, he committed to the flames, preserving only the Sibylline oracles;
Stn Augustus, Chapter 31: Religious measures.

Augustus
To the Vestal Virgins he granted seats in the theatre, reserved for them only, opposite the praetor's bench.
Stn Augustus, Chapter 44: On seats at the public games.

Aulus Caecina Alienus
Caecina revelled more freely in plunder and bloodshed
His Book I Chapter 67: Revolt of Vitellius. The Helvetii

Aulus Caecina Alienus
An overbearing, foreign-seeming man, of gigantic stature and always dressed in trews and sleeves, after the manner of the Gauls, whilst he conversed with Roman officials and magistrates.
Plt Otho Chapter 6: Otho versus Vitellius; the siege of Placentia

Aunus
His doom cut short a life of lies
Vrg Book XI Chapter 26: The killing by Camilla

Bacchus
Nor half so far triumphant Bacchus drove, With vine-entwisted reins, his frolic team Of tigers from the tall-topped Indian hill.
Quote by Anchises
Vrg Book VI Chapter 31: The future (cont.)

Berenice of Chios
Berenice had prepared a potion for herself, but at her mother's entreaty, who stood by, she gave her part of it. Both drank of the potion, which prevailed over the weaker body. But Berenice, having drunk too little, was not released by it, but lingering on unable to die, was strangled by Bacchides for haste.
Plt Lucullus Chapter 18: Death of the family of Mithridate

Brutus
Brutus, ... told them he had been competent to pass sentence by himself upon his own sons, but left the rest to the suffrages of the free citizens: "Let every man speak that wishes, and persuade whom he can."
Quote by Brutus
Plt Publicola, chapter 7: The other conspirators are also executed

Brutus
It is not," said he, "these well fed, long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking;" meaning Brutus and Cassius.
Quote by Julius Caesar
Plt Antony Chapter 11: Caesar and Antony

Brutus
And when it was told him that Antony and Dolabella were in a plot against him, he said he did not fear such fat, luxurious men, but rather the pale, lean fellows, meaning Cassius and Brutus
Plt Caesar Chapter 62: Caesar murdered; preliminaries

Caecilia Metella
his mother Caecilia's reputation was bad
Plt Lucullus Chapter 1: His ancestry and youth

Caesarion
Too many Caesars are not well.
Quote by Areius
Plt Antony Chapter 81: The children of Antony and Caesarion

Caligula
It was well said of him that no one had ever been a better slave or a worse master
Stn Caligula, Chapter 10: Caligula on Capri.

Caligula
He could not control his natural cruelty and viciousness, but he was a most eager witness of the tortures and executions of those who suffered punishment revelling at night in gluttony and adultery.
Stn Caligula, Chapter 11: Caligula on Capri (cont.)

Caligula
Once too when Gaius Caesar in a casual conversation ridiculed Lucius Sulla, he predicted to him that he would have all Sulla's vices and none of his virtues
Quote by Tiberius
Ann Book VI Chapter 46: Succession of Tiberius

Caligula
no evidence convinced him so positively that she was sprung from his own loins as her savage temper, which was even then so violent that she would try to scratch the faces and eyes of the little children who played with her.
Stn Caligula, Chapter 25: Caligula as a monster (Cont.)

Caligula
There never was a better slave or a worse master.
Quote by Passienus
Ann Book VI Chapter 20: Gaius Caesar

Caligula
He was a man who masked a savage temper under an artful guise of self-restraint, and neither his mother's doom nor the banishment of his brothers extorted from him a single utterance.
Ann Book VI Chapter 20: Gaius Caesar

Caligula
Because he often wore the shoe so called, to win the men's goodwill.
Ann Book I Chapter 41: Revolt in Germania. Germanicus' family

Caligula
At the same moment he embraced the younger of his two grandsons with a flood of tears, and, noting the savage face of the other, said, "You will slay this boy, and will be yourself slain by another
Quote by Tiberius
Ann Book VI Chapter 46: Succession of Tiberius

Caligula
Was it probable that, when Tiberius with his long experience of affairs was, under the influence of absolute power, wholly perverted and changed, Gaius Caesar, who had hardly completed his boyhood, was thoroughly ignorant and bred under the vilest training, would enter on a better course, with Macro for his guide, who having been selected for his superior wickedness, to crush Sejanus had by yet more numerous crimes been the scourge of the State?
Quote by Lucius Arruntius
Ann Book VI Chapter 48: Arruntius and Albucilla

Caligula
He used to say now and then that to allow Gaius to live would prove the ruin of himself and of all men, and that he was rearing a viper for the Roman people and a Phaethon for the world.
Quote by Tiberius
Stn Caligula, Chapter 11: Caligula on Capri (cont.)

Caligula
He lived in habitual incest with all his sisters.
Stn Caligula, Chapter 24: Caligula and Drusilla.

Caligula
He had the manager of his gladiatorial shows and beast-baitings beaten with chains in his presence for several successive days, and would not kill him until he was disgusted at the stench of his putrefied brain.
Stn Caligula, Chapter 27: Caligula as a monster (Cont.)

Caligula
Saying that the rule of Augustus had been made famous by the Varus massacre and that of Tiberius by the collapse of the amphitheatre at Fidenae, while his own was threatened with oblivion because of its prosperity
Stn Caligula, Chapter 31: Caligula as a monster (Cont.)

Caligula
He would bathe in hot or cold perfumed oils, drink pearls of great price dissolved in vinegar…
Stn Caligula, Chapter 37: Caligula as a monster (Cont.)

Caligula
He wrote besides to his financial agents to prepare for a triumph at the smallest possible cost, but on a grander scale than had ever before been known, since the goods of all were at their disposal.
Stn Caligula, Chapter 47: Military affairs of Caligula (Cont.)

Caligula
There was found besides a great chest full of divers kinds of poisons, which they say were later thrown into the sea by Claudius and so infected was it as to kill the fish, which were thrown up by the tide upon the neighboring shores.
Stn Caligula, Chapter 49: Military affairs of Caligula (Cont.)

Caligula
His hair [was] thin and entirely gone on the top of his head, though his body was hairy.
Stn Caligula, Chapter 50: His countenance.

Caligula
he never rested more than three hours at night, and even for that length of time he did not sleep quietly, but was terrified by strange apparitions
Stn Caligula, Chapter 50: His countenance.

Caligula
For this man, who so utterly despised the gods, was wont at the slightest thunder and lightning to shut his eyes, to muffle up his head, and if they increased, to leap from his bed and hide under it.
Stn Caligula, Chapter 51: His fears.

Caligula
Even Gaius Caesar 's disordered intellect did not wholly mar his faculty of speech.
Ann Book XIII Chapter 3: The funeral of Claudius

Caligula
Besides a stall of marble, a manger of ivory, purple blankets and a collar of precious stones he even gave this horse [Incitatus] a house, a troop of slaves and furniture, for the more elegant entertainment of the guests invited in his name; and it is also said that he planned to make him consul.
Stn Caligula, Chapter 55: Caligula and the circus.

Caligula
He began from that time on to lay claim to divine majesty; for after giving orders that such statues of the gods as were especially famous for their sanctity or their artistic merit, including that of Jupiter of Olympia, should be brought from Greece, in order to remove their heads and put his own in their place.
Stn Caligula, Chapter 22: The Divine Caligula.

Callimachus
Callimachus, who, by his great engineering skill, and his dexterity at all the shifts and subtleties of a siege, had greatly incommoded the Romans.
Plt Lucullus Chapter 19: Siege of Amisus

Calliphaeia
The everlasting universe contains four generative states of matter. Of these, two, earth and water, are heavy, and sink lower, under their own weight. The other two lack heaviness, and, if not held down, they seek height: that is air, and fire, purer than air.
Quote by Pythagoras of Samos
Ovd Ovid XV Chapter 6: 237-258 Pythagoras' Teachings:The Elements

Camillus
During his censorship one very good act of his is recorded, that, whereas the wars had made many widows, he obliged such as had no wives, some by fair persuasion, others by threatening to set fines on their heads, to take them in marriage; another necessary one, in causing orphans to be rated, who before were exempted from taxes, the frequent wars requiring more than ordinary expenses to maintain them
Plt Camillus, chapter 2: Soldier and censor

Carmentis
He was looked up to with reverence for his knowledge of letters -- a new and marvellous thing for uncivilized men - but he was still more revered because of his mother, who was believed to be a divine being and regarded with wonder, by all as an interpreter of Fate, in the days before the arrival of the Sibyl in Italy.
Hor Book I Chapter 7: Death of Remus. The Legend of Hercules and Cacus.

Cassandra
What mortal ear gave heed to sad Cassandra's voice divine?
Vrg Book III Chapter 9: Aeneas is sent to Hesperia

Cato the Younger
Cato was his friend and connection, but, nevertheless, so hated his life and habits, that when a young man in the senate made a long and tedious speech in praise of frugality and temperance, Cato got up and said, "How long do you mean to go on making money like Crassus, living like Lucullus, and talking like Cato?"
Plt Lucullus Chapter 40: A luxurious life for Lucullus (cont.)

Celer
Celer upon this fled instantly into Tuscany, and from him the Romans call all men that are swift of foot Celeres
Plt Romulus, chapter 12: Remus killed.

Cerialis
I have never cultivated eloquence; it is by my sword that I have asserted the excellence of the Roman people. Since, however, words have very great weight with you, since you estimate good and evil, not according to their real value, but according to the representations of seditious men, I have resolved to say a few words, which, as the war is at an end, it may be useful for you to have heard rather than for me to have spoken.
His Book IV Chapter 73: The Batavian Uprise. Speech of Cerialis

Charybdis
Pitiless Charybdis, who draws down to the wild whirling of her steep abyss the monster waves, and ever and anon flings them at heaven
Quote by Helenus
Vrg Book III Chapter 16: Prophecy of Helenus (cont.)

Cicero
Cicero was the first who had any suspicions of his designs upon the government, and, as a good pilot is apprehensive of a storm when the sea is most smiling, saw the designing temper of the man through this disguise of good-humor and affability, and said, that in general, in all he did and undertook, he detected the ambition for absolute power, "but when I see his hair so carefully arranged, and observe him adjusting it with one finger, I cannot imagine it should enter into such a man's thoughts to subvert the Roman state."
Plt Caesar Chapter 4: Caesar as a lawyer

Cincinnatus
The one hope of Rome, Lucius Quinctius, used to cultivate a four-acre field on the other side of the Tiber, just opposite the place where the dockyard and arsenal are now situated; it bears the name of the Quinctian Meadows." There he was found by the deputation from the senate either digging out a ditch or ploughing, at all events, as is generally agreed, intent on his husbandry.
Hor Book III Chapter 26: War with the Aequi and Sabines. Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus

Cincinnatus
At last, after well-merited commendations were showered upon him from all parts of the House and he was assured that "in that aged mind there was not only more wisdom but more courage than in all the rest," whilst the consul adhered to his decision, he yielded. After a prayer to heaven that in such a time of danger his old age might not prove a source of harm or discredit to the republic, Cincinnatus was made dictator.
Hor Book IV Chapter 13: The Treason and Death of Spurius Maelius.

Cincinnatus
It was, he said, through the apathy of that order that the tribunes of the plebs, now perpetually in office, acted as kings in their speeches and accusations, as though they were living, not in the common-wealth of Rome, but in some wretched ill-regulated family. Courage, resolution, all that makes youth distinguished at home and in the battle-field, had been expelled and banished from Rome with his son Caeso. Loquacious agitators, sowers of discord, made tribunes for the second and third time in succession, were living by means of infamous practices in regal licentiousness.
Hor Book III Chapter 19: The Terentilian Law -- Fresh Troubles.

Claudia
When her carriage made but slow progress through the throng, she openly gave vent to the wish that her brother Pulcher might come to life and lose another fleet, to make less of a crowd in Rome
Stn Tiberius Chapter 2: Attack on Drepanum.

Claudius
A weak intellect was against him.
Ann Book VI Chapter 46: Succession of Tiberius

Claudius
Having heard some loose reports of conspiracies formed against him, he was so much alarmed that he thought of immediately abdicating the government.
Stn Claudius, Chapter 36: Fear and distrust (cont.)

Claudius
He scarcely ever left the table until he had thoroughly crammed himself and drank to intoxication; and then he would immediately fall asleep, lying upon his back with his mouth open. While in this condition, a feather was put down his throat, to make him throw up the contents of his stomach. Upon composing himself to rest, his sleep was short, and he usually awoke before midnight; but he would sometimes sleep in the daytime
Stn Claudius, Chapter 33: His other habits.

Claudius
When he indulged himself with sleep after eating, which was a common practice with him, the company used to throw olive-stones and dates at him
Stn Claudius, Chapter 8: During Caligula's reign (cont.)

Claudius
His cruel and sanguinary disposition was exhibited upon great as well as trifling occasions. When any person was to be put to the torture, or criminal punished for parricide, he was impatient for the execution, and would have it performed in his own presence.
Stn Claudius, Chapter 34: His cruelty.

Claudius
He … declared in some short speeches which he published, that he had only feigned imbecility in the reign of Gaius, because otherwise it would have been impossible for him to have escaped
Stn Claudius, Chapter 38: Passion and resentment.

Claudius
e being the first of the Caesars who purchased the submission of the soldiers with money.
Stn Claudius, Chapter 10: Death of Caligula

Claudius
But the characteristics most predominant in him were fear and distrust….When Camillus formed his plot against him, not doubting but his timidity might be worked upon without a war, he wrote to him a scurrilous, petulant, and threatening letter, desiring him to resign the government, and betake himself to a life of privacy. Upon receiving this requisition, he had some thoughts of complying with it, and summoned together the principal men of the city, to consult with them on the subject.
Stn Claudius, Chapter 35: Fear and distrust.

Claudius
Many of those whom he had condemned to death, he ordered the day after to be invited to his table, and to game with him
Stn Claudius, Chapter 39: Indifference and unconcern.

Claudius
And he likewise invented and published for use some new letters, having discovered, as he said, that even the Greek alphabet alphabet not been completed at once.
Ann Book XI Chapter 13: Claudius invents new letters.

Claudius
for how he who talks so ill, should be able to declaim so clearly and properly, I cannot imagine."
Quote by Augustus
Stn Claudius, Chapter 4: Augustus on Claudius.

Claudius
Claudius, impatient as he was of a single life and submissive to the rule of wives.
Ann Book XII Chapter 1: Claudius marries again. The choice

Claudius
He banished from Rome all the Jews, who were continually making disturbances at the instigation of one Chrestus.
Stn Claudius, Chapter 25: Administration of justice (cont.)

Claudius
The religious rites of the Druids, solemnized with such horrid cruelties, which had only been forbidden the citizens of Rome during the reign of Augustus, he utterly abolished among the Gauls.
Stn Claudius, Chapter 25: Administration of justice (cont.)

Claudius
an abortion of a man, that had only been begun, but never finished, by nature.
Quote by Antonia Augusta the Younger
Stn Claudius, Chapter 3: Claudius as a young man.

Claudius
As I have been so unhappy in my unions, I am resolved to continue in future unmarried; and if I should not, I give you leave to stab me.
Stn Claudius, Chapter 26: His marriages.

Claudius
He altered a clause added by Tiberius to the Papia-Poppaean Law, which inferred that men of sixty years of age were incapable of begetting children.
Stn Claudius, Chapter 23: Administration of justice (cont.)

Claudius
He besides invented three new letters, and added them to the former alphabet, as highly necessary.
Stn Claudius, Chapter 41: Claudius invents new letters

Claudius
Nor did Claudius, when he spoke with preparation, lack elegance
Ann Book XIII Chapter 3: The funeral of Claudius

Claudius
He was outrageous in his laughter, and still more so in his wrath, for then he foamed at the mouth, and discharged from his nostrils. He also stammered in his speech, and had a tremulous motion of the head at all times, but particularly when he was engaged in any business, however trifling.
Stn Claudius, Chapter 30: His appearance.

Claudius
It is said, too, that he intended to publish an edict, " allowing to all people the liberty of giving vent at table to any distention occasioned by flatulence," upon hearing of a person whose modesty, when under restraint, had nearly cost him his life.
Stn Claudius, Chapter 32: Entertainments.

Claudius
Tiberius insisting to have him excused on account of his imbecility
Quote by Tiberius
Stn Claudius, Chapter 6: Public respect.

Claudius
He exonerated for ever the people of Troy from the payment of taxes, as being the founders of the Roman race;
Stn Claudius, Chapter 25: Administration of justice (cont.)

Claudius
he was directed not so much by his own judgment, as by the influence of his wives and freedmen; for the most part acting in conformity to what their interests or fancies dictated.
Stn Claudius, Chapter 25: Administration of justice (cont.)

Cleopatra
To most of them she spoke herself, as to the Ethiopians, Troglodytes, Hebrews, Arabians, Syrians, Medes, Parthians, and many others, whose language she had learnt.
Plt Antony Chapter 27: Cleopatra

Cleopatra
So she feigned to be dying for love of Antony, bringing her body down by slender diet;
Plt Antony Chapter 53: Octavia tries to visit Antony. Cleopatra defers a new war with Parthia

Cleopatra
So that Cleopatra had great obligations to her for having taught Antony to be so good a servant, he coming to her hands tame and broken into entire obedience to the commands of a mistress.
Plt Antony Chapter 10: Fulvia

Cleopatra
Those who had seen Cleopatra, whom they could report to have no way the advantage of Octavia either in youth or in beauty
Plt Antony Chapter 57: Antony and Cleopatra go to Athens

Cleopatra
For her actual beauty, it is said, was not in itself so remarkable that none could be compared with her, or that no one could see her without being struck by it, but the contact of her presence, if you lived with her, was irresistible; the attraction of her person, joining with the charm of her conversation, and the character that attended all she said or did, was something bewitching.
Plt Antony Chapter 27: Cleopatra

Cleopatra
In fine, they so melted and unmanned him, that, fully believing she would die if he forsook her, he put off the war and returned to Alexandria,
Plt Antony Chapter 53: Octavia tries to visit Antony. Cleopatra defers a new war with Parthia

Clodia
Clodia, a dissolute and wicked woman
Plt Lucullus Chapter 38: Lucullus withdraws from politics

Cloelia
The Romans rewarded the unprecedented courage shown by a woman by an unprecedented honour, namely an equestrian statue.
Hor Book II Chapter 13: The story of Cloelia.

Corbulo
To keep his soldiers free from sloth, he dug a canal of twenty-three miles in length between the Rhine and the Meuse, as a means of avoiding the uncertain perils of the ocean.
Ann Book XI Chapter 20: The Rhine - Meuse canal

Coriolan
His strength of body, which they said no resistance and no fatigue could exhaust.
Plt Coriolanus, Chapter 2: An excellent soldier

Coriolan
Must it then be that, had I remained childless, no attack would have been made on Rome; had I never had a son, I should have ended my days a free woman in a free country?
Quote by Veturia
Hor Book II Chapter 40: Third war of Rome and Volscians. Veturia and Volumnia

Coriolan
The early loss of a father may be attended with other disadvantages, yet it can hinder none from being either virtuous or eminent in the world, and that it is no obstacle to true goodness and excellence;
Plt Coriolanus, Chapter 1: His youth

Coriolan
For he had, what Cato thought a great point in a soldier, not only strength of hand and stroke, but also a voice and look that of themselves were a terror to an enemy.
Quote by Cato the Elder
Plt Coriolanus, Chapter 8: Coriolanus conquers Corioli

Coriolan
whereas others made glory the end of their daring, the end of his glory was his mother's gladness
Plt Coriolanus, Chapter 4: Debts of the plebs

Coriolan
He had never learned how essential it is for any one who undertakes public business, and desires to deal with mankind, to avoid above all things that self-will, which, as Plato says, belongs to the family of solitude; and to pursue, above all things, that capacity so generally ridiculed, of submission to ill treatment.
Quote by Plato
Plt Coriolanus, Chapter 15: He is not chosen.

Cornelia
The young lady had other attractions besides those of youth and beauty; for she was highly educated, played well upon the lute, understood geometry, and had been accustomed to listen with profit to lectures on philosophy.
Plt Pompey Chapter 55: Pompey sole consul

Cornelius Laco
Titus Vinius and Cornelius Laco, one the most worthless, the other the most spiritless of mankind, were ruining the weak old Emperor,
His Book I Chapter 5: Revolt of Nymphidius Sabinus

Cornelius Laco
Inimical to all measures, however excellent, which he did not originate, obstinately thwarted men wiser than himself.
His Book I Chapter 26: Revolt of Otho. The start

Cotys
Cotys having a gentle and kindly temper
Ann Book II Chapter 64: War in Thrace

Crassus
Cato was his friend and connection, but, nevertheless, so hated his life and habits, that when a young man in the senate made a long and tedious speech in praise of frugality and temperance, Cato got up and said, "How long do you mean to go on making money like Crassus, living like Lucullus, and talking like Cato?"
Plt Lucullus Chapter 40: A luxurious life for Lucullus (cont.)

Deiphobe
A frenzied prophetess, who from beneath the hollow scarped crag sings oracles, or characters on leaves mysterious names
Quote by Helenus
Vrg Book III Chapter 17: Prophecy of Helenus (cont.)

Diana
Then a cruel oracle ordered Agamemnon to sacrifice his innocent daughter, Iphigenia, to pitiless Diana.
Ovd Ovid XV Chapter 2: 60-142 Pythagoras' Teachings: Vegetarianism

Dicineus
He taught them almost the whole of philosophy, for he was a skilled master of this subject.
Gth Chapter 11: Dicineus.

Dicineus
He taught them logic and made them skilled in reasoning beyond all other races; he showed them practical knowledge and so persuaded them to abound in good works.
Gth Chapter 11: Dicineus.

Dicineus
By demonstrating theoretical knowledge he urged them to contemplate the twelve signs and the courses of the planets passing through them, and the whole of astronomy. He told them how the disc of the moon gains increase or suffers loss, and showed them how much the fiery globe of the sun exceeds in size our earthly planet. He explained the names of the three hundred and forty-six stars and told through what signs in the arching vault of the heavens they glide swiftly from their rising to their setting.
Gth Chapter 11: Dicineus.

Dido
Julia, of the family of the Caesars, who, for her discretion and fair behavior, was not inferior to any of her time.
Plt Antony Chapter 2: His mother, his youth

Diogenes
Diogenes, who, being told that some persons derided him, made answer, "But I am not derided," meaning that only those were really insulted on whom such insults made an impression.
Plt Fabius, Chapter 10: The army is divided

Domitian
With one continuous blow, drained the life-blood of the Common-wealth
Agr Chapter 44: Obituary of Agricola

Domitian
Sometimes he would have a slave stand at a distance and hold out the palm of his right hand for a mark, with the fingers spread; then he directed his arrows with such accuracy that they passed harmlessly between the fingers.
Stn Domitian, Chapter 19: Domitian as an archer

Domitian
a book "On the Care of the Hair," which he published
Stn Domitian, Chapter 18: His appearance

Domitian
He felt conscious that all men laughed at his late mock triumph over Germany, for which there had been purchased from traders people whose dress and hair might be made to resemble those of captives, whereas now a real and splendid victory, with the destruction of thousands of the enemy, was being celebrated with just applause.
Agr Chapter 39: Agricola in Britain. Considerations of Domitian

Domitian
Under a semblance of simple and modest tastes, he wrapped himself in a profound reserve, and affected a devotion to literature and a love of poetry, thus seeking to throw a veil over his character, and to withdraw himself from the jealousy of his brother, of whose milder temper, so unlike his own, he judged most falsely.
His Book IV Chapter 86: On Domitian

Domitian
With Domitian it was the chief part of our miseries to see and to be seen, to know that our sighs were being recorded, to have, ever ready to note the pallid looks of so many faces, that savage countenance reddened with the hue with which he defied shame.
Agr Chapter 45: What Agricola did not see

Domitian
A ruler who was the foe of virtue
Agr Chapter 41: Life in Rome

Domitian
He prohibited the castration of males, and kept down the price of the eunuchs that remained in the hands of the slave dealers
Stn Domitian, Chapter 7: His administration

Domitian
In his administration of the government he for some time showed himself inconsistent, with about an equal number of virtues and vices, but finally he turned the virtues also into vices;
Stn Domitian, Chapter 3: Domitian's first years as the emperor

Domitian
He himself, too, made a remarkable pretense of modesty and especially of an interest in poetry, an art which had previously been as unfamiliar to him as it was later despised and rejected, and he even gave readings in public.
Stn Domitian, Chapter 2: Domitian as a young man

Domitian
Having assumed the surname Germanicus after his two triumphs, he renamed the months of September and October from his own names, calling them "Germanicus" and "Domitianus," because in the former he had come to the throne and was born in the latter.
Stn Domitian, Chapter 13: Master and God

Domitius Corbulo
It was this same Corbulo, who, after raising a cry that most of the roads in Italy were obstructed or impassable through the dishonesty of contractors and the negligence of officials, himself willingly undertook the complete management of the business. This proved not so beneficial to the State as ruinous to many persons, whose property and credit he mercilessly attacked by convictions and confiscations.
Ann Book III Chapter 31: Contest of Sulla nd Corbulo

Dumnorix
Being unaccustomed to sailing, he feared the sea;
Ann Book V Chapter 7: The fall of Sejanus. Blaesus

Dumnorix
He had discovered him to be fond of change, fond of power, possessing great resolution, and great influence among the Gauls.
Quote by Julius Caesar
Ann Book V Chapter 6: The fall of Sejanus. Effects

Evander
He was looked up to with reverence for his knowledge of letters -- a new and marvellous thing for uncivilized men - but he was still more revered because of his mother, who was believed to be a divine being and regarded with wonder, by all as an interpreter of Fate, in the days before the arrival of the Sibyl in Italy.
Hor Book I Chapter 7: Death of Remus. The Legend of Hercules and Cacus.

Fabia the Younger
A woman easily excited by trifles.
Hor Book VI Chapter 34: The Licinian Laws.

Fabius Cunctator
Though the dictator persisted in his delay and sloth; measures condemned alike by the sentence of gods and men
Hor Book XXII Chapter 27: The army is divided.

Fabius Cunctator
It would be a long and uninteresting discussion if I were to follow the example of Quintus Fabius, and as he has depreciated my services in Spain, so I were to pour ridicule on his glory and extol my own. I will do neither the one nor the other, senators, and if, young as I am, I cannot have the advantage over an old man in anything else, I will at least prove his superior in moderation and restraint of language.
Quote by Scipio Africanus the Elder
Hor Book XXXVIII Chapter 44: Answer of Scipio (cont.)

Fabius Cunctator
Did not I tell you, that this cloud which always hovered upon the mountains would, at some time or other, come down with a storm upon us?"
Quote by Hannibal
Plt Fabius, Chapter 12: Minucius saved by Fabius

Falanius
Against Falanius it was alleged by his accuser that he had admitted among the votaries of Augustus, who in every great house were associated into a kind of brotherhood, one Cassius, a buffoon of infamous life, and that he had also in selling his gardens included in the sale a statue of Augustus.
Ann Book I Chapter 73: Prosecutions for Majestas. Falanius and Rubrius

Felix
Felix, who had for some time been governor of Judaea, and thought that he could do any evil act with impunity, backed up as he was by such power.
Ann Book XII Chapter 54: Problems in Judea

Felix
Antonius Felix, indulging in every kind of barbarity and lust, exercised the power of a king in the spirit of a slave.
His Book V Chapter 9: The Jews. Their history according to Tacitus (cont.)

Flavius Josephus
One of his highborn prisoners, Josephus by name, as he was being put in chains, declared most confidently that he would soon be released by the same man, who would then, however, be emperor.
Stn Vespasian, Chapter 5: Omens

Flavus
That brother, surnamed Flavus, was with our army, a man famous for his loyalty, and for having lost an eye by a wound, a few years ago, when Tiberius was in command.
Ann Book II Chapter 9: War with the Germans. Arminius and his brother.

Fonteius Capito
Capito, though foully stained with avarice and profligacy.
His Book I Chapter 7: Galba becomes emperor. Executions

Fortune
always had a dread of Fortune as faithless and inconstant
Quote by Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus
Plt Aemilius Chapter 35: Aemilius speaks of his ill fortune

Fulvia
Fulvia, ... a woman not born for spinning or housewifery, nor one that could be content with ruling a private husband, but prepared to govern a first magistrate, or give orders to a commander-in-chief.
Plt Antony Chapter 10: Fulvia

Fulvia
So that Cleopatra had great obligations to her for having taught Antony to be so good a servant, he coming to her hands tame and broken into entire obedience to the commands of a mistress.
Plt Antony Chapter 10: Fulvia

Furius Lucius Arruntius Scribonianus
But the characteristics most predominant in him were fear and distrust….When Camillus formed his plot against him, not doubting but his timidity might be worked upon without a war, he wrote to him a scurrilous, petulant, and threatening letter, desiring him to resign the government, and betake himself to a life of privacy. Upon receiving this requisition, he had some thoughts of complying with it, and summoned together the principal men of the city, to consult with them on the subject.
Stn Claudius, Chapter 35: Fear and distrust.

Gaius Asinius Gallus
… ambitious and incapable
Quote by Augustus
Ann Book I Chapter 13: The start of Tiberius(cont.)

Gaius Caesar
When Agrippa died, and Lucius Caesar as he was on his way to our armies in Spain and Gaius while returning from Armenia still suffering from a wound, were prematurely cut off by destiny, or by their step-mother Livia's treachery,
Ann Book I Chapter 3: Augustus' succession

Gaius Calpurnius Piso
That it mattered not as to the disgrace if a harp-player were removed and a tragic actor succeeded him.
Quote by Subrius Flavus
Ann Book XV Chapter 65: The conspiracy of Piso. Subrius Flavus

Gaius Calpurnius Piso
But Piso refused, alleging the odium of an act which would stain with an emperor's blood, however bad he might be, the sanctity of the hospitable board and the deities who preside over it.
Ann Book XV Chapter 52: The conspiracy of Piso. Plans

Gaius Cassius Longinus
Nor was Caesar without suspicions of him, and said once to his friends, "What do you think Cassius is aiming at? I don't like him, he looks so pale."
Plt Caesar Chapter 62: Caesar murdered; preliminaries

Gaius Cassius Longinus
And when it was told him that Antony and Dolabella were in a plot against him, he said he did not fear such fat, luxurious men, but rather the pale, lean fellows, meaning Cassius and Brutus
Plt Caesar Chapter 62: Caesar murdered; preliminaries

Gaius Cassius Longinus
It is not," said he, "these well fed, long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking;" meaning Brutus and Cassius.
Quote by Julius Caesar
Plt Antony Chapter 11: Caesar and Antony

Gaius Claudius Nero
A resolution was earned in the senate insisting upon their becoming reconciled to each other. Their quarrel was only too notorious, and was embittered by Livius' resentment at the insulting treatment he had received, for he felt that his honour had been sullied by his prosecution. This made him all the more implacable; he said that there was no need for any reconciliation, each would act with greater energy and alertness if he knew that failure to do so would give his enemy an advantage.
Hor Book XXVII Chapter 35: Marcus Livius and Claudius Nero reconciled

Gaius Fabius Valens
A man of foul and infamous character;
His Book II Chapter 30: Otho versus Vitellius. Caecina and Valens

Gaius Fabius Valens
… was so rapacious, that neither what he plundered from enemies nor what he stole or got as gifts and bribes from his friends and allies could satisfy his wishes.
Plt Otho Chapter 6: Otho versus Vitellius; the siege of Placentia

Gaius Fabius Valens
Poor for many years and suddenly growing rich, he could but ill conceal the change in his fortunes, indulging without moderation the appetites which a protracted poverty had inflamed, and, after a youth of indigence, becoming prodigal in old age.
His Book I Chapter 66: Revolt of Vitellius. Vienna

Gaius Fabius Valens
He was a man of loose character, but of no small ability, who sought to gain by profligacy a reputation for elegance. In the theatricals performed by young men during the reign of Nero, at first apparently from compulsion, afterwards of his own free choice, he repeatedly acted in the farces, with more cleverness than propriety.
His Book III Chapter 62: Vitellius versus Antonius Primus. Valens put to death

Gaius Flaminius Nepos
That they had created indeed two consuls, that they had but one; for what regular authority had the other, or what auspices? That their magistrates took these with them from home, from the tutelar deities of themselves and the state, after the celebration of the Latin holidays; the sacrifice upon the mountain being completed, and the vows duly offered up in the Capitol: that neither could an unofficial individual take the auspices, nor could one who had gone from home without them, take them new, and for the first time, in a foreign soil.
Hor Book XXII Chapter 1: A cold spring for Hannibal and bad omens for Rome

Gaius Flaminius Nepos
The consul was haughty from his former consulship, and felt no proper degree of reverence not only for the laws and the majesty of the fathers, but even for the gods
Hor Book XXII Chapter 3: Flaminius

Gaius Licinius Mucianus
In his youth he had cultivated with many intrigues the friendship of the great.
His Book I Chapter 10: Galba becomes emperor. The East

Gaius Licinius Mucianus
He was a compound of dissipation and energy, of arrogance and courtesy, of good and bad qualities. His self-indulgence was excessive, when he had leisure, yet whenever he had served, he had shown great qualities. In his public capacity he might be praised; his private life was in bad repute. Yet over subjects, friends, and colleagues, he exercised the influence of many fascinations.
His Book I Chapter 10: Galba becomes emperor. The East

Gaius Licinius Mucianus
Mucianus, with the perpetual assertion that money was the sinews of war,
His Book II Chapter 84: Revolt of Vespasian. Money

Gaius Licinius Mucianus
Mucianus, on the contrary, was eminent for his magnificence, for his wealth, and for a greatness that transcended in all respects the condition of a subject; readier of speech than the other, he thoroughly understood the arrangement and direction of civil business.
His Book II Chapter 5: Titus returns (cont.)

Gaius Musonius Rufus
One Musonius Rufus, a man of equestrian rank, strongly attached to the pursuit of philosophy and to the tenets of the Stoics, had joined the envoys. He mingled with the troops, and, enlarging on the blessings of peace and the perils of war, began to admonish the armed crowd. Many thought it ridiculous; more thought it tiresome; some were ready to throw him down and trample him under foot, had he not yielded to the warnings of the more orderly and the threats of others, and ceased to display his ill-timed wisdom.
His Book III Chapter 81: Vitellius versus Antonius Primus. Musonius Rufus

Gaius Papirius Carbo
he way, of Carbo, that as soon as he was brought to the place, and saw the sword drawn for execution, he was suddenly seized with a looseness or pain in his bowels, and desired a little respite of the executioner, and a convenient place to relieve himself.
Plt Pompey Chapter 10: Pompey on Sicily

Gaius Scribonius Curio
Curio, a man abandoned to his pleasures; who, to make Antony's dependence upon him a matter of greater necessity, plunged him into a life of drinking and dissipation, and led him through a course of such extravagance, that he ran, at that early age, into debt to the amount of two hundred and fifty talents.
Plt Antony Chapter 2: His mother, his youth

Gaius Silius
As for her, careless of concealment, she went continually with a numerous retinue to his house, she haunted his steps, showered on him wealth and honours, and, at last, as though empire had passed to another, the slaves, the freedmen, the very furniture of the emperor were to be seen in the possession of the paramour.
Ann Book XI Chapter 12: Messalina falls in love with Silius

Gaius Suetonius Paulinus
Excellent as he was in other respects, his policy to the conquered was arrogant, and exhibited the cruelty of one who was avenging private wrongs
Agr Chapter 16: Further problems in Britain. Boudicea

Gaius Suetonius Paulinus
A painstaking and judicious officer
Agr Chapter 5: In Britain

Gaius Terentius Varro
He asserted, "that Hannibal had been brought into Italy by the nobility, who had for many years been desirous of a war. That by the fraudulent machinations of the same persons the war had been protracted, whereas it might have been brought to a conclusion. That it had appeared that the war could be maintained with an army consisting of four legions in all, from Marcus Minucius's having fought with success in the absence of Fabius.
Hor Book XXII Chapter 34: Speech of Varro

Gaius Terentius Varro
That he wondered how any general, before he knew anything of his own army, or that of the enemy, the situation of the places, or the nature of the country, even now while in the city, and with the gown on, could tell what he must do when in arms, and could even foretell the day on which he would fight standard to standard with the enemy (said by Paulus)
Hor Book XXII Chapter 38: Start of the new consuls

Gaius Terentius Varro
For you are mistaken, Lucius Paulus, if you imagine that you will have a less violent contest with Gaius Terentius than with Hannibal
Hor Book XXII Chapter 39: Fabius speaks to Paulus

Gaius Terentius Varro
That he would bring the war to conclusion on the very day he got sight of the enemy
Hor Book XXII Chapter 38: Start of the new consuls

Galatea
More welcome than the summer shade, or the sun in winter,
Quote by Polyphemus
Ovd Ovid XV Chapter 13: 479-546 The transformation of Hippolytus

Galba
The parsimonious old man.
His Book I Chapter 18: Galba looks for a successor. The army is informed

Galba
He was more inclined to unnatural desire, and in gratifying it preferred full-grown, strong men.
Stn Galba, Chapter 22: His habits

Galba
He had all the grants of Nero revoked, allowing only a tenth part to be retained; and he exacted repayment with the help of fifty Roman equites, stipulating that even if the actors and athletes had sold anything that had formerly been given them, it should be taken away from the purchasers, in case the recipient had spent the money and could not repay it.
Stn Galba, Chapter 15: Financial misbehaviour

Galba
It was thought too that he intended to limit the offices open to senators and equites to a period of two years, and to give them only to such as did not wish them and declined them.
Stn Galba, Chapter 15: Financial misbehaviour

Galba
Umbricius announced to him that the entrails had a sinister aspect, that treachery threatened him, that he had an enemy at home.
Quote by Umbricius
His Book I Chapter 27: Revolt of Otho. The next step

Galba
On another occasion when he was holding court and the question of the ownership of a beast of burden was laid before him, as the evidence on both sides was slight and the witnesses unreliable, so that it was difficult to get at the truth, he ruled that the beast should be led with its head muffled up to the pool where it was usually watered, that it should then be unmuffled, and should belong to the man to whom it returned of its own accord after drinking.
Stn Galba, Chapter 7: His career

Galba
He showed marked respect to Livia Augusta, to whose favor he owed great influence during her lifetime and by whose last will he almost became a rich man; for he had the largest bequest among her legatees, one of fifty million sesterces. But because the sum was designated in figures and not written out in words, Tiberius, who was her heir, reduced the bequest to five hundred thousand, and Galba never received even that amount.
Stn Galba, Chapter 5: Galba as husband and heir

Galba
Titus Vinius and Cornelius Laco, one the most worthless, the other the most spiritless of mankind, were ruining the weak old Emperor,
His Book I Chapter 5: Revolt of Nymphidius Sabinus

Galba
About the actual murderer nothing is clearly known. Some have recorded the name of Terentius, an enrolled pensioner, others that of Lecanius; but it is the current report that one Camurius, a soldier of the 15th legion, completely severed his throat by treading his sword down upon it. The rest of the soldiers foully mutilated his arms and legs, for his breast was protected, and in their savage ferocity inflicted many wounds even on the headless trunk.
His Book I Chapter 41: Revolt of Otho. Galba murdered

Galba
The feebleness of Galba was notorious.
His Book I Chapter 12: Galba becomes emperor. Adoption?

Galba
A shudder comes over my soul, whenever I call to mind that ghastly entry, Galba's solitary victory, when, before the eyes of the capital he gave orders to decimate the prisoners, the suppliants, whom he had admitted to surrender. These were the auspices with which he entered the city. What is the glory that he has brought to the throne? None but that he has murdered Obultronius Sabinus and Cornelius Marcellus in Spain, Betuus Chilo in Gaul, Fonteius Capito in Germany, Clodius Macer in Africa, Cingonius on the high road, Turpilianus in the city, Nymphidius in the camp. What province, what camp in the world, but is stained with blood and foul with crime, or, as he expresses it himself, purified and chastened? For what others call crimes he calls reforms, and, by similar misnomers, he speaks of strictness instead of barbarity, of economy instead of avarice, while the cruelties and affronts inflicted upon you he calls discipline.
Quote by Otho
His Book I Chapter 37: Revolt of Otho. Speech of Otho

Galba
His double reputation for cruelty and avarice had gone before him;
Stn Galba, Chapter 12: Galba emperor (cont.)

Galba
The soldiery of the capital, who were imbued with the spirit of an old allegiance to the Caesars, and who had been led to desert Nero by intrigues and influences from without rather than by their own feelings, were inclined for change, when they found that the donative promised in Galba's name was withheld,
His Book I Chapter 5: Revolt of Nymphidius Sabinus

Galba
To all this was added Galba's own expression, "I choose my soldiers, I do not buy them," noble words for the common-wealth, but fraught with peril for himself.
His Book I Chapter 5: Revolt of Nymphidius Sabinus

Galba
His entry into the capital, made after the slaughter of thousands of unarmed soldiers, was most ill-omened, and was terrible even to the executioners.
His Book I Chapter 5: Revolt of Nymphidius Sabinus

Galba
But the vulgar, ever eager to invent, had spread the report that he was sent for to be adopted. The advanced years and childless condition of the Emperor furnished matter for such gossip, and the country never can refrain from naming many persons until one be chosen.
His Book II Chapter 1: Titus returns

Galba
He was used to enlist and not to buy his soldiers,
Plt Galba Chapter 18: The soldiers begin to dislike Galba

Galba
As soon as this wrinkled, bald-headed man should be seen publicly at Rome, they would think it an utter disgrace ever to have had such a Caesar.
Quote by Mithridates of Bosporus
Plt Galba Chapter 13: Revolt of Nymphidius Sabinus (cont.)

Galba
He had Galba's property exposed to sale, which when Galba heard of he sequestered all that was Nero's in Spain, and found far readier bidders.
Plt Galba Chapter 5: Galba becomes emperor

Galba
He easily held the first place among the emperor's friends because of the similarity of their characters; but according to some, also through immoral relations.
Stn Otho, Chapter 2: His first years

Galba
Why, do you ask, in feigned honor does Otho in banishment languish? With his own wedded wife he had begun an intrigue.
Stn Otho, Chapter 3: Otho and Nero

Galba
You too, Galba, will some day have a taste of empire.
Quote by Tiberius
Ann Book VI Chapter 20: Gaius Caesar

Galba
For he flatly declared that he could not keep on his feet unless he became emperor, and that it made no difference whether he fell at the hands of the enemy in battle or at those of his creditors in the Forum.
Stn Otho, Chapter 4: Otho and Galba

Galba
After the defeat, Otho at once resolved to take his own life, rather from a feeling of shame, as many have thought with good reason, and an unwillingness to persist in a struggle for imperial power at the expense of such danger to life and property, than from any despair of success or distrust of his troops;
Stn Otho, Chapter 9: Revolt of Vitellius (cont.)

Galba
Let us add this one more night to our life
Quote by Galba
Stn Otho, Chapter 11: Revolt of Vitellius. Suicide of Otho (cont.)

Galeria Fundana
Triaria's recklessness was rendered more intolerable by an immediate contrast with the exemplary virtue of Galeria, the Emperor's wife, who took no part in these horrors, and with Sextilia, the mother of the two Vitellii, a woman equally blameless, and of the old type of character.
His Book II Chapter 64: Vitellius emperor. Dolabella killed

Galvia Crispinilla
She had instructed Nero in profligacy, had passed over into Africa, that she might urge Macer into rebellion, and had openly attempted to bring a famine upon Rome.
His Book I Chapter 73: Galvia Crispinilla

Geiserik
Gaiseric ... was a man of moderate height and lame in consequence of a fall from his horse. He was a man of deep thought and few words, holding luxury in disdain, furious in his anger, greedy for gain, shrewd in winning over the barbarians and skilled in sowing the seeds of dissension to arouse enmity.
Gth Chapter 33: The Vandals.

Germanicus
He was indeed a young man of unaspiring temper, and of wonderful kindliness
Ann Book I Chapter 33: Revolt in Germania. Germanicus

Germanicus
Both had a graceful person and were of noble birth; neither had much exceeded thirty years of age, and both fell by the treachery of their own people in strange lands
Ann Book II Chapter 73: Illness and death of Germanicus. His funeral.

Germanicus
Do you think that I have acted my part on the stage of life well?
Stn Augustus, Chapter 99: His last words.

Germanicus
Foreign nations and kings grieved over him, so great was his courtesy to allies, his humanity to enemies.
Ann Book II Chapter 72: Illness and death of Germanicus. His death.

Germanicus
But Germanicus was gracious to his friends, temperate in his pleasures, the husband of one wife, with only legitimate children.
Ann Book II Chapter 73: Illness and death of Germanicus. His funeral.

Germanicus
His legs were too slender for the rest of his figure, but he gradually brought them to proper proportions by constant horseback riding after meals.
Stn Caligula, Chapter 2: Death of Germanicus

Germanicus
He had excelled Alexander in clemency, in self-restraint, and in all other virtues
Ann Book II Chapter 73: Illness and death of Germanicus. His funeral.

Germanicus
And that he might also soften the remembrance of the disaster by kindness, he went round to the wounded, applauded the feats of soldier after soldier, examined their wounds, raised the hopes of one, the ambition of another, and the spirits of all by his encouragement and interest, thus strengthening their ardour for himself and for battle.
Ann Book I Chapter 71: War with the Germans. The damage repaired

Germanicus
Piso was at the island of Cos when tidings reached him that Germanicus was dead. He received the news with extravagant joy, slew victims, visited the temples, with no moderation in his transports
Ann Book II Chapter 74: Martina sent to Rome.

Germanicus
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it
Ann Book II Chapter 77: Revolt of Piso. Advice of Celer.

Germanicus
One extolled his noble rank, another, his handsome person, nearly all of them, his endurance, his gracious manner and the evenness of his temper, whether he was jesting or was serious, while they acknowledged that they ought to repay him with their gratitude in battle
Ann Book II Chapter 13: War with the Germans. At night.

Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso
When he reached Syria and the legions, he began, by bribery and favouritism, to encourage the lowest of the common soldiers, removing the old centurions and the strict tribunes and assigning their places to creatures of his own or to the vilest of the men, while he allowed idleness in the camp, licentiousness in the towns, and the soldiers to roam through the country and take their pleasure.
Ann Book II Chapter 55: Germanicus goes East. Piso too.

Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso
Piso was at the island of Cos when tidings reached him that Germanicus was dead. He received the news with extravagant joy, slew victims, visited the temples, with no moderation in his transports
Ann Book II Chapter 74: Martina sent to Rome.

Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso
He appointed to it Cneius Piso, a man of violent temper, without an idea of obedience, with indeed a natural arrogance inherited from his father
Ann Book II Chapter 43: Germanicus goes East. Preparations.

Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
He it was of whom the orator Licinius Crassus said that it was not surprising that he had a brazen beard, since he had a face of iron and a heart of lead.
Quote by Lucius Licinius Crassus
Stn Nero, Chapter 2: Ancestry of Nero (cont.)

Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
A man hateful in every walk of life
Stn Nero, Chapter 5: Nero's father

Gnaeus Fulvius Flaccus
While Gnaeus Fulvius himself has no punishment inflicted upon him for running away, in a battle brought about by his own indiscretion; that he himself should be permitted to pass his old age in stews and brothels, where he passed his youth, while his troops, whose only crime was that they resembled their general, should be sent away in a manner into banishment, and suffer an ignominious service. So unequally," he said, "was liberty shared at Rome by the rich and the poor, by the ennobled and the common people."
Quote by Gaius Sempronius Blaesus
Hor Book XXV Chapter 2: Appointments

Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo
Never did the Romans give such demonstrations of a vehement and fierce hatred against any of their generals, as they did against Strabo, the father of Pompey
Plt Pompey Chapter 1: His father

Gracchus
But thou, 0 Roman, learn with sovereign sway To rule the nations. Thy great art shall be To keep the world in lasting peace, to spare humbled foe, and crush to earth the proud.
Quote by Anchises
Vrg Book VI Chapter 31: The future (cont.)

Hamilcar Barcas
It was obvious that he was revolving in his mind a greater war than he was then engaged in; and that if he had lived longer, the Carthaginians under Hamilcar would have carried the war into Italy
Hor Book XXI Chapter 2: Hasdrubal

Hamilcar Barcas
There is besides a story, that Hannibal, when about nine years old, while he boyishly coaxed his father Hamilcar that he might be taken to Spain, (at the time when the African war was completed, and he was employed in sacrificing previously to transporting his army thither,) was conducted to the altar; and, having laid his hand on the offerings, was bound by an oath to prove himself, as soon as he could, an enemy to the Roman people.
Hor Book XXI Chapter 1: Introduction and youth of Hannibal

Hannibal
There never was a genius more fitted for the two most opposite duties of obeying and commanding
Hor Book XXI Chapter 4: Hannibal's character

Hannibal
His fearlessness in encountering dangers, and his prudence when in the midst of them, were extreme. His body could not be exhausted, nor his mind subdued, by any toil. He could alike endure either heat or cold. The quantity of his food and drink was determined by the wants of nature, and not by pleasure
Hor Book XXI Chapter 4: Hannibal's character

Hannibal
Savage and ferocious from nature and habit, their general has rendered them still more so, by forming bridges and works with heaps of human bodies; and, what the tongue can scarcely utter, by teaching them to live on human flesh.
Quote by Gaius Terentius Varro
Hor Book XXIII Chapter 5: Speech of Terentius

Hannibal
There is besides a story, that Hannibal, when about nine years old, while he boyishly coaxed his father Hamilcar that he might be taken to Spain, (at the time when the African war was completed, and he was employed in sacrificing previously to transporting his army thither,) was conducted to the altar; and, having laid his hand on the offerings, was bound by an oath to prove himself, as soon as he could, an enemy to the Roman people.
Hor Book XXI Chapter 1: Introduction and youth of Hannibal

Hannibal
That of less importance was, that he was informed by one of his prisoners, that the very ground on which his camp stood was sold at this very time, without any diminution in its price. Indeed, so great an insult and indignity did it appear to him that a purchaser should be found at Rome for the very soil which he held and possessed by right of conquest, that he immediately called a crier, and ordered that the silversmiths' shops, which at that time stood around the Roman forum, should be put up for sale.
Hor Book XXV Chapter 11: The citadel is besieged

Hannibal
Excessive vices counterbalanced these high virtues of the hero; inhuman cruelty, more than Punic perfidy, no truth, no reverence for things sacred, no fear of the gods, no respect for oaths, no sense of religion.
Hor Book XXI Chapter 4: Hannibal's character

Hannibal
Hannibal himself … contracted a disorder in his eyes, at first from the unwholesomeness of the vernal air, which is attended with transitions from heat to cold; and at length from watching, nocturnal damps, the marshy atmosphere disordering his head, and because he had neither opportunity nor leisure for remedies, loses one of them.
Hor Book XXII Chapter 2: Hannibal marches through the Apennines

Hannibal
I am of opinion, that this youth should be kept at home, and taught, under the restraint of the laws and the authority of magistrates, to live on an equal footing with the rest of the citizens, lest at some time or other this small fire should kindle a vast conflagration."
Quote by Hanno
Hor Book XXI Chapter 3: Hannibal to succeed Hasdrubal

Hannibal
Will you be able to bear the look of Hannibal himself, which armed hosts cannot sustain, from which the Roman people shrink with horror?
Quote by Pacuvius Calavius
Hor Book XXIII Chapter 9: His father persuades him not to do it

Hannibal
Next the plans and temper of the consul, the situation of the country, the roads, the sources from which provisions might be obtained, and whatever else it was useful to know; all these things he ascertained by the most diligent inquiry
Hor Book XXII Chapter 3: Flaminius

Hanno
I am of opinion, that this youth should be kept at home, and taught, under the restraint of the laws and the authority of magistrates, to live on an equal footing with the rest of the citizens, lest at some time or other this small fire should kindle a vast conflagration."
Quote by Hanno
Hor Book XXI Chapter 3: Hannibal to succeed Hasdrubal

Hasdrubal
Hasdrubal openly avowed that "he admired Scipio more now that he had made his personal acquaintance than after his military successes, and he had no doubt that Syphax and his kingdom were already at the disposal of Rome, such skill did the Roman possess in winning men.
Hor Book XXXVIII Chapter 18: Scipio and Hasdrubal visit Syphax (cont.)

Hector
When a deputation from Ilium offered him somewhat belated condolences, he replied with a smile, as if the memory of his bereavement had faded from his mind, that they, too, had his sympathy for the loss of their eminent fellow-citizen Hector.
Stn Tiberius Chapter 52: Death of Germanicus and Drusus

Helen of Troy
Helen's hated beauty
Vrg Book II Chapter 25: Venus advises Aeneas

Helen of Troy
The caterpillars that are accustomed to weave their white cocoons, on uncultivated leaves (a thing observed by farmers) change to a butterfly's form, symbol of the soul.
Quote by Pythagoras of Samos
Ovd Ovid XV Chapter 9: 361-390 Pythagoras' Teachings:Autogenesis

Helen of Troy
This monster
Vrg Book II Chapter 24: Helen

Helen of Troy
Her hateful brow
Vrg Book II Chapter 24: Helen

Helvidius Priscus
As a citizen and as a senator, as a husband, as a son-in-law, as a friend, and in all the relations of life, he was ever the same, despising wealth, steadily tenacious of right, and undaunted by danger.
His Book IV Chapter 5: Helvidius Priscus

Hercules
Hercules was always very joyful when a vulture appeared to him upon any action.
Quote by Herodorus Ponticus
Plt Romulus, chapter 10: The Foundation of Rome (cont.)

Hercules
They have a tradition that Hercules also had been in their country, and him above all other heroes they extol in their songs when they advance to battle.
Ger Chapter 3: Hercules and Ulysses

Hercules
Hercules: a God that is not wont to regard the faint offerings of cowards, or to fulfill unsanctioned vows.
Plt Aemilius Chapter 18: Perseus leaves the battle-field

Hieron II
"That Hiero was a good man and an admirable ally, and that from the time he first formed a friendship with the Roman people he had uniformly cultivated a spirit of fidelity, and had munificently assisted the Roman cause at all times and in every place"
Hor Book XXII Chapter 37: Gifts from Syracusa

Homer
Plato, who excluded Homer from his ideal common-wealth.
Stn Caligula, Chapter 34: Caligula as a monster (Cont.)

Homer
as we read in Homer, that those should think themselves truly blessed to whom fortune has given an equal share of good and evil.
Plt Aemilius Chapter 33: A triumph for Aemilius (cont.)

Horace
A house is but a poor one, where the valuables unseen and unthought of do not exceed all those that meet the eye.
Plt Lucullus Chapter 39: A luxurious life for Lucullus

Horatia
"Go," he cried, in bitter reproach, "go to your betrothed with your ill-timed love, forgetful as you are of your dead brothers, of the one who still lives and of your country! So perish every Roman woman who mourns for an enemy!"
Hor Book I Chapter 26: Horatius' Murder of his Sister.

Horatius Cocles
The enemy were astounded at his preternatural courage.
Hor Book II Chapter 10: The Story of Horatius Cocles.

Hormus
All I can say is this, that neither in Antonius nor in Hormus would this foulest of crimes have been a degeneracy from the character of their former lives.
His Book III Chapter 28: Vitellius versus Antonius Primus. The attack continues

Incitatus
Besides a stall of marble, a manger of ivory, purple blankets and a collar of precious stones he even gave this horse [Incitatus] a house, a troop of slaves and furniture, for the more elegant entertainment of the guests invited in his name; and it is also said that he planned to make him consul.
Stn Caligula, Chapter 55: Caligula and the circus.

Iphigenia
Then a cruel oracle ordered Agamemnon to sacrifice his innocent daughter, Iphigenia, to pitiless Diana.
Ovd Ovid XV Chapter 2: 60-142 Pythagoras' Teachings: Vegetarianism

Isis
that fickle superstition
Stn Domitian, Chapter 1: Domitian's youth

Januarius
In Athens, Anytus, the son of Anthemion, is said to have been the first that gave money to the judges, when on his trial, toward the latter end of the Peloponnesian war, for letting the fort of Pylos fall into the hands of the enemy.
Plt Coriolanus, Chapter 14: Coriolanus candidate for the consulship

Jesus
Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus
Ann Book XV Chapter 44: Prosecution of the Christians

Jesus
He banished from Rome all the Jews, who were continually making disturbances at the instigation of one Chrestus.
Stn Claudius, Chapter 25: Administration of justice (cont.)

Julia Drusilla
his daughter's brains were dashed out against a wall.
Stn Caligula, Chapter 59: Death of Caligula. (Cont.)

Julia Drusilla
no evidence convinced him so positively that she was sprung from his own loins as her savage temper, which was even then so violent that she would try to scratch the faces and eyes of the little children who played with her.
Stn Caligula, Chapter 25: Caligula as a monster (Cont.)

Julia Procilla
A lady of singular virtue
Ann Book I Chapter 4: Augustus' succession(cont.)

Julia the Elder
(Tiberius) let her perish by a lingering death of destitution
Quote by Tiberius
Ann Book I Chapter 53: Death of Julia and Gracchus

Julia the Elder
For her profligacy she had formerly been confined by her father Augustus in the island of Pandateria and then in the town of the Regini on the shores of the straits of Sicily.
Quote by Augustus
Ann Book I Chapter 53: Death of Julia and Gracchus

Julius Caesar
As he rode through the Velabrum on the day of his Gallic triumph, the axle of his chariot broke, and he was all but thrown out;
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 37: The Civil war, comment.

Julius Caesar
He answered, that they knew little who did not see more than one Marius in that boy
Quote by Sulla
Plt Caesar Chapter 1: Caesar and Sulla, Nicomedes and the pirates

Julius Caesar
he reformed the calendar, which the negligence of the pontiffs had long since so disordered, through their privilege of adding months or days at pleasure, that the harvest festivals did not come in summer nor those of the vintage in the autumn; and he adjusted the year to the sun's course by making it consist of three hundred and sixty-five days, abolishing the intercalary month, and adding one day every fourth year
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 40: Julius Caesar reforms the Calendar

Julius Caesar
Nor was Caesar without suspicions of him, and said once to his friends, "What do you think Cassius is aiming at? I don't like him, he looks so pale."
Plt Caesar Chapter 62: Caesar murdered; preliminaries

Julius Caesar
Yet he made so little of them, that when he had a mind to sleep, he would send to them, and order them to make no noise.
Plt Caesar Chapter 2: Caesar and the pirates

Julius Caesar
[he] reduced the number of those who received grain at public expense from three hundred and twenty thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand.
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 41: Julius Caesar Dictator

Julius Caesar
After that he did not let slip any pretext for war, however unjust and dangerous it might be, picking quarrels as well with allied, as with hostile and barbarous nations
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 24: The Gallic War

Julius Caesar
In his pleadings at Rome, his eloquence soon obtained him great credit and favor,
Plt Caesar Chapter 4: Caesar as a lawyer

Julius Caesar
I came, I saw, I conquered, [' Veni, vidi, vici']
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 37: The Civil war, comment.

Julius Caesar
Look, that is the way to the enemy.
Plt Caesar Chapter 52: Civil war; Battle of Thapsus

Julius Caesar
Caesar left in the minds of some of his friends the suspicion that he did not wish to live longer and had taken no precautions, because of his failing health; and that therefore he neglected the warnings which came to him from portents and from the reports of his friends
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 86: Deliberations about his death.

Julius Caesar
The Divine Julius once quelled an army's mutiny with a single word by calling those who were renouncing their military obedience 'citizens.'
Quote by Germanicus
Ann Book I Chapter 42: Revolt in Germania. Speech of Germanicus

Julius Caesar
I came, saw, and conquered
Plt Caesar Chapter 50: War against Pharnaces. Battle of Zela

Julius Caesar
The die is cast
Plt Caesar Chapter 32: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon

Julius Caesar
He conferred citizenship on all who practiced medicine at Rome, and on all teachers of the liberal arts
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 42: Julius Caesar Dictator. Legislation.

Julius Caesar
Cicero was the first who had any suspicions of his designs upon the government, and, as a good pilot is apprehensive of a storm when the sea is most smiling, saw the designing temper of the man through this disguise of good-humor and affability, and said, that in general, in all he did and undertook, he detected the ambition for absolute power, "but when I see his hair so carefully arranged, and observe him adjusting it with one finger, I cannot imagine it should enter into such a man's thoughts to subvert the Roman state."
Plt Caesar Chapter 4: Caesar as a lawyer

Julius Caesar
The marshes and deep rivers were made passable to the Roman foot by the vast quantity of dead bodies.
Plt Caesar Chapter 20: War with the Belgae

Julius Caesar
Caesar replied, "I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected."
Plt Caesar Chapter 10: Clodius and Pompeia

Julius Caesar
Hence Considius, a very old man, took occasion one day to tell Caesar, that the senators did not meet because they were afraid of his soldiers. Caesar asked, "Why don't you then, out of the same fear, keep at home?" To which Considius replied, that age was his guard against fear, and that the small remains of his life were not worth much caution.
Quote by Considius
Plt Caesar Chapter 14: Caesar consul. Marriages

Julius Caesar
I go to meet an army without a leader, and I shall return to meet a leader without an army.
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 34: The Civil war

Julius Caesar
Do you think," said he, "I have not just cause to weep, when I consider that Alexander at my age had conquered so many nations, and I have all this time done nothing that is memorable?"
Quote by Julius Caesar
Plt Caesar Chapter 11: Caesar in Spain. Caesar and Alexander the Great

Julius Caesar
he came to Gades, and noticing a statue of Alexander the Great in the temple of Hercules, he heaved a sigh, and as if out of patience with his own incapacity in having as yet done nothing noteworthy at a time of life when Alexander had already brought the world to his feet, he straightway asked for his discharge, to grasp the first opportunity for greater enterprises at Rome.
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 7: Julius Caesar quastor in Spain

Julius Caesar
The die is cast [ Acta Alea Est].
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 32: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon. Civil war.

Julius Caesar
He merely uttered to those near him in Greek the words, "Anerriphtho kubos", (let the die be cast,) and led his army through it.
Quote by Julius Caesar
Plt Pompey Chapter 60: Civil war: Caesar crosses the Rubicon

Julius Caesar
Neither when in command of armies nor as a magistrate at Rome did he show a scrupulous integrity
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 54: Integrity.

Julius Caesar
In eloquence and in the art of war he either equalled or surpassed the fame of their most eminent representatives
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 55: Eloquence.

Julius Caesar
He rode a remarkable horse, too, with feet that were almost human; for its hoofs were cloven in such a way as to look like toes
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 61: His horse.

Julius Caesar
he put his baker in irons for serving him with one kind of bread and his guests with another
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 48: His household.

Julius Caesar
Of Trojan stock illustriously sprung, lo, Caesar comes! whose power the ocean bounds, whose fame, the skies. He shall receive the name Iulus nobly bore, great Julius, he.
Vrg Book I Chapter 18: The future: Romulus, Julius Caesar.

Julius Caesar
Caesar rivalled the greatest orators
Ann Book XIII Chapter 3: The funeral of Claudius

Julius Caesar
his baldness was a disfigurement which troubled him greatly,
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 45: His appearance.

Julius Caesar
It is not," said he, "these well fed, long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking;" meaning Brutus and Cassius.
Quote by Julius Caesar
Plt Antony Chapter 11: Caesar and Antony

Julius Caesar
to cut a canal through the Isthmus;
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 44: Julius Caesar Dictator. Public works.

Julius Caesar
There is a saying of Marcus Cato that Caesar was the only man who undertook to overthrow the state when sober
Quote by Cato the Younger
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 53: Eating and drinking habits

Julius Caesar
to open to the public the greatest possible libraries of Greek and Latin books,
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 44: Julius Caesar Dictator. Public works.

Julius Caesar
he seduced many illustrious women
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 50: Affairs with women.

Julius Caesar
Caesar and his army that had stormed a thousand towns, and subdued more than three hundred several nations; that had fought innumerable battles with the Germans and Gauls, and always carried the victory; that had taken a million of men prisoners, and slain as many upon the spot in pitched battles
Plt Pompey Chapter 67: Civil war: Pompey pursues Caesar

Julius Caesar
He denied the use of litters and the wearing of scarlet robes or pearls to all except to those of a designated position and age, and on set days.
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 43: Julius Caesar Dictator. Justice.

Julius Caesar
The day before this assassination, he supped with Marcus Lepidus; and as he was signing some letters, according to his custom, as he reclined at table, there arose a question what sort of death was the best. At which he immediately, before anyone could speak, said, "A sudden one."
Plt Caesar Chapter 63: Caesar murdered, prodigies

Julius Caesar
No regard for religion ever turned him from any undertaking, or even delayed him.
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 59: Religiosity.

Julius Caesar
From that time on Caesar managed all the affairs of state alone and after his own pleasure; so that sundry witty fellows, pretending by way of jest to sign and seal testamentary documents, wrote Done in the consulship of Julius and Caesar, instead of 'Bibulus and Caesar
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 20: Julius Caesar consul

Julius Caesar
He was highly skilled in arms and horsemanship, and of incredible powers of endurance
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 57: Endurance.

Julius Caesar
At the height of the public grief a throng of foreigners went about lamenting each after the fashion of his country, above all the Jews, who even flocked to the place for several successive nights.
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 84: The funeral of Julius Caesar (cont.)

Julius Caesar
When he began the civil war every centurion of each legion proposed to supply a horseman from his own savings, and the soldiers one and all offered their service without pay and without rations, the richer assuming the care of the poorer
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 68: Military genius.

Julius Caesar
And when it was told him that Antony and Dolabella were in a plot against him, he said he did not fear such fat, luxurious men, but rather the pale, lean fellows, meaning Cassius and Brutus
Plt Caesar Chapter 62: Caesar murdered; preliminaries

Julius Caesar
He rode a remarkable horse, too, with feet that were almost human; for its hoofs were cloven in such a way as to look like toes.
Stn Julius Caesar, Chapter 61: His horse.

Julius Caesar
When these men at first demanded of him twenty talents for his ransom, he laughed at them for not understanding the value of their prisoner, and voluntarily engaged to give them fifty.
Plt Caesar Chapter 2: Caesar and the pirates

Julius Civilis
Civilis had also thrown a dam obliquely across the Rhine, so that the stream, diverted by the obstacle, might overflow the adjacent country.
His Book V Chapter 14: The Batavian Uprise. Civilis at Castra Vetera

Julius Civilis
Julius Civilis, a man of commanding influence among the Batavi, was next rescued from like circumstances of peril, lest that high-spirited nation should be alienated by his execution.
His Book I Chapter 59: Revolt of Vitellius. Julius Civilis

Julius Civilis
Civilis, however, was naturally politic to a degree rarely found among barbarians.
His Book IV Chapter 13: The Batavian Uprise. Civilis feigns sympathy for Vespasian

Julius Classicus
Hardened though he was to every sort of crime,
His Book IV Chapter 59: The Batavian Uprise Vocula murdered

Junia Calvina
When Agrippa died, and Lucius Caesar as he was on his way to our armies in Spain and Gaius while returning from Armenia still suffering from a wound, were prematurely cut off by destiny, or by their step-mother Livia's treachery,
Ann Book I Chapter 3: Augustus' succession

Lausus
O son, he cried, was life to me so sweet, that I to save myself surrendered o'er my own begotten to a foeman's steel?
Quote by Mezentius
Vrg Book X Chapter 34: Lament of Mezentius

Lausus
Worthy he to serve a nobler sire, and happier far he had ne'er been born Mezentius' son.
Vrg Book VII Chapter 27: The army of Turnus: Mezentius

Livia
For she had gained such a hold on the aged Augustus that he drove out as an exile into the island of Planasia his only grandson, Agrippa Postumus
Ann Book I Chapter 3: Augustus' succession

Livia
Tiberius however, making no change in his voluptuous life, excused himself by letter for his absence from his last duty to his mother on the ground of the pressure of business. He even abridged, out of moderation, as it seemed, the honours which the Senate had voted on a lavish scale to her memory, allowing only a very few, and adding that no religious worship was to be decreed, this having been her own wish
Ann Book V Chapter 1: Death of Livia

Livia
Nine months for common births the Fates decree;
But, for the great, reduce the term to three.
Stn Claudius, Chapter 1: His ancestry: Drusus.

Livia
Terrible to the State as a mother, terrible to the house of the Caesars as a stepmother.
Ann Book I Chapter 10: The reign of Augustus(cont.)

Livia
Livia feeling a stepmother's bitterness towards Agrippina
Ann Book I Chapter 33: Revolt in Germania. Germanicus

Livia
The infirmities of Augustus increased, and some suspected guilt on his wife's part.
Ann Book I Chapter 5: The death of Augustus

Livia
He showed marked respect to Livia Augusta, to whose favor he owed great influence during her lifetime and by whose last will he almost became a rich man; for he had the largest bequest among her legatees, one of fifty million sesterces. But because the sum was designated in figures and not written out in words, Tiberius, who w