acclamation
Vocal expressions of approval and good wishes in ritual form were an important part of Roman life, both private (e.g. at weddings) and public (for actors and the presiding magistrate at public ...
aediles
Either of two (later four) Roman magistrates responsible for public buildings and originally also for the public games and the supply of corn to the city. The word comes (in the mid 16th century) ...
Annius Milō, Titus
Of a prominent family of Lanuvium, as tribune 57 bc worked for Cicero's recall from exile and, with Sestius, organized armed gangs to oppose those led by Clodius Pulcher, which had long prevented it. ...
Aulus Gabinius
Was military tribune under Sulla and later his envoy to Mithradates VI. As tribune of the plebs 67 bc, he passed a law setting up a command with wide powers against the pirates, intended for Pompey. ...
Aurelia
(RE ‘Aurelius’ 248),of the family of the Cottae, was the mother of C. Iulius Caesar (1). She watched over the conduct of his wife Pompeia and detected P. Clodius ...
Bona Dea
A Roman fertility goddess (in Latin, the ‘good goddess’), worshipped exclusively by women, and sometimes identified with Fauna.
Caelius Rufus, Marcus
Born (probably) 88 or 87 bc at Interamnia (mod. Teramo), son of an eques or knight, did his tirocinium fori (apprenticeship to public life) under Cicero and Crassus. As one of a band of upper-class ...
Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, Lucius
Rapidly rose to the consulship, which he held in 58 bc (with Gabinius ) after marrying his daughter to Caesar (consul 59). He refused to support Cicero against Clodius Pulcher, and as a reward was ...
Catiline
(c. 108–62bc),Roman nobleman and conspirator. In 63 bc his planned uprising was discovered by Cicero, and Catiline fled from Rome. In the suppression of the uprising his fellow conspirators were ...
Cato the Younger
‘of Utica’ (‘Uticensis’) (95–46bc), greatgrandson of Cato the Elder (see preceding entry), nephew of Livius Drusus (2), and brought up in the Livian household with the children of his mother's ...
Catullus
(c. 84–c. 54bc),Roman poet. His one book of verse contains poems in a variety of metres on a range of subjects. He is best known for his love poems.
Cicero
(106–43 bc)Roman statesman, orator, and writer. A supporter of Pompey against Julius Caesar, in the Philippics (43 bc) he attacked Mark Antony, who had him put to death. As an orator and writer, ...
Claudius Pulcher, Appius
(RE 297)eldest son of (2), served in the east under his brother-in-law L. Licinius Lucullus (2) in 72–70 bc. As praetor 57 he supported his brother P. Clodius Pulcher ...
Claudius Pulcher, Appius
(RE 296)son of (1), as praetor (89 or 88 bc) enrolled some foreigners enfranchised under the lex Plautia Papiria (see Plautius Silvanus (1), M.). An enemy of L. Cornelius ...
Clodia
Second of the three sisters of Clodius Pulcher, b. c.95 bc, had married her first cousin Caecilius Metellus Celer by 62. Her bitter enemy Cicero (but gossip said she had once offered him marriage) ...
Cornēlius Sulla, Faustus
Son of Cornelius Sulla Felix and of Caecilia Metella. His praenōmen and that of his twin sister, Fausta, were given to symbolize their father's good fortune. As his father's heir he was repeatedly ...
Crassus
Son of Publius Licinius Crassus (consul 97 bc, escaped from Cinna to Spain, joined Sulla after Cinna's death, played a prominent part in regaining Italy for him, and made a fortune in Sulla's ...
Cūria
[MC]Roman senate house or council chamber of the governing body of a civitas peregrina, or of a community of high status.
Deiotarus
(RE 2),Hellenized tetrarch of western Galatia, was attacked by Mithradates VI and became a loyal Roman ally. Pompey greatly increased his territory and the senate, perhaps adding more to ...
Favonius Marcus
(RE 1),of municipal birth (see municipium), admirer and excessive imitator of Cato (Uticensis), especially in rude forthrightness. He attacked P. Clodius Pulcher in 61 bc, and vehemently (but ...
