RONALD SYME ROMAN PAPER III EDITED BY ANTHONY R. BIRLEY CLARENDON PRESS OXFORD 1984
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Editor's Preface Roman Papers i and ii, long awaited, were favourably received. A further instalment was desirable; Sir Ronald Syme and the Delegates concurred; and the work of preparation began in February 1982. The selection for this third volume has been made entirely by the author himsel These papers were published during the years 1971-8r. Warm thanks are due to the editors and publishers of the journals and other works in which they originally appeared for ready and rapid consent to their reprinting. The relatively short lapse of time since first publication has meant less work for the Editor of this volume than for E. Badian, whose task spanned forty years from 1930. None the less, there is some new evidence cited in notes here and there; and reference to the author's other publications has been added where possible, including to his Historia Augusta Papers (Oxford, 1983) and in a few cases to items published in 1982 and 1983, or 'forthcoming'. 1 References to journals have been standardised, as in vols. i-ii, on the system of L'Annee philologique (slightly modified). The use of square brackets has been kept to a minimum, and it did not seem necessary to signal minor corrections of names or references. 2 The Editor's principal task has been the compilation of the Index of Ancient Personal Names to vols. i- iii. The size of the present volume made it impossible to take over E. Badian's project of indexing Ten Studies in Tacitus and Danubian Papers as well as Roman Papers. The Editor has done the job single-handed, rather more rapidly than he would have wished. Pleas of 'festinatio' are rightly suspect (c p. rro2 n., below), but he really does share the feeling of an unknown writer of the late fourth century: 'sic perurgeo, ut respirandi non habeam facultatem' (but that person at least had, or claimed to have had, an amanuensis). That the Index has inconsistencies and gaps, 3 even within its stated compass, its compiler is only too painfully aware. Names of persons more recent than Charlemagne had to be excluded: alarm at the expansion of the enterprise demanded. And there is no index of subjects, or of passages in ancient authors. To compensate- it is hoped-entries for authors include fairly copious references to passages quoted. A few persons had to be denied 1 See the list on p. 1448, below. 2 Attention may be drawn to the list of 'Errata and corrigenda to vols i-ii' on p. 1447, below. Some inconsistencies of spelling (e.g. Seianus/Sejanus, Achaea/Achaia) have been left unchanged in this volume. 3 The 'magna nomina', particularly Caesar, Tiberius, Hadrian, Augustus, and Tacitus, are necessarily rather less comprehensively covered. A good many, but by no means all, nomina and cognomiita, discussed for their rarity or other interesting features, have been included.
vi Editor's Preface entry: the unknown biographer of the Caesars ('Ignotus'); the writer of what Alexander Enmann called the 'Kaisergeschichte' (KG); andfanciers will regret this-'the arch-criminal, the parent of invention and deceit' (p. 1399): the author of the HA. That this 'labor' did not seem 'in arto' or 'inglorius', but, on the contrary, was absorbing and refreshing, is due to the charms of the author's writing, and to his friendly encouragement these past twenty months. Furthermore, he assisted painstakingly with the reading of the proofs, seconded by Eric Birley, whose enthusiasm while carrying out the same task for Tacitus more than a quarter of a century ago is still a vivid memory. The proofs began to arrive, it may suitably be recalled, just after the gathering at Wolfson College to mark Sir Ronald's eightieth birthday: which will be further commemorated by Caesar AugtJstus: Seven Aspects. In the meantime, he is proceeding with The Aug11stan Aristocracy. By Roman standards his 'senectus' began twenty years ago (p. n84, below). He has already equalled Varro (p. 413, above). It is appropriate to express the hope that he will match Antonius Castor (p. 757), Romilius Pollio (p. 292), and Zocles (p. 744). Manchester, 14 September 1983 A.R.B.
CONTENTS VOLUME III 60. Lawyers in Government: the Case of Ulpian 863 6I. The Titulus Tiburtinus 869 62. Spoletium and the Via Flaminia 885 63. Danubian and Balkan Emperors 892 64. Toleration and Bigotry 899 65. The Crisis of 2 B.c. 912 66. History or Biography: the Case of Tiberius Caesar 937 67. History and Language at Rome 953 68. Liberty in Classical Antiquity 962 69. How Gibbon Came to History 969 70. La richesse des aristocraties de Betique et de Narbonnaise 977 7I. Helvetian Aristocrats 986 72. The March of M.ucianus 998 73. How Tacitus Wrote Annals I-ill 1014 74. The Enigmatic Sospes 1043 75. Scorpus the Charioteer 1062 76. Antonius Saturninus 1070 77. Sallust's Wife 1085 78. Mendacity in Velleius 1090 79. 'Donatus' and the Like no5 80. The patria of Juvenal n20 8I. Juvenal, Pliny, Tacitus 1135 82. Ummidius Quadratus, capax imperii n58 83. Problems about Janus II79 84. Some Imperatorial Salutations n98 85. The Sons of Crassus 1220 86. The Sons of Piso the Pontifex 1226 87. Minor Emendations in Pliny and Tacitus 1233 88. No Son for Caesar? 1236 89. Biographers of the Caesars 1251 90. Guard Prefects oftrajan and Hadrian 1276
viii Contents 9I. Hadrianic Proconsuls of Africa 1303 92. An Eccentric Patrician l 3 I 6 93. The Travels of Suetonius Tranquillus 1337 94. The Early Tiberian Consuls 1350 95. Princesses and Others in Tacitus 1364 96. Governors Dying in Syria 1376 97. Fiction about Roman Jurists 1393 98. A Great Orator Mislaid 1415 99. Vibius Rufus and Vibius Rufinus 1423 100. Hadrian and the Vassal Princes 1436 Errata and Corrigenda to Roman Papers i-ii 1447 Recent and Forthcoming Publications of Sir Ronald Syme 1448 Index of Persons 1449