Octavius and, 206–207, 210
Sulla and, 226, 238–239, 246
voting and, 44
wage labor and, 43
Plutarch
on first sedition at Rome, 36
on the Gracchi, 28, 59–60, 74, 79
on history repeating itself, xxi
on military leadership, 109, 129
on Sulla, 238
politics.
Pollux.
Polybius
in exile in Rome, 7–8
on glory of Rome, 1
as mentor, 15
Roman constitution and, 9, 10, 260
on Senate, 33
Pomerium, 35, 197, 198, 245
Pompeii, 181
Pompeius Magnus, Gnaeus (Pompey the Great)
birth of, xi
Cicero on, 227
legacy, 263
military and, 177, 264
proscriptions and, 249
with Sulla, xiv, 230–231, 235
Pompeius Rufus, Quintus (the Elder)
consular elections and, xiii, 190–191
murder of, 205
Sulla and, 192–193
Pompeius Rufus, Quintus (the Younger), 193
Pompeius Strabo, Gnaeus (Pompey the Elder)
in Asculum, xiii, 177, 179–180, 205, 207
consulship of, 178–180
death of, 210
military and, 177–180, 205, 207, 210, 220
in Picenum and Cisalpine Gaul, 179, 189
violence and, 174
pontifex maximus, 32, 35
pontiffs, 134
Pontus
Bithynia and, 175
cavalry, 188
history, 185–187
invasion of, 188–189
Phrygia and, 49
Rome and, 147, 183
Popillius, Gaius, 119–120
populares, as political faction
Gaius Marius and, 152
return of, 106
Sallust on, 79–80
Senate and, 133–135
population
citizens and noncitizens, 43
Rome, 43, 261
slaves, 43
populus Romanus. See citizens, Roman
posts, heads on, 212, 213, 242, 251
poverty
cash economy and, 43
military service and, 20, 21, 114
power
deposition and, 30–31
Dictatorship, xiv, 8–9, 251–257
magistrates with abuse of, 162–163
proconsular, 262, 265
senatus consultum ultimum and, 75, 157, 198, 205, 227
Sulla with withdrawal of, 257–258
tribunes with less, 253, 259
veto, 29–30, 96
violence and, 35–36, 152–153, 166, 168
Praeneste, xiv, 206, 236–237, 240, 242
praetors, 11, 90–92, 122, 123
prices, grain, 68–69, 78, 87, 153–154, 167–168
priesthood, 134, 158, 182, 206
princeps senatus, 18, 53, 105–106
proconsul
Carbo as, 227
with conquered gold and silver, 19
honorary role of, 256
power of, 262, 265
Scipio Aemilianus as, 88
Sextus Caesar as, 174, 177
proscriptions
abuse of, 249–250, 259, 264
defined, 247
exile with, 263
profit from, 248
role of, xiv
provincae, administration in, 47–48
public works projects, roads, 68, 78, 86
publicani
Cinna and, 216
with commerce, 50–52, 56
contracts for, 50–51, 69–70, 84, 91
corruption and, 165–166
with debt crisis, 181–182
land redistribution opposed by, 168–169
with tax-farming contracts, 69, 132
publicly owned land. See ager publicus
Punic Wars, 5, 6
conscription and, 19–20
Second, 19, 88, 114, 136
Pyrenees, 85, 119
quaestio de repetundis. See Extortion Court
quaestors
Aemilianus as, 12
Gaius Gracchus as, 63–65
Lucullus as, 195
Marius as, 85
Mummius as, 10–11
Saturninus as, 133–134, 137–138
Sulla as, xi, 114, 117
Tiberius Gracchus as, 22–23
with treasury, 11, 47, 152, 153
Raudian Plain, xii, 148–149, 212
Ravenna, 239
redistribution, of land, 134, 154, 161–162, 168–170
Remus, 2
rent, land with free, 73
residents of Rome.
revolts
Asculum, 171–172, 180
Extortion Court and, 48, 78, 153
Fregellae, x, 62–63, 65, 105, 163
of Jugurtha, 110–111
slaves, xi, 40, 44, 45–46, 48–49, 57, 131–133, 139–140, 145, 263
roads
Via Domitia, 86
repair, 68, 78
Rome
cash economy in, 43
with enemies of state, 197–202, 211–213
expansion, 85–86
founding of, 2–3, 4, 9, 150
Italians with expulsion from, 164, 229
military in, 197–202, 210–213
population, 43, 261
Romulus (King of Rome), 2, 3, 4, 9, 150
Rupilius, Publius, 39, 46, 67
Rutilius Rufus, Publius,
military innovations, 130
trial and exile, 165–166
Sabaco, Cassius, 91
Sacred Geese, 50
Sallust
on bribery, 102
on civil war, 99
on populares and optimates, 79–80
on poverty and military service, 114
on Scaurus, 83
on Sulla, 118
on war in Numidia, 106
on wealth and power, 203
on wealth of Roman citizens, 59
Salluvii tribe, 85–86
salons, culture, 79
Samnite Wars, 4
Samnites, 172, 207–208, 242
Samnium, 229
Sardinia, 47, 63–65
Saturn. See Temple of Saturn
Saturninus, Lucius Appuleius
with duties relieved by Senate, xi
with Gracchan legacy, 146
land-for-veterans proposal and, 139
mob tactics and, xii, 145, 147–148, 157–158, 226, 251
as quaestor, 133–134, 137–138
Sulpicius on, 192
treason court and, 254
as tribune, 152–158
Saufeius, Gaius, 152, 157
Scaevola, Publius Mucius
in Asia, xii, 165–166
citizenship reform and, 164
Crassus and, 120, 169, 229
murder of, 237–238
Nasica and, 35
Scaurus, Marcus Aemilius
Ahenobarbus and, 134
as censor, 167
consulship of, 91
corruption and, 90
death of, 191
Extortion Court and, 166
in Numidia, 93, 94–95, 102
as princeps senatus, 93, 105–106, 137, 173
Sallust on, 83
Scordisci tribe, x, 101–102
Second Punic War, 19, 88, 114, 136
Second Servile War, 133, 150–151
secret ballots
judicial assemblies, ix, 22
for legislative assemblies, x, 42
voting, ix, x, 22, 42, 53, 79, 86–87
seers, 199–200
Senate
Anti-Senate, 192–193, 195
with Carthage, 5–6, 12–13
with citizenship reform, 62