3 “excessive liberty leads” Cic Rep 1 68.
4 “winner of a greater laurel wreath” Plin Nat Hist 7 117.
5 The Republic, when it was handed down to us Cic Rep 5 2.
1 “The mere statement of a fact” Polyb 12 25b.
2 “the type of man” Cited in Cornell, p 2.
Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician
Augustus: The Life of Rome’s First Emperor
ANTHONY EVERITT, a sometime visiting professor in the visual and performing arts at Nottingham Trent University, has written extensively on European culture and is the author of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome. He has served as secretary general of the Arts Council of Great Britain. Everitt lives near Colchester, England’s first recorded town, founded by the Romans.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Everitt, Anthony.
The rise of Rome: the making of the world’s greatest empire/Anthony Everitt.
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1. Rome—History—Empire, 30 B.C.–284 A.D. 2. Rome— History—Empire, 284–476. I. Title.
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