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2). He reneged. Nearly thirty years later Galba, Nero’s short-lived successor in the year 68, claimed, si immensum imperii corpus stare ac librari sine rectore posset, dignus eram a quo res publica inciperet, ‘‘If the huge body of the Empire could stand on its own and be stable in the absence of a single ruler, I would be the right person with whom the Republic might make a new beginning’’ (Tac. Hist. 1). But of course the Republic did not. In the year 100 Pliny, somewhat disingenuously, credited Trajan with having restored the Republic – libertas reddita (Pan.
1). 33ff. , Yates (1966), 1–26 and passim; Carruthers (1990), chaps. 1–4. For classical practices in particular see also Small (1997) and Blum (1969). Michel (1960), 432–3. 33). See Yates (1966), 12–13. On the sorts of things an orator was expected to ‘‘remember,’’ further Gowing (2000), 42–51. I shall have more to say about the phenomenon of exemplarity and its role in the texts to be examined. The bibliography on the subject is extensive: Roller (2001b), n. 2; esp. Litchfield (1914); Chaplin (2000).
On the day of the funeral soldiers stood as though to provide protection, an act mocked at length by those who had either seen or learned from their parents about the day that saw slavery as yet fresh and freedom unsuccessfully recovered, when the dictator Caesar was murdered. To some the event was the worst of crimes, to others a thoroughly splendid accomplishment. Now, it was said, in spite of a protracted reign and also providing his heirs with the means to suppress the Republic, the old emperor Augustus even needed a military guard to guarantee that his burial would be undisturbed.