By Ronald Syme
Those fifty-nine papers on Roman heritage entire the gathering of Sir Ronald Syme's lifestyles paintings. quantity VI covers such diverse subject matters as human rights and social prestige at Rome; marriage a long time for senators; oligarchy at Rome; a paradigm for political technological know-how; army geography; vitamin at Capri; early priesthood; and unrecognized authors from Spain. quantity VII comprises later, unpublished paintings that used to be nonetheless in manuscript shape on the time of his demise in 1989. the ultimate paper is an creative spoof on Tacitus, comprising a Latin textual content at the tale of Titus and Berenice and ancient statement.
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Review of A. Briessmann, Tacit"s und das flavisdie Ctsil1ichtsbild (Hermes, Einzclschriften, Heft x, Wiesbaden, 1955), Classical Review NS viii ( 1958), 53- 4. 42 Pro-Flavian History [ 54 Nor is he wholly adequate in matters of detail. Josephus does not palliate the conduct of Caecina. On the contrary, he plainly designates him as a traitor (BJ iv 64 I; 644). That was not the version that Tacitus was criticizing. Therefore the date of the composition and publication of the BJ becomes highly pertinent.
It might not be altogether fanciful to add that the enlistment of Macedonians is in no way alien to Gaius' monarchical policy and worship of Alexander the Great. He got from the sarcophagus at Alexandria the cuirass of the Macedonian and wore it on at least one ceremonial occasion (Suetonius, Cal. 19). The augmentation did not persist for very long. Inordinately inflated by Vitellius, the cohorts were strictly reduced by Vespasian to their Augustan total. A tenth cohort, however, was soon added, by Domitian, as most scholars have assumed.
Ostorius Scapula and P. ), do not happen to be known. As for Burrus, Tacitus extols his military record-'egregiae rnilitaris famae' (Ann. xii 42). cvicw of M. Durry, Les Cohortts prltorit1111ts (Bibliothequc des ecoles fran~aiscs d'Athcnes et de Rome, cxlvi, Paris, 1938), Joumal of Romatr Studies xxix ( 1939). 242-8. 26 The Praetorian Guard tribune-though perhaps he had held that post for long years (cf. LS 2707, which mentions a man with sixteen years' service). The significant part of Burrus' earlier career is contained in the words 'proc.