Roman History V: Books 46-50 (Loeb Classical Library)

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THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY FOUNDED BY JAMES LOEB,

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EDITED BY j-T. E.

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DIOS ROMAN HISTORY V

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DIO'S

ROMAN HISTORY WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY

EARNEST CARY,

Ph.D.

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CONTENTS PAGE

BOOK XLVI

1

BOOK XLVII

116

book xlviii

218

book xlix

338

book l

434

INDEX

517

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his private grudge against Antony take For the purpose he the place of the public interest. wishes to accomplish is nothing else than that we should give up providing for the greatest safety of the commonwealth and fall into discord once more. Indeed, it is not the first time he has done this, but from the outset, ever since he entered politics, he has been continually turning things topsy-turvy. Is

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he not the one who embroiled Caesar with Pompey and prevented Pompey from becoming reconciled with Caesar? Or the one, again, who persuaded you to pass that vote against Antony by which he angered Caesar, and persuaded Pompey to leave Italy and transfer his quarters to Macedonia, a course which proved the chief cause of all the evils that subsequently befell us? Is he not the one who killed Clodius by the hand of Milo and slew Caesar by the hand of Brutus ? The one who made Catiline hostile to us and put Lentulus to death without a trial ? Hence I should be very much surprised at you if, after changing your mind then about his conduct and making him pay the penalty for it, you should now heed him again, when his

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