. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. the support of his regime. But he failed, and failed disastrously. Whence throughout thehistory of the Empire we have in existence more or less pro-minently a conservative opposition of old nobles, genuine orspurious, sometimes plotting manfully and dying nobly, but ;more often sneering and writing in secret against the emperors. | But most of the old aristocracy lacked the spirit to opposeAugustus. The few plots which came to light were con-temptible affairs. Some of the nobles came down to the senateand devoted their
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. the support of his regime. But he failed, and failed disastrously. Whence throughout thehistory of the Empire we have in existence more or less pro-minently a conservative opposition of old nobles, genuine orspurious, sometimes plotting manfully and dying nobly, but ;more often sneering and writing in secret against the emperors. | But most of the old aristocracy lacked the spirit to opposeAugustus. The few plots which came to light were con-temptible affairs. Some of the nobles came down to the senateand devoted their intellects to the choice of a new cognomen \for the new Caesar, or vied with one another in proposing fresh titles of honour for him. But they soon discovered that iflattery was not very lucrative in the face of their chilly and |statuesque master. Politics at Rome had lost their savour \when there was no chance of blood to follow. The noblesenators had to be coerced into attending at the curia; theydevoted their gifts to drawing-room battles, they collected objets \224. Fig. I. RELIEF FROM A SARCOPHAGUS Alinari
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