. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. gius the reputation of being thehardest drinker in Rome. Poetry, lately hostile in the person of Catullus, was disarmedlike politics. Though Tibullus, whom the war had quicklyfrightened, still sulked against Octavius, he sang only of love,following the example of Propertius ; and Livy, Vergil, Horace,the illustrious representatives of history and of epic and lyricpoetry, furthered the designs of the founder of the Empire bycelebrating the greatness of Rome or the destiny promised to thedescendants of
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. gius the reputation of being thehardest drinker in Rome. Poetry, lately hostile in the person of Catullus, was disarmedlike politics. Though Tibullus, whom the war had quicklyfrightened, still sulked against Octavius, he sang only of love,following the example of Propertius ; and Livy, Vergil, Horace,the illustrious representatives of history and of epic and lyricpoetry, furthered the designs of the founder of the Empire bycelebrating the greatness of Rome or the destiny promised to thedescendants of lulus. Near the victor of Actium we find another old friend and able 58 THE TRIUMVIRATES AND THE REVOLUTION, 79 TO 30. servant of Caesar, — Asinius Pollio, the protector of Vergil and,notwithstanding the eloquent counsels of Horace, the historianof the Civil wars. He had formerly sworn an oath to Ciceroto fight to the death for liberty.^ Convinced that liberty wasno longer possible, he had accepted a master, but neither eagerlynor with baseness, and had taken refuge against despotism in. X>*^ YOtrxa TIBERIUS AND HIS urother nnrsus, the two sons of livia. devotion to literature and in independence of spirit. Octaviusrather esteemed than loved this serious man. Mnnatius Plancus had passed through those ditlicult times withless honor. First a lieutenant of Caesar, then tlie friend of insassassins, he had gone over to the triumvirs, to wlmni lie liadabandoned his Imither. At Alexandria he was the l)utT(Hiu (jf * Cicero, Ail Finn. x. HI. Hiists in bronze ; that of IilicM-iiis, found .-i! MalKm in 1 !l, liad 0}-es of silver (Cihiiictde France, No. .1,1 21). Tlie Imst (jf is in llie Luiivie Mnseiun. ITALY AND THE ROMAN PEOPLE. 69 Antony, whom at Lyons he had called an infamous robber, andlater denounced at Rome. In him all kinds of treachery wereunited ; but a man who was so conscientiously devoted to thestronger side, and who openly taught adulation, was too usefid
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