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Dione will never let you forget he was a Roman senator!
For the little we know of Dione, filled out with a bit of
reasonable conjecture, as well as a brief analysis and critique of his "Roman History"
and a somewhat longer account of the tangled manuscript situation, we should thank Prof. Cary!
The excerptors are less well represented, except
for Zonaras, about whom there is a careful article in the Catholic
Encyclopedia.
The standard system is that used in the Boissevain
edition.
Cary exercises a good deal of editorial judgment on the
fragmentary texts of Dio and reassembles them in an order that suites Cary —
leaving, however, the standard numbering in place to facilitate reference.
As a
result, to the casual reader it appears very disordered.
For example, sections
assigned by Boissevain to one Book often appear in a different Book of the Loeb
edition — while keeping the original Book numbering.
Because some pages of the printed edition contain only excerpts, e.g., by
Xiphilinus or Zonaras or Tzetzes, some pages will appear even more disordered,
seeming to have been skipped in this transcription.
But they haven't!
The confusing mess that
the Loeb editor superadded to an already complex text, and the technical
difficulties involved in sorting it out, can but should not be confusing.
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LIBRO 1
The origins of Roma.
ENEA.
Lavinium
and Alba Longa.
Romolo founds
Rome.
Numa.
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LIBRO 2
The reigns of Tullus Hostilius
Ancus Marcius
Tarquinius
Priscus
Servius Tullius, and Tarquin the Proud.
Brutus, the rape of Lucretia,
and the expulsion of Tarquin.
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LIBRO 3
Brutus
Valerius Publicola
and the
beginnings of the Republic.
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LIBRO 4
Porsenna becomes Rome's
ally.
Serious dissension between the patricians and the plebeians,
mostly over
debts, threatens Rome's survival.
Establishment of the office of dictator.
The
Aventine secession of the plebs.
The first tribunes of the plebs.
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LIBRO 5
War with
the Volsci.
Treason of Coriolanus.
Rome saved by Coroliano's mother and his wife.
Internecine warfare between patricians and plebeians, with bouts of unity
brought about by wars against the Etruscans, the Aequi, and the Sabines.
The
Laws of the Twelve Tables.
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LIBRO 6
The establishment of the offices of consular
tribune and of censor.
Wars with the Etruscans, with Veii.
The dictator Camillus
celebrates a triumph.
Description of a Roman triumph.
War with the Faliscans.
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LIBRO 7
War with the Gauls.
The Capitol besieged. Marcus Capitolinus attempts to
take power: he is thwarted and killed. Camillus dictator for several terms. The
story of the Lacus Curtius. War with the Latins. Harshness of Manlius Torquatus.
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LIBRO 8
Wars with the Samnites and with Capua.
The tribunes annul the debts of the
people.
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LIBRO 9
War with Tarentum and Pyrrhus, king of Epirus: in a first stage,
they are successful.
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LIBRO 10
Defeat of Tarentum and Pyrrhus.
The Romans intervene
in the internal struggles of the Volsinii, on the side of the nobility.
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LIBRO 11
First Punic War, fought mostly in Sicily and the islands.
Duilius builds Rome's
first navy.
Rectitude and bravery of Regulus, hostage to the Carthaginians.
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(FROM LIBRO 12 TO LIBRO 25)
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LIBRO
12
Rome is victorious in the First Punic War.
Roman Wars with
-- the Gauls
-- the
Faliscans
-- Liguria
-- Corsica
-- Sardinia.
Rome intervenes in Greek affairs.
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LIBRO 13
Beginning of the Second Punic War.
The Saguntines in Spain.
The Gauls
ally themselves with the Carthaginians.
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LIBRO 14
The Second Punic War.
reverses.
Fabius Maximus, elected dictator,
Fabio opts for a passive policy in order to wear out
the enemy
from which he acquires the name of The Delayer (Cunctator).
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LIBRO 15
The Second Punic War continued.
The disaster at Cannae.
The Romans successfully besiege
Syracuse.
Death of Archimedes.
Rome captures Capua: a turning point.
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LIBRO 16
The Second Punic War continued.
Scipio's successful campaigns in Spain.
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LIBRO 17
The Second Punic
War continued.
Scipio gains an ally in Masinissa, a North African.
Together they bring
the war to Africa.
The Carthaginians defeated.
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LIBRO 18
After the Punic war: war
with Philip of Macedonia.
The Carthaginians stir up the Gauls on Rome's other
flank.
Battle of Cynoscephalae.
Philip defeated.
Catone: his stance on the
sumptuary laws, his dealings with Spain.
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LIBRO 19
Rome becomes further embroiled
in Greece.
War with Antiochus.
Death of Hannibal, in exile in Bithynia.
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LIBRO 20
War against Perseus.
Dealings with Rhodes,
Cappadocia, Egypt.
Campaign against
Dalmatia.
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LIBRO 21
The Third Punic War.
War against Corinth.
Both end in total victory
for the Romans.
Carthage and Corinth destroyed.
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LIBRI 22‑29:
Wars in Spain: the rebellion of Viriathus. The demagoguery of Tiberius Gracchus.
The Bacchanalian scandal. Wars against the Cimbri and the Marsians.
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LIBRI 30‑35
Mithridatic Wars. Civil war: Marius and Cinna and the
proscriptions.
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LIBRO 36
Mithridatic War and Armenian campaigns. Pompey against the
pirates.
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LIBRO 37
The career of Pompey the Great and Mithridatic War, continued:
war against the Asiatic Iberians, annexation of Syria and Phoenicia. The First
Triumvirate (Crassus, Caesar, and Pompey).
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LIBRO 38
Julius Caesar's first
consulate.
Exile of Cicero.
Caesar against the Helvetii.
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LIBRO 39
Gallic War,
continued.
Caesar crosses into Britain.
Ptolemy expelled from Egypt and
restored.
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LIBRO 40
Gallic War, continued.
Caesar crosses into Britain a second
time.
Crassus goes to war against the Parthians, is defeated and killed.
Clodius
and Milo. Beginning of the rift between Caesar and Pompey.
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LIBRO 41
GIULIO Caesar crosses
the Rubicon: civil war.
Caesar's war in Spain.
Caesar and Pompey in Macedonia.
Battle of Dyrrhachium.
Battle of Pharsalus, in which Pompey is defeated.
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LIBRO 42
Pompey flees to Egypt and dies there.
Caesar in Egypt.
Honours voted to Caesar in
Rome.
Caesar and Cleopatra.
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LIBRO 43.
Caesar defeats Scipio and conquers Numidia.
Suicide of Cato of Utica.
Caesar's triumphs celebrated in Rome.
Ground broken
for the Forum of Caesar.
The Julian calendar reform.
Caesar defeats Gnaeus
Pompey in Spain.
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LIBRO 44.
Caesar: personality cult leads to his murder.
His
funeral.
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LIBRO 45
Character of Julius Caesar's nephew and heir Octavian.
The
Second Triumvirate (Octavian, Antony, Lepidus). Rift between Octavian and
Antony. Cicero against Antony.
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LIBRO 46
Octavian defeats Antony at Mutina. The
Third Triumvirate (Octavian, Antony, Lepidus again).
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LIBRO 47
Proscriptions under
the Third Triumvirate. Battle of Philippi: Brutus and Crassus defeated.
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LIBRO 48
More tangled relationships under the Third Triumvirate. Octavian and Antony make
agreements with Sextus Pompey then turn on him and defeat him.
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LIBRO 49
Octavian
defeats Sextus Pompey and eliminates Lepidus.
Wars against the Parthians, in
which Antony is defeated. Octavian conquers Pannonia. Rome acquires Mauretania.
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LIBRO 50
With only two men left in the triumvirate, Octavian and Antony turn on
each other: the latter is decisively defeated in the battle of Actium.
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LIBRO 51
Antony and Cleopatra.
Suicide of Antony.
Octavian conquers Egypt.
Octavian
celebrates triumphs in Rome.
Marcus Crassus conquers Moesia.
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LIBRO 52
Octavian
prepares to become the sole ruler of Rome.
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LIBRO 53
Beginning of EMPIRE.
Octavian, to be known
henceforth as Augustus, officially becomes the sole ruler of Rome: the beginning
of the imperial period.
Organization of provincial administration.
The rĂ´le of
Augustus' friend Agrippa. Major construction projects in Rome: dedication of the
Temple of Apollo on the Palatine, the Saepta, the Pantheon, the Basilica of
Neptune, the Baths of Agrippa. Wars in NW Spain and Arabia. Galatia falls to the
Romans.
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LIBRO 54
Augustus continues to consolidate his power. Roman rule extends
to Rhaetia, Noricum, the Maritime Alps, and the Chersonesus.
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LIBRO 55
Death of
Drusus. Dedication of the Precinct of Livia, the Campus Agrippae, the
Diribitorium, the Temple of Mars. Tiberius retires to Rhodes. Lucius and Gaius
Caesar, the natural heirs of Augustus, both die young. Influence of Augustus'
wife Livia. Institution of the corps of watchmen (vigiles).
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LIBRO 56
Augustus
encourages population growth by rewarding those who have more children, and
penalizing those who have fewer and those who do not marry. Three legions lost
in Germany: the Disaster of Varus. Dedication of the Temple of Concord and the
Portico of Livia.
Death of Augustus; his funeral.
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LIBRO 57
Tiberius becomes
emperor.
His character.
Cappadocia becomes Roman. Deaths of Drusus and
Germanicus Caesar.
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LIBRO 58
Rise and fall of Sejanus.
Tiberius consolidates his
hold on power despite revolts and scandals in his family.
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LIBRO 59
Gaius Caesar
becomes emperor; universally known as Caligula.
His excesses.
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LIBRO 60
Claudius
becomes emperor and unexpectedly turns out to be a rather good ruler. Britain
conquered.
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LIBRO 61 Claudius' reign, continued.
Claudius dies, poisoned by his
wife Agrippina.
Nero becomes emperor. Influence of the imperial freedmen.
LIBRO 62
Agrippina gets her comeuppance: Nero has his mother murdered. In Britain, the
revolt of Boudicca (Buduica in the text). The Great Fire of Rome. Domitius
Corbulo conquers Armenia. Nero's tutor Seneca plots to overthrow him, but the
conspiracy is found out and Seneca is forced to commit suicide. Nero's excesses
and artistic pretensions.
LIBRO 63
Nero's reign, continued
the rebellion of
Vindex in Gaul, the revolt of the Jews put down by Vespasian. Nero overthrown
and killed. The brief reigns of Galba and Otho.
LIBRO 64 The brief reign of
Vitellius, consumed in civil war.
LIBRO 65 Vespasian becomes emperor. His son
Titus captures Jerusalem and destroys the Temple. Vespasian subdues Egypt.
Temple of Jupiter Capitoline rebuilt after its destruction by fire.
LIBRO 66
Upon
the death of Vespasian, Titus becomes emperor for two years.
The eruption of
Vesuvius that buried Pompeii.
A major fire in Rome.
Titus's character.
LIBRO 67
The reign and character of Domitian, notoriously paranoid and cruel.
LIBRO 68 The
brief reign of Nerva, then the longer reign of Trajan, who proves to be an
excellent man (according to Dio and everyone else). The Dacian Wars end in the
subjugation of Dacia. More moderately successful campaigns in Armenia and
Parthia. A major earthquake in Antioch. The unsuccessful siege of Hatra. Trajan
dies of uncertain causes.
LIBRO 69 Trajan's adoptive son Hadrian succeeds to the
throne. His character and interests. Antinous. Final revolt of the Jews and
destruction of Judaea. Hadrian's protracted last illness and death.
LIBRO 70
The
reign of Antoninus Pius.
LIBRO 71 Marcus Aurelius becomes
emperor. The war against Vologaesus in Armenia. Roman bridge-building technique.
(Very fragmentary)
LIBRO 72 Wars against the Marcomans and the Iazyges. The revolt
of Cassius in Syria ends in Cassius' death. Character of Marcus Aurelius.
LIBRO 73
The reign of Marcus Aurelius' son Commodus: his character and excesses. Here too
the historians are unanimous: his cowardice, narcissism, lechery, cruelty. His
gladiatorial pretensions. His assassination.
LIBRO 74 The brief reign of Pertinax,
and his character. His assassination. The empire is auctioned off by the
Praetorian guard to a very rich and foolish man: Didius Julianus his reign, even
briefer, and his assassination.
LIBRO 75 Septimius Severus fights his way to the
throne. His character. He puts down a rebellion by Pescennius Niger. Successful
siege of Byzantium.
LIBRO 76
Severus defeats yet another pretender to the throne:
Albinus. War in Caledonia, and second siege of Hatra in Mesopotamia: neither one
particularly successful. Power of Plautianus, prefect of the city.
LIBRO 77
Eruption of Vesuvius.
The downfall of Plautianus.
The robber Bulla terrorizes
central Italy.
Severus campaigns personally in Caledonia, and dies at Eburacum
in northern Britain.
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LIBRO 78
The emperor Caracalla: his cruelty of character, his
wars,
his destruction of Alexandria.
LIBRO 79
Caracalla's Parthian campaign,
during which Macrinus revolts,
kills Caracalla, and seizes power.
Macrinus'
reign chiefly occupied with civil war.
He is overthrown by a Syrian family that
places one of its young members on the throne: Elagabalus.
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LIBRO 80
Elagabalus
(Heliogabalus)
his character and excesses, mostly sexual.
He is overthrown and
killed, and the throne passes to Alexander Severus.
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