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BANDITS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE<br />
168 Ibid. 4.23.1f.<br />
169 Ibid. 4.23.2.<br />
170 On this see the inscription published by E. Bartocchini, ‘Dolabella e Tacfarinate in<br />
una iscrizione di Lepti Magna’, Epigraphica 20, 1958, 3–13: Victoriae / [A]u[gu]stae<br />
/ P. Cornelius / Dolabella cos. / VII vir ep[ul.] so/da[li]s [Ti]t[tiens] pro/cos. occiso<br />
T[acfa]/rinate p[o]s[uit].<br />
171 Tac. Ann. 4.26.1.<br />
172 Tac. Ann. 2.52.3: haud spernenda natio.<br />
173 Tac. Ann. 3.73.1; 4.23.2.<br />
174 Tac. Ann. 4.13.3.<br />
175 Tac. Ann. 3.73.1.<br />
176 Tac. Ann. 3.73.2.<br />
177 Ibid.<br />
178 Contra, though in my opinion not convincing, Koestermann, Annalen (n. 155),<br />
I 561 = commentary on Ann. 3.73.2, according to whose impression Tacitus was<br />
‘without doubt . . . profoundly influenced by the emperor’s decisive intervention’.<br />
179 Tac. Ann. 3.40– 46. Vell. 2.129.3. Stein, s.v. Iulius Nr. 238 (Florus), RE X, 1919,<br />
589. Idem, s.v. Iulius Nr. 452 (Sacrovir), loc. cit. 796–8. H. Heinen, Trier und das<br />
Trevererland in römischer Zeit, Trier 1985, 56–60; 391f. (bibliography). P. Herz,<br />
‘Der Aufstand des Iulius Sacrovir (21 n. Chr.). Gedanken zur römischen Politik in<br />
Gallien und ihren Lasten’, Laverna 3, 1992, 42–93.<br />
180 Tac. Ann. 3.40.2: Nobilitas ambobus et maiorum bona facta, eoque Romana civitas olim<br />
data, cum id rarum nec nisi virtuti pretium esset.<br />
181 Tac. Ann. 4.18.1: Sacrovirianum bellum.<br />
182 Ibid. 3.44.2.<br />
183 Ibid. 3.46.4; cf. the commentary of Koestermann, Annalen (n. 155), I 506.<br />
3 LEADERS OF SLAVE REVOLTS AS LATRONES<br />
1 For the chance of becoming a bandit as a particular incentive for slaves to run away<br />
see Bellen, Sklavenflucht 143ff.; for herdsmen see Shaw, ‘Der Bandit’ 354f. and<br />
above, p. 36; for soldiers see Shaw, ‘Der Bandit’ 352–4, and p. 50 and pp. 125–6,<br />
128.<br />
2 On this see, for example, Varro Rust. 2.10.1–6.<br />
3 Diod. 34/35.2.2; 2.27. Varro Rust. 1.17.3. Strab. 6.2.6 p. 273. Ioh. Ant. frg. 61,<br />
FHG IV 559f. M. Capozza, ‘Il brigantaggio nelle fonti della prima rivolta servile<br />
siciliana’, AIV 133, 1974/75, 27–40, analyses the relevant evidence and comes to<br />
the following conclusion (p. 37):<br />
Brigandage, an independent act by slaves in Strabo, in John of Antioch<br />
appears, however, as an institution created and ratified by their masters<br />
(kurioi). In Diodorus occur both versions: leisteia is born of herdsmen, but<br />
in consequence of the refusal of their masters to provide them with the<br />
basic necessities of life and their proposal that they should obtain these<br />
by robbery.<br />
As a result, she suggests that it was in fact the great landowners of Sicily who were<br />
responsible for the banditry of their slaves. Basically the same view is upheld by<br />
Bradley, Slavery and Rebellion 50–4.<br />
4 Callistr. Dig. 48.19.28.15. See above, pp. 15–16.<br />
5 Hoben, Terminologische Studien 17ff.; 40ff.<br />
6 Cf. I. Opelt, Die lateinischen Schimpfwörter und verwandte sprachliche Erscheinungen. Eine<br />
Typologie, Heidelberg 1965, 132f.<br />
7 Hoben, Terminologische Studien 17.<br />
8 Cf. e.g., Diod. 34/35.2.2; 2.27–30.<br />
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