Antony
historical figure · 6 works · 8 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Antony the First · Mark Antony · an Antony · the great Antony
spoken of as
1 expressionAntony the First1 mention
The Rights of War and Peace (English)
So in Tacitus, Antony the First serving under Vespasian, reminds the soldiers of the third legion of what they had done in former times, how under Mark Antony they had beaten the Parthians, and under Corbulo the Armenians.
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman triumvir treated as the disputed enemy in the Octavius/Brutus/Cicero example.
But even if it had been judged expedient to declare Antony an enemy, the choice of the persons to conduct the war should have been left to the Senate and people of Rome.
But though it was evident that Antony deserved to be treated as an enemy, yet they ought to have waited for the determination of the Senate and people of Rome, whether it were for the public interest not to take notice of his conduct or to punish it, to agree to terms of peace with him, or to have recourse to arms.
So in Tacitus, Antony the First serving under Vespasian, reminds the soldiers of the third legion of what they had done in former times, how under Mark Antony they had beaten the Parthians, and under Corbulo the Armenians.
Barlaam and Josaphat
Founder of the monastic way of life, mentioned as exemplary model.
And if I bring before you the life of one of them, telling it in detail by word of mouth—he who is said to have been the founder of the monastic way of life, Antony by name—you will surely know from the one tree the sweetness of the fruits of its kind and like, and what a foundation of asceticism that man laid, and what a roof he fixed upon it, and what gifts he was counted worthy to receive from the Savior.
and in all he raised up much dust of thoughts in his mind, just as is written somewhere also concerning the great Antony.
Letters to Lucilius
Roman triumvir invoked sarcastically as the ultimate degradation Brutus would supposedly have accepted to live.
" He all but added, "even under Antony.
On Anger
Roman statesman remembered for ordering Cicero's death, cited as an example evoking indignation.
Often we seem to grow angry at Clodius driving Cicero into exile, at Antony putting him to death;
On Benefits
Roman statesman, cited as an example of ingratitude for pardoning his dictator's assassins and subjecting Rome to foreign domination.
6 Ungrateful was Antony toward his own dictator, whom he pronounced justly slain, and yet sent the slayers into the provinces and into commands;
On the Shortness of Life
Figure named as being in league with a feared woman threatening Augustus.
and there was Paulus, and a second time a woman to be feared, in league with an Antony.