Capitol
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the Capitol · Capitoline · Rome · the citadel
spoken of as
1 expressionthe Capitol3 mentions
The Rights of War and Peace (English) · On the Steadfastness of the Wise Man (Latin) · De Spectaculis (Latin)
One of these stratagems was practised by the Romans, who, during the time that they were besieged in the Capitol, threw some loaves of bread into the enemy’s camp, that it might not be supposed they were pressed by famine.
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Roman hill and political site, setting of Cotta's illustrative mental image of Gracchus and Octavius.
Thus, when I seem to see Tiberius Gracchus haranguing on the Capitol and bringing forward the voting-urn against Marcus Octavius, I call that an empty motion of the mind;
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman citadel where the besieged Romans performed the bread-throwing stratagem.
One of these stratagems was practised by the Romans, who, during the time that they were besieged in the Capitol, threw some loaves of bread into the enemy’s camp, that it might not be supposed they were pressed by famine.
On the Steadfastness of the Wise Man
The Roman citadel, named as a fortification that bears traces of enemy incursion.
You shall not set beside them the walls of Babylon, which Alexander entered, nor the ramparts of Carthage or Numantia, taken by a single hand, nor the Capitol or the citadel:
Ad Nationes
Rome's chief temple hill, site of both suppression of foreign cults and commercial leasing of shrines.
Thus the Serapeum, thus the Capitol, is sought, knocked down, leased, like the forum, under the same voice of the auctioneer, the same levy of the quaestor.
Apologeticum
Roman civic and religious center, site of the auctioning of gods and contrasted with heaven.
In short, while pronouncing these things, it looks not to the Capitol but to heaven.
The public gods likewise you defile by public right, having them as taxable wares in the auction-room.
De Spectaculis
The Capitoline hill and its temple in Rome, invoked as a comparison point for idolatrous peril and games.
the Olympia to Jupiter, which at Rome are the Capitoline;
For the amphitheatre is consecrated by more and harsher names than the Capitol:
Accordingly, if I enter the Capitol, if the Serapeum, as a sacrificer or an adorer, I shall fall from God, just as a spectator in the circus or the theatre.