From kopff@spot.Colorado.EDU Sun Apr 30 12:37:16 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id MAA25296 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:37:15 -0700 Received: from spot.Colorado.EDU (kopff@spot.Colorado.EDU [128.138.129.2]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id MAA03076 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 12:37:15 -0700 Received: from localhost (kopff@localhost) by spot.Colorado.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3/ITS-5.0/standard) with SMTP id NAA01168 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 13:37:13 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 13:37:13 -0600 (MDT) From: KOPFF E CHRISTIAN Reply-To: KOPFF E CHRISTIAN To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Bragging and Fragging (was: Michael Taylor) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Arthur Pomeroy wrote: > Octavian is said by hostile sources (Suet. Aug. 11) to have eliminated > Hirtius in the heat of battle. Tacitus, Annals 1.10: caesis Hirtio et Pansa, sive hostis illos, seu Pansam venenum vulneri adfusum, sui milites Hirtium et machinator doli Caesar abstulerat, [Octavianum] utriusque copias occupavisse.; Broughton MMR 2.236 gives references to Octavian's suspected hand in the death of the two consuls for 43, B.C. Christian Kopff University of Colorado, Boulder kopff@spot.colorado.edu .