ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

the conservative faction sponsored colonies in the north.Scullard's note on theScipionic leaders of the commissions for Aquileia and Mutina, both founded in NorthernItaly, immediately calls MacKendrick's generalization into question.As Feig Vishnia observed in regards to such prosopographical analysis of rivalfactions and their motivations, they remain purely conjectural. 96It is dangerous to positthe existence of factional colonization policies, and then seek to find them in the colonialcommissions. Feig Vishnia correctly notes, however, that: "[p]ersonal rivalries andcompetition were always intrinsic characteristics of Roman politics." 97Thus, whereScullard's broad factional analysis of the commissions fails, a closer examination of theindividual commissioners might yield fruit.Indeed, even using Scullard's sometimes forced account of personal and familyalliances within various factions, a pattern of regional concern emerges among theindividual triumviri. For example, while the commissions that founded colonies insouthern Etruria and Campania cannot be said to be 'Claudian,' there is at least onetriumvir that has ties to the Claudian gens on each and every colonial commission in thisarea 98Likewise, the Fulvii and their supporters only appear on commissions along theMacKendrick (1952), p. 141. MacKendrick also sees this span of time as the "period of the apogee of thesenate," which implies that individual magistrates have little power of their own.96 Feig Vishnia (1996), p. 24.97 Ibid.98 For primary references for these commissions, see Appendix 3. The supplement to Narnia (199):Scullard sees this entire commission as vacillating between the Scipionic and the Claudian-Servilian groups:Cn. Cornelius Lentulus, because he is a Cornelius but then attempted to wrest control of the Africacampaign from Scipio in 201 (Scullard (1951), pp. 75, 8Iff, 95, and 107f.) and P. Aelius Paetus because hisfamily was friendly with the Scipiones, but then he allied with C. Servilius to gain his consulship in 201 butby 199 was able to have an amicable censorship with Africanus (Scullard (1951), pp. 77, 80f, 96. Cf.Cassola (1962), pp. 410 and 413 for the suggestion that this does not show Aelius' Claudian-Servilianallegiance so much as an alliance between the Scipiones and the Servilii at this time.) S. Aelius Paetusseems to have followed his brother's alliances (Scullard (1951), p. 104) Volturnum. Liternum, Puteoli,Salernum. and Buxentum (194): M. Servilius Pulex Geminus became firmly allied with the Claudii,78