Abbreviations bbreviations of Latin authors and their works are as indicated on pp. ix–xx of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (Oxford 1982) and of Greek Aauthors and their works, on pp. xvi–xxxviii of Liddell, Scott, and Jones’ A Greek-English Lexicon (Oxford 1968) (with the exception of Cassius Dio, to whom I refer in text and notes simply as Dio). Full titles of scholarly journals cited by abbreviation in the bibliography can be found in L’Année Philologique. The following special abbreviations are also used in the notes: AE L’Année Épigraphique BMCRR Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum. Ed. H. A. Grueber. 3 vols. London 1910. CAH Cambridge Ancient History. 12 vols. Cambridge 1923–39. [2nd ed. 1970–.] CIL Corpus Inscriptionarum Latinarum. Berlin. 1863–. D-G2 Geschichte Roms. 2nd ed. Eds. W. Drumann and P. Groebe. 6 vols. Berlin-Leipzig. 1899–1929 (Repr. Hildesheim 1964). D-S Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines. Eds. C. Darem- berg and E. Saglio. 5 vols. Paris 1877–1919. FrGH Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. Ed. F. Jacoby. Berlin and Leiden 1923–58. HRR Historicorum Romanorum Reliquiae. Ed. H. W. G. Peter. Leipzig 1914–16. ILLRP Inscriptiones Latinae Liberae Rei Publicae. Ed. Attilio Degrassi. Florence 1957–72. xii ceremony and power ILS Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae. Ed. H. Dessau. 3 vols. Berlin 1892–1916. Inscr. Ital. Inscriptiones Italiae. vol. 13. Ed. Attilio Degrassi. Rome 1947. LTUR Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae. Ed. E. M. Steinby. 5 vols. Rome 1993–2000. MRR Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Ed. T. R. S. Broughton. 2 vols. New York 1951. Vol. 3 (Supplement). Atlanta 1986. OLD Oxford Latin Dictionary. Ed. P. G. W. Glare. Oxford 1968–82. ORF2 Oratorum Romanorum Fragmenta Liberae Rei Publicae. 2nd ed. Ed. E. Malcovati. Milan 1955. RE Pauly’s Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. Eds. G. Wissowa, E. Kroll, et al. Berlin and Stuttgart 1893–1978. RIC2 The Roman Imperial Coinage. Rev. ed. Eds. C. H. V. Sutherland and R. A. G. Carson. London 1984–. Röm. StR3 Th. Mommsen. Römisches Staatsrecht. 3rd ed. 3 vols. Leipzig 1887–88..