T Rice Holmes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3756678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Rice Holmes |
| GIVEN NAMES | T Rice |
| FAMILY NAME | Holmes |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMES T R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1900 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1923 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Topography of Caesar's Campaign against the Bellovaci (51 B. C)
The Age of Stonehenge
The article on Stonehenge that appeared in the January number of the Nineteenth Century demands consideration. The writer, Mr. E. Herbert Stone, after re-stating and defending Sir Norman Lockyer's views, which I shall presently explain, notices ‘some criticisms’, including those of Mr. Arthur Hinks and my own. ‘Rice Holmes’, he says, ‘sets forth the old arguments in favour of the Bronze Age theory, many of which are fallacious ... the deservedly …
A Supplementary Note on the Julian Calendar
As students of Roman chronology are aware, all dates between February 24, 700 (54 B.C.)—if not also between 691 (63 B.C.), the year of Cicero's consulship—and the last day of 708 (46 B.C.) can be referred with absolute certainty to the corresponding days of the Julian calendar, with a possible error of one day. The possibility of this minute error lies in the fact that it is not quite certain whether the Kalends of January, 709—the first year of …
The Earliest Visible Phase of the Moon
I AM glad that Dr. Fotheringham in the interesting paper which appeared in the Classical Quarterly (April, 1920, pp. 97–8) adhered to the view that ‘Caesar calculated the new moon for January 1 [45 B.C]...and that this calculation determined the inaugural day of the Julian calendar.’ As the object of my brief note, on which he commented, was merely to show that Groebe had failed to prove that the day in question was January 2, I have only a few q…
Cicero's παλiνῳδία and Questions therewith connected
The object of this article is to ascertain as nearly as possible the dates of the conference at Luca and of Cicero's speech on the consular provinces; to identify the composition which he called his ‘palinode’; and to fix the chronological order of certain letters which relate to these points. Writing on April 8, 698 (56 B.C.), Cicero tells his brother that on the 5th there was a debate in the Senate on the Campanian land; that on the 7th he visi…
Three Catilinarian Dates
I. The date of the consular election in 63 B.C. —Cicero in his speech Pro Murena , which was delivered in November, 63 B.C, after Catiline quitted Rome, said that before the consular election of that year Catiline used to appear in public surrounded by troops from Faesulae and Arretium, and that in a private gathering ( contione domestica ) he had declared that the only true champion of the wretched was one who shared their wretchedness, that the…
Was Caesar born in 100 or in 102 B.C
The view, originally advocated by Mommsen, and supported by the Comte de Salis, that Caesar was born in 102 B.C., was controverted by A. W. Zumpt and C. Nipperdey, and has recently been examined by Professor Monroe E. Deutsch, who comes to the following conclusion: ‘that Caesar secured a dispensation during 67 B.C. or early in 66 B.C., allowing him to hold the various offices two years before the legal age, seems the simplest solution of the prob…
Tigranocerta
That the problem which we have to attack is difficult may be inferred from the controversies which it has provoked. The geographer Kiepert successively identified Tigranocerta with four sites—two on the left, two on the right bank of the Tigris. The son who continued his last work adopted the original choice which his father had discarded half a century before
Hirschfeld and Judeich on the Lex Pompeia Licinia
Before the year 1857, when Mommsen published his celebrated treatise Die Rechtsfrage zwischen Caesar und dem Senat , most scholars believed that Caesar's provincial command legally expired at the end of 49 B.C.; but Mommsen demonstrated the falsity of this opinion, and for nearly half a century it was an article of faith that the date fixed was the 1st of March. I may remark parenthetically that, although this date is usually quoted, it would be …
Octogesa
Octogesa.—Those who have read the First Commentary of Caesar's Civil War will remember that the theatre of the campaign which he conducted against Afranius and Petreius extended from a point on the Segre twenty-two Roman miles above Ilerda (Lerida) to the mountains which close on the north the valley of the Ebro. The earlier operations took place in the neighbourhood of Ilerda and on either side of the upper reaches of the Segre; the later in the…
The Text of the Bellvm Gallicvm and the Work of H. Meusel
Every one who has used Dr. Meusel's excellent edition of Caesar's Bellum Ciuile will welcome the first volume, comprising Commentaries I.–IV., of his final edition of the Bellum Gallicum . Nominally, each of the two books is a revision of the work of other men,–in the former case of Kraner and Hofmann, in the latter of Kraner and Dittenberger; really each, especially the latter, contains the fruit of so much independent research that the personal…
The Birthday of Augustus and the Julian Calendar
Suetonius says that Augustus was born on the ninth day before the Kalends of October ( a. d . VIIII. Kal. Oct .), in the year when Cicero and Antonius were consuls (691 [63 B.C.]), a little before sunrise, 1 and also that he was born under Capricorn. 2 Mr. H. W. Garrod, in his recent edition of Manilius, 3 maintains that the date which Suetonius gives belonged to the pre- Julian calendar, and corresponded with December 20 of the Julian. Remarking…
Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar
A Collation of Codex Lovaniensis
Codex Louaniensis , or L , the best MS. of Caesar in the British Museum (Add. MSS. 10,084), which is assigned to the eleventh century, has been collated by Alfred Holder for his edition of the Bellum ciuile and by Mr. R. L. A. Du Pontet for his edition of the Bellum Alexandrinum and the Bellum Africanum ; but for the Bellum Gallicum no collation has hitherto been available. Last year I made one, which I sent to Dr. Meusel. He urged me to publish …
Signor Ferrero or Caesar
Signor Ferrero has courteously replied to the article in the Classical Quarterly of July, 1909, in which I gave reasons for preferring Caesar's First Commentary to his reconstruction. He thinks that I failed to seize his main point, which, he says, is represented by this question: Why did Caesar conclude an alliance with Ariovistus in 59 b.c. and break it in the following year? Any one who may have read my article with care will have seen that I …
Could Ancient Ships Work to Windward
When Caesar sailed to Britain in 55 b.c. he was obliged to leave behind eighteen transports which had his cavalry on board and had been prevented by adverse winds from joining the rest of the fleet. These vessels, like those which carried the infantry, were of native Gallic build, and were doubtless sailed by Gallic seamen, who were familiar with the conditions of navigation in the Channel. On the fourth day after Caesar landed in Britain they se…
Signor Ferrero's Reconstruction of Caesar's First Commentary
The credibility of Caesar's account of his campaigns against the Helvetii and Ariovistus has recently been attacked anew by Signor Ferrero, whose fame, rapidly acquired, is not only European but Transatlantic, and who has conducted his case with more ability than his predecessors and on entirely new lines. I do not think that it will be a waste of time to analyse the article in which he has set it forth
The Battle-field of Old Pharsalus
Among the problems of ancient history of which no solution has yet been generally recognized as definitive is that of the battle-field where the struggle between Pompey and Caesar was decided. Colonel Leake's exposition was rejected by von Göler and Sir William Napier; and the paper in which he endeavoured to vindicate it produced little effect. Napier and von Göler constructed theories which were vitiated by the misleading maps on which they wor…
Caesar's Conquest of Gaul
The Birthday of Augustus and the Julian Calendar
Suetonius says that Augustus was born on the ninth day before the Kalends of October ( a. d . VIIII. Kal. Oct .), in the year when Cicero and Antonius were consuls (691 [63 B.C.]), a little before sunrise, 1 and also that he was born under Capricorn. 2 Mr. H. W. Garrod, in his recent edition of Manilius, 3 maintains that the date which Suetonius gives belonged to the pre- Julian calendar, and corresponded with December 20 of the Julian. Remarking…
Three Catilinarian Dates
I. The date of the consular election in 63 B.C. —Cicero in his speech Pro Murena , which was delivered in November, 63 B.C, after Catiline quitted Rome, said that before the consular election of that year Catiline used to appear in public surrounded by troops from Faesulae and Arretium, and that in a private gathering ( contione domestica ) he had declared that the only true champion of the wretched was one who shared their wretchedness, that the…
Hirschfeld and Judeich on the Lex Pompeia Licinia
Before the year 1857, when Mommsen published his celebrated treatise Die Rechtsfrage zwischen Caesar und dem Senat , most scholars believed that Caesar's provincial command legally expired at the end of 49 B.C.; but Mommsen demonstrated the falsity of this opinion, and for nearly half a century it was an article of faith that the date fixed was the 1st of March. I may remark parenthetically that, although this date is usually quoted, it would be …
Could Ancient Ships Work to Windward
When Caesar sailed to Britain in 55 b.c. he was obliged to leave behind eighteen transports which had his cavalry on board and had been prevented by adverse winds from joining the rest of the fleet. These vessels, like those which carried the infantry, were of native Gallic build, and were doubtless sailed by Gallic seamen, who were familiar with the conditions of navigation in the Channel. On the fourth day after Caesar landed in Britain they se…
Caesar's Conquest of Gaul
The Battle-field of Old Pharsalus
Among the problems of ancient history of which no solution has yet been generally recognized as definitive is that of the battle-field where the struggle between Pompey and Caesar was decided. Colonel Leake's exposition was rejected by von Göler and Sir William Napier; and the paper in which he endeavoured to vindicate it produced little effect. Napier and von Göler constructed theories which were vitiated by the misleading maps on which they wor…
Could Ancient Ships Work to Windward
When Caesar sailed to Britain in 55 b.c. he was obliged to leave behind eighteen transports which had his cavalry on board and had been prevented by adverse winds from joining the rest of the fleet. These vessels, like those which carried the infantry, were of native Gallic build, and were doubtless sailed by Gallic seamen, who were familiar with the conditions of navigation in the Channel. On the fourth day after Caesar landed in Britain they se…
Signor Ferrero's Reconstruction of Caesar's First Commentary
The credibility of Caesar's account of his campaigns against the Helvetii and Ariovistus has recently been attacked anew by Signor Ferrero, whose fame, rapidly acquired, is not only European but Transatlantic, and who has conducted his case with more ability than his predecessors and on entirely new lines. I do not think that it will be a waste of time to analyse the article in which he has set it forth
Signor Ferrero or Caesar
Signor Ferrero has courteously replied to the article in the Classical Quarterly of July, 1909, in which I gave reasons for preferring Caesar's First Commentary to his reconstruction. He thinks that I failed to seize his main point, which, he says, is represented by this question: Why did Caesar conclude an alliance with Ariovistus in 59 b.c. and break it in the following year? Any one who may have read my article with care will have seen that I …
Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar
A Collation of Codex Lovaniensis
Codex Louaniensis , or L , the best MS. of Caesar in the British Museum (Add. MSS. 10,084), which is assigned to the eleventh century, has been collated by Alfred Holder for his edition of the Bellum ciuile and by Mr. R. L. A. Du Pontet for his edition of the Bellum Alexandrinum and the Bellum Africanum ; but for the Bellum Gallicum no collation has hitherto been available. Last year I made one, which I sent to Dr. Meusel. He urged me to publish …
The Birthday of Augustus and the Julian Calendar
Suetonius says that Augustus was born on the ninth day before the Kalends of October ( a. d . VIIII. Kal. Oct .), in the year when Cicero and Antonius were consuls (691 [63 B.C.]), a little before sunrise, 1 and also that he was born under Capricorn. 2 Mr. H. W. Garrod, in his recent edition of Manilius, 3 maintains that the date which Suetonius gives belonged to the pre- Julian calendar, and corresponded with December 20 of the Julian. Remarking…
The Text of the Bellvm Gallicvm and the Work of H. Meusel
Every one who has used Dr. Meusel's excellent edition of Caesar's Bellum Ciuile will welcome the first volume, comprising Commentaries I.–IV., of his final edition of the Bellum Gallicum . Nominally, each of the two books is a revision of the work of other men,–in the former case of Kraner and Hofmann, in the latter of Kraner and Dittenberger; really each, especially the latter, contains the fruit of so much independent research that the personal…
Octogesa
Octogesa.—Those who have read the First Commentary of Caesar's Civil War will remember that the theatre of the campaign which he conducted against Afranius and Petreius extended from a point on the Segre twenty-two Roman miles above Ilerda (Lerida) to the mountains which close on the north the valley of the Ebro. The earlier operations took place in the neighbourhood of Ilerda and on either side of the upper reaches of the Segre; the later in the…
Hirschfeld and Judeich on the Lex Pompeia Licinia
Before the year 1857, when Mommsen published his celebrated treatise Die Rechtsfrage zwischen Caesar und dem Senat , most scholars believed that Caesar's provincial command legally expired at the end of 49 B.C.; but Mommsen demonstrated the falsity of this opinion, and for nearly half a century it was an article of faith that the date fixed was the 1st of March. I may remark parenthetically that, although this date is usually quoted, it would be …
Was Caesar born in 100 or in 102 B.C
The view, originally advocated by Mommsen, and supported by the Comte de Salis, that Caesar was born in 102 B.C., was controverted by A. W. Zumpt and C. Nipperdey, and has recently been examined by Professor Monroe E. Deutsch, who comes to the following conclusion: ‘that Caesar secured a dispensation during 67 B.C. or early in 66 B.C., allowing him to hold the various offices two years before the legal age, seems the simplest solution of the prob…
Tigranocerta
That the problem which we have to attack is difficult may be inferred from the controversies which it has provoked. The geographer Kiepert successively identified Tigranocerta with four sites—two on the left, two on the right bank of the Tigris. The son who continued his last work adopted the original choice which his father had discarded half a century before
Three Catilinarian Dates
I. The date of the consular election in 63 B.C. —Cicero in his speech Pro Murena , which was delivered in November, 63 B.C, after Catiline quitted Rome, said that before the consular election of that year Catiline used to appear in public surrounded by troops from Faesulae and Arretium, and that in a private gathering ( contione domestica ) he had declared that the only true champion of the wretched was one who shared their wretchedness, that the…
A Supplementary Note on the Julian Calendar
As students of Roman chronology are aware, all dates between February 24, 700 (54 B.C.)—if not also between 691 (63 B.C.), the year of Cicero's consulship—and the last day of 708 (46 B.C.) can be referred with absolute certainty to the corresponding days of the Julian calendar, with a possible error of one day. The possibility of this minute error lies in the fact that it is not quite certain whether the Kalends of January, 709—the first year of …
The Earliest Visible Phase of the Moon
I AM glad that Dr. Fotheringham in the interesting paper which appeared in the Classical Quarterly (April, 1920, pp. 97–8) adhered to the view that ‘Caesar calculated the new moon for January 1 [45 B.C]...and that this calculation determined the inaugural day of the Julian calendar.’ As the object of my brief note, on which he commented, was merely to show that Groebe had failed to prove that the day in question was January 2, I have only a few q…
Cicero's παλiνῳδία and Questions therewith connected
The object of this article is to ascertain as nearly as possible the dates of the conference at Luca and of Cicero's speech on the consular provinces; to identify the composition which he called his ‘palinode’; and to fix the chronological order of certain letters which relate to these points. Writing on April 8, 698 (56 B.C.), Cicero tells his brother that on the 5th there was a debate in the Senate on the Campanian land; that on the 7th he visi…
The Age of Stonehenge
The article on Stonehenge that appeared in the January number of the Nineteenth Century demands consideration. The writer, Mr. E. Herbert Stone, after re-stating and defending Sir Norman Lockyer's views, which I shall presently explain, notices ‘some criticisms’, including those of Mr. Arthur Hinks and my own. ‘Rice Holmes’, he says, ‘sets forth the old arguments in favour of the Bronze Age theory, many of which are fallacious ... the deservedly …
The Topography of Caesar's Campaign against the Bellovaci (51 B. C)
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