By David F. Epstein
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66 Wh at exactly might a Roman expect once he knew he hael acquired an inimieus? Cicero used inimieiliae as a synonym for every form of savagery, a model by which violence can be measureel. Pleminius retaliated by torturing the two tribunes to death and forbidding their burial. 67 The first symptom of inimieiliae, once the infection had taken hold, was usually the camplete suspension of all soeial contact. The Romans, unaffected by our J udeo-Christian ethic, made no attcmpt to conceal or control their hostile feelings.
L'vlemmius workeel vigorously if unsuccessfully to prevent L. Licinius Lucullus, just returneel from the east in 66, from triumphing. ear that therc was enmity between the two. In 60 Lucullus' brother Marcus divorceel his wife because 01' her adultery with Memmius. At the samt' time Memmius hael enough conletllpt for Lucius, as Cicero put it, to seeluce his wife as wel1. 209 The censors, with their enorl1lous power to elestroy political careers by eletlloting senators or clepriving them 01' their slate horses, easily attractcd inimiei/ial'.
Hence M. Aemilius Lepidus implied that any objec tions the Senate rnight have about his alliance with Antony in 43 could only spring from inirnieiliae. 28 In another example, the con spirators of 44 tried to enhance their own respectability and obfuscate the real issues when they claimed that the opposition to the murder 01' Caesar was only a cloak for inirnieitiae against them. 29 The speech 01' C. Licinius Macer, preserved by Sallust, suggests another way in which inirnieitiae were invoked for self-serving, propagandistic purposes.