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1 I, 1 | ways; at first, through men's ignorance of public affairs,
2 I, 3 | there were illustrious men driven to the last necessity,
3 I, 4 | the capital. The leading men of the Equestrian order
4 I, 5 | of guilt. There were even men who talked in angry terms
5 I, 6 | or defence, like innocent men. His entry into the capital,
6 I, 12 | months, at first because men had liberty and inclination
7 I, 13 | name of Martianus. These men, being at variance, and
8 I, 15 | unanimous consent of gods and men, am moved by your splendid
9 I, 15 | address us as emperors than as men. For to urge his duty upon
10 I, 16 | without anxiety; and when men shall hear of your adoption
11 I, 16 | You have to reign over men who cannot bear either absolute
12 I, 20 | the joy to think that the men whom Nero had enriched would
13 I, 22 | Otho. This is a class of men, whom the powerful cannot
14 I, 22 | retained. Many of these men were attached to the secret
15 I, 23 | especially distasteful, when men, accustomed to sail to the
16 I, 25 | conversations with these men that they were cunning and
17 I, 26 | originate, obstinately thwarted men wiser than himself. ~ ~
18 I, 28 | Such was the temper of men's minds, that, while there
19 I, 29 | that the most worthless of men should not create an Emperor.
20 I, 32 | treason of this handful of men can gather strength. Otho
21 I, 33 | with these great fictions, men asserted that they had been
22 I, 35 | strength, and thinking that the men, on whose individual feeling
23 I, 39 | the mob. He ordered his men to hurry on at full speed,
24 I, 39 | soldiers rush forward like men who had to drive a Vologeses
25 I, 40 | variously reported according as men hated or admired him. Some
26 I, 42 | hand, to meet the armed men, and upbraiding them with
27 I, 42 | was dragged out by these men and slaughtered in the entrance
28 I, 48 | vainly fond of it. Other men's money he did not covet,
29 I, 49 | Germany had revolted. That two men, who for shamelessness,
30 I, 49 | of the civil wars, that men recurred, speaking of how
31 I, 50 | of plunder and glory, as men might well be who had been
32 I, 50 | goes unpunished. They had men, arms and horses, more than
33 I, 51 | belong to him. Besides this, men themselves eager for power
34 I, 51 | Alienus Caecina. One of these men, Valens, had taken offence
35 I, 53 | the headquarters and the men's tents, and complaining,
36 I, 54 | that innate tendency of men, which makes them quick
37 I, 56 | done only by the leading men in the colonies or the camps,
38 I, 60 | the number of 40,000 armed men; Caecina commanded 30,000
39 I, 67 | Alpinus, one of the principal men, was executed by Caecina,
40 I, 70 | suit the dignity of empire. Men dreaded all the more virtues
41 I, 70 | Celsus gratified the leading men in the State, was generally
42 I, 75 | any loyalty or affection; men changed from one side to
43 I, 78 | Men's minds were so intent on
44 I, 80 | to the most distinguished men and women of Rome. In their
45 I, 80 | friends and domestics; aged men and women wandered in the
46 I, 84 | moment reduced to order men who could not be coerced.
47 I, 84 | intelligence that rumour brought, men changed their looks and
48 I, 85 | various sources increased men's terror. It was said that
49 I, 85 | returned to its channel. When men's minds were no longer occupied
50 I, 86 | to watch the fidelity of men more honourable than himself.
51 I, 87 | large proportion of the men of consular rank Otho ordered
52 I, 87 | apprehension or peril. The leading men of the Senate either suffered
53 I, 88 | Under Tiberius and Caius men dreaded for the Commonwealth
54 II, 1 | death of Galba, and found men who spoke confidently of
55 II, 1 | direction of the state, men who had to think of war
56 II, 7 | insolent in prosperity; these men are quarrelsome, indolent,
57 II, 10 | ability, made him rank among men of distinction, rather than
58 II, 10 | distinction, rather than among men of worth, demanded that
59 II, 10 | character had deserved. Men remembered that Crispus
60 II, 11 | accompanied by some picked men of the body-guard, with
61 II, 12 | is no lack of able-bodied men, he resolved to drive back
62 II, 12 | as might be expected of men who had been hastily collected,
63 II, 16 | He collected the chief men of the island, and explained
64 II, 17 | of the Padus excited the men from Batavia and the Transrhenane
65 II, 18 | approaching, he ought to keep his men within their fortifications,
66 II, 20 | human nature, which prompt men to scrutinize with keen
67 II, 22 | glittered with masses of armed men. The close array of the
68 II, 23 | to believe the meanest of men and suspicious of the good,
69 II, 25 | the stratagem, kept his men back. The Vitellianists
70 II, 27 | that they had mastered the men of the 14th, that they had
71 II, 28 | the help of our bravest men. Those veteran troops victorious
72 II, 29 | of Gaul, the gold of the men of Vienna, the hire of their
73 II, 31 | before the death of these two men (and it was by his death
74 II, 33 | of peril, and these same men who suggested the baser
75 II, 33 | remained was broken, for the men suspected their generals,
76 II, 35 | direct their blows like men who had a sure footing on
77 II, 35 | footing on land. As the men in their alarm made confused
78 II, 37 | was the senior among the men of consular rank, that he
79 II, 37 | blameless Emperor in the room of men utterly worthless and wicked,
80 II, 37 | the common herd, as that men, who in their passion for
81 II, 38 | had been destroyed, and men had leisure to covet wealth
82 II, 38 | no way better. Henceforth men's sole object was supreme
83 II, 38 | the same madness among men, the same incentives to
84 II, 39 | perplexed to see that better men were despised, and that
85 II, 41 | force of Othonianists. These men, at the sword's point, compelled
86 II, 41 | the confused shouting of men who were joining the ranks,
87 II, 43 | gain its first triumph. The men of the 1st, overthrowing
88 II, 47 | To accuse either gods or men is only for him who wishes
89 II, 53 | The moderation of wiser men put an end to the dispute.
90 II, 53 | At Bononia they posted men on the different roads to
91 II, 57 | added to his own army 8000 men of the British conscription.
92 II, 61 | adventures of these illustrious men, one is ashamed to relate
93 II, 61 | he had now collected 8000 men, and was taking possession
94 II, 62 | with traffic; the leading men of the various states were
95 II, 69 | respective states, a vast body of men, which in the very earliest
96 II, 70 | the putrefying forms of men and horses; the soil was
97 II, 74 | upon him, and the two young men, his sons, to the perils
98 II, 74 | In private enterprises men may advance or recede, and
99 II, 75 | cavalry, should one or two men seek the prize with which
100 II, 76 | which you excel all other men. ~ ~
101 II, 78 | territory, a multitude of men." These obscure intimations
102 II, 78 | to the aspirant himself men have more to say. ~ ~
103 II, 82 | senatorial rank; all these were men of eminence who soon reached
104 II, 84 | abounded, and all the richest men were fastened on for plunder.
105 II, 86 | bringing odium upon other men, powerful amidst civil strife
106 II, 88 | had fallen. Nor were the men themselves a less frightful
107 II, 88 | formidable bodies of armed men.~ ~
108 II, 91 | of the most influential men of the time, but Thrasea,
109 II, 92 | always at variance, these two men left no authority to Vitellius.
110 II, 92 | which gratified the leading men of the State, while it approved
111 II, 93 | to consist of a thousand men. In this levy Valens ventured
112 II, 94 | destroyed by these 20,000 men indiscriminately taken rather
113 II, 94 | haranguing the troops, the men called out for the execution
114 II, 95 | Marcellus, and different men rather than a different
115 II, 100| often the case with bad men, that they are like each
116 II, 101| as the motives of these men a regard for peace and a
117 III, 2 | sickness. Yet even to these men, if you give them time,
118 III, 10 | provoked afresh these furious men, for fear so excessive seemed
119 III, 10 | the close of the day the men dispersed to their tents.
120 III, 11 | the departure of the two men of consular rank, all power
121 III, 12 | suspicions of the common men, but from the treachery
122 III, 13 | many thousands of armed men, like a herd of slaves for
123 III, 17 | conspicuous object to his own men. At last he was carried
124 III, 18 | Vanquished by accident, these men had never in their success
125 III, 22 | the 16th, and the 22nd. Men of the legions Rapax and
126 III, 23 | lengthened shadow fell from men and horses, and the enemy'
127 III, 24 | Antonius could recognize his men and be recognized by them,
128 III, 25 | exchanged salutations. The men then charged as confidently
129 III, 27 | brave, and to stimulate his men by an honourable rivalry.
130 III, 28 | bloodshed no longer kept the men back from undermining the
131 III, 31 | misery, that many valiant men should invoke the aid of
132 III, 31 | dismal array of unarmed men. The conquerors had gathered
133 III, 31 | submitted, as vanquished men, to every indignity, it
134 III, 33 | Forty thousand armed men burst into Cremona, and
135 III, 33 | slaughter and violation. Aged men and women past their prime,
136 III, 33 | provoked into mutual slaughter. Men, as they carried off for
137 III, 39 | Caecina and the leading men, who were beginning to despise
138 III, 41 | no lasting restraint with men who loved danger and were
139 III, 49 | vote the most turbulent men were elected. The soldiers
140 III, 50 | and even many effective men, were left at Verona. The
141 III, 52 | instructions. All these men sent replies reflecting
142 III, 55 | troops, comprising the picked men and horses of the army,
143 III, 57 | head the revolt. By these men the colonies and municipal
144 III, 58 | and even extravagant, as men in their alarm naturally
145 III, 59 | anticipated by Campania, and, as men who serve a new master,
146 III, 61 | advantage to himself. From these men it was ascertained that
147 III, 62 | theatricals performed by young men during the reign of Nero,
148 III, 64 | The leading men in the State had secret
149 III, 68 | to abdicate his throne. Men had never before seen or
150 III, 69 | of Vespasian, the leading men of the Senate, many of the
151 III, 70 | number of distinguished men. If not, why, when leaving
152 III, 70 | thence issued a band of armed men. One of the most frequented
153 III, 73 | would not be guided by other men's counsels, and could not
154 III, 73 | sword. A few of the military men, among whom the most conspicuous
155 III, 75 | rivalry between these two men, one of whom felt himself
156 III, 76 | Apollinaris of the seamen, two men whose profligacy and indolence
157 III, 80 | of the envoy and praetor, men considered the private worth
158 III, 83 | close by prostitutes and men of character as infamous;
159 III, 83 | unnatural recklessness, and men's pleasures were not interrupted
160 III, 86 | his place among the first men of the State, he owed, not
161 III, 86 | throne was offered him by men who did not know him. Seldom
162 IV, 1 | temples reeked with blood, for men were massacred everywhere
163 IV, 1 | tumult and strife the worst men can do the most, but peace
164 IV, 2 | closely guarded by armed men, passed through the capital.
165 IV, 6 | speeches delivered by both men. But afterwards, as the
166 IV, 6 | varying with the tempers of men, some praising his moderation,
167 IV, 7 | ballot do not discriminate men's characters; the voting
168 IV, 7 | and the accusers of these men, though it may not be expedient
169 IV, 10 | brother informers, that men were thinking, now that
170 IV, 11 | surrounding himself with armed men, and bargaining for palaces
171 IV, 12 | of disasters in Germany. Men began to speak of slaughtered
172 IV, 13 | to the Empire nothing but men and arms. They had had a
173 IV, 13 | ancient custom, by the noblest men in the nation. They had
174 IV, 14 | many thousands of armed men to burst upon Italy. ~ ~
175 IV, 15 | to plunder and a few old men. Only dare to look up, and
176 IV, 18 | giving permission to their men to go or stay as they preferred.
177 IV, 19 | before the eyes of his own men, and to terrify the enemy
178 IV, 19 | and children of all his men, to stand in the rear, where
179 IV, 19 | defeat. The war-song of the men, and the shrill cries of
180 IV, 19 | immediately turned against our men. Still the legionaries,
181 IV, 20 | and finding that the very men who had advised it now disapproved
182 IV, 25 | swords of thousands of brave men are directed by one old
183 IV, 26 | execution. All the best men acquiesced in the order,
184 IV, 28 | inflicting great loss on our men, carried off the vessel.
185 IV, 28 | all the most distinguished men were in favour of Vespasian.
186 IV, 28 | impossible to restrain the men whom it was yet possible
187 IV, 30 | inconsiderate fury; our men, more alive to the danger,
188 IV, 31 | was most level. But our men, pushing forward strong
189 IV, 35 | ditch and rampart, where his men might deposit their knapsacks,
190 IV, 36 | force a thousand picked men from the fifth and fifteenth
191 IV, 37 | number by the arrival of the men from the fifth and fifteenth,
192 IV, 37 | the mutinous spirit. The men, abandoning themselves to
193 IV, 38 | These men, headstrong, cowardly, and
194 IV, 38 | himself had fallen. Then the men of the 1st, the 4th, and
195 IV, 41 | duty of an accuser, but men spoke very differently of
196 IV, 42 | especial severity on three men, Sariolenus Vocula, Nonnius
197 IV, 43 | the defence put forward by men who thought it better to
198 IV, 43 | ruin innocent boys, old men of illustrious name, and
199 IV, 43 | teacher, and that our young men may imitate Regulus, just
200 IV, 43 | Regulus, just as our old men imitate Marcellus and Crispus.
201 IV, 45 | back to their islands two men of Senatorial rank, Octavius
202 IV, 45 | if they did return; but men dreaded the abilities of
203 IV, 47 | service so vast a body of men was immensely large. Mucianus
204 IV, 47 | Mucianus ordered these men to be drawn up apart, making
205 IV, 51 | deservedly, but he wished men to believe that he had extinguished
206 IV, 54 | abodes which the piety of men had founded for them. He
207 IV, 56 | campaigning in Gaul. These two men held secret conferences
208 IV, 57 | voted for putting to death men so turbulent and faithless,
209 IV, 62 | all the most unprincipled men from the troops who had
210 IV, 65 | the Old Camp; the better men blushed with shame at the
211 IV, 66 | character for clemency to men founding a new empire, forbade
212 IV, 67 | length you will live as free men among the free. Up to this
213 IV, 67 | a still worse insult to men born to arms, may force
214 IV, 67 | given light and air to all men, so has she thrown open
215 IV, 71 | generals, though distinguished men (for he had already appointed
216 IV, 71 | left without a ruler, and men feared the ungoverned passions
217 IV, 71 | selected the most eminent men in the State to accompany
218 IV, 73 | veteran infantry and cavalry, men from the legions whom he
219 IV, 74 | by the courage of his own men. There was some little delay
220 IV, 75 | by the treason of these men that our legions were besieged
221 IV, 76 | representations of seditious men, I have resolved to say
222 IV, 77 | vices as long as there are men. But they are not perpetual,
223 IV, 80 | had begun, and that his men were being worsted. He rebuked
224 IV, 81 | prefects heaped on their men the same reproaches. The
225 IV, 83 | services. He reproached other men with being cowards; Caecina
226 IV, 84 | by the entreaties of the men and by the language of his
227 IV, 85 | behind him one of the chief men of Egypt, named Basilides,
228 IV, 89 | of collecting money, and men to be used against his brother,
229 V, 1 | 12th from Syria, and some men belonging to the 18th and
230 V, 5 | that is practised by other men. Things sacred with us,
231 V, 5 | which rule the destinies of men Saturn moves in the highest
232 V, 6 | of difference from other men. Those who come over to
233 V, 15 | had the courage to do so. Men and women showed equal resolution,
234 V, 17 | singing and shouting; our men in rage and threats of vengeance.~ ~
235 V, 18 | made Galba Emperor; the men of the 2nd were in that
236 V, 20 | without closing, to wound our men, who were wavering and unsteady.
237 V, 23 | checked, for our bravest men had fallen, among them Briganticus,
238 V, 25 | each three or four hundred men, the usual complement of
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