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1 I, 51 | Just before December 1 in the preceding year, Aulus
2 I, 43 | afterwards found more than 120 memorials from persons who
3 V, 1 | s. To these he added the 12th from Syria, and some men
4 II, 83 | body the 6th legion and 13,000 veterans. He had given
5 II, 58 | contemptible force. He had with him 19 cohorts of infantry, 5 squadrons
6 II, 94 | camp was destroyed by these 20,000 men indiscriminately
7 II, 11 | and together with these, 2000 gladiators, a disreputable
8 III, 28 | 28. Some hesitation had shewn
9 III, 34 | was the end of Cremona, 286 years after its foundation.
10 I, 60 | armed men; Caecina commanded 30,000 from Upper Germany,
11 I, 65 | each soldier a present of 300 sesterces. After that the
12 II, 50 | Otho ended his life in the 37th year of his age. He came
13 III, 61 | occupied by a garrison of 400 cavalry. Varus was at once
14 III, 15 | He himself advanced with 4000 cavalry as far as the 8th
15 III, 72 | when, after an interval of 415 years, it was burnt to the
16 II, 58 | 19 cohorts of infantry, 5 squadrons of cavalry, and
17 I, 81 | these harangues was that 5000 sesterces were paid to each
18 III, 86 | had nearly completed his 57th year. His consulate, his
19 II, 87 | capital. He was followed by 60,000 armed soldiers demoralized
20 III, 50 | aloof. A recent levy of 6000 Dalmatians was attached
21 I, 1 | Of the former period, the 820 years dating from the founding
22 I, 78 | hopes of success. They had 9000 cavalry, flushed with victory
23 III, 22 | three British legions (the 9th, 2nd, and 20th), formed
24 III, 55 | capital. Vitellius, while he abated nothing of his habitual
25 III, 70 | mere show and pretence of abdicating the Empire, with the view
26 I, 64 | besieged their colony, had abetted the attempts of Vindex,
27 III, 70 | as the negotiator of this abhorred convention. Vitellius had
28 I, 29 | or to do what is equally abhorrent to the good, to put others
29 III, 24 | threatening words, if you cannot abide their attack or even their
30 III, 65 | expression of Vitellius was abject and mean, that of Sabinus
31 II, 12 | in which is no lack of able-bodied men, he resolved to drive
32 IV, 54 | divine help to raise the abodes which the piety of men had
33 I, 45 | the centurions should be abolished. These the common soldiers
34 II, 84 | s fortune. Informations abounded, and all the richest men
35 II, 71 | consulates of others were abridged, that of Martius Macer was
36 II, 41 | of the tribunes was thus abruptly terminated. Thus it remained
37 I, 78 | hides, and though they are absolutely impenetrable to blows, yet
38 III, 11 | Pannonia, as if they were absolved by the mutiny of others,
39 IV, 85 | He had entered, and was absorbed in worship, when he saw
40 III, 25 | in his arms, in piteous accents he implored the spirit of
41 II, 65 | Vettius Bolanus, who was then accompanying the Emperor, was sent to
42 II, 101| of Vitellius, made them accomplish his ruin. Caecina, having
43 II, 76 | their own credit, easy of accomplishment, or at any rate free from
44 II, 38 | Vitellius likely of their own accord to abandon their strife.
45 IV, 8 | elect has made a motion in accordance with old precedents, which
46 V, 24 | some few with their proper accoutrements, but most with their garments
47 III, 60 | Cremona sufficient glory has accrued to us, and from the destruction
48 IV, 47 | the camp to examine more accurately the individual claims. The
49 II, 47 | I complain of no one. To accuse either gods or men is only
50 IV, 32 | army, was on the spot, and acknowledged the fate of his party. Various
51 II, 55 | forthwith decreed. Public acknowledgments and thanks were also given
52 III, 74 | unnoticed among a crowd of acolytes, found a refuge with Cornelius
53 II, 24 | skirmishers had met in a series of actions, frequent indeed, but not
54 I, 1 | freedom. After the conflict at Actium, and when it became essential
55 II, 62 | degenerated from their old activity and valour, through habitual
56 II, 100| like each other) both were actuated by the same evil motives.~ ~
57 III, 76 | contributions from the towns, adding to the unpopularity rather
58 III, 1 | the East. Vespasian has in addition the command of the sea,
59 II, 40 | confluence of the Padus and Addua, a distance of sixteen miles
60 V, 16 | obstacle, might overflow the adjacent country. Such was the character
61 IV, 71 | the reign of Caligula, had admirably discharged the duties of
62 II, 100| squadron of cavalry to be admiral of the fleets at Ravenna
63 I, 70 | soldiers, who could not but admire the virtue which provoked
64 I, 21 | ordains for all alike, yet admits of the distinction of being
65 III, 20 | to be stormed. On their admitting that they had not done so, "
66 III, 81 | perils of war, began to admonish the armed crowd. Many thought
67 IV, 45 | informers. At the same time he admonished in gentle terms and in a
68 II, 2 | under which the goddess is adored, a form found in no other
69 I, 56 | richly decorated with silver, adorned their arms; so strong were
70 I, 29 | gait, or by those womanish adornments? They are deceived, on whom
71 III, 12 | and conveyed as far as Adria by the Liburnian ships;
72 III, 42 | territory that is washed by the Adriatic, and now the whole of Italy
73 IV, 51 | ere long to endure. From Adrumetum, where he had stayed to
74 IV, 41 | additions with which the adulatory spirit of the time had disfigured
75 III, 45 | the people, on that of the adulterer, the lust and savage temper
76 I, 47 | dared to commit the act of adultery in the head-quarters. Vinius
77 I, 12 | greedy cupidity which great advancement had excited in his friends,
78 IV, 72 | the power of Rome and the advantages of peace. Pointing out that
79 III, 59 | health, unsuited to toil and adventure. Domitian did not want the
80 II, 9 | given him to pursue the adventurer: with these he reached the
81 III, 47 | bribed a number of very needy adventurers by the hope of plunder,
82 II, 76 | the circumstances of their adviser, must see whether he will
83 IV, 22 | retreated into the Old Camp, advising them to accept the same
84 III, 35 | Germany; as the one was an Aeduan, the other a Trever, and
85 IV, 54 | terms dictated by Publius Aelianus, the high-priest, besought
86 III, 5 | occupy the bank of the river Aenus, which flows between Rhaetia
87 II, 3 | old tradition, was king Aerias, though some represent this
88 IV, 87 | sick, many identified with Aesculapius; others with Osiris, the
89 V, 1 | war. By his courtesy and affability he called forth a willing
90 IV, 22 | let not a Batavian refugee affect to decide the destinies
91 IV, 19 | Flaccus had encouraged by affecting ignorance. But when messengers
92 I, 29 | camp; before long it was affirmed that this senator was Otho.
93 II, 95 | miserable as she was great, afflicted in one year by an Otho and
94 III, 34 | settlers, the conveniences afforded by the rivers, the fertility
95 V, 7 | moved by the wind, and it affords no home either to fish or
96 II, 71 | could submit tamely to an affront. Pedanius Costa was passed
97 I, 36 | while the cruelties and affronts inflicted upon you he calls
98 IV, 53 | son be of good cheer, and aggrandise the State by war and deeds
99 I, 78 | success in war, and that had aggrandised the State by his generals
100 II, 44 | personal influence, not to aggravate the disaster of their defeat
101 III, 31 | and it was indeed the last aggravation of misery, that many valiant
102 III, 55 | been quite equal even to aggressive operations. The rest of
103 II, 86 | he and Antonius strove to agitate and disturb wherever there
104 II, 96 | Vespasian. Aponius, however, agitated by the unexpected occurrence,
105 III, 54 | displayed by a centurion, Julius Agrestis, who, after several interviews,
106 IV, 28 | with corn, which had run aground in the shallows. Gallus
107 III, 65 | not triumphant, but rather akin to pity. ~ ~
108 I, 6 | was preparing against the Albani, but afterwards recalled
109 II, 15 | Narbonensis, the Othonianists to Albigaunum, in Upper Liguria. ~ ~
110 II, 13 | their rage on the town of Albintemilium. In the field indeed they
111 III, 78 | Capitol put all alike on the alert. ~ ~
112 I, 45 | war. Otho, however, not to alienate the affections of the centurions
113 III, 6 | a position at the Forum Alieni, where they had thrown a
114 I, 51 | legions, Fabius Valens and Alienus Caecina. One of these men,
115 I, 80 | the Praetorian Guard to allay the fury of the soldiery,
116 III, 60 | language their impatience was allayed. ~ ~
117 II, 91 | disasters of Cremera and Allia had marked as unlucky. Thus
118 IV, 72 | State angrily boasted of its alliances, another of its wealth and
119 I, 65 | through the territory of the Allobroges and Vocontii, the very length
120 IV, 78 | was generally censured for allowing them to unite, when he might
121 I, 23 | soldiers by name, and in allusion to the progresses of Nero
122 IV, 16 | made him popular. Raised aloft on a shield after the national
123 I, 67 | surrender was accepted. Julius Alpinus, one of the principal men,
124 IV, 42 | various the devices for altering the words of the oath, among
125 IV, 28 | Vespasian. The result was an alternation of outbreaks and executions,
126 IV, 63 | besieged wavering between the alternatives of glory and infamy. While
127 | although
128 I, 36 | the Vatinii, and the Elii amassed. Vinius would not have gone
129 II, 29 | and gazed at each other in amazement, panic-stricken by the very
130 III, 62 | them to despair, and it was amazing how the army of Vespasian
131 III, 80 | general, the dignity of the ambassador, respected even by foreign
132 III, 78 | delay the conquerors by ambiguously-worded dispatches; Antonius, by
133 IV, 76 | the rest of Gaul, with no ambitious purposes, but at the solicitation
134 III, 20 | possible facilities for ambuscades. Even if the gates were
135 II, 19 | turbulent temper and more amenable to command. The walls were
136 I, 20 | Julius Fronto. This led to no amendment with the rest, but only
137 II, 51 | quartered at Brixellum. An amnesty was immediately granted
138 V, 15 | every age and both sexes, amounted to six hundred thousand.
139 II, 67 | 13th were ordered to erect amphitheatres, for both Caecina at Cremona,
140 I, 30 | Instructions were also given to Amulius Serenus and Quintius Sabinus,
141 II, 50 | fabulous marvels, and to amuse with fiction the tastes
142 IV, 8 | The savage temper of Nero amused itself under these forms,
143 III, 62 | Valens was a native of Anagnia, and belonged to an Equestrian
144 II, 34 | against the current, while anchors were thrown out above to
145 IV, 81 | Civilis, each at his post, animated the combatants; the Gauls
146 III, 45 | was fired by his private animosity against Queen Cartismandua.
147 IV, 70 | foremost in this movement, announcing throughout Gaul that deputies
148 IV, 24 | the valour of each; first annoying us by a distant volley;
149 I, 54 | took the oath of fidelity annually administered on the first
150 III, 53 | Cremona the war must be answerable; the civil strifes of former
151 IV, 19 | from the whole line, and an answering but far less vigorous cheer,
152 IV, 68 | divinity, the questions and answers. ~ ~
153 IV, 65 | even more dismal than their anticipation. For in their intrenchments
154 V, 19 | clash of arms and with wild antics, and then the battle was
155 II, 15 | Vitellianists retreated to Antipolis, a town of Gallia Narbonensis,
156 II, 4 | other objects which the antiquarian tendencies of the Greek
157 IV, 45 | rank, Octavius Sagitta and Antistius Sosianus, who had quitted
158 V, 13 | conspicuous height, the tower Antonia, so called by Herod, in
159 III, 38 | who boasts of Junii and Antonii among his ancestors, who,
160 I, 76 | the 1st of July; Arrius Antoninus and Marius Celsus from that
161 III, 80 | Country. The envoys who met Antonious were more favourably received,
162 III, 79 | at Narnia, and who were anxiously watching the fortunes of
163 | anyone
164 II, 60 | brotherly affection and his apathetic character screened him from
165 II, 76 | revelry of taverns and in aping the debaucheries of their
166 V, 5 | Egyptians worship it as Apis. They abstain from swine'
167 III, 9 | Flavianist party, omitting all apology for their former fortune,
168 II, 9 | appearance of sorrow, and appealing to their fidelity as old
169 IV, 11 | milestone from Rome on the Appian Road, and there put him
170 II, 90 | lesson of habitual flattery, applauded him with shouts and acclamations,
171 I, 89 | and false. As if they were applauding a Dictator like Caesar,
172 III, 54 | his troubles, but only the application of the remedy. Had he avowed
173 I, 76 | not interfere with these appointments. On aged citizens, who had
174 IV, 42 | consciousness of guilt. The Senate appreciated the scruple, but denounced
175 II, 26 | toil and so long a march, apprehending that the Vitellianists might
176 IV, 40 | and was proportionately apprehensive of risk. Mucianus, seeing
177 V, 10 | without waiting for the approbation of the Emperor, usurped
178 V, 9 | national superstition by appropriating the dignity of the priesthood
179 IV, 47 | the vanquished with their approving shouts. This terminated
180 I, 75 | the proconsul, Vipstanus Apronianus, had given an entertainment
181 III, 50 | leader without vigour, and apt to waste in words the opportunities
182 I, 7 | by the hands of Cornelius Aquinus and Fabius Valens, legates
183 I, 75 | over to Vitellius. Even Aquitania, bound though it was by
184 V, 7 | the country is bounded by Arabia; to the south lies Egypt;
185 V, 1 | by a strong contingent of Arabs, who hated the Jews with
186 II, 59 | sailed himself down the river Arar. His progress had nothing
187 IV, 68 | the stability of time. As arbiters between us we will have
188 II, 4 | tendencies of the Greek arbitrarily connect with some uncertain
189 I, 27 | Onomastus informed him that the architect and the contractors were
190 III, 84 | The most arduous struggle was the storming
191 II, 4 | operation, the difficulty and arduousness of which was due, rather
192 V, 22 | assailing the tenth legion at Arenacum, the second at Batavodurum,
193 I, 48 | thousand indignities, till Argius his steward, who had been
194 III, 10 | fear so excessive seemed to argue a consciousness of guilt.
195 IV, 18 | will estimate the matter aright it is evident that Gaul
196 IV, 76 | to insure that no second Ariovistus should seize the empire
197 III, 71 | of the Capitol. A doubt arises at this point, whether it
198 III, 24 | Parthians, under Corbulo the Armenians, and had lately discomfited
199 II, 15 | And then, as if a sort of armistice had been concluded to provide
200 I, 78 | coats are worn as defensive armour by the princes and most
201 III, 45 | she made Vellocatus, his armour-bearer, the partner of her bed
202 IV, 25 | in arms against us, and arranges the order of his battle;
203 IV, 17 | ineffectual, he resorted to force, arranging in distinct columns the
204 I, 34 | snatched from them. The most arrant coward, the man, who, as
205 III, 12 | was put under honourable arrest, and conveyed as far as
206 IV, 71 | unfavourable to Varus, he appointed Arretinus Clemens, who was closely
207 II, 30 | the strength of the new arrivals, who might, they feared,
208 II, 32 | itself highly renowned, will arrive with the troops from Moesia.
209 I, 19 | the mutiny in Germany were arriving with daily increasing frequency,
210 II, 65 | though not resident, as L. Arruntius had done before him, whom
211 V, 9 | this time the revolt of Arsaces had taken place. The Macedonian
212 I, 39 | ancestral throne of the Arsacidae, not as though they were
213 IV, 33 | Civilis at first replied in artful language, but soon perceiving
214 II, 101| strove by every species of artifice to undermine the fidelity
215 II, 66 | soldier fiercely charged some artisan with having cheated him,
216 III, 80 | offers of peace. The praetor Arulenus Rusticus was wounded. This
217 IV, 18 | cavalry that the Aedui and the Arverni were trampled down, and
218 IV, 86 | moment he saw the youth ascend to heaven in a blaze of
219 II, 101| the period, who during the ascendancy of the Flavian family composed
220 II, 52 | of Vitellius was in the ascendant, feared that they might
221 IV, 26 | wonderful firmness Vocula ascended the tribunal, and ordered
222 II, 33 | those who had been sent to ascertain his opinion. Otho was inclined
223 IV, 34 | body of horse stationed at Ascibergium, and they fell on Vocula'
224 II, 95 | Fabii, the Iceli, and the Asiatici, passed through all vicissitudes
225 II, 59 | tide of feeling turned, and Asinius Pollio, one of the stanchest
226 II, 78 | discussed, because to the aspirant himself men have more to
227 I, 22 | trust, and who deceive the aspiring, a class which will always
228 V, 13 | manner that the flank of an assailant was exposed to missiles.
229 I, 45 | banished to an island, was assassinated by an enrolled pensioner,
230 II, 68 | with having designed the assassination of Vitellius. The soldiers
231 III, 46 | conduct of our legions; the assaults of enemies and the perfidy
232 II, 81 | army of Judaea. Such a vast assemblage of cavalry and infantry,
233 IV, 4 | Senators signified their assent by their looks, or by raising
234 IV, 56 | rivalled each other in vehement assertions that the Romans were in
235 V, 4 | plain, when a herd of wild asses was seen to retire from
236 IV, 72 | preparing for war as he was assiduous in haranguing. ~ ~
237 III, 72 | Servius Tullius, heartily assisted by the allies, and Tarquinius
238 II, 77 | not spurn Mucianus as an associate, because you do not find
239 II, 16 | bath, they slew him. His associates were slaughtered with him.
240 IV, 42 | the blame from himself by associating another with his guilt.~ ~
241 II, 78 | an altar and its sacred association. While Vespasian was there
242 II, 62 | the law was carried out. Assuredly, could Vitellius have bridled
243 V, 3 | Others describe them as an Assyrian horde who, not having sufficient
244 V, 9 | was under the sway of the Assyrians, the Medes, and the Persians,
245 IV, 50 | the bystanders, who were astonished by this sudden and strange
246 II, 80 | dispelled the mist with which so astonishing a vicissitude had clouded
247 II, 78 | retained one Seleucus, an astrologer, to direct his counsels,
248 III, 6 | their party Patavium and Ateste. There they learnt that
249 IV, 86 | enquired of Timotheus, an Athenian, one of the family of the
250 V, 9 | parents, and the other usual atrocities of despots, fostered the
251 II, 8 | to his pretensions. After attaching to himself some deserters,
252 II, 59 | furnished him with suitable attendance, and escorted him with a
253 III, 69 | danger, they were far from attentive to the laborious duties
254 IV, 84 | Persons actually present attest both facts, even now when
255 IV, 42 | Sariolenus Vocula, Nonnius Attianus, and Cestius Severus, all
256 II, 5 | nature and by education to attract even such a character as
257 II, 62 | vied with each other in attracting by large pay the most profligate
258 II, 7 | were wrought upon by the attractions of plunder; some by their
259 II, 30 | and a certain superficial attractiveness which he possessed. The
260 II, 60 | of having been traitors, attributing to their own dishonest counsels
261 I, 20 | Rome was in an uproar with auctions. Yet great was the joy to
262 II, 78 | enlarging your estate, or augmenting the number of your slaves,
263 I, 76 | dignity, pontificates and augurships, while he consoled the young
264 II | BOOK II~ ~March - August, A.D. 69~ ~
265 II, 95 | pile was kindled by the Augustales, an order of the priesthood
266 I, 78 | triumphal statue, while Fulvius Aurelius, Julianus Titius, and Numisius
267 III, 5 | Accordingly, Sextilius Felix with Aurius' Horse, eight cohorts, and
268 II, 54 | intelligence thus brought was authentic. Their alarm was heightened
269 I, 48 | with that of the State avaricious. To his freedmen and friends
270 IV, 59 | fortune of the Empire, and avenging Gods. Thus it was that Sacrovir
271 I, 67 | marching in regular order on Aventicum, the capital town, when
272 I, 48 | His character was of an average kind, rather free from vices,
273 II, 2 | nor was his young heart averse to her charms, but this
274 V, 27 | the whole world cannot be averted by a single nation. What
275 V, 27 | think of repenting, and avow our repentance by punishing
276 I, 76 | associated Pompeius Vopiscus, avowedly on the ground of their being
277 III, 12 | shame, or perhaps by fear, awaited the issue in his house.
278 I, 21 | posterity; and, if the same lot awaits the innocent and the guilty,
279 V, 24 | deafening shout. The Romans, awakened by sounds, looked for their
280 III, 77 | themselves, some were just awaking from sleep, amid the confusion
281 IV, 33 | perpetual tribute, the rod, the axe, and the passions of a ruling
282 V, 6 | their strength to their very badness. The most degraded out of
283 IV, 51 | one who recognized him, Baebius Massa, one of the procurators
284 I, 16 | stood and preserved its balance without a directing spirit,
285 IV, 16 | the national fashion, and balanced on the shoulders of the
286 V, 19 | discharge of stones, leaden balls, and other missiles, our
287 V, 7 | are tall and graceful. The balsam is a shrub; each branch,
288 V, 7 | They have, besides, the balsam-tree and the palm. The palm-groves
289 II, 20 | and concord had been thus bandied to and fro, Caecina turned
290 III, 38 | cherishing a rival, who from his banqueting table gazes at the sufferings
291 III, 76 | of war, except at their banquets. Apinius Tiro had quitted
292 I, 25 | brought over to his views Barbius Proculus, officer of the
293 II, 83 | in his rear, which, being bare of troops, would be left
294 I, 79 | soldiers seized their arms, bared their swords, and, mounted
295 IV, 11 | himself with armed men, and bargaining for palaces and gardens,
296 I, 65 | who concluded disgraceful bargains to the injury of the holders
297 V, 14 | walls. John, also called Bargioras, occupied the middle city.
298 III, 8 | of Germany that they had barred this route. All this was
299 III, 71 | generations, formed them into a barricade across the opening. They
300 I, 32 | Emperor with his brave friends barricades the doors of his palace.
301 V, 21 | and, by destroying this barrier, sent the river flowing
302 IV, 59 | army commit the unheard of baseness of swearing allegiance to
303 II, 33 | same men who suggested the baser policy prevailed on him
304 II, 19 | for the rallying point and basis of his operations a colony
305 II, 17 | Padus excited the men from Batavia and the Transrhenane provinces.
306 II, 42 | breastplates with swords and battle-axes. Recognising each other
307 III, 42 | having started from the bay of Pisa, was compelled,
308 III, 77 | were either seized upon the beach, or were swamped by the
309 III, 29 | 3rd legion, entered first. Beating down all who opposed him,
310 II, 21 | the amphitheatre, a most beautiful building, situated outside
311 II, 48 | courteously entreated all in terms befitting their age and rank to go
312 II, 62 | states themselves reduced to beggary; the soldiers fast degenerated
313 III, 58 | however vigorous in their beginnings, become feeble after a time,
314 I, 16 | worthiest successor. To be begotten and born of a princely race
315 V, 5 | while the charm of indolence beguilded them into giving up the
316 I, 62 | many as four thousand human beings were slaughtered. Such an
317 IV, 21 | line of our soldiers. The Belgians giving way, the legion was
318 IV, 74 | and captured the principal Belgic chiefs, and among them Valentinus,
319 IV, 32 | their looks and their temper belied, and while they adopted
320 V, 6 | scorning their national beliefs, brought to them their contributions
321 V, 8 | soil and climate. The river Belus also flows into the Jewish
322 III, 37 | honours so numerous his benefactor, and seemed to deplore the
323 II, 76 | dignity which will be as beneficial to the State, as it will
324 II, 31 | contended that impatience would benefit the enemy, while delay would
325 I, 1 | of Vitellius, either from benefits or from injuries. I would
326 II, 43 | slew the legate, Orfidius Benignus, but captured many colours
327 I, 83 | to the Emperors, we will bequeath to our descendants, as we
328 II, 45 | misfortune as to have no bereavement to lament. Search was made
329 II, 81 | it. A council was held at Berytus to deliberate on the general
330 IV, 82 | the city. Civilis too was beset by other fears. He was afraid
331 I, 10 | acknowledge his authority and bespeak his favour, as in its proper
332 III, 68 | Temple of Concord, and of betaking himself to his brother's
333 IV, 38 | hastily abandoning them, betook themselves to flight. Disaster
334 IV, 3 | I have mentioned as the betrayer of Tarracina, gibbeted in
335 I, 36 | Cornelius Marcellus in Spain, Betuus Chilo in Gaul, Fonteius
336 III, 38 | the foe of whom we must beware, a foe who boasts of Junii
337 III, 11 | soldiers being strongly biased in his favour. There were
338 I, 13 | favoured him, and the court was biassed in his favour, because he
339 V, 4 | oracle of Hammon, and was bidden to cleanse his realm, and
340 III, 47 | they roll about amid the billows, and, as they have a prow
341 II, 99 | desertion would be held binding by Vespasian. At the same
342 IV, 73 | retired with the Treveri to Bingium, trusting to the strength
343 II, 95 | and Valens celebrated the birthday of Vitellius by exhibiting
344 IV, 75 | This," they said, "is the birthplace of Classicus and Tutor;
345 I, 85 | in Etruria, that strange births of animals had taken place,
346 I, 50 | the same cause, and to the bitterest hostility in inflaming the
347 II, 45 | The army of Vitellius bivouacked at the fifth milestone from
348 V, 8 | the usual form, becomes black and rotten, and crumbles
349 I, 9 | indeed no troops behaved more blamelessly throughout all the troubles
350 III, 75 | at home and abroad. His blamelessness and integrity no one could
351 IV, 35 | two generals were equally blameworthy; they deserved defeat, they
352 I, 49 | impious, vows for either a blasphemy, when from their conflict
353 I, 70 | pardoned, and, unwilling to blend with the grace of reconciliation
354 IV, 88 | Since," he said, "by the blessing of the Gods the strength
355 II, 16 | ignorant populace, which ever blindly shares in the fears of others,
356 II, 44 | great, and the roads were blocked up with heaps of corpses;
357 I, 6 | progress had been slow and blood-stained. Cingonius Varro, consul
358 I, 43 | vied in displaying their bloodstained hands. Vitellius afterwards
359 I, 83 | punished. Let all the rest blot out the remembrance of that
360 II, 39 | idle title of general the blunders of others. The tribunes
361 IV, 41 | yet unknown, the frequent blush on his countenance passed
362 IV, 65 | Old Camp; the better men blushed with shame at the infamy
363 II, 9 | his bidding the ship was boarded and taken, and the man,
364 III, 75 | question. He was somewhat boastful; this was the only fault
365 II, 27 | behaved themselves insolently, boasting, as they visited the quarters
366 V, 4 | out over Egypt; that king Bocchoris, seeking a remedy, consulted
367 II, 8 | armed all the most able bodied of the slaves. The centurion
368 I, 34 | cuirass, and as, from age and bodily weakness, he could not stand
369 II, 61 | how a certain Mariccus, a Boian of the lowest origin, pretending
370 II, 2 | and Cyprus, and then by a bolder course for Syria. Here he
371 IV, 30 | deliberate aim anyone whose boldness or whose decorations made
372 IV, 67 | race, forgetting your past bondage, you will be the equals
373 V, 19 | under foot the ashes and bones of legions. "Wherever,"
374 IV, 29 | several tribes on which they bordered, and that another detachment
375 I, 56 | rations, their belts, and the bosses, which, richly decorated
376 III, 47 | with narrow sides and broad bottoms, and joined together without
377 IV, 54 | the precincts with sacred boughs. Then the vestal virgins,
378 V, 7 | Eastward the country is bounded by Arabia; to the south
379 I, 35 | stretched out his arms, and bowed to the crowd, and kissed
380 IV, 8 | one of the Senate which bows to the same yoke. Besides,
381 II, 93 | no watch, and ceased to brace themselves by toil. Amidst
382 V, 7 | balsam is a shrub; each branch, as it fills with sap, may
383 III, 31 | from the walls the olive branches and chaplets of suppliants,
384 I, 50 | were exasperated by the bravadoes of the Gallic people, who
385 III, 69 | There were even women who braved the dangers of the siege;
386 I, 63 | came angry words, then a brawl between the Batavi and the
387 II, 27 | army was relaxed by the brawls and quarrels which ensued.
388 III, 77 | darkness and panic, the braying of trumpets, and the shouts
389 IV, 41 | restore to their place the brazen tables of the laws, which
390 V, 5 | former days, and the Jewish bread, made without leaven, is
391 IV, 59 | in a single battle. The breakers of treaties may look for
392 V, 28 | clinging to life which often breaks the noblest spirits. He
393 II, 42 | struck through helmets and breastplates with swords and battle-axes.
394 IV, 38 | Treveri had constructed a breastwork and rampart across their
395 IV, 74 | strengthened it with ditches and breastworks of stones. These defences,
396 III, 84 | Many, desperately wounded, breathed their last on the towers
397 V, 7 | more nauseous in taste; it breeds pestilence among those who
398 V, 6 | nought parents, children, and brethren. Still they provide for
399 I, 18 | announced, with imperial brevity, that he adopted Piso, following
400 IV, 58 | Frisii, made his escape by bribing his gaolers. This man undertook,
401 II, 62 | Assuredly, could Vitellius have bridled his luxurious tastes, no
402 II, 2 | tedious digression to record briefly the origin of the worship,
403 III, 38 | gardens a neighbouring turret brilliantly illuminated throughout the
404 II, 88 | less frightful spectacle, bristling as they were with the skins
405 III, 27 | the gate looking towards Brixia. There ensued a little delay,
406 II, 78 | majestic beauty and even broader shade. This, as the Haruspices
407 I, 20 | Everywhere were sales and brokers, and Rome was in an uproar
408 III, 47 | into a Roman province, ill brooked the change. Accordingly
409 II, 83 | Vitellius himself, finding Brundisium, Tarentum, and the shores
410 III, 39 | even heard to utter a most brutal speech, in which (I will
411 I, 16 | own profligacy, his own brutality, and that, though there
412 IV, 8 | rival the Catos and the Bruti of old in constancy and
413 II, 87 | the people there thronged buffoons, players, and charioteers,
414 III, 32 | legion had been left to build an amphitheatre, with the
415 V, 7 | swim or no, are equally buoyed up by the waves. At a certain
416 II, 37 | who were for the most part burdened by the consciousness of
417 V, 27 | Rhaetians and Noricans, at the burdens borne by the other allies.
418 I, 57 | immediately put to death. Julius Burdo, prefect of the German fleet,
419 III, 34 | by the munificence of the burghers, and Vespasian gave his
420 V, 6 | wont to bury rather than to burn their dead, following in
421 IV, 82 | fire to the houses, and burned them. At the same time Cerialis
422 I, 32 | matters in the camp, he bursts into the Forum, and under
423 II, 84 | provinces echoed with the bustle of preparing fleets, armies,
424 III, 83 | should be dragged out and butchered, and they secured the larger
425 II, 38 | essayed civil wars. Then rose C. Marius, sprung from the
426 II, 34 | keep the bridge firm. The cables, however, instead of being
427 I, 76 | their fathers and ancestors. Cadius Rufus, Pedius Blaesus, Saevinius
428 II, 79 | for Antioch, Vespasian for Caesarea. These cities are the capitals
429 II, 83 | Tarentum, and the shores of Calabria and Lucania menaced by hostile
430 IV, 41 | through age, to free the Calendar from the additions with
431 III, 35 | Britain and to Spain. Julius Calenus, a tribune, was sent to
432 III, 6 | conversations with Nero he had calumniated Corbulo's high qualities.
433 III, 53 | and blamed Mucianus, whose calumnies had depreciated his own
434 I, 47 | served under the legate Calvisius Sabinus. That officer's
435 III, 47 | vessels of their own called "camarae," built with narrow sides
436 II, 72 | that he was Scribonianus Camerinus; that, dreading the times
437 IV, 56 | divine Julius, when he was campaigning in Gaul. These two men held
438 IV, 69 | sheathe their swords, when Campanus and Juvenalis, two of the
439 I, 40 | current report that one Camurius, a soldier of the 15th legion,
440 II, 91 | present in company with the candidates like an ordinary citizen,
441 III, 37 | law. Before this indeed Caninius Rebilus had been consul
442 II, 21 | Italy another building so capacious. Whatever the cause of the
443 I, 10 | qualities. In his public capacity he might be praised; his
444 II, 79 | Caesarea. These cities are the capitals of Syria and Judaea respectively.
445 III, 19 | the generals of one which capitulates." The centurions and tribunes
446 IV, 69 | Betasii and Nervii, also capitulating, were incorporated by Civilis
447 II, 16 | plans. Claudius Pyrrhicus, captain of the Liburnian ships stationed
448 III, 45 | treacherous capture of king Caractacus, she was regarded as having
449 IV, 5 | a native of the town of Carecina in Italy, and was the son
450 V, 23 | and his army became less careful about discipline. A few
451 IV, 81 | ruined everything by his carelessness, restored the day by his
452 III, 49 | a conquered country and caressed the legions as if they were
453 I, 71 | come, amid the embraces and caresses of his mistresses and other
454 I, 71 | from public detestation, caring not to be free from guilt,
455 II, 78 | Judaea and Syria is Mount Carmel; this is the name both of
456 II, 48 | furnished with boats and carriages; he destroyed all memorials
457 IV, 51 | selected some Moorish and Carthaginian auxiliaries to perpetrate
458 I, 41 | immediately afterwards Julius Carus, a legionary, ran him through
459 III, 73 | Martialis, Aemilius Pacensis, Casperius Niger, and Didius Sceva,
460 I, 6 | and sent on by him to the Caspian passes, for service in the
461 II, 41 | While the legions were casting lots for the order of march,
462 II, 24 | Cremona (at a place called the Castors) he posted some of the bravest
463 I, 85 | been thought safe from such casualties. Many were swept away in
464 III, 84 | cities, the testudo, the catapult, the earth-work, and the
465 IV, 24 | the stones thrown by the catapults prostrated the ill-constructed
466 III, 73 | The catastrophe, however, caused more panic
467 I, 39 | countenances, and ears turned to catch every sound. It was a scene
468 IV, 8 | Helvidius may rival the Catos and the Bruti of old in
469 IV, 51 | in robberies of corn and cattle by two rustic populations,
470 III, 72 | fortune. The name of Lutatius Catulus, the dedicator, remained
471 IV, 31 | with beams, broke it down, causing great destruction among
472 I, 82 | ask questions, obedience ceases, and all command is at an
473 II, 42 | bodies and their shields, and ceasing to throw their javelins,
474 IV, 51 | pitched battles. The people of Ceea, who were inferior in numbers,
475 IV, 51 | to a quarrel between the Censes and the Leptitani, which,
476 III, 66 | would act as becomes the censorship, the thrice-repeated consulate
477 IV, 42 | the perjury. This public censure, as it might be called,
478 I, 1 | that all power should be centered in one man, these great
479 V, 3 | who in the time of king Cepheus were driven by fear and
480 II, 70 | actually instituted a religious ceremony in honour of the tutelary
481 II, 55 | was no alarm; the games of Ceres were attended as usual.
482 IV, 40 | to be tempted even by a certainty, and was proportionately
483 II, 16 | the place, and Quintius Certus, a Roman knight, who ventured
484 IV, 51 | legion, and gave orders that Cetronius Pisanus, prefect of the
485 I, 16 | emperor. Under Tuberous, Chairs, and Claudius, we were,
486 V, 24 | watchwords and the usual challenges, they had themselves fallen
487 III, 73 | each other, and, themselves challenging others and giving it when
488 II, 61 | Rome. Calling himself the champion of Gaul, and a God (for
489 IV, 18 | throughout Germany as the champions of liberty. The tribes of
490 V, 6 | that their priests used to chant to the music of flutes and
491 II, 71 | in fact by all that had characterised the court of Nero. Indeed,
492 II, 89 | himself, mounted on a splendid charger, with military cloak and
493 I, 85 | Capitol the reins of the chariot, on which stood the goddess
494 III, 65 | grudge was feared. It is more charitable to suppose that the mild
495 V, 5 | toils; after a while the charm of indolence beguilded them
496 II, 81 | and beauty, and who had charmed even the old Vespasian by
497 I, 36 | it himself, purified and chastened? For what others call crimes
498 II, 71 | because he was the slave and chattel of profligacy and gluttony.
499 I, 57 | and to him who punished a cheaper sacrifice.~ ~
500 I, 2 | but set in motion by the cheat of a counterfeit Nero. Now
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