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501 IV, 1 | strife, were incapable of checking the abuse of victory. In
502 II, 46 | expression, the soldiers cheered or groaned. Nor was it only
503 V, 6 | established a festive and cheerful worship, while the Jewish
504 IV, 60 | threatens me I can hear with cheerfulness; and amid so many evils
505 II, 25 | while he was zealously cheering on the troops for Otho. ~ ~
506 III, 53 | there arose a deadly feud, cherished by Antonius with frankness,
507 III, 38 | of friends and foes, is cherishing a rival, who from his banqueting
508 II, 85 | seizing on the military chest and dividing it among themselves,
509 II, 88 | was to the forum that they chiefly directed their steps, anxious
510 IV, 64 | little son to shoot at with a child's arrows and javelins. He
511 IV, 89 | prompted by an idle and childish ambition. Domitian, seeing
512 I, 36 | Marcellus in Spain, Betuus Chilo in Gaul, Fonteius Capito
513 I, 18 | custom by which a soldier chooses his comrade. Fearing that
514 II, 101| Flavian family composed the chronicles of this war, have in the
515 II, 3 | introduced by Tamiras of Cilicia; and that it was agreed
516 IV, 76 | have fought against the Cimbri and Teutones, at the cost
517 V, 14 | held the outer and larger circuit of walls. John, also called
518 V, 6 | themselves nothing is unlawful. Circumcision was adopted by them as a
519 III, 37 | armies, and with a prudent circumlocution avoided the name of Vespasian.
520 V, 14 | the hill, and tanks and cisterns for holding rain water.
521 III, 70 | said Sabinus, "was only a civilian and a member of the Senate,
522 IV, 1 | distinction between soldiers and civilians. But the ferocity, which
523 II, 1 | should get no thanks for a civility intended for another, while
524 V, 9 | and to introduce Greek civilization, but was prevented by his
525 III, 67 | Narnia, he left the palace, clad in mourning robes, and surrounded
526 III, 38 | among his ancestors, who, claiming an Imperial descent, displays
527 III, 28 | a second "testudo," they clambered up and seized the weapons
528 I, 31 | now crowding the palace, clamouring with discordant shouts for
529 V, 19 | to their custom, with the clash of arms and with wild antics,
530 III, 19 | might be heard, the troops clashed their weapons together,
531 IV, 49 | sought in the continual clashing of their authority, and
532 V, 24 | believed, of an Ubian woman, Claudia Sacrata. The sentinels sought
533 V, 14 | the sordid policy of the Claudian era to purchase the right
534 III, 50 | incessantly demanded the "clavarium," as the donative was called.
535 V, 4 | Hammon, and was bidden to cleanse his realm, and to convey
536 II, 25 | filled up, the plain to be cleared, and the line to be extended,
537 V, 10 | granddaughter of Antony and Cleopatra, and so was the grandson-in-law,
538 III, 62 | in the farces, with more cleverness than propriety. While legate
539 IV, 8 | would advise Priscus not to climb higher than the throne,
540 II, 35 | laid hold of the boats, climbed over the gunwales, or sank
541 IV, 24 | Some were in the act of climbing over when they were thrust
542 III, 71 | attacks were unexpected; the closer and fiercer of the two threatened
543 V, 7 | shrinks from blood or any cloth stained by the menstrua
544 III, 4 | that a consular name might clothe with its high prestige the
545 II, 20 | garment of foreign fashion, clothed in which he was wont to
546 II, 80 | astonishing a vicissitude had clouded his vision, he addressed
547 IV, 54 | 21st of June, beneath a cloudless sky, the entire space devoted
548 V, 15 | sudden radiance from the clouds. The doors of the inner
549 V, 24 | surprise. They chose a dark and cloudy night, and moving rapidly
550 III, 24 | turning to the Praetorians, "Clowns," said he, "unless you are
551 V, 10 | Cneius Pompeius was the first of
552 IV, 18 | with offers of troops. The co-operation of Gaul Civilis endeavoured
553 V, 7 | is sprinkled upon it, it coagulates and floats upon the surface.
554 II, 2 | father's reign. So, after coasting Achaia and Asia, leaving
555 II, 48 | administered consolation to Salvius Cocceianus, his brother's son, a very
556 I, 24 | there was a dispute between Cocceius Proculus, a soldier of the
557 I, 84 | order men who could not be coerced. Yet tranquillity was not
558 IV, 20 | to whether he should use coercion with those who refused obedience.
559 III, 48 | at the mouth of the river Cohibus, where he was protected
560 III, 33 | carried off for themselves coin or temple-offerings of massive
561 II, 82 | gold and silver money was coined, everything being vigorously
562 III, 71 | lighted brands on a projecting colonnade, and following the track
563 V, 7 | naturally a fluid of dark colour; when vinegar is sprinkled
564 IV, 64 | he had let grow long and coloured with a red dye from the
565 I, 9 | communicate their vices, nor combine their strength. ~ ~
566 III, 29 | Vitellianists, unable to resist the combined and resolute attack, and
567 II, 21 | suspicious, believed that combustibles had been purposely introduced
568 II, 17 | ready to submit to the first comer and careless about the better
569 I, 4 | proper, however, before I commence my purposed work, to pass
570 I, 30 | sedition, which was but just commencing, and not yet fully matured,
571 I, 57 | Vitellius, after bestowing high commendation on the zeal of the soldiers,
572 II, 19 | with the troops, suggested commendations of the prudence of their
573 IV, 6 | dropped the charge, amidst comments varying with the tempers
574 IV, 41 | not carried out. Certain commissioners were then appointed by lot,
575 III, 49 | offered to the legions the commissions of the centurions killed
576 I, 39 | future, could deter them from committing a crime, which any one succeeding
577 III, 9 | made but some slight and common-place mention without any abuse
578 I, 9 | duty, they could neither communicate their vices, nor combine
579 II, 79 | Mucianus and his father for the communication of their plans. All this
580 II, 99 | Gallus as the bearer of communications intimating that the conditions
581 I, 50 | war, began to hanker after compaigns and battles, and to prefer
582 IV, 71 | delays to check his ardent companion, who, he feared, were he
583 II, 80 | use felt a pleasure in the companionship of the soldiers, with whom
584 III, 69 | they were scattered and comparatively weak, urged him, in spite
585 I, 22 | common talk of those who compared Galba's age with Otho's
586 I, 29 | to count up virtues in comparing oneself with Otho is needless.
587 IV, 43 | he said, "Nero did not compel this act; you did not secure
588 IV, 75 | a rebellious colony and compensate for the overthrow of so
589 IV, 77 | perpetual, and they are compensated by the occurrence of better
590 III, 72 | this conflict? what the compensation for so great a disaster?
591 II, 1 | which now qualified him to compete for office. But the vulgar,
592 IV, 8 | any man. All Senators are competent to pay their homage. What
593 IV, 49 | greater interest in such a competition. All the more distinguished
594 I, 49 | empire was between worthy competitors, yet the Empire continued
595 I, 23 | intersperse his conversation with complaints and insinuations against
596 V, 25 | four hundred men, the usual complement of a Liburnian galley. With
597 I, 47 | Piso, who was then completing his thirty-first year, had
598 III, 72 | superstructure. But the glory of its completion was reserved for the days
599 IV, 42 | him with questions, and complicating a charge which he could
600 II, 59 | his dislike under servile compliments. At Lugdunum the generals
601 I, 43 | to honour Galba, but to comply with the traditional policy
602 II, 101| ascendancy of the Flavian family composed the chronicles of this war,
603 I, 10 | like an emperor. He was a compound of dissipation and energy,
604 II, 11 | had begun to move. These comprised four legions, from each
605 IV, 71 | youth or by bad advisers to compromise at once the prospects of
606 II, 6 | left for themselves but a compulsory submission, made the soldiers
607 II, 50 | vanished. When they came to compute the time, it was found that
608 IV, 83 | as an ill-affected and conceited man, nor did they forget
609 IV, 85 | Vespasian thus came to conceive a deeper desire to visit
610 II, 79 | a formal harangue or any concentration of the legions. ~ ~
611 V, 6 | Jews have purely mental conceptions of Deity, as one in essence.
612 IV, 20 | mutiny. Flaccus, by his many concessions, had produced no other effect
613 I, 18 | feelings might have been conciliated by the very smallest liberality
614 III, 84 | disturb the victory, delay the conclusion of peace, and pollute both
615 I, 3 | People, or evidence more conclusive, prove that the Gods take
616 II, 50 | frightened or driven away by the concourse of people, or by the multitude
617 III, 40 | vast and luxurious train of concubines and eunuchs too tardily
618 III, 38 | displays to soldiers his condescension and his magnificence. On
619 II, 3 | rounded mass rising like a cone from a broad base to a small
620 IV, 42 | wealth. Africanus dared not confess his guilt, and could not
621 III, 75 | his own guilt, and by this confession, which may indeed have been
622 I, 13 | entrusted to him, as being the confidant of his amours, Poppaea Sabina,
623 IV, 20 | conscription, he resolved to confine his troops to the camp.
624 IV, 79 | force of Valentinus will confirm in their rashness both them
625 I, 33 | first vague and wanting confirmation, that Otho had been slain
626 I, 52 | severe edicts and by the confiscation of their territory, were
627 I, 89 | was left of the Neronian confiscations, or had not yet been paid
628 I, 2 | overwhelmed; Rome was wasted by conflagrations, its oldest temples consumed,
629 I, 82 | was the country, and how conflicting the feelings of the soldiery,
630 II, 40 | a battle, making for the confluence of the Padus and Addua,
631 III, 30 | Vitellius, and in the vast conflux from all parts of Italy
632 V, 18 | unforeseen contingencies. Civilis confronted him with his troops ranged,
633 I, 87 | their spirits amidst the confusions of the time, and found their
634 IV, 67 | of our divinities, and we congratulate you that at length you will
635 II, 65 | He wore a look of joy and congratulation, but he was anxious at heart,
636 II, 4 | of the Greek arbitrarily connect with some uncertain past,
637 I, 15 | be shown not only by my connections which I have set aside for
638 V, 18 | in that battle first to consecrate their new standards and
639 IV, 72 | restrained the most prudent by considerations of respect and loyalty,
640 IV, 9 | expenditure. The Consul elect, considering how great was the evil and
641 I, 37 | ill-humour and avarice he considers that he has found the best
642 II, 10 | demand that he should be consigned to destruction, undefended
643 II, 93 | were being raised, each to consist of a thousand men. In this
644 III, 86 | munificent gifts rather than by consistency of character, he deserved
645 V, 9 | A great part of Judaea consists of scattered villages. They
646 III, 84 | they clung to these last consolations of the vanquished. Many,
647 IV, 75 | answer to those who would console or encourage them, but hid
648 I, 54 | usual in a tumult, were even conspicuously active in mutiny, though
649 I, 89 | was well known from his constant pleading at the bar, and
650 II, 71 | admiration for Nero, and had constantly followed him when he sang,
651 II, 67 | to their old service, and constituted the mainstay of the Flavianist
652 II, 93 | of the heat weakened the constitutions of the Germans and Gauls,
653 III, 6 | to slay but few, and to constrain the rest by fear to transfer
654 III, 49 | generals were themselves constrained to follow the furious impulses
655 I, 84 | which they had put many constructions. Vitellius they called a
656 II, 71 | Valens and Caecina, the consulates of others were abridged,
657 IV, 27 | and a greater number of consumers. Among ignorant persons
658 II, 63 | when the crime had been consummated, a pardon which could be
659 IV, 53 | having more than ten days' consumption in the granaries, when the
660 I, 83 | head of the Empire, and contains all that is distinguished
661 IV, 47 | that was offered them they contemptuously rejected, and begged for
662 I, 84 | country, the more prudent contenting themselves with hackneyed
663 IV, 75 | that no soldier was in any contention or altercation to reproach
664 IV, 3 | Vespasian, written during the continuance of the war. Such indeed
665 III, 79 | but the victors did not continue the pursuit beyond Fidenae.~ ~
666 V, 7 | deck of the boat; it then continues of itself to flow in and
667 I, 64 | losses on each other so continuously and so savagely that they
668 III, 25 | one to command, it was now contracted, now extended, as the courage
669 I, 27 | that the architect and the contractors were waiting for him. It
670 II, 97 | would reign, but the result contradicted them.~ ~
671 I, 27 | by, and interpreted it by contraries in a favourable sense, as
672 II, 16 | so gigantic a war could contribute nothing to the general result,
673 II, 84 | followed his example in contributing their money; very few enjoyed
674 II, 94 | else on the soldiers. A contribution in the form of a tax was
675 I, 84 | moderation. Silence might seem contumacious, and frankness might provoke
676 III, 86 | the Senate could not be convened, owing to the panic of the
677 II, 6 | for war would be both a convenience and a protection. ~ ~
678 III, 34 | number of settlers, the conveniences afforded by the rivers,
679 II, 27 | of which, as it was not convenient to interrupt the orderly
680 III, 70 | negotiator of this abhorred convention. Vitellius had not now the
681 IV, 67 | air, that they may bar our converse and prevent our meetings,
682 III, 47 | who, when the kingdom was converted into a Roman province, ill
683 III, 47 | extremities alike and a convertible arrangement of oars, they
684 IV, 23 | however, was taken about the conveyance of supplies into the camp.
685 II, 68 | strictness, or indulge in early conviviality. And the soldiers in like
686 IV, 36 | be no doubt what peril a convoy, heavily laden and panic-stricken,
687 III, 52 | the Padus and the sea with convoys. Some there were among the
688 III, 10 | his breast and features convulsed with sobs. This very conduct
689 III, 49 | While with this world-wide convulsion the Imperial power was changing
690 IV, 26 | Hordeonius read to the army copies of all the letters which
691 I, 89 | fill the popular ear with a copious and sonorous diction. The
692 I, 75 | allegiance to Otho which Julius Cordus had administered, did not
693 II, 1 | were accepted as omens. At Corinth, the capital of Achaia,
694 II, 43 | 21st, called the Rapax, a corps of old and distinguished
695 III, 85 | Gemoniae, the place where the corpse of Flavius Sabinus had lain.
696 II, 98 | Vespasian in his secret correspondence, and intending to hold by
697 IV, 41 | notorious criminal by appeals to corrupt influences rather than by
698 I, 50 | are found the agents of corruption, and treachery goes unpunished.
699 I, 68 | till at length Claudius Cossus, one of the Helvetian envoys,
700 II, 71 | to an affront. Pedanius Costa was passed over. The Emperor
701 I, 81 | imperial dignity, stood up on a couch, and by dint of prayers
702 I, 22 | were attached to the secret councils of Poppaea and were the
703 IV, 86 | than human stature, who counselled the monarch to send his
704 II, 84 | spoilt by prosperity and evil counsellors, he learnt this policy and
705 I, 39 | Everywhere were terror-stricken countenances, and ears turned to catch
706 V, 27 | of Civilis. He sought to counterbalance his private wrongs by the
707 IV, 74 | what would be more than counterbalanced by the courage of his own
708 I, 2 | motion by the cheat of a counterfeit Nero. Now too Italy was
709 IV, 70 | death, he set fire to a country-house where he had taken refuge.
710 IV, 7 | by those whom the Senate counts to be peculiarly blameless,
711 V, 5 | complete their revolutions and courses in multiples of seven. ~ ~
712 I, 62 | been received with the most courteous hospitality, a sudden panic
713 I, 23 | doubtful. Otho had long been courting the affections of the soldiery,
714 IV, 50 | and that Galerianus, his cousin and son-in-law, had perished;
715 II, 49 | with praises and tears, covering his wound and his hands
716 II, 29 | tears and entreaties, they craved forgiveness. But when Valens,
717 I, 16 | spoke to Piso as if he were creating an emperor; the others addressed
718 IV, 33 | Treveri, and other enslaved creatures, what reward do you expect
719 IV, 43 | of his property among his creditors, had left you perfectly
720 II, 63 | arts of despotism began to creep into his confidence, grew
721 II, 91 | old times the disasters of Cremera and Allia had marked as
722 II, 99 | indolence that had of late crept over him; presuming on the
723 I, 75 | taking the lead. In that city Crescens, one of Nero's freedmen (
724 II, 16 | among the crowd of greater criminals, in the vast confusion of
725 I, 77 | excuse in the urgency of the crisis and the anxieties which
726 I, 46 | Vinius, by his daughter Crispina, their heads having been
727 I, 72 | the execution of Galvia Crispinilla. Various artifices on the
728 II, 39 | eagerness, but liked to criticise rather than to obey the
729 II, 70 | with levelled trees and crops, horrible was the desolation.
730 III, 78 | with a thousand cavalry by crossroads through the Sabine district
731 I, 31 | slaves with them were now crowding the palace, clamouring with
732 III, 84 | many conflicts would be crowned by this achievement. The
733 I, 76 | office, Otho bestowed, as a crowning dignity, pontificates and
734 III, 83 | the horrors of a city most cruelly sacked, till one was ready
735 I, 36 | instead of avarice, while the cruelties and affronts inflicted upon
736 V, 8 | becomes black and rotten, and crumbles into a kind of dust. I am
737 I, 48 | were worthless, he was even culpably blind. The nobility of his
738 IV, 6 | a whole army of fellow culprits was struck down. At first
739 II, 87 | furnish supplies, but the very cultivator of the soil and his lands,
740 II, 87 | in his way, as with his cumbrous host he advanced towards
741 I, 14 | friendship of Piso. But, cunningly enough, it was as a stranger
742 I, 47 | of having pilfered a gold cup at the table of Claudius,
743 I, 34 | resolute was his spirit in curbing the license of the soldiery;
744 I, 15 | adopting you by the Act of the Curiae before the Pontiffs, as
745 I, 47 | wife, urged by a perverse curiosity to view the camp, entered
746 I, 88 | of war, now that all the currency had been diverted to the
747 V, 10 | nation, with its liberties curtailed, was divided into three
748 V, 6 | following in this the Egyptian cus tom; they bestow the same
749 IV, 3 | Vespasian all the honours customarily bestowed on the Emperors.
750 II, 88 | careless soldiers by slily cutting their belts, and then asked
751 V, 6 | the music of flutes and cymbals, and to wear garlands of
752 IV, 41 | Demetrius, a disciple of the Cynical school of philosophy, who
753 II, 78 | recurred to his thoughts. A cypress tree of remarkable height
754 II, 2 | the islands of Rhodes and Cyprus, and then by a bolder course
755 IV, 46 | the suit of the people of Cyrene, and was banished for cruel
756 II, 49 | draught of cold water. Two daggers were brought to him; he
757 II, 22 | and mangled, with serious damage to the prestige of the party.
758 I, 78 | this occasion the day was damp and the ice thawed, what
759 V, 21 | auxiliaries among these danger-loving tribes by appeals to their
760 III, 46 | occupied both banks of the Danube. They were then preparing
761 I, 40 | Atilius Vergilio) tore off and dashed upon the ground Galba's
762 I, 1 | former period, the 820 years dating from the founding of the
763 V, 24 | enemy rowed back in broad daylight with the captured vessels.
764 V, 24 | they raised on all sides a deafening shout. The Romans, awakened
765 I, 20 | those with whom it had to deal. Everywhere were sales and
766 IV, 76 | you fancy yourselves to be dearer in the eyes of Civilis and
767 I, 34 | till at length Galba in the dearth of all true intelligence,
768 II, 33 | That day first gave the death-blow to the party of Otho. Not
769 III, 1 | 13th legion. There they debated, whether they should blockade
770 V, 27 | Batavi also there arose debates. "We can no longer," they
771 I, 12 | Galba, who had been long debating the subject of adoption
772 II, 22 | were undefended, or old and decayed. The Othonianists, who could
773 III, 70 | Empire, with the view of deceiving a number of distinguished
774 II, 8 | in the face, gave a very deceptive plausibility to his pretensions.
775 III, 23 | rose and showed, but showed deceptively, both armies. The light,
776 I, 36 | capital he gave orders to decimate the prisoners, the suppliants,
777 I, 50 | that the legions were being decimated, and all the most energetic
778 V, 21 | accompanied by his brother Decimus Alpinius. His other adherents
779 V, 7 | hand, and draw it on to the deck of the boat; it then continues
780 IV, 70 | Rome. The Sequani did not decline the contest. Fortune favoured
781 III, 5 | troops; but the offer was declined, lest in the midst of civil
782 I, 56 | the bosses, which, richly decorated with silver, adorned their
783 III, 10 | distinguished by any military decoration, he summoned him by name
784 II, 16 | the rash proceedings of Decumus Pacarius, the procurator,
785 I, 69 | the instigation of their decurions, who knew nothing of Otho,
786 III, 72 | it, but did not live to dedicate it, the one thing denied
787 III, 72 | of Lutatius Catulus, the dedicator, remained among all the
788 V, 15 | religious rites, did not deem it lawful to expiate by
789 III, 19 | As the shadows of evening deepened the whole strength of the
790 I, 63 | Vitellius. Fabius Valens had defamed him by secret charges of
791 I, 78 | These coats are worn as defensive armour by the princes and
792 IV, 3 | State. There was no want of deference on the part of the Senate.
793 IV, 59 | friends." After uttering this defiance, finding that Classicus
794 IV, 69 | They fought in a narrow defile without any decided result,
795 IV, 60 | suffer it to be polluted and defiled by a Tutor and a Classicus.
796 IV, 36 | occupy the bridges and the defiles in the road. The battle
797 III, 52 | from Mucianus were more definite. That commander, troubled
798 III, 28 | foulest of crimes have been a degeneracy from the character of their
799 II, 62 | beggary; the soldiers fast degenerated from their old activity
800 II, 62 | under severe penalties, to degrade themselves by appearing
801 I, 47 | subsequently incurred the degrading imputation of having pilfered
802 IV, 84 | Vespasian that he would deign to moisten his cheeks and
803 I, 81 | streets, the populace were dejected, the soldiers walked with
804 II, 99 | from a severe illness, was delayed by weakness. Far different
805 III, 20 | Shall we not rather, by delaying one night, till our artillery
806 IV, 21 | they sent on before them delegates, commissioned to deliver
807 II, 31 | their whole strength. Otho deliberated as to whether protracting
808 I, 26 | for the state, which they deliberately meditated polluting with
809 III, 16 | wide. While Antonius was deliberating as to what was to be done,
810 I, 66 | hastened to punish every delinquency, as it occurred, before
811 IV, 21 | delegates, commissioned to deliver to Herennius Gallus a message
812 V, 5 | whose guidance they found deliverance from their long and thirsty
813 III, 58 | arms, while he gave the delusive name of an army and of Roman
814 IV, 41 | spoke very differently of Demetrius, a disciple of the Cynical
815 V, 21 | in any other way. He also demolished the dyke, constructed by
816 I, 42 | by our age in Sempronius Densus. He was a centurion in a
817 I, 21 | tranquil, and whose whole plans depended on revolution, was being
818 III, 48 | capital, which is always dependent on foreign supplies. He
819 I, 80 | dwelling of their humblest dependents.~ ~
820 IV, 6 | his moderation, and others deploring a lack of courage. On the
821 IV, 81 | companies, for they could not deploy into line; as the enemy
822 IV, 35 | rampart, where his men might deposit their knapsacks, and so
823 IV, 45 | murdered her. Sosianus by his depravity had brought many to ruin.
824 III, 53 | Mucianus, whose calumnies had depreciated his own hazardous achievements.
825 IV, 15 | power of Rome been more depressed. In the winter quarters
826 III, 37 | without a formal act of deprivation and the passing of a law.
827 V, 16 | perils from the varying depth of the fords, and unfavourable
828 V, 17 | swallowed up in the vast depths of the marshes. The Germans
829 I, 67 | the capital town, when a deputation was sent to surrender the
830 I, 9 | lingering in Italy, sent deputations to Verginius. But separated
831 III, 58 | the Praetorian Guard, and deputed his brother Lucius with
832 I, 25 | bodyguard, and Veturius, a deputy centurion in the same force.
833 II, 93 | organisation of the service was deranged by unprincipled intrigue
834 V, 5 | slay the ram, seemingly in derision of Hammon, and they sacrifice
835 I, 15 | introduce into my family a descendant of Cn. Pompeius and M. Crassus;
836 III, 61 | perfidy. There were numerous desertions among the tribunes and centurions;
837 IV, 76 | leave their own marshes and deserts, and to possess themselves
838 II, 46 | so loyal and soldiers so deserving; "there was more courage
839 II, 68 | was charged with having designed the assassination of Vitellius.
840 III, 84 | retraced his steps to the desolate and forsaken palace, whence
841 II, 70 | crops, horrible was the desolation. Not less revolting was
842 IV, 24 | the assailants. At last, despairing of success by force, they
843 III, 84 | of the vanquished. Many, desperately wounded, breathed their
844 IV, 5 | life, he was ever the same, despising wealth, steadily tenacious
845 I, 22 | the other indulgences of despotic power, before a mind passionately
846 I, 16 | as it is among nations despotically ruled, that there is a distinct
847 V, 9 | other usual atrocities of despots, fostered the national superstition
848 IV, 51 | then fatal to the good, and destined often to reappear among
849 III, 33 | ravishers; and in the end the destroyers themselves were provoked
850 III, 22 | indecisive and fierce, destructive, first to one side, then
851 IV, 67 | secrete anything, or to detach his own interest from ours.
852 III, 34 | proclamation, that no one should detain in captivity a citizen of
853 I, 37 | half-armed cohort, which is detaining, not defending him. Let
854 II, 47 | the strongest proof of my determination the fact that I complain
855 V, 4 | some foreign land this race detested by the gods. The people,
856 II, 8 | name, eager for change, and detesting the present state of things.
857 I, 1 | we lend a ready ear to detraction and spite, because flattery
858 II, 39 | honours of supreme command devolved on his brother Titianus,
859 IV, 22 | will retain our fealty and devote our swords till our last
860 I, 30 | Cetrius Severus, Subrius Dexter, and Pompeius Longinus,
861 II, 86 | battle, ready of speech, dexterous in bringing odium upon other
862 II, 74 | appearance, and speaking a rude dialect, they ridiculed everybody
863 III, 37 | a single day during the dictatorship of Caius Caesar, when the
864 I, 89 | with a copious and sonorous diction. The acclamations and cries
865 III, 73 | Pacensis, Casperius Niger, and Didius Sceva, ventured to resist,
866 II, 62 | valid, and with those who died intestate, the law was carried
867 IV, 79 | Classicus put an end to these differences of opinion by giving his
868 IV, 41 | accuser, but men spoke very differently of Demetrius, a disciple
869 II, 37 | can I think that armies differing in language and in character,
870 I, 52 | skilful oratory and his dignified mien. This man had, when
871 I, 54 | the Empire, they sought to dignify their oath with the now
872 II, 2 | It will not be a tedious digression to record briefly the origin
873 II, 95 | that court by integrity or diligence; the sole road to power
874 IV, 51 | of the proconsul in the dim light of early dawn, with
875 II, 38 | In a state of moderate dimensions equality was easily preserved;
876 III, 18 | gave more hope of escape, diminished the vigour of their resistance. ~ ~
877 IV, 73 | Herennius and Numisius, that by diminishing the hope of pardon they
878 I, 24 | distribute, whenever Galba dined with Otho, one hundred sesterces
879 I, 81 | stood up on a couch, and by dint of prayers and tears contrived
880 IV, 62 | famine, the sword, and the direst extremities. The messengers
881 II, 91 | in a Commonwealth should disagree: he had himself been in
882 IV, 49 | two officers. A source of disagreement was thus studiously sought
883 IV, 20 | men who had advised it now disapproved it, he seemed bent on pursuing
884 I, 30 | Longinus they seized and disarmed; it was not his rank as
885 II, 76 | disbanding his legions, disarming his auxiliaries, and sowing
886 II, 76 | and all the while he is disbanding his legions, disarming his
887 IV, 30 | barbarians were plainly discernible, and they singled out with
888 II, 69 | recruiting being forbidden. Discharges were offered without distinction.
889 IV, 41 | differently of Demetrius, a disciple of the Cynical school of
890 II, 68 | and revel than a properly disciplined camp. Thus it happened that
891 III, 24 | Armenians, and had lately discomfited the Sarmatians. Then angrily
892 III, 53 | Germany and Rhaetia. The discomfiture of the disunited and scattered
893 I, 17 | Piso that he betrayed no discomposure or excessive joy, either
894 I, 38 | checked. His plan too was disconcerted by a succession of alarming
895 III, 79 | to the Vitellianists, but disconcerting to their opponents, to whom
896 II, 28 | generally known, the allies were discontented and the legions murmured. "
897 II, 29 | visit the sentinels, and discontinued the trumpet calls by which
898 IV, 75 | had happened through the discords of soldiers and generals
899 I, 37 | remarkable storm even the Gods discountenanced that ill-starred adoption;
900 I, 38 | Celsus had brought back discouraging tidings. And now some advised
901 II, 98 | death. More, however, eluded discovery, escaping either through
902 IV, 7 | chances of the ballot do not discriminate men's characters; the voting
903 III, 1 | Flavianist leaders were discussing the plans of the campaign.
904 III, 80 | extreme peril, for the troops disdained all offers of peace. The
905 IV, 14 | the strength of a similar disfigurement of his countenance. To avoid
906 III, 59 | contrived under various disguises to make their way to them,
907 III, 23 | deed of surpassing bravery. Disguising themselves with shields
908 I, 52 | country to conceal his private dishonour. There were not wanting
909 IV, 11 | country, keen to discover such dislikes, had changed its tone and
910 IV, 58 | incomplete in numbers and disloyal. So, what with soldiers
911 I, 34 | soldiery; threats did not dismay him, nor flatteries seduce. ~ ~
912 V, 6 | to despise all gods, to disown their country, and set at
913 III, 37 | word from any one of them disparaged the Flavianist leaders;
914 II, 80 | fortunes. As soon as he had dispelled the mist with which so astonishing
915 III, 58 | Knights gradually melted away, dispersing at first tardily and during
916 I, 26 | darkness, the inconvenient dispersion of the troops over the whole
917 III, 38 | claiming an Imperial descent, displays to soldiers his condescension
918 I, 70 | the people, and did not displease even the soldiers, who could
919 I, 64 | Galba. Galba had made his displeasure the occasion for diverting
920 III, 42 | bringing up his army and disposing his Liburnian ships at the
921 III, 51 | conquerors such an impious disregard of right and wrong, that
922 IV, 65 | the insulting rabble, and, disregarding the promises and threats
923 II, 11 | these, 2000 gladiators, a disreputable kind of auxiliaries, but
924 I, 30 | the cohort, who shewed no disrespect to the speaker, displayed
925 II, 75 | conquered there was more dissatisfaction than real strength. Civil
926 I, 33 | with the crowd, and who disseminated these false tidings of success
927 IV, 53 | s own race can never be dissociated from him, least of all with
928 IV, 38 | troops from the Upper army dissociating their cause from that of
929 I, 18 | time been made a reason for dissolving an assembly, it did not
930 II, 42 | Recognising each other and distinctly seen by the rest of the
931 II, 101| of this war, have in the distorted representations of flattery
932 II, 88 | from Rome. Vitellius was distributing to each soldier provisions
933 I, 85 | not only the low and level districts of the capital, but also
934 I, 71 | all the greatest villains, distrusting the present, and dreading
935 I, 2 | in the West. There were disturbances in Illyricum; Gaul wavered
936 I, 59 | mutinous designs, and with disturbing the regularity of military
937 IV, 38 | flight. Disaster produced disunion, the troops from the Upper
938 III, 53 | The discomfiture of the disunited and scattered legions of
939 IV, 8 | standing should fall into disuse, or why the honour due to
940 IV, 35 | should be surrounded with a ditch and rampart, where his men
941 IV, 8 | sides, were heard with much diversity of feeling. That party prevailed
942 IV, 14 | which he was directed to divert the reinforcements which
943 I, 64 | displeasure the occasion for diverting into the Imperial treasury
944 II, 3 | wisdom and craft of the diviners was a foreign importation
945 IV, 67 | to Mars, the chief of our divinities, and we congratulate you
946 I, 62 | felt among allies. But at Divodurum, a town of the Mediomatrici,
947 I, 4 | generals; for now had been divulged that secret of the empire,
948 III, 58 | sought the privilege of doing the same. This pretence
949 IV, 13 | Chatti. Driven out by a domestic revolution, they took possession
950 I, 80 | retinues of their friends and domestics; aged men and women wandered
951 IV, 67 | territory; liberty and a dominant race cannot well exist together.
952 I, 81 | the soldiers walked with downcast looks, and seemed gloomy
953 III, 78 | in marriage with a vast dowry, as the price of treason.
954 II, 49 | quenched his thirst with a draught of cold water. Two daggers
955 I, 49 | to the late horrors of a dreadful peace, but to the recollections
956 II, 88 | soldier provisions ready dressed on the same abundant scale
957 V, 7 | shore, and that there, when dried by the evaporation of the
958 III, 56 | intelligence, and finally drinking to intoxication. At last,
959 II, 89 | from the Mulvian bridge, driving the Senate and people before
960 IV, 27 | while the Rhine, owing to a drought unexampled in that climate,
961 I, 84 | voices were heard at once, drowning their own speech in a tumult
962 IV, 55 | survived; whereas now the Druids declared, with the prophetic
963 III, 2 | entertainers, they have drunk of unaccustomed pleasures
964 II, 91 | if he were among a set of drunkards. Still at the consular elections
965 II, 68 | Vitellius all was disorder and drunkenness, more like a nocturnal feast
966 V, 10 | a slave. He had married Drusilla, the granddaughter of Antony
967 V, 21 | the dyke, constructed by Drusus Germanicus, and, by destroying
968 V, 21 | uninterrupted surface of dry ground. Tutor, Classicus,
969 I, 14 | Celsus, consul elect, and Ducennius Geminus, prefect of the
970 III, 33 | searched for hidden wealth, and dug up buried treasures, applying
971 III, 36 | irons by the army. In that dull soul joy was more powerful
972 IV, 54 | a sheep, and a bull, and duly placed the entrails on turf;
973 I, 72 | incurred much obloquy by his duplicity, rescued her from the danger.
974 III, 36 | people heaped praises on the dutiful obedience of the soldiers.
975 I, 50 | of estates, the sack of dwelling-houses. But, besides the rapacity
976 V, 3 | neighbours to seek a new dwelling-place. Others describe them as
977 IV, 64 | and coloured with a red dye from the day of taking up
978 V, 21 | He also demolished the dyke, constructed by Drusus Germanicus,
979 II, 1 | origin and rise of a new dynasty, whose varied destinies
980 II, 83 | Moesia, he should move on Dyrrachium with his infantry and cavalry,
981 I, 68 | praying with increasing earnestness for a milder sentence, they
982 II, 22 | undermined the walls, threw up earth-works, and endeavoured to burst
983 I, 47 | alone should be served on earthenware. Yet as proconsul of Gallia
984 V, 15 | determined to proceed by earthworks and covered approaches.
985 I, 12 | more unpopular. The very easiness of Galba's temper stimulated
986 II, 84 | Thus the provinces echoed with the bustle of preparing
987 II, 32 | though they may sometimes be eclipsed. We have the wealth of the
988 I, 83 | made up of dwellings and edifices and piles of stones? These
989 II, 5 | formed both by nature and by education to attract even such a character
990 II, 26 | alleged that he feared the effects of so much additional toil
991 I, 22 | The soul of Otho was not effeminate like his person. His confidential
992 II, 91 | Most of them laughed at the effrontery of such a comparison, though
993 III, 7 | seventh (Galba's) and the eighteenth (the Gemina), finding the
994 IV, 85 | instant the man had been eighty miles distant. He then concluded
995 IV, 71 | military strength. Mucianus ejected him from his office, and,
996 II, 69 | Besides this, in order to eke out the Imperial resources,
997 II, 80 | there appeared no sign of elation or arrogance, or of any
998 I, 14 | and held a council for the election of an emperor. To this he
999 III, 62 | profligacy a reputation for elegance. In the theatricals performed
1000 IV, 86 | whom he had invited from Eleusis to preside over the sacred
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