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1001 III, 16 | It was almost eleven o'clock, when a horseman
1002 III, 8 | Verona seemed the most eligible, surrounded as it was with
1003 I, 36 | Polycleti, the Vatinii, and the Elii amassed. Vinius would not
1004 I, 8 | government of Cluvius Rufus, an eloquent man, who had all the accomplishments
1005 III, 2 | former life. They have been emasculated by the circus, the theatre,
1006 III, 20 | necessary to throw up an embankment and to shelter ourselves
1007 II, 7 | plunder; some by their private embarrassments. And so, good and bad, from
1008 IV, 87 | increase the dignity of his embassies, the number of his ships,
1009 III, 72 | people of Rome served to embellish rather than increase it.
1010 V, 28 | so by him, and afterwards embittered by me. My respect for Vespasian
1011 I, 53 | hands clasped together, an emblem of friendship. Their envoys,
1012 I, 78 | affairs were disregarded. This emboldened the Roxolani, a Sarmatian
1013 I, 35 | him, gave him the military embrace, placed him close to Otho,
1014 I, 71 | hour was come, amid the embraces and caresses of his mistresses
1015 II, 86 | procuratorship. Subsequently embracing the cause of Vespasian,
1016 II, 25 | place they again ventured to emerge, slaughtering the foremost
1017 I, 29 | unimpaired to meet greater emergencies. They were accordingly collected
1018 I, 77 | colonies of Hispalis and Emerita some additional families,
1019 V, 23 | hasty in his plans, though eminently successful in their results.
1020 IV, 71 | usually made against great empires, and levelled against the
1021 I, 22 | the vilest tools in the employ of the imperial household.
1022 II, 30 | retorted with charges of emptiness and vanity. But concealing
1023 I, 13 | himself agreeable to Nero by emulating his profligacy. For this
1024 V, 20 | stature and very long spears enabled them, without closing, to
1025 IV, 46 | funeral obsequies, had been enacted in his presence, accompanied
1026 III, 82 | proposing that they should encamp near the Mulvian bridge,
1027 I, 35 | there, amid the standards, encircled him with their colours.
1028 IV, 20 | Gallus from the other, had enclosed them between their armies.
1029 IV, 54 | space devoted to the sacred enclosure was encompassed with chaplets
1030 IV, 54 | the sacred enclosure was encompassed with chaplets and garlands.
1031 III, 69 | soldiers of Vitellius in encountering danger, they were far from
1032 II, 88 | There were many sanguinary encounters between the soldiers; for
1033 IV, 35 | knapsacks, and so fight without encumbrance. On this, the General was
1034 I, 24 | fuel to the flames. In his endeavour to win over all who were
1035 I, 15 | am moved by your splendid endowments and by my own patriotism
1036 V, 11 | Yet the endurance of the Jews lasted till
1037 II, 99 | was part of his policy to enervate the courage of the army.
1038 I, 87 | infirmities of age, or were enervated by a prolonged peace; the
1039 II, 62 | bribes, or more frequently enforced it by compulsion; and many
1040 II, 84 | reign was not so bent on enforcing these iniquitous measures,
1041 II, 25 | the infantry the signal to engage. He was a man naturally
1042 I, 66 | rear while the legion was engaging them in front. ~ ~
1043 I, 1 | and the empire of Trajan, enjoying the rare happiness of times,
1044 II, 16 | But when Pacarius began to enlist troops, and to weary with
1045 III, 25 | Julius Mansuetus, a Spaniard, enlisting in the legion Rapax, had
1046 II, 2 | passed, it is true, a youth enlivened by pleasure, and practised
1047 II, 77 | than myself. Your house is ennobled by the glories of a triumph;
1048 II, 90 | and moderation, though his enormities were known to the very persons
1049 II, 53 | different roads to make enquiries of every newcomer; one of
1050 III, 38 | his knees. On Vitellius enquiring the cause of his emotion: "
1051 I, 20 | that the men whom Nero had enriched would be as poor as those
1052 III, 58 | divided the business of enrolment between the consuls. He
1053 I, 78 | the legions, received the ensigns of consular rank. Otho was
1054 IV, 76 | never did any man seek to enslave his fellows and secure dominion
1055 IV, 33 | You, Treveri, and other enslaved creatures, what reward do
1056 I, 71 | from guilt, but only to ensure their turn in impunity.
1057 I, 2 | for accusation, and virtue ensured destruction. The rewards
1058 II, 60 | fatigue of Otho's troops, the entanglement of the line with the baggage-wagons,
1059 III, 2 | formidable only to their entertainers, they have drunk of unaccustomed
1060 IV, 60 | allegiance? I implore and entreat thee, O Jupiter, supremely
1061 IV, 54 | the foundation stone and entwined with the ropes, while at
1062 II, 21 | colonies, who viewed it with envious and jealous eyes, because
1063 II, 25 | Praetorian cavalry. King Epiphanes was wounded, while he was
1064 I, 69 | Padus, Mediolanum, Novaria, Eporedia, and Vercellae. This Caecina
1065 IV, 70 | noble example of his wife Epponina, I shall relate in their
1066 II, 38 | state of moderate dimensions equality was easily preserved; but
1067 I, 3 | were closing scenes that equalled the famous deaths of antiquity.
1068 III, 9 | army, which was far from equalling the forces of Vitellius (
1069 IV, 67 | bondage, you will be the equals of all, or will even rule
1070 V, 25 | the ocean. The motive for equipping this fleet was, to say nothing
1071 I, 89 | Imperial treasury, a most equitable and apparently most splendid
1072 II, 4 | had given them a vigour equivalent to the hardihood which the
1073 V, 14 | sordid policy of the Claudian era to purchase the right of
1074 IV, 51 | sufferings which he had ere long to endure. From Adrumetum,
1075 II, 67 | the, 13th were ordered to erect amphitheatres, for both
1076 IV, 87 | grandeur of the city, was erected in a place called Rhacotis,
1077 III, 72 | remained among all the vast erections of the Emperors, down to
1078 III, 76 | dispersed their soldiers on errands which were to minister to
1079 II, 19 | reproaching them with their error as exposing it by his arguments,
1080 IV, 53 | their passions or their errors, may weaken, may change,
1081 III, 69 | armed retinue which was escorting Sabinus was met, as it was
1082 I, 50 | borders on the Rhine fail to espouse the same cause, and to the
1083 I, 63 | partialities of the soldiers espoused one or another of the parties
1084 II, 38 | the forum that we first essayed civil wars. Then rose C.
1085 V, 6 | conceptions of Deity, as one in essence. They call those profane
1086 IV, 3 | with some light cavalry to establish order in Campania, where
1087 I, 14 | man, morose to those who estimated him less favourably. This
1088 II, 98 | on the sea the prevalent Etesian winds favoured an eastward
1089 V, 3 | that they were a race of Ethiopian origin, who in the time
1090 III, 73 | the people edicts highly eulogistic of Vespasian and insulting
1091 IV, 86 | one of the family of the Eumolpids, whom he had invited from
1092 V, 10 | were driven back over the Euphrates. Caius Sosius reduced the
1093 III, 9 | driven back and compelled to evacuate Italy in a disgraceful retreat.
1094 V, 7 | there, when dried by the evaporation of the earth and the power
1095 III, 40 | opportunities of action. Eventually he rejected both plans,
1096 II, 74 | dialect, they ridiculed everybody else as their inferiors.
1097 | everyone
1098 III, 70 | stipulated terms. "There has evidently," he said, "been a mere
1099 IV, 49 | account of this murder as exact as possible by first reviewing
1100 II, 94 | in the form of a tax was exacted from the freedmen of former
1101 III, 76 | and was now, by the harsh exaction of presents and contributions
1102 III, 38 | particulars were given with much exaggeration about the splendour of the
1103 II, 70 | together fictions, facts, and exaggerations. The common soldiers also
1104 I, 3 | as not also to exhibit examples of virtue. Mothers accompanied
1105 IV, 71 | people many insulting and exasperating expressions. The man was
1106 V, 14 | there were subterranean excavations in the hill, and tanks and
1107 II, 76 | experience in which you excel all other men. ~ ~
1108 II, 21 | the walls, stupefied by excess in food and wine. In this
1109 IV, 24 | very daring at first and excessively elated by success, they
1110 II, 80 | were to have given them in exchange the encampments of Germany
1111 III, 25 | that the two armies had exchanged salutations. The men then
1112 III, 44 | Vitellius, who felt uneasy in exchanging for another ruler one whom
1113 I, 11 | of corn, ever distracted, excitable, and restless through the
1114 IV, 85 | that all persons should be excluded from the temple. He had
1115 IV, 77 | There is no privilege, no exclusion. From worthy Emperors you
1116 III, 70 | answered a few words in his own exculpation, throwing all the blame
1117 IV, 29 | quiet, but made predatory excursions into Germany, escaping at
1118 V, 23 | allowed too little time for executing his commands; he was hasty
1119 I, 6 | was terrible even to the executioners. As he brought into the
1120 II, 64 | immediate contrast with the exemplary virtue of Galeria, the Emperor'
1121 I, 84 | of the family was hardly exempt from fear. It was however
1122 II, 4 | sloth, and unbroken rest and exemption from the hardships of war
1123 III, 55 | remission of tribute, others by exemptions; in a word, utterly careless
1124 V, 17 | Struggling among the waters, or exerting every limb where they found
1125 II, 82 | went everywhere, urged to exertion, encouraged the industrious
1126 V, 8 | earth is infected by the exhalations of the lake, that the surrounding
1127 II, 95 | birthday of Vitellius by exhibiting in every quarter of the
1128 III, 66 | Fuscus, and Mucianus, who exhibits the temper of his party,
1129 I, 4 | weakness and strength which existed throughout the whole empire,
1130 I, 82 | for some remedy for the existing licence, while the great
1131 I, 17 | honourable means. Meanwhile the expectant people had surrounded the
1132 IV, 84 | countenance, amid the intense expectation of the multitude of bystanders,
1133 I, 76 | hasty acts, dictated by the expediency of the moment, he disregarded
1134 V, 15 | did not deem it lawful to expiate by offering and sacrifice.
1135 IV, 11 | who was only a freedman, expiated by the death of a slave
1136 III, 52 | forward the cavalry and explore the whole of Umbria for
1137 V, 8 | inexhaustible supply to the exporter. ~ ~
1138 IV, 67 | among the ambassadors thus expounded: "For your return into the
1139 I, 36 | foul with crime, or, as he expresses it himself, purified and
1140 III, 72 | days of liberty. After the expulsion of the Kings, Horatius Pulvillus,
1141 I, 47 | of a soldier, and after extending the insulting frolic to
1142 I, 28 | that the troops were very extensively corrupted and that it would
1143 I, 68 | his army less merciful. "Exterminate the race," was the cry of
1144 I, 78 | people is, so to speak, external to themselves. No troops
1145 I, 46 | imperial honour. All strove to extinguish the remembrance of those
1146 IV, 30 | Civilis saw this, and, extinguishing the fires, threw the confusion
1147 II, 90 | assume the name of Augustus, extorted from him a compliance as
1148 II, 65 | name of any Emperor. Some extracts from the speeches of Rufus
1149 II, 83 | appearance of delay, yet not with extraordinary speed. Thus he allowed rumour
1150 II, 95 | prodigal entertainments, extravagance, and riot. The Emperor himself,
1151 I, 20 | property of others in the same extravagances in which they had squandered
1152 IV, 28 | of the mutiny; such wide extremes of license and of subordination
1153 III, 83 | to their holidays, they exulted in and enjoyed the scene,
1154 IV, 75 | stands unharmed a city which exults in the spoils of our armies
1155 IV, 84 | to moisten his cheeks and eye-balls with his spittle. Another
1156 II, 95 | what with the Vinii, the Fabii, the Iceli, and the Asiatici,
1157 II, 54 | changed. The object of this fabrication was that the passports of
1158 III, 14 | elected to the command Fabius Fabullus, legate of the fifth legion,
1159 II, 50 | have undertaken, to collect fabulous marvels, and to amuse with
1160 III, 10 | that side the lines which faced the enemy, and that some
1161 IV, 84 | one case," they said, "the faculty of sight was not wholly
1162 II, 22 | fiercer, retreated wounded, fainting, and mangled, with serious
1163 II, 9 | Everything, however, was faithfully reported to Asprenas, and
1164 II, 13 | even death itself make her falter in this courageous and noble
1165 II, 61 | and dispersed the crowd of fanatics. Mariccus was captured in
1166 III, 2 | their strength is drawn, is faraway; Britain is separated only
1167 III, 62 | repeatedly acted in the farces, with more cleverness than
1168 IV, 18 | conquered. Think not of how it fared with the armies of Vindex.
1169 I, 27 | he was purchasing certain farm-buildings, which from their age he
1170 III, 47 | founded by the Greeks on the farthest shore of the Pontus. There
1171 III, 69 | children or kindred, but by the fascination of war. The Vitellianists
1172 III, 47 | joined together without fastenings of brass or iron. Whenever
1173 V, 5 | liable. By their frequent fasts they still bear witness
1174 V, 19 | your parents, and your father-land. This day will either be
1175 III, 57 | into revolt by Claudius Faventinus, a centurion cashiered by
1176 V, 28 | Batavians seem to have received favorable treatment.]~ ~THE END~ ~
1177 III, 43 | inhabitants themselves, favouring a fellow-townsman, and anticipating
1178 IV, 22 | to him we will retain our fealty and devote our swords till
1179 II, 68 | drunkenness, more like a nocturnal feast and revel than a properly
1180 III, 39 | he boasted that he had feasted his eyes on the spectacle
1181 IV, 30 | lighting them, they sat feasting, and rushed to the conflict,
1182 II, 62 | and insatiable passion for feasts; the provocatives of gluttony
1183 IV, 54 | would permit, and the one feature which had been thought wanting
1184 IV, 43 | consular rank, had been fed to the full with seven million
1185 II, 99 | moved along, their weapons feebly grasped, their horses spiritless.
1186 IV, 49 | perhaps, because an inferior feels greater interest in such
1187 V, 22 | gone out, and were busy felling timber, killed the prefect
1188 III, 43 | themselves, favouring a fellow-townsman, and anticipating his future
1189 IV, 86 | also stood close at hand a female figure, to which many gave
1190 V, 13 | hills of great height were fenced in by walls which had been
1191 II, 50 | from the municipal town of Ferentinum. His father was of consular,
1192 I, 21 | savage, has been rendered ferocious by prolonged exile. How
1193 III, 76 | Vitellius, who was encamped near Feronia, was threatening Tarracina
1194 II, 43 | gladiators, which had been ferried across the river, and which
1195 III, 34 | afforded by the rivers, the fertility of the soil, and the many
1196 V, 6 | for Liber established a festive and cheerful worship, while
1197 I, 37 | from his successor, Galba fetches out of exile the man in
1198 II, 92 | calculated to produce such feuds. In their struggles for
1199 V, 9 | themselves. Expelled by the fickle populace, and regaining
1200 III, 79 | continue the pursuit beyond Fidenae.~ ~
1201 III, 21 | defended in front by a field-ditch, such being the character
1202 III, 29 | The fiercest struggle was maintained
1203 I, 47 | had lived to the age of fifty-seven, with many changes of character.
1204 V, 7 | shrub; each branch, as it fills with sap, may be pierced
1205 IV, 47 | hemmed in, without arms, filthy and squalid. And when they
1206 IV, 43 | Even unsuccessful villany finds some to emulate it: what
1207 III, 30 | instantly be set to the finest buildings without the city,
1208 II, 21 | while they showered brands, fireballs, and ignited missiles, on
1209 III, 32 | having given the signal for firing the town, which was indeed
1210 V, 7 | affords no home either to fish or water-birds. These strange
1211 I, 68 | weapons, or shook their fists in the faces of the envoys.
1212 II, 77 | whatever honour you think fit to bestow on me; the danger
1213 I, 9 | them, much more in their fits of frenzy were they irritated
1214 IV, 33 | which he had struggled for five-and-twenty years in the camps of Rome. "
1215 II, 64 | frequented thoroughfare of the Flaminian road, he should turn aside
1216 IV, 46 | About the same time Antonius Flamma was condemned under the
1217 III, 3 | With flashing eyes, and in the fierce
1218 III, 85 | heartlessness with which they had flattered him when he was alive. ~ ~
1219 IV, 84 | and by the language of his flatterers to hope for success. At
1220 II, 101| during the ascendancy of the Flavian family composed the chronicles
1221 V, 5 | They abstain from swine's flesh, in consideration of what
1222 V, 7 | upon it, it coagulates and floats upon the surface. Those
1223 I, 35 | of the soldiers who were flocking in, they seized him, gave
1224 IV, 43 | what will happen, if it flourish and be strong? And the man,
1225 III, 39 | resolute loyalty. In the flourishing days of the party, when
1226 II, 55 | ornamented with laurel leaves and flowers, and piled chaplets in the
1227 V, 21 | barrier, sent the river flowing down a steep channel on
1228 V, 7 | arts. It is naturally a fluid of dark colour; when vinegar
1229 V, 6 | to chant to the music of flutes and cymbals, and to wear
1230 IV, 71 | The man was a turbulent fomenter of sedition, and pleased
1231 I, 7 | where he was undoubtedly fomenting sedition, by Trebonius Garutianus
1232 II, 92 | irritation and unseasonable fondness, they at once despised and
1233 II, 94 | gladiators and wild beasts, and fooling away his money as if he
1234 III, 2 | follow, and to tread in the footsteps of victory." ~ ~
1235 V, 15 | seeing that the position forbad an assault or any of the
1236 I, 48 | and friends he shewed a forbearance, which, when he had fallen
1237 IV, 35 | destroyed the camp after once forcing an entrance. As for Vocula,
1238 IV, 73 | command of Sextilius; a ford was discovered, and he found
1239 IV, 27 | to keep the Germans from fording the stream; the self-same
1240 V, 16 | the varying depth of the fords, and unfavourable to our
1241 V, 14 | founders of the state had foreseen that frequent wars would
1242 I, 18 | of fate, though they be foreshewn, are not escaped. Addressing
1243 I, 67 | they were cut down in their forests and even in their hiding
1244 II, 78 | direct his counsels, and to foretell the future. Old omens now
1245 III, 57 | cashiered by Galba, who forged letters in the name of Vespasian
1246 III, 36 | dismissed with the same forgetfulness the past, the present, and
1247 II, 29 | entreaties, they craved forgiveness. But when Valens, thus unexpectedly
1248 IV, 53 | to shew an impartial and forgiving temper towards his son. "
1249 IV, 29 | being of German origin, had forsworn its native country, and
1250 I, 65 | rage. When money was not forthcoming he was bought off by sacrifices
1251 IV, 11 | they conducted him to the fortieth milestone from Rome on the
1252 V, 14 | to purchase the right of fortification, they raised in time of
1253 III, 15 | keeping the legions to fortify the position, he sent the
1254 II, 30 | While they were fortifying a camp at Ticinum, the news
1255 I, 66 | to pay the garrison of a fortress, which the Helvetii had
1256 I, 85 | obstructed by causes either fortuitous or natural, was regarded
1257 IV, 4 | Mucianus had also forwarded to the Senate certain letters
1258 III, 52 | the wishes of Mucianus. By forwarding these letters to Vespasian
1259 IV, 78 | surrounded their camp with a fosse and rampart, for up to that
1260 V, 14 | holding rain water. The founders of the state had foreseen
1261 IV, 54 | with water drawn from the fountains and rivers. After this,
1262 V, 7 | sap, may be pierced with a fragment of stone or pottery. If
1263 I, 16 | Could the vast frame of this empire have stood
1264 IV, 42 | principal members, then framed a form of oath, which was
1265 IV, 71 | and pleased many by his frantic eloquence. ~ ~
1266 I, 5 | for the commonwealth, but fraught with peril for himself.
1267 I, 66 | Caecina revelled more freely in plunder and bloodshed.
1268 II, 23 | promoters of mutiny and discord. Frenzied with fear and guilt, they
1269 I, 19 | arriving with daily increasing frequency, while the country was ready
1270 I, 4 | The degraded populace, frequenters of the arena and the theatre,
1271 III, 20 | camp-followers with the freshest of the cavalry to Bedriacum
1272 IV, 40 | Varus Arrius, who, in the freshness of their fame, while distinguished
1273 II, 87 | for in such disgraceful friendships he felt a strange pleasure.
1274 II, 50 | Regium Lepidum, and was not frightened or driven away by the concourse
1275 I, 47 | extending the insulting frolic to the watches and the general
1276 II, 88 | entire camp. Some with the frolicsome humour of slaves robbed
1277 II, 6 | the garrisons along the frontier of Armenia. There was Asia
1278 IV, 35 | mistrusting his victory, he fruitlessly wasted several days before
1279 II, 24 | was greatly annoyed by the fruitlessness of all his undertakings,
1280 I, 24 | Tigellinus, added, so to speak, fuel to the flames. In his endeavour
1281 V, 26 | mourning; an exile and a fugitive he could only be a burden
1282 I, 45 | purchased. The man with the fullest purse was worn out with
1283 I, 78 | triumphal statue, while Fulvius Aurelius, Julianus Titius,
1284 III, 69 | coming down by the Lake Fundanus, by some of the most determined
1285 III, 11 | Moesia, this time the more furiously because their rage broke
1286 I, 45 | made, that the fees for furloughs usually paid to the centurions
1287 V, 8 | is of limited extent, but furnishes an inexhaustible supply
1288 I, 87 | for the war the luxurious furniture of the banquet and other
1289 V, 8 | collected, mixed with nitre, and fused into glass. This shore is
1290 III, 38 | banquet and the unrestrained gaiety of the guests. There were
1291 II, 9 | entrusted the government of Galatia and Pamphylia to Calpurnius
1292 I, 50 | inflaming the army against the Galbianists, that being the name, which
1293 I, 89 | himself of the abilities of Galerius Trachalus in civil matters,
1294 IV, 84 | periodical return of the summer gales and settled weather at sea,
1295 V, 25 | complement of a Liburnian galley. With these were the captured
1296 II, 35 | having manned some light gallies, attacked them with the
1297 I, 5 | praises of the army, was galling to troops who rebelled against
1298 II, 40 | Numidian had arrived at full gallop with an angry message from
1299 IV, 23 | allies, while his cavalry galloped about the plains. At the
1300 I, 72 | made for the execution of Galvia Crispinilla. Various artifices
1301 II, 61 | thrust himself into fortune's game, and to challenge the arms
1302 II, 55 | there was no alarm; the games of Ceres were attended as
1303 IV, 58 | his escape by bribing his gaolers. This man undertook, if
1304 III, 82 | taking their stand on the garden-walls, kept off the assailants
1305 II, 20 | colours, and the trews, a garment of foreign fashion, clothed
1306 I, 7 | fomenting sedition, by Trebonius Garutianus the procurator, who acted
1307 IV, 37 | all the license of nightly gatherings, revived their old grudge
1308 III, 38 | from his banqueting table gazes at the sufferings of his
1309 III, 7 | and the eighteenth (the Gemina), finding the campaign opening
1310 III, 71 | statues, the glories of former generations, formed them into a barricade
1311 III, 86 | a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which
1312 I, 81 | addressed the companies in the gentler or harsher terms that suited
1313 II, 7 | said, never unite with a genuine good faith. It matters not
1314 V, 11 | of the Jews lasted till Gessius Florus was procurator. In
1315 II, 72 | a runaway slave, by name Geta, he was executed as slaves
1316 I, 20 | crafty and timid policy was getting rid of individuals, while
1317 I, 36 | whenever I call to mind that ghastly entry, Galba's solitary
1318 IV, 3 | the betrayer of Tarracina, gibbeted in the very rings of knighthood,
1319 I, 87 | Commonwealth, while the giddy and those who were thoughtless
1320 I, 35 | time before had stood the gilt statue of Galba, and there,
1321 IV, 65 | their arms in readiness, and girded on their weapons as if for
1322 IV, 54 | with a troop of boys and girls, whose fathers and mothers
1323 III, 37 | with great contempt both giver and receiver, wormed himself
1324 II, 35 | his gladiators. But the gladiator has not in battle the firmness
1325 III, 32 | had been aggravated by the gladiatorial show exhibited there by
1326 IV, 44 | Marcellus cast furious glances about him, while Crispus
1327 V, 8 | with nitre, and fused into glass. This shore is of limited
1328 III, 29 | finding that their missiles glided off the "testudo," at last
1329 II, 68 | A cloud of dust and the glitter of arms were seen at a distance.
1330 II, 89 | their respective companies, glittering with arms and decorations.
1331 I, 29 | dread on my own account the gloomier issue; for I have known
1332 II, 95 | sole road to power was to glut the insatiable appetites
1333 I, 64 | individual soldiers, and to goad them into destroying Vienna,
1334 I, 50 | corruption, and treachery goes unpunished. They had men,
1335 II, 58 | to gain for Vitellius the good-will of the Moors. This was no
1336 III, 51 | call for some example of goodness or some solace in the presence
1337 II, 70 | soil was saturated with gore, and, what with levelled
1338 III, 50 | appearance of submission, to govern Silvanus, a leader without
1339 II, 82 | distinguished with prefectures and governments, and several with the honours
1340 V, 1 | was ever displaying his gracefulness and his energy in war. By
1341 IV, 27 | about a smaller supply of grain and a greater number of
1342 IV, 53 | days' consumption in the granaries, when the supplies from
1343 V, 10 | had married Drusilla, the granddaughter of Antony and Cleopatra,
1344 IV, 87 | temple, proportioned to the grandeur of the city, was erected
1345 III, 37 | Senate in a speech of studied grandiloquence, and was extolled by the
1346 V, 10 | grandson-in-law, as Claudius was the grandson, of Antony. ~ ~
1347 V, 10 | Cleopatra, and so was the grandson-in-law, as Claudius was the grandson,
1348 I, 15 | Agrippa, afterwards his grandsons, and finally Tiberius Nero,
1349 II, 49 | and employed himself in granting interviews to those who
1350 I, 50 | tribute, and had received grants from the State. There was
1351 V, 24 | into confusion, threw their grapling irons on the vessels, and
1352 IV, 11 | bearing, and his guards, to grasp at the power, while he waived
1353 II, 99 | along, their weapons feebly grasped, their horses spiritless.
1354 III, 41 | the infamous reputation of grasping at unlawful gratifications
1355 IV, 63 | shrubs and roots and the grass that grew between the stones,
1356 V, 4 | guided by the appearance of a grassy spot, discovered an abundant
1357 I, 84 | be punished), met with a grateful acceptance, and for the
1358 III, 41 | of grasping at unlawful gratifications and polluting the houses
1359 II, 67 | ordered, though with the gratifying compliment of an honourable
1360 III, 69 | among them being Verulana Gratilla, who was taken thither,
1361 II, 48 | Vitellius. He distributed some gratuities, but sparingly, and not
1362 II, 26 | led into action. Julius Gratus, prefect of the camp, was
1363 IV, 56 | for he asserted that his great-grandmother had, by her personal charms,
1364 II, 24 | and Paullinus. Caecina was greatly annoyed by the fruitlessness
1365 I, 23 | Campania and the cities of Greece, had painfully to struggle
1366 III, 47 | Trapezus, founded by the Greeks on the farthest shore of
1367 II, 42 | who did not know what the greeting meant. Then the enemy's
1368 III, 67 | funeral procession. The greetings of the people were flattering,
1369 V, 4 | most part in a stupor of grief, till one of the exiles,
1370 III, 37 | they uttered their private griefs. Not a word from any one
1371 I, 7 | abuses as the old, abuses as grievous as ever, but not so readily
1372 I, 52 | for peculation. Caecina, grievously offended, determined to
1373 II, 49 | upon the steel. Hearing a groan from the dying man, his
1374 II, 46 | the soldiers cheered or groaned. Nor was it only the Praetorians,
1375 IV, 84 | knees, and implored him with groans to heal his infirmity. This
1376 I, 73 | with debaucheries and the grossest crimes, and both spoke truth.
1377 I, 65 | many years and suddenly growing rich, he could but ill conceal
1378 V, 8 | productive power. Everything that grows spontaneously, as well as
1379 V, 8 | tainted, and that thus the growth of harvest and the fruits
1380 III, 66 | conqueror would be their sole guarantee. "And Vespasian," they said, "
1381 III, 10 | pushing aside those who were guarding the tribunal, were about
1382 II, 68 | invited Verginius to be his guest. The legates and tribunes
1383 II, 85 | danger, and procured some guides, who were acquainted with
1384 IV, 17 | easily crushed, and that the guiding hand in the war was not
1385 I, 36 | many thousands of perfectly guiltless soldiers. A shudder comes
1386 II, 35 | boats, climbed over the gunwales, or sank them with their
1387 III, 33 | wantonly hurled into the gutted houses and plundered temples.
1388 II, 78 | there is given you a vast habitation, boundless territory, a
1389 II, 12 | Italy, the fields, and the habitations of their native country,
1390 IV, 18 | Asia Minor, and the East, habituated as it is to despotism, submit
1391 I, 84 | contenting themselves with hackneyed terms of abuse, though some
1392 II, 85 | wastes of Moesia beyond Mount Haemus, nor did he afterwards take
1393 V, 19 | posterity." These words were hailed, according to their custom,
1394 V, 24 | hands. The general, who was half asleep, and all but naked,
1395 I, 37 | moment Galba has but one half-armed cohort, which is detaining,
1396 III, 71 | would have burst through the half-burnt gates of the Capitol, had
1397 III, 28 | unhurt and the wounded, the half-dead and the dying, were mingled
1398 I, 30 | German soldiers from the Hall of Liberty. No confidence
1399 I, 39 | of the surging crowd; the halls and temples all around were
1400 IV, 51 | wanderings through inaccessible hamlets, had sold to more distant
1401 IV, 26 | disgraceful practice, namely, the handing over the despatches to the
1402 III, 32 | population of Cremona was roughly handled by the soldiers, who were
1403 IV, 24 | had themselves no skill in handling them, but the prisoners
1404 I, 52 | Germany Caecina, young and handsome, of commanding stature,
1405 I, 50 | lucrative war, began to hanker after compaigns and battles,
1406 III, 1 | Under happier auspices and in a more loyal
1407 IV, 47 | that day. But when Domitian harangued them a few days afterwards,
1408 II, 4 | vigour equivalent to the hardihood which the others had gained
1409 IV, 21 | oppose us, our march will be harmless, but if an armed force encounter
1410 IV, 24 | missiles fixed themselves harmlessly in the turrets and battlements
1411 V, 6 | institutions do not by any means harmonize with the theory; for Liber
1412 II, 8 | freedman from Italy, a skilful harp-player and singer, accomplishments,
1413 III, 76 | before, and was now, by the harsh exaction of presents and
1414 I, 27 | the temple of Apollo, the Haruspex Umbricius announced to him
1415 II, 78 | broader shade. This, as the Haruspices agreed, was an omen of brilliant
1416 V, 8 | that thus the growth of harvest and the fruits of autumn
1417 II, 87 | his lands, on which the harvests were now ripe, were plundered
1418 III, 31 | plead their cause. When he haughtily rejected their suit, they
1419 II, 20 | found indications of a haughty spirit in the general's
1420 III, 5 | Rhaetia and Noricum. Neither hazarded an engagement, and the fate
1421 III, 53 | had depreciated his own hazardous achievements. Nor was he
1422 I, 40 | many wounds even on the headless trunk. ~ ~
1423 IV, 38 | These men, headstrong, cowardly, and spiritless,
1424 IV, 84 | implored him with groans to heal his infirmity. This he did
1425 IV, 84 | might be restored, if a healing influence were applied;
1426 IV, 87 | God himself, because he heals the sick, many identified
1427 V, 7 | Syria. The inhabitants are healthy and able to bear fatigue.
1428 I, 85 | bridge, was checked by the heap of ruins across the current,
1429 I, 77 | Nero Otho, as if they were heaping on him new distinction and
1430 III, 84 | peace, and pollute both hearth and altar with blood; and
1431 III, 72 | After him, Servius Tullius, heartily assisted by the allies,
1432 III, 85 | the dead man with the same heartlessness with which they had flattered
1433 IV, 30 | the conflict, as each grew heated with wine, with a useless
1434 V, 7 | say, amidst these burning heats, a summit shaded with trees
1435 V, 4 | themselves, taking for their heaven-sent leader that man who should
1436 I, 22 | their observation of the heavens revolutions, and a year
1437 V, 7 | that the bitumen moves in heaving masses on the water, that
1438 V, 3 | own in what is called the Hebrew country, lying on the borders
1439 III, 2 | humiliation has been most helpful to our discipline. As for
1440 IV, 39 | up their party feelings, helping to spread the report, which
1441 I, 68 | whether the envoys from Helvetia found the Emperor or his
1442 II, 38 | disguised but no way better. Henceforth men's sole object was supreme
1443 III, 42 | to put in at the port of Hercules Monoecus. Near this place
1444 II, 71 | as it was by players and herds of eunuchs, in fact by all
1445 | hereafter
1446 IV, 80 | number of the Numisii and Herennii, so that all your commanders
1447 IV, 38 | The besieging army, an heterogeneous mass of Chatti, Usipii,
1448 IV, 75 | console or encourage them, but hid themselves in their tents,
1449 I, 78 | plates of iron or very tough hides, and though they are absolutely
1450 V, 3 | city which they founded Hierosolyma after their own name. ~ ~
1451 V, 3 | population of Egypt, led by Hierosolymus and Judas, discharged itself
1452 IV, 54 | by Publius Aelianus, the high-priest, besought Jupiter, Juno,
1453 IV, 80 | another passing between the highroad and the river Mosella, made
1454 II, 65 | the object of accusations. Hilarius, the Emperor's freedman,
1455 III, 2 | to fight. Unless any one hinders me, I who suggest will execute
1456 II, 2 | affection occasioned no hindrance to action. He passed, it
1457 I, 18 | no word of flattery, no hint of a bribe. Yet the tribunes,
1458 I, 25 | distinguished soldiers, by hinting that the favours of Nymphidius
1459 I, 26 | were in the secret. Some hints, which had reached Galba'
1460 II, 29 | of the men of Vienna, the hire of their own toils, they
1461 I, 77 | bestowed on the colonies of Hispalis and Emerita some additional
1462 II, 101| The historians of the period, who during
1463 V, 28 | At this point the Histories break off. We do not know
1464 II, 72 | had concealed himself in Histria, where the old family of
1465 III, 38 | children that I have come hither with my prayers and tears.
1466 I, 65 | bargains to the injury of the holders of land and the magistrates
1467 III, 83 | new delight added to their holidays, they exulted in and enjoyed
1468 V, 5 | us is forbidden. In their holy place they have consecrated
1469 V, 3 | celebrated in the poems of Homer, who called the city which
1470 I, 1 | the false appearance of honesty. I myself knew nothing of
1471 I, 15 | with the same constancy to honor, freedom, friendship, the
1472 V, 27 | masters, then we may more honourably bear with the Emperors of
1473 III, 27 | spades and pickaxes, others hooks and ladders. Then raising
1474 I, 38 | death of Vinius, either hoping by this execution to appease
1475 III, 72 | expulsion of the Kings, Horatius Pulvillus, in his second
1476 V, 3 | describe them as an Assyrian horde who, not having sufficient
1477 V, 4 | that once a disease, which horribly disfigured the body, broke
1478 II, 20 | rode through their towns on horseback in a purple habit. They
1479 III, 16 | almost eleven o'clock, when a horseman arrived at full speed with
1480 I, 62 | with the most courteous hospitality, a sudden panic mastered
1481 II, 1 | while his person would be a hostage in the hands either of Vitellius
1482 V, 20 | spent, and the battle grew hotter, a fiercer onslaught was
1483 III, 84 | they even in their last hours to die with honour. When
1484 I, 79 | treachery, alleging that the households of the Senators were being
1485 III, 51 | generals. The common law of humanity on the one hand forbade
1486 I, 80 | in the dwelling of their humblest dependents.~ ~
1487 IV, 48 | highest honours and the lowest humiliations.~ ~
1488 II, 88 | Some with the frolicsome humour of slaves robbed the careless
1489 IV, 1 | capital, the conquerors hunted down the conquered with
1490 III, 30 | of his soldiers, who, by hurling beams, tiles, and flaming
1491 III, 18 | from Moesia, whom, though hurriedly brought up, long service
1492 I, 3 | sons; wives followed their husbands into exile; there were brave
1493 III, 5 | princes of the Sarmatae Iazyges, who had in their hands
1494 I, 78 | the day was damp and the ice thawed, what with the continual
1495 II, 95 | the Vinii, the Fabii, the Iceli, and the Asiatici, passed
1496 V, 3 | mountain in Crete called Ida; the neighbouring tribe,
1497 IV, 87 | he heals the sick, many identified with Aesculapius; others
1498 IV, 16 | loaded with arms a crowd of idlers from the neighbouring villages
1499 III, 24 | originators of the war. "Idly," he said "have you challenged
1500 II, 21 | showered brands, fireballs, and ignited missiles, on the besieged,
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