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1501 I, 71 | infamous life by a tardy and ignominious death. ~ ~
1502 III, 77 | Vitellius, and, after being ignominiously scourged, was put to death
1503 II, 71 | that of Martius Macer was ignored on the ground of his having
1504 II | BOOK II~ ~March - August, A.D. 69~ ~
1505 IV, 24 | catapults prostrated the ill-constructed fabric, and when they set
1506 III, 32 | provoked and insulted them. The ill-feeling had been aggravated by the
1507 III, 6 | the first rank, yet the ill-gotten prosperity of the moment
1508 I, 37 | of exile the man in whose ill-humour and avarice he considers
1509 V, 11 | battles, generally with ill-success. Cestius dying, either in
1510 III, 67 | people were flattering, but ill-suited to the time; the soldiers
1511 I, 6 | from Germany, Britain, and Illyria, selected by Nero, and sent
1512 IV, 56 | inflamed with the pride of an imaginary descent, for he asserted
1513 IV, 5 | example of his father-in-law imbibed with peculiar eagerness
1514 I, 82 | frenzy of the late outbreak, imbrue their hands in the blood
1515 V, 9 | There stood a temple of immense wealth. First came the city
1516 IV, 47 | so vast a body of men was immensely large. Mucianus entered
1517 V, 6 | hands of the executioner are immortal. Hence a passion for propagating
1518 V, 1 | working or marching, without impairing his dignity as general.
1519 IV, 53 | slanderers, but to shew an impartial and forgiving temper towards
1520 IV, 6 | throne, and proceeded to impeach Marcellus Eprius, who had
1521 I, 8 | back, and that he was even impeached, they regarded as an accusation
1522 IV, 10 | Soranus by perjury. By this impeachment all the hatreds of the days
1523 IV, 41 | which they might learn what impeachments the several informers had
1524 I, 85 | a prodigy and an omen of impending disasters. ~ ~
1525 I, 78 | though they are absolutely impenetrable to blows, yet they make
1526 IV, 44 | for eloquence, had never imperilled a single life in the days
1527 IV, 60 | and your new allegiance? I implore and entreat thee, O Jupiter,
1528 II, 3 | the diviners was a foreign importation introduced by Tamiras of
1529 I, 71 | from opposite motives more importunately demanded, as well by those
1530 I, 29 | with his sacrifice, was importuning the gods of an empire that
1531 IV, 8 | higher than the throne, or to impose his counsels on Vespasian,
1532 IV, 76 | summoned to their help, had imposed their yoke alike on friend
1533 I, 29 | deceived, on whom luxury imposes by its false show of liberality;
1534 II, 72 | admitted into the secret of his imposture all the most worthless of
1535 I, 70 | soldiers by pretending to imprison him, he now ordered to be
1536 IV, 33 | brother murdered, myself imprisoned, and the savage clamour
1537 V, 9 | the Parthians from at all improving this vilest of nations;
1538 II, 50 | time I would not venture to impugn the credit of common report
1539 II, 79 | All this was done by the impulsive action of the soldiers without
1540 II, 44 | the fashion of the mob, imputing to him their own crimes.
1541 IV, 51 | their wanderings through inaccessible hamlets, had sold to more
1542 II, 15 | though beaten, did not remain inactive. They brought up reinforcements
1543 II, 40 | suspense, sharply rebuked the inactivity of the generals, and commanded
1544 I, 83 | of stones? These dumb and inanimate things may be indifferently
1545 I, 16 | spirit, I was not unworthy of inaugurating a republic. As it is, we
1546 IV, 1 | kindling civil strife, were incapable of checking the abuse of
1547 IV, 43 | besides that your youth incapacitated you for office; there was
1548 II, 14 | Treveri charged the enemy incautiously, and found themselves encountered
1549 V, 14 | skirmishes, surprises, and incendiary fires, and a vast quantity
1550 III, 30 | numbers; the assailants an incentive in the prospect of booty.
1551 II, 21 | themselves, while they discharged incessant volleys in return. The populace
1552 I, 37 | vilest found their chief incitement in the dejection of the
1553 I, 78 | There they perished from the inclemency of the season and the severity
1554 II, 80 | encampments of Germany with their inclement climate and their harassing
1555 IV, 58 | movement, as the legions were incomplete in numbers and disloyal.
1556 IV, 30 | The Germans fought with inconsiderate fury; our men, more alive
1557 I, 26 | the risks of darkness, the inconvenient dispersion of the troops
1558 II, 28 | they remained united, so inconveniently strong, he directed a detachment
1559 III, 23 | and the enemy's missiles, incorrectly aimed at what seemed the
1560 III, 5 | the procurator, remaining incorruptibly faithful to Vitellius. Accordingly,
1561 IV, 35 | both armies, and spread incredible panic among his own troops,
1562 I, 16 | judgment of others, shall incur unpopularity, however illustrious
1563 IV, 12 | movements which it kindled among independent and allied nations. ~ ~
1564 II, 64 | and was noted as the first indication of its character. Triaria'
1565 I, 65 | inflamed, and, after a youth of indigence, becoming prodigal in old
1566 III, 53 | Antonius was indignant, and blamed Mucianus, whose
1567 III, 31 | vanquished men, to every indignity, it suddenly occurred to
1568 II, 82 | hated Vitellius, by the inducement of renewed military service.~ ~
1569 I, 22 | marriages, and the other indulgences of despotic power, before
1570 III, 57 | had lately exercised an indulgent rule over the fleet at Misenum,
1571 II, 82 | exertion, encouraged the industrious by praise, and with the
1572 IV, 17 | light. When stratagem proved ineffectual, he resorted to force, arranging
1573 I, 50 | severe. But that discipline, inexorable as it is in times of peace,
1574 II, 18 | But the undisciplined and inexperienced soldiery seized their standards
1575 III, 6 | qualities. The favour thus infamously acquired made him a centurion
1576 III, 73 | spiritless and, so to speak, infatuated commander, who had not the
1577 III, 11 | The legions had caught the infection of mutiny, and next assailed
1578 II, 74 | everybody else as their inferiors. But in such gigantic preparations
1579 IV, 86 | neighbourhood, was sacred to the infernal Jupiter, for there also
1580 I, 87 | either suffered from the infirmities of age, or were enervated
1581 I, 50 | the bitterest hostility in inflaming the army against the Galbianists,
1582 I, 18 | ruined by his old-fashioned inflexibility, and by an excessive sternness
1583 V, 6 | among themselves they are inflexibly honest and ever ready to
1584 II, 14 | came in haste and alarm to inform Fabius Valens, how Otho'
1585 II, 84 | extent of a man's fortune. Informations abounded, and all the richest
1586 III, 70 | instructions to complain of the infraction of the stipulated terms. "
1587 III, 74 | servant of the temple. At the ingenious suggestion of a freedman,
1588 I, 50 | There was also a report, ingeniously spread and recklessly believed,
1589 IV, 50 | death, many were disposed to ingratiate themselves with the murderer.
1590 IV, 16 | policy. This is a tribe which inhabits part of the island, and
1591 I, 16 | we were, so to speak, the inheritance of a single family. The
1592 I, 83 | descendants, as we have inherited it from our ancestors. For
1593 II, 84 | bent on enforcing these iniquitous measures, till, spoilt by
1594 II, 79 | Judaea respectively. The initiative in transferring the Empire
1595 I, 21 | the aged Emperor, and will injure me yet more with a young
1596 I, 1 | either from benefits or from injuries. I would not deny that my
1597 I, 8 | could not complain of its injustice. They had no leader, for
1598 II, 81 | whole expanse of country inland towards Pontus and Armenia,
1599 V, 15 | clouds. The doors of the inner shrine were suddenly thrown
1600 V, 9 | palace, then, within the innermost defences, the temple itself.
1601 II, 68 | suspicions, had no doubt of his innocence. Yet he could hardly check
1602 I, 23 | would recognise, he would inquire after others, and would
1603 I, 27 | were complete. To those who inquired the reason of his departure,
1604 II, 59 | with him. Vitellius made no inquiries into what was going on.
1605 I, 20 | question of money. On a general inquiry it seemed the fairest course
1606 III, 20 | localities of the town, the enemy inside the walls, and all possible
1607 I, 44 | Otho with kisses; the more insincere their demonstrations, the
1608 IV, 4 | and yet wholly free from insincerity; and he was strongly supported
1609 IV, 20 | effect but to make them insist with more energy on what
1610 I, 35 | The common soldiers even insisted that all the officers should
1611 II, 7 | Even great generals grow insolent in prosperity; these men
1612 I, 51 | Germany, and had carefully inspected the winter quarters of the
1613 II, 78 | the priest, after repeated inspections of the entrails, said to
1614 II, 61 | origin, pretending to divine inspiration, ventured to thrust himself
1615 III, 34 | detestation which it was inspiring, Antonius issued a proclamation,
1616 III, 53 | legions of Pannonia; my instigations roused the generals in Moesia;
1617 IV, 28 | they declared, was the instigator of the crime, Gallus his
1618 V, 6 | and have this lesson first instilled into them, to despise all
1619 I, 1 | posterity. But while we instinctively shrink from a writer's adulation,
1620 V, 6 | of the East, though their institutions do not by any means harmonize
1621 I, 66 | the Rhaetian auxiliaries, instructing them to attack the Helvetii
1622 IV, 42 | nothing had been done by their instrumentality to prejudice the safety
1623 III, 11 | now there was a rivalry in insubordination and insolence, till they
1624 III, 26 | so long a march would be insupportable, and their victory would
1625 IV, 76 | borders of the Rhine, but to insure that no second Ariovistus
1626 II, 32 | East with its armies yet intact, we have Italy and Rome,
1627 I, 1 | in one man, these great intellects passed away. Then too the
1628 IV, 84 | joyful countenance, amid the intense expectation of the multitude
1629 III, 25 | rumour thus arose, or was intentionally suggested by the general,
1630 II, 34 | remained quiet, and watched intently for the moment when the
1631 IV, 6 | doubtful, and many Senators interceded, Priscus dropped the charge,
1632 V, 25 | this people, a desire to intercept, by this alarming demonstration,
1633 I, 65 | colony prevailed, and the intercession of Valens, who charged them
1634 I, 12 | for themselves, and spread interested reports, in which they named
1635 II, 14 | by the route through the interior, the enemy's fleet might
1636 II, 25 | which were obstructed by the interlacing layers of the vines, and
1637 III, 34 | the many connexions and intermarriages formed with neighbouring
1638 IV, 55 | succession of civil wars and internal calamities. ~ ~
1639 II, 78 | caught up, and now began to interpret. Nothing was more talked
1640 II, 27 | it was not convenient to interrupt the orderly narrative of
1641 III, 83 | men's pleasures were not interrupted even for a moment. As if
1642 I, 83 | which has lasted without interruption and without decay from the
1643 I, 23 | interest. He would often intersperse his conversation with complaints
1644 IV, 47 | he drew up with moderate intervals of space between the divisions;
1645 III, 81 | would permit some delay to intervene, everything might be more
1646 I, 19 | following four days which intervened between his adoption and
1647 II, 62 | and with those who died intestate, the law was carried out.
1648 II, 99 | bearer of communications intimating that the conditions of desertion
1649 I, 22 | words of wisdom and the intimation of destiny, with that inclination
1650 II, 66 | confidence to them, while they intimidated the Batavians. Vitellius
1651 IV, 73 | promises or overborne by intimidation. Their first act was to
1652 III, 56 | and finally drinking to intoxication. At last, weary of the camp,
1653 IV, 65 | anticipation. For in their intrenchments their woeful appearance
1654 III, 17 | self-possessed commander or a most intrepid soldier could do. He threw
1655 I, 20 | burdensome by the number and intriguing practices of those with
1656 IV, 87 | account of the origin and introduction of the God Serapis. I am
1657 IV, 71 | who, he feared, were he to intrude himself upon the army, might
1658 III, 3 | the common soldiers had intruded themselves into the deliberations),
1659 I, 85 | future, arose from a sudden inundation of the Tiber. The river
1660 III, 34 | against any other sudden invader from the Alps. From the
1661 III, 55 | the wise held that to be invalid, which could neither be
1662 II, 53 | quarrel, Licinius Caecina inveighing against Marcellus Eprius,
1663 II, 1 | the vulgar, ever eager to invent, had spread the report that
1664 V, 15 | from fighting, till all the inventions, used in ancient warfare,
1665 IV, 46 | after the case had been investigated, punishment was inflicted
1666 I, 7 | of character, or to avoid investigation into the circumstances of
1667 IV, 62 | war between them. Tutor, investing the Colonia Agrippinensis
1668 III, 36 | preparation; he did not seek to invigorate the soldiers by encouraging
1669 I, 1 | Domitian; but those who profess inviolable truthfulness must speak
1670 IV, 60 | should be preserved pure and inviolate under my command, you will
1671 II, 18 | that Caecina had come by invitation. Spurinna associated himself
1672 IV, 25 | plans of Civilis, and was inviting the German tribes to join
1673 III, 31 | many valiant men should invoke the aid of a traitor. Then
1674 I, 1 | spite, because flattery involves the shameful imputation
1675 II, 61 | senseless multitude to be invulnerable, till he was put to death
1676 V, 13 | skilfully obliqued or bent inwards, in such a manner that the
1677 III, 30 | town, its stone towers, its iron-barred gates, in the garrison who
1678 III, 51 | past, I shall mention not irrelevantly, whenever the subject and
1679 I, 70 | also to Otho a fidelity as irreproachable as it was unfortunate. The
1680 II, 23 | suspicious of the good, irresolute in prosperity, but rising
1681 II, 99 | Vitellius, appalled by the irruption of the enemy and by the
1682 I, 59 | finding himself altogether isolated, as the infantry and cavalry
1683 III, 71 | went up; the defenders, issuing forth on the roof of these
1684 IV | BOOK IV~ ~January - November, A.D.
1685 V, 6 | and to wear garlands of ivy, and that a golden vine
1686 III, 51 | battle with Cinna at the Janiculum, a soldier in Pompey's army,
1687 V, 9 | villages. They have also towns. Jersualem is the capital. There stood
1688 II, 88 | the soldiers resented the jest. Sword in hand they fell
1689 IV, 2 | unmoved by the shouts and jests of the insulting rabble.
1690 V, 9 | temple itself. Only the Jew might approach the gates;
1691 V, 7 | forth the stream of the Jordan. This river does not discharge
1692 III, 6 | occupied Aquileia, were joyfully welcomed in the neighbourhood,
1693 II, 58 | royalty and the name of Juba. ~ ~
1694 V, 3 | Idaei, came to be called Judaei by a barbarous lengthening
1695 V, 3 | led by Hierosolymus and Judas, discharged itself into
1696 I, 51 | importance. Though sterner judges pronounced Vitellius to
1697 II, 52 | it as a false report; and judging the Senate to be hostile
1698 IV, 89 | uncertain; for Cerialis, by a judicious temporising, eluded the
1699 IV, 54 | changed. On the 21st of June, beneath a cloudless sky,
1700 III, 38 | beware, a foe who boasts of Junii and Antonii among his ancestors,
1701 IV, 40 | capital, the laws, and the jurisdiction of the magistrates, were
1702 II, 78 | Judaea, appeared to have justified the truth of the omen. When
1703 III, 7 | taken for rest, and Minucius Justus, prefect of the camp in
1704 IV, 69 | swords, when Campanus and Juvenalis, two of the Tungrian chieftains,
1705 II, 3 | seen in the entrails of kids. It is forbidden to pour
1706 IV, 53 | touch but their nearest kin. Even between brothers there
1707 IV, 1 | the party, so energetic in kindling civil strife, were incapable
1708 IV, 66 | influenced by recollections of kindness received; for his son, who
1709 III, 69 | the love of children or kindred, but by the fascination
1710 IV, 77 | Gaul always had its petty kingdoms and intestine wars, till
1711 III, 25 | the bodies of slaughtered kinsfolk, connexions, and brothers.
1712 III, 10 | vociferating that he was the kinsman of Vitellius, that he had
1713 I, 35 | bowed to the crowd, and kissed his hands, and altogether
1714 IV, 35 | men might deposit their knapsacks, and so fight without encumbrance.
1715 I, 41 | struck him on the back of the knee; immediately afterwards
1716 II, 16 | Quintius Certus, a Roman knight, who ventured to offer opposition,
1717 V, 14 | own walls, which were more laboriously constructed than the others.
1718 IV, 42 | Nero. Sariolenus indeed laboured under an imputation of recent
1719 III, 73 | the troops of Vitellius lacked neither skill nor courage
1720 III, 25 | a son of tender age. The lad grew up to manhood, and
1721 V, 7 | of itself to flow in and lade the vessel till the stream
1722 IV, 43 | illustrious name, and noble ladies, when you actually blamed
1723 III, 85 | corpse of Flavius Sabinus had lain. One speech was heard from
1724 I, 9 | who, disabled by age and lameness, had no strength of character
1725 II, 45 | to have no bereavement to lament. Search was made for the
1726 II, 21 | again felt secure, they lamented it as though they could
1727 IV, 33 | for change, he began with lamenting the perils through which
1728 III, 17 | that he transfixed with a lance a flying standard bearer,
1729 V, 17 | the distant fighting of a land-battle; it was more like a naval
1730 IV, 50 | despatched by Mucianus, on landing in the port of Carthage,
1731 III, 79 | buildings, gardens, and winding lanes, which were well known to
1732 III, 49 | temperament, developed his latent pride, rapacity and other
1733 | Later
1734 III, 55 | allies, and the rights of Latin citizenship to foreigners;
1735 II, 21 | barbarian. At the same time they lauded or vituperated Otho and
1736 II, 91 | opposing Thrasea. Most of them laughed at the effrontery of such
1737 III, 77 | himself sent to his brother a laurelled dispatch with an account
1738 I, 29 | the crime your own? This lawless spirit will pass into the
1739 I, 36 | far with his rapacity and lawlessness had he been Emperor himself;
1740 II, 68 | manner are either diligent or lax in their duty. About Vitellius
1741 II, 25 | obstructed by the interlacing layers of the vines, and close
1742 III, 68 | if with the intention of laying aside the emblems of Imperial
1743 I, 24 | He took advantage of the lazy indifference of the Prefect,
1744 V, 19 | by a discharge of stones, leaden balls, and other missiles,
1745 V, 8 | by hand, either when the leaf or flower have been developed,
1746 IV, 25 | German tribes to join the league. "This," they said, "has
1747 I, 27 | therefore to be first surveyed. Leaning on his freedman's arm, he
1748 III, 37 | resigned the office. The learned remarked that never before
1749 V, 5 | Jewish bread, made without leaven, is retained as a memorial
1750 I, 40 | pensioner, others that of Lecanius; but it is the current report
1751 I, 40 | foully mutilated his arms and legs, for his breast was protected,
1752 V, 3 | called Judaei by a barbarous lengthening of the national name. Others
1753 I, 12 | in the hope that a more lenient view might be taken of their
1754 II, 50 | frequented grove near Regium Lepidum, and was not frightened
1755 V, 5 | they were infected by the leprosy to which this animal is
1756 III, 63 | residence on the coast. Such a lethargy had come over his spirit,
1757 I, 63 | was in the country of the Leuci. The feelings of the soldiers
1758 II, 92 | the vast crowds at their levees, they vied with each other
1759 V, 7 | sap is used by physicians. Libanus is the principal mountain,
1760 V, 10 | and the nation, with its liberties curtailed, was divided into
1761 I, 11 | through the superstition and licentiousness of its inhabitants, knowing
1762 I, 14 | advanced years, he ordered Piso Licinianus to be summoned. It is uncertain
1763 II, 60 | Suetonius Paullinus and Licinus Proculus in all the wretchedness
1764 III, 80 | were dispersed, and the lictor that stood next to him,
1765 II, 37 | such an agreement; or that lieutenants and generals, who were for
1766 III, 27 | strewn with a vast number of lifeless and mangled bodies. ~ ~
1767 IV, 60 | of the capital, will you lift up arms against your Country?
1768 IV, 30 | wood round the walls and lighting them, they sat feasting,
1769 V, 16 | rivers, is favoured by the lightness of his equipment and the
1770 II, 15 | to Albigaunum, in Upper Liguria. ~ ~
1771 II, 13 | display of fortitude in a Ligurian woman; she had concealed
1772 II, 14 | reinforced by a cohort of Ligurians, an auxiliary local force
1773 II, 85 | possessed with a strong liking for Otho, though they had
1774 V, 8 | glass. This shore is of limited extent, but furnishes an
1775 III, 74 | a freedman, he assumed a linen vestment, and passing unnoticed
1776 IV, 56 | was a Trever, the other a Lingon. Tutor had been made by
1777 I, 64 | separated only by a river, were linked together by perpetual feud.
1778 I, 62 | and with prayers on their lips, came forth to meet it,
1779 III, 28 | the weary troops would not listen to what seemed to them unmeaning
1780 IV, 89 | and affected a devotion to literature and a love of poetry, thus
1781 IV, 54 | fathers and mothers were still living, sprinkled the whole space
1782 IV, 48 | Senate to the effect that a loan of sixty million sesterces
1783 III, 17 | number, made a stand. The locality favoured them, for the road
1784 II, 22 | of arrows and stones the loftier parts of the walls, attacking
1785 IV, 5 | distinguished talents to the loftiest pursuits, not wishing, as
1786 IV, 30 | Piling up logs of wood round the walls
1787 I, 45 | scattered on furlough, or even loiter about the camp, provided
1788 III, 14 | fifth legion, and Cassius Longus, prefect of the camp; they
1789 I, 50 | of Gaul, were now on the lookout for another war and for
1790 III, 27 | dense array of shields was loosened, and the ground was strewn
1791 III, 68 | There was the Roman Emperor, lord but a few days before of
1792 I, 36 | himself; as it is, he has lorded it over us as if we had
1793 II, 41 | the legions were casting lots for the order of march,
1794 III, 68 | to his brother's house. Louder shouts here met him from
1795 III, 39 | solicitations. A righteous man and a lover of peace, who coveted no
1796 V, 25 | overflowed the island, marshy and low-lying as it is, till it resembled
1797 II, 98 | Valerius Festus, the legate, loyally seconded the zeal of the
1798 II, 83 | the shores of Calabria and Lucania menaced by hostile fleets,
1799 II, 58 | Mauritania had declared for him. Lucceius Albinus, whom Nero had appointed
1800 III, 86 | Luceria was his native place. He
1801 I, 65 | used such menaces, that at Lucus, a municipal town of the
1802 V, 24 | they towed up the river Lupia as a present to Veleda. ~ ~
1803 IV, 59 | Lured on by the treacherous representations
1804 V, 18 | of whom after long peace lusted for battle, while others,
1805 III, 41 | money, and he indulged the lusts that are the last solace
1806 I, 15 | honours of the Sulpician and Lutatian houses. As it is, I, who
1807 III, 72 | good fortune. The name of Lutatius Catulus, the dedicator,
1808 V, 3 | called the Hebrew country, lying on the borders of Syria.
1809 V, 9 | subject tribes. When the Macedonians became supreme, King Antiochus
1810 IV, 31 | consternation was caused by a machine, which, being poised in
1811 III, 83 | believe the Country to be mad at once with rage and lust.
1812 I, 81 | another. Their minds were maddened by a blind panic, and, unable
1813 I, 24 | were already on fire, when Maevius Pudens, a near relative
1814 I, 69 | bound to Vitellius, and who magnified the strength of the advancing
1815 III, 54 | the enemy failed not to magnify the report of their strength,
1816 I, 47 | good fortune. His brothers, Magnus and Crassus, had been put
1817 I, 78 | weight of their coats of mail, they could make no use
1818 II, 86 | Vespasian without hesitation, mainly under the influence of Primus
1819 I, 84 | it was hard for them to maintain in all things a safe moderation.
1820 IV, 77 | you only with the cost of maintaining peace. For the tranquillity
1821 II, 78 | spot, had flourished with majestic beauty and even broader
1822 II, 3 | worshipper has vowed, but males are selected; the surest
1823 I, 84 | houses, and exercised a malignant surveillance over all whom
1824 I, 1 | imputation of servility, whereas malignity wears the false appearance
1825 IV, 48 | Silvanus was appointed to manage the affair. Before long,
1826 IV, 62 | Classicus then divided the management of the war between them.
1827 III, 67 | of Vitellius were deaf to manly counsels. His whole soul
1828 III, 21 | body of their countrymen, manoeuvred in the van. ~ ~
1829 III, 25 | Vipstanus Messalla. Julius Mansuetus, a Spaniard, enlisting in
1830 II, 82 | cities were set apart for the manufacture of arms; at Antioch gold
1831 III, 74 | adventures were represented in marble. Afterwards, on his own
1832 IV, 29 | cut up at the village of Marcodurum, where they lay in careless
1833 III, 50 | were added the elite of the marines of the Ravenna fleet, who
1834 IV, 50 | credulous mob rushed into the market-place, and demanded that Piso
1835 I, 22 | its intrigues, its easy marriages, and the other indulgences
1836 IV, 45 | and, on her refusing to marry him, in the frenzy of passion
1837 IV, 67 | worship in common and to Mars, the chief of our divinities,
1838 IV, 58 | the Canninefates and the Marsaci more in the way of robbery
1839 V, 19 | Nor did Civilis marshal his army in silence. He
1840 IV, 60 | when the Roman legions are marshalled against you? Will you be
1841 V, 25 | overflowed the island, marshy and low-lying as it is,
1842 III, 59 | Samnites, the Peligni, and the Marsi, roused themselves, jealous
1843 III, 20 | like a thoughtless mob, marvelling at the height of the towers
1844 II, 50 | undertaken, to collect fabulous marvels, and to amuse with fiction
1845 II, 59 | displeasing, though Vitellius masked his dislike under servile
1846 IV, 51 | recognized him, Baebius Massa, one of the procurators
1847 III, 43 | Stoechades, islands off Massilia. There he was captured by
1848 III, 33 | coin or temple-offerings of massive gold, were cut down by others
1849 II, 68 | in sport to a wrestling match. The legionary was thrown,
1850 I, 47 | a praetorian family, his maternal grandfather was one of the
1851 I, 40 | Commonwealth. To those who slew him mattered not what he said. About
1852 IV, 38 | mass of Chatti, Usipii, and Mattiaci, had raised the siege, glutted
1853 I, 86 | energy of Celsus, on the mature judgment of Gallus, in fact,
1854 I, 30 | commencing, and not yet fully matured, might be swayed by better
1855 I, 71 | rapacity, and all the crimes of maturer years. He perverted Nero
1856 V, 8 | been developed, or after maturing in the usual form, becomes
1857 IV, 41 | been thus given, Junius Mauricus asked Caesar to give the
1858 V, 6 | enemies. They sit apart at meals, they sleep apart, and though,
1859 I, 51 | salutary change from the meanness and rapacity which Fonteius
1860 IV, 41 | Senate, made a brief and measured speech in reference to the
1861 IV, 88 | prestige of imperial power, not meddling with trifling risks, though
1862 V, 9 | sway of the Assyrians, the Medes, and the Persians, Jews
1863 I, 69 | country north of the Padus, Mediolanum, Novaria, Eporedia, and
1864 III, 59 | own connexions, did not meditate any cruelty against Domitian.~ ~
1865 II, 60 | the German troops, were meditating war. Vitellius detained
1866 II, 79 | from Syria, acting as the medium between Mucianus and his
1867 II, 45 | fatality of civil strife with a melancholy joy. There in the same tents
1868 III, 70 | was only a civilian and a member of the Senate, while the
1869 V, 5 | leaven, is retained as a memorial of their hurried seizure
1870 IV, 60 | utterly forgotten the old memories of those many times when
1871 IV, 87 | which he was brought was Memphis, once a famous city and
1872 II, 99 | of the enemy and by the menacing intelligence from every
1873 IV, 29 | river Mosa, to threaten the Menapii and the Morini and the frontiers
1874 V, 7 | any cloth stained by the menstrua of women. Such is the account
1875 V, 6 | form; the Jews have purely mental conceptions of Deity, as
1876 III, 33 | the flames, the temple of Mephitis outside the walls alone
1877 I, 68 | Emperor or his army less merciful. "Exterminate the race,"
1878 III, 67 | leave the conqueror less mercifully disposed to his wife and
1879 IV, 1 | down the conquered with merciless hatred. The streets were
1880 III, 70 | no longer Emperor, he was merely the cause of war. ~ ~
1881 IV, 22 | let him rather await the merited penalty of his guilt." When
1882 III, 38 | with passing their days in merriment while the Emperor was sick.
1883 I, 23 | Nero would call them his messmates. Some he would recognise,
1884 III, 11 | and military toils, but at mid-day. Some letters had been published,
1885 I, 61 | prodigal festivities. By midday he was half-intoxicated,
1886 I, 52 | oratory and his dignified mien. This man had, when quaestor
1887 II, 32 | which in a civil war is a mightier weapon than the sword. Our
1888 I, 13 | ruled the province with mildness, and, as he was the first
1889 I, 86 | of the slaughter at the Milvian bridge, whom the stern policy
1890 III, 83 | as though it had been a mimic conflict, encouraged first
1891 IV, 54 | besought Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, and the tutelary deities
1892 I, 33 | Othonianists, who were now mingling with the crowd, and who
1893 IV, 43 | demanded that the informers and ministers of the tyrant should be
1894 IV, 44 | one side, and a powerful minority on the other, fought out
1895 III, 57 | who then happened to be at Minturnae, offered to head the revolt.
1896 III, 7 | there taken for rest, and Minucius Justus, prefect of the camp
1897 III, 38 | sovereign. For such ill-timed mirth let him be recompensed with
1898 III, 69 | occupied the Capitol with a miscellaneous body of soldiery, and some
1899 IV, 82 | fleet from Britain, might do mischief to the Batavi along their
1900 IV, 47 | others were dismissed for misconduct; but this was done by degrees
1901 II, 45 | And no one had so escaped misfortune as to have no bereavement
1902 II, 64 | exultation; it was only the misfortunes of her family that she felt. ~ ~
1903 I, 36 | reforms, and, by similar misnomers, he speaks of strictness
1904 II, 80 | as he had dispelled the mist with which so astonishing
1905 I, 3 | gloomy, doubtful or not to be mistaken. Never surely did more terrible
1906 IV, 35 | left the camp; and then, mistrusting his victory, he fruitlessly
1907 IV, 35 | siege were imminent. He had misused success so often that he
1908 III, 32 | massacre, when their fury was mitigated by the entreaties of the
1909 II, 44 | would find in union the sole mitigation of their lot. The spirit
1910 I, 73 | sent back before they could mix with the legions. Letters
1911 II, 19 | tribunes and centurions, mixing with the troops, suggested
1912 IV, 28 | executions, and a strange mixture of obedience and frenzy,
1913 III, 10 | The soldiers saw what a mockery it was, and pushing aside
1914 IV, 47 | detail, always the safest mode of reducing the united strength
1915 II, 91 | time, but Thrasea, as his model of true glory.~ ~
1916 IV, 3 | as an Emperor, speaking modestly about himself, in admirable
1917 III, 2 | lines. Two squadrons of Moesian and Pannonian cavalry then
1918 IV, 84 | Vespasian that he would deign to moisten his cheeks and eye-balls
1919 IV, 86 | stature, who counselled the monarch to send his most trusty
1920 III, 42 | at the port of Hercules Monoecus. Near this place was stationed
1921 V, 19 | they were standing on the monuments of their glory, that they
1922 IV, 71 | but in a very different mood; Domitian in all the hope
1923 III, 38 | who keenly watch the angry moods of princes, that Vitellius
1924 III, 23 | late hour of the night the moon rose and showed, but showed
1925 II, 14 | on the sea was the fleet, moored to the land and ready for
1926 IV, 51 | legate had selected some Moorish and Carthaginian auxiliaries
1927 II, 95 | rather than a different morality. ~ ~
1928 IV, 29 | threaten the Menapii and the Morini and the frontiers of Gaul.
1929 V, 18 | Next morning Cerialis formed his front
1930 I, 14 | he seemed a stern man, morose to those who estimated him
1931 V, 15 | and a voice of more than mortal tone was heard to cry that
1932 II, 93 | Vatican; hence ensued a great mortality in the ranks. The Tiber
1933 I, 49 | were the most worthless of mortals, had been selected, it would
1934 III, 65 | brother, while taking a mortgage of his house and lands;
1935 III, 36 | supply them with food, lie motionless and torpid, he had dismissed
1936 I, 70 | concealed his profligacy, and moulded his whole life to suit the
1937 II, 55 | the form of a sepulchral mound near the lake of Curtius,
1938 III, 2 | What good then will our mountain-passes do us? What will be the
1939 IV, 24 | the ramparts, and others mounting on a testudo formed by their
1940 I, 65 | They were however publicly mulcted of their arms, and furnished
1941 V, 5 | revolutions and courses in multiples of seven. ~ ~
1942 V, 22 | easily be intercepted, as the multiplicity of tidings hurried him from
1943 I, 44 | demonstrations, the more they multiplied them. Nor did Otho repulse
1944 I, 68 | soldiers, who, like all multitudes, were liable to sudden impulses,
1945 III, 86 | friendship may be retained by munificent gifts rather than by consistency
1946 I, 42 | citizenship, and Statius Murcus, one of the body-guard.
1947 II, 68 | legionaries made a sudden and murderous attack on the auxiliary
1948 V, 6 | priests used to chant to the music of flutes and cymbals, and
1949 II, 57 | with, in order that the muster rolls of the legions which
1950 I, 29 | occasionally heard of legions mutinying against their generals,
1951 V, 28 | The bridge over the river Nabalia was cut down, and the two
1952 II, 1 | country never can refrain from naming many persons until one be
1953 II, 27 | to interrupt the orderly narrative of Caecina's operations,
1954 V, 21 | to speak, diverted, the narrowness of the channel between the
1955 I, 20 | Antonius Taurus and Antonius Naso, an officer of the City
1956 V, 7 | resembles the sea, but is more nauseous in taste; it breeds pestilence
1957 IV, 73 | the bridge over the river Nava. A sudden attack, however,
1958 IV, 27 | climate, would hardly admit of navigation, and thus supplies were
1959 I, 40 | voluntarily offered his neck to the murderers, and bade
1960 I, 82 | presence of all? It is as needful that the soldiers should
1961 I, 29 | comparing oneself with Otho is needless. The vices, of which alone
1962 III, 66 | protest against peace and negotiation. They pointed out the danger
1963 III, 70 | by the soldiers, as the negotiator of this abhorred convention.
1964 I, 15 | next to his own, first his nephew Marcellus, then his son-in-law
1965 I, 1 | the reign of the Divine Nerva and the empire of Trajan,
1966 IV, 34 | rather than a battle. The Nervian infantry, from panic or
1967 IV, 8 | taken by lot, as even the neutral section in the Senate exerted
1968 II, 92 | ingenuity sought in every way to neutralise the boon, concealing money
1969 I, 79 | the better disposed was neutralised by the darkness. The tribune,
1970 II, 53 | make enquiries of every newcomer; one of Otho's freedmen,
1971 V, 6 | crime among them to kill any newly-born infant. They hold that the
1972 IV, 86 | Egypt, was setting up in the newly-built city of Alexandria fortifications,
1973 III, 73 | Aemilius Pacensis, Casperius Niger, and Didius Sceva, ventured
1974 I, 11 | their lives, and which well nigh brought the commonwealth
1975 I, 79 | the cohort to be laden at night-fall. The time provoked suspicion,
1976 III, 12 | the Flavianist party. The night-time was chosen for accomplishing
1977 V, 8 | is collected, mixed with nitre, and fused into glass. This
1978 I, 29 | I will lay no claim to nobleness, or moderation, for indeed,
1979 II, 68 | drunkenness, more like a nocturnal feast and revel than a properly
1980 V, 7 | those who live near by its noisome odour; it cannot be moved
1981 III, 10 | one else was repulsed with noisy cries. To Antonius alone
1982 I, 73 | sent, dispatched others, nominally from the Senate, to both
1983 II, 71 | Valerius Maximus, who had been nominated consul by Galba, had his
1984 I, 19 | thwarted the design. In nominating, excusing, and changing
1985 I, 55 | Centurions of the 18th legion, Nonius Receptus, Donatius Valens,
1986 III, 72 | Lucius Scipio and Caius Norbanus. Sulla, after his final
1987 V, 27 | Look at the Rhaetians and Noricans, at the burdens borne by
1988 I, 69 | strongest towns of the country north of the Padus, Mediolanum,
1989 V, 7 | Phoenicia and the Mediterranean. Northward it commands an extensive
1990 IV, 65 | appearance had not been so noticeable; the open plain and the
1991 III, 25 | for his father. This was noticed by those who were on the
1992 I, 51 | against Galba, under the notion that he had not shewn proper
1993 II, 83 | small, and that exaggerated notions are formed about what is
1994 II, 93 | quartered themselves in the notoriously pestilential neighbourhood
1995 III, 19 | a battle so hard fought, notwithstanding its successful termination,
1996 V, 6 | their country, and set at nought parents, children, and brethren.
1997 I, 69 | of the Padus, Mediolanum, Novaria, Eporedia, and Vercellae.
1998 IV | BOOK IV~ ~January - November, A.D. 70~ ~
1999 V, 8 | decay under the equally noxious influences of soil and climate.
2000 II, 40 | authority. It was true that a Numidian had arrived at full gallop
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