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2502 IV, 49 | exact as possible by first reviewing a few earlier circumstances,
2503 III, 59 | Mevania, and the apparent revival of the war with new vigour,
2504 I, 55 | either to make war on the revolters, or, if they preferred peace
2505 IV, 39 | in rebellion through the revolutionary movements of Lucius Piso.
2506 II, 29 | even to affection. Their revulsion to delight was just that
2507 IV, 87 | erected in a place called Rhacotis, where there had stood a
2508 II, 2 | made for the islands of Rhodes and Cyprus, and then by
2509 I, 56 | and the bosses, which, richly decorated with silver, adorned
2510 V, 18 | standards and new eagle. Then riding up to the army of Germany,
2511 III, 25 | with a wound, and, as he rifled his dying foe, recognized
2512 IV, 74 | in three days' march at Rigodulum. Valentinus, at the head
2513 II, 20 | prosperity from none more rigorously than from those whom they
2514 I, 23 | scanty commissariat, and the rigour of military discipline,
2515 I, 50 | and of the climate and the rigours of military discipline rendered
2516 I, 13 | neglected boyhood and a riotous youth, and he had made himself
2517 II, 71 | disliked him because he had risen against Nero, and roused
2518 IV, 52 | equal to their courage, risked the perils of the wintry
2519 II, 31 | whether protracting the war or risking an engagement were the better
2520 IV, 56 | delay of deliberation; they rivalled each other in vehement assertions
2521 II, 95 | Emperor's freedman, was rivalling the Polycleti, the Patrobii,
2522 IV, 29 | their distance from the river-bank. The Ubii did not remain
2523 II, 64 | the executioner, who in a road-side tavern struck down his prisoner,
2524 III, 31 | obscurity, still held out. Roaming through the streets or concealed
2525 I, 38 | Meanwhile, appalled by the roar of the increasing sedition
2526 III, 13 | gardens, and money, to rob the soldiers of their Emperor.
2527 IV, 51 | Leptitani, which, originating in robberies of corn and cattle by two
2528 II, 35 | and now, as they stood on rocking vessels, they could not
2529 I, 2 | crowded with exiles, and its rocks polluted with bloody deeds.
2530 IV, 33 | perpetual tribute, the rod, the axe, and the passions
2531 III, 27 | warfare; the Vitellianists rolled down ponderous stones, and
2532 II, 22 | Praetorians opposed them by rolling down with a tremendous crash
2533 II, 57 | in order that the muster rolls of the legions which remained
2534 II, 95 | the Julian family, just as Romulus had dedicated one to king
2535 III, 71 | defenders, issuing forth on the roof of these buildings, showered
2536 III, 71 | lighted brands on to the roofs, or whether, as the more
2537 IV, 63 | they tore up shrubs and roots and the grass that grew
2538 I, 59 | heightened by the efforts of Roscius Caelius, the legate of the
2539 II, 70 | strewed with laurel leaves and roses, and on which they had raised
2540 III, 37 | the last day of October Rosius Regulus both assumed and
2541 V, 8 | form, becomes black and rotten, and crumbles into a kind
2542 II, 3 | the human shape; it is a rounded mass rising like a cone
2543 I, 83 | Vitellius at this very moment is rousing against us, would dare to
2544 IV, 74 | defeat of Tutor and of the rout of the Treveri, and indeed
2545 I, 15 | his character, is a mere routine gone through without any
2546 V, 24 | fallen asleep. The enemy rowed back in broad daylight with
2547 I, 78 | disregarded. This emboldened the Roxolani, a Sarmatian tribe, who
2548 II, 58 | assuming the insignia of royalty and the name of Juba. ~ ~
2549 I, 14 | influence of Laco, who through Rubellius Plautus had cultivated the
2550 III, 79 | Flaminia, and arrived at Saxa Rubra, when the night was far
2551 II, 74 | appearance, and speaking a rude dialect, they ridiculed
2552 III, 2 | an eagerness equal to the rudeness of their former life. They
2553 I, 6 | spiritless of mankind, were ruining the weak old Emperor, who
2554 V, 27 | this war, then Vespasian rules the world; if we meant to
2555 IV, 33 | axe, and the passions of a ruling race? See how I, the prefect
2556 II, 72 | master recognised him as a runaway slave, by name Geta, he
2557 I, 29 | Shall less than thirty runaways and deserters whom no one
2558 III, 80 | peace. The praetor Arulenus Rusticus was wounded. This deed seemed
2559 I, 13 | confidant of his amours, Poppaea Sabina, the imperial favourite,
2560 III, 78 | by crossroads through the Sabine district so as to enter
2561 III, 72 | erection in his war with the Sabines, and had laid the foundations
2562 I, 50 | plunder of estates, the sack of dwelling-houses. But,
2563 III, 83 | horrors of a city most cruelly sacked, till one was ready to believe
2564 III, 68 | one which led into the Via Sacra. Then in utter perplexity
2565 V, 24 | an Ubian woman, Claudia Sacrata. The sentinels sought to
2566 I, 65 | forthcoming he was bought off by sacrifices to his lust. Thus he made
2567 IV, 59 | avenging Gods. Thus it was that Sacrovir and the Aedui in former
2568 I, 76 | Cadius Rufus, Pedius Blaesus, Saevinius Pomptinius, who in the reigns
2569 III, 60 | prospect, provisions could be safely brought up, and there were
2570 II, 59 | to proceed by land, but sailed himself down the river Arar.
2571 IV, 17 | hindered the operations of the sailors and combatants by an apparent
2572 V, 25 | various colours were used for sails. The place selected was
2573 I, 20 | to deal. Everywhere were sales and brokers, and Rome was
2574 IV, 35 | everything from the walls, sallied out from every gate. It
2575 III, 82 | as far as the gardens of Sallust. The Vitellianists, taking
2576 II, 20 | the conduct of his wife Salonina, though it injured no one
2577 III, 59 | of the Flavianists. The Samnites, the Peligni, and the Marsi,
2578 III, 12 | came forward and openly sanctioned the movement. The fleet
2579 IV, 85 | deeper desire to visit the sanctuary of Serapis, that he might
2580 V, 8 | About its mouth is a kind of sand which is collected, mixed
2581 II, 71 | constantly followed him when he sang, not from the compulsion
2582 II, 88 | There were many sanguinary encounters between the soldiers;
2583 II, 35 | climbed over the gunwales, or sank them with their hands. All
2584 I, 85 | houses had their foundations sapped by the stagnant waters,
2585 II, 16 | Corsica, Sardinia, and the other islands of
2586 I, 78 | emboldened the Roxolani, a Sarmatian tribe, who had destroyed
2587 I, 83 | me. If Vitellius and his satellites were allowed to choose,
2588 IV, 60 | It may be that I do not satisfy you; you may fall back on
2589 II, 49 | one under his head. After satisfying himself that his friends
2590 III, 78 | passing the holiday of the Saturnalia in idleness at Ocriculum.
2591 I, 64 | other so continuously and so savagely that they could not have
2592 IV, 50 | not so much by any hope of saving his life, as by indignation
2593 III, 79 | Flaminia, and arrived at Saxa Rubra, when the night was
2594 IV, 17 | having deserted the forts, saying that he would himself, with
2595 IV, 24 | rush, many placing their scaling-ladders against the ramparts, and
2596 IV, 84 | the one hand he feared the scandal of a fruitless attempt,
2597 IV, 83 | nor did they forget the scandals of his early life. Antonius
2598 III, 56 | suffering from cold and scant supplies, yet, by dividing
2599 II, 92 | each other by animosities scarcely concealed amid the cares
2600 III, 84 | and silence of the place scared him; he tried the closed
2601 V, 18 | terror in their hearts and scars upon their backs. He addressed
2602 III, 73 | Casperius Niger, and Didius Sceva, ventured to resist, and
2603 IV, 41 | disciple of the Cynical school of philosophy, who pleaded
2604 II, 25 | preferred a cautious and scientific plan of operations to any
2605 I, 51 | Verginius to hesitate, the scion of a mere Equestrian family,
2606 V, 8 | for the soil, which is scorched in appearance, has lost
2607 III, 47 | barbarians even insolently scoured the sea in hastily constructed
2608 III, 33 | treasures, applying the scourge and the torture to the owners.
2609 III, 77 | after being ignominiously scourged, was put to death in his
2610 II, 39 | of their skill, did but screen with their idle title of
2611 II, 21 | undermining the walls and screening the assailants; the Othonianists
2612 I, 14 | the son of M. Crassus and Scribonia, and thus of noble descent
2613 IV, 42 | victims for Nero the brothers Scribonius, renowned for their mutual
2614 II, 20 | nature, which prompt men to scrutinize with keen eyes the recent
2615 III, 33 | scorning what met the eye, searched for hidden wealth, and dug
2616 III, 6 | belonging to Vitellius, and the Sebonian Horse had taken up a position
2617 I, 26 | mutiny and so close the secrecy preserved by the loyal,
2618 IV, 67 | that no one may be able to secrete anything, or to detach his
2619 IV, 8 | lot, as even the neutral section in the Senate exerted themselves
2620 V, 14 | the place, and perpetual seditions were the consequence. There
2621 III, 48 | protected by the king of the Sedochezi, whose alliance he had secured
2622 IV, 45 | banishment. Octavius had seduced one Pontia Postumia, and,
2623 II, 64 | Vitellius." And in after days no seductions of fortune, no flattery
2624 V, 5 | wanderings. They slay the ram, seemingly in derision of Hammon, and
2625 II, 76 | Vitellius. The man who is afraid sees distinction enough in any
2626 V, 5 | memorial of their hurried seizure of corn. We are told that
2627 III, 86 | men who did not know him. Seldom have the affections of the
2628 IV, 87 | that he was brought from Seleucia, a city of Syria, in the
2629 II, 78 | he openly retained one Seleucus, an astrologer, to direct
2630 II, 11 | zeal for Otho. But their self-confidence induced a tardiness of movement
2631 III, 17 | Antonius omitted nothing that a self-possessed commander or a most intrepid
2632 III, 73 | them were soldiers without self-possession, and a spiritless and, so
2633 II, 2 | pleasure, and practised more self-restraint in his own than in his father'
2634 IV, 27 | fording the stream; the self-same cause thus bringing about
2635 I, 15 | the true heart, and by the selfish interests of individuals.
2636 II, 56 | were ready to seize or to sell, sparing nothing, sacred
2637 V, 7 | same range supplies and sends forth the stream of the
2638 II, 37 | the ground that he was the senior among the men of consular
2639 IV, 70 | degrees to recover their senses, and to reflect on the claims
2640 II, 31 | war. Vitellius with his sensuality and gluttony was his own
2641 I, 68 | earnestness for a milder sentence, they procured pardon and
2642 I, 51 | their rank restored to them, sentences of degradation were cancelled,
2643 I, 27 | the issue determine their sentiments. ~ ~
2644 V, 18 | armies, but to the divisions separately, as they rode along the
2645 III, 9 | skirmish, the combatants separating on equal terms. Soon afterwards,
2646 III, 5 | Rhaetia was hostile, Portius Septimius, the procurator, remaining
2647 II, 55 | chaplets in the form of a sepulchral mound near the lake of Curtius,
2648 I, 30 | were also given to Amulius Serenus and Quintius Sabinus, centurions
2649 IV, 14 | to represent himself as Sertorius or Hannibal, on the strength
2650 IV, 47 | bound by the same oath and servants of the same Emperor," stopped
2651 V, 25 | where the mouth of the Mosa serves to discharge the Rhine into
2652 II, 48 | Julii, the Claudii, the Servii, have been the first to
2653 III, 38 | illness, observed from the Servilian gardens a neighbouring turret
2654 II, 26 | with his brother who was serving with Otho's army, at the
2655 IV, 53 | affection, except the father sets the example." Vespasian,
2656 III, 46 | East, and by the decisive settlement which in the meantime was
2657 III, 34 | Alps. From the number of settlers, the conveniences afforded
2658 III, 33 | sacred and profane, were settling down into the flames, the
2659 I, 48 | Servius Galba, who in his seventy-three years had lived prosperously
2660 III, 17 | troops, who, as they were severally disposed, plundered, made
2661 V, 15 | besieged, of every age and both sexes, amounted to six hundred
2662 II, 64 | these horrors, and with Sextilia, the mother of the two Vitellii,
2663 IV, 7 | of Thrasea, Soranus, and Sextius; and the accusers of these
2664 III, 19 | and their horses. As the shadows of evening deepened the
2665 IV, 63 | privations, till at last they shamefully tarnished the lustre of
2666 I, 71 | infamy from his boyhood, and shamelessly profligate in his old age,
2667 I, 49 | revolted. That two men, who for shamelessness, indolence, and profligacy,
2668 II, 16 | populace, which ever blindly shares in the fears of others,
2669 II, 52 | but looked for safety in sharing any mistake with many others.
2670 IV, 6 | new Emperor. Hence arose a sharp altercation between Helvidius
2671 II, 40 | and impatient of suspense, sharply rebuked the inactivity of
2672 IV, 69 | appeal, and were beginning to sheathe their swords, when Campanus
2673 IV, 33 | the blood which you have shed so often? What but a hateful
2674 II, 29 | came forward in sad plight, shedding tears, they were moved to
2675 II, 21 | constructed mantlets, hurdles, and sheds, for undermining the walls
2676 IV, 54 | usual sacrifice of a sow, a sheep, and a bull, and duly placed
2677 IV, 42 | which he could not rebut, shifted the blame from himself by
2678 IV, 31 | friends, and then, by a shifting of the weights, projected
2679 IV, 70 | own seeking. The various shifts by which he contrived to
2680 II, 9 | and at his bidding the ship was boarded and taken, and
2681 II, 88 | slippery streets or from the shock of some casual encounter,
2682 IV, 30 | but not at random, stakes shod with iron and heavy stones.
2683 IV, 64 | marks for his little son to shoot at with a child's arrows
2684 II, 83 | Brundisium, Tarentum, and the shores of Calabria and Lucania
2685 I, 46 | postponed his resentment, the shortness of his reign left undecided.
2686 IV, 19 | war-song of the men, and the shrill cries of the women, rose
2687 III, 82 | the Senate, nor even the shrines and temples of the Gods.
2688 I, 82 | strife, much less to any shrinking from, or fear of danger.
2689 V, 7 | graceful. The balsam is a shrub; each branch, as it fills
2690 IV, 63 | use. At last they tore up shrubs and roots and the grass
2691 IV, 60 | against your Country? My soul shudders at the imagination of so
2692 I, 80 | insignia of office, and shunned the retinues of their friends
2693 IV, 50 | usual duties of his office, shutting himself up in his palace,
2694 I, 84 | din of arms and all the sights of war, and the soldiers,
2695 III, 16 | ordered to arm themselves, signals were made over the country
2696 IV, 86 | blaze of fire. Roused by so significant and strange an appearance,
2697 IV, 49 | and by his fear of Marcus Silanus, who then held Africa, took
2698 V, 10 | place stood empty with no similitude of gods within, and that
2699 IV, 19 | long disaffected, yet still simulated loyalty in order that by
2700 II, 24 | the ambuscade could make a simultaneous attack. The scheme was betrayed
2701 II, 69 | violence. Destiny was thus simultaneously preparing the occasions
2702 I, 31 | indeed any discrimination or sincerity, for on that same day they
2703 II, 84 | assertion that money was the sinews of war, looked in all questions,
2704 II, 8 | skilful harp-player and singer, accomplishments, which,
2705 V, 17 | barbarians spent the night in singing and shouting; our men in
2706 IV, 73 | They were joined by the Singularian Horse, which had been raised
2707 V, 14 | wars would result from the singularity of its customs, and so had
2708 II, 32 | protracted into the summer, will sink with enfeebled frames under
2709 I, 71 | received at the springs of Sinuessa a message that his last
2710 IV, 19 | directed his own mother and sisters, and the wives and children
2711 V, 6 | hatred of enemies. They sit apart at meals, they sleep
2712 IV, 27 | army entered Novesium the sixteenth legion joined it; Herennius
2713 I, 29 | Comrades, this is the sixth day since I became a Caesar
2714 V, 15 | hosts joining battle in the skies, the fiery gleam of arms,
2715 V, 13 | by walls which had been skilfully obliqued or bent inwards,
2716 II, 63 | and when those who are skilled in the arts of despotism
2717 II, 88 | bristling as they were with the skins of wild beasts, and armed
2718 II, 24 | cut up, and even when the skirmishers had met in a series of actions,
2719 V, 14 | position. There were continual skirmishes, surprises, and incendiary
2720 II, 22 | of the legions, and the skirmishing parties of auxiliaries assailed
2721 IV, 54 | June, beneath a cloudless sky, the entire space devoted
2722 III, 62 | he first supported, then slandered, Verginius. Fonteius Capito
2723 IV, 53 | excited by the reports of slanderers, but to shew an impartial
2724 II, 25 | again ventured to emerge, slaughtering the foremost of the Praetorian
2725 II, 88 | the careless soldiers by slily cutting their belts, and
2726 I, 38 | which the opportunity had slipped away seemed the best. It
2727 I, 78 | what with the continual slipping of their horses, and the
2728 II, 21 | one reviled their foes as slothful and indolent soldiers, demoralized
2729 II, 99 | energy from their spirits. Slowly, and with thin ranks, the
2730 III, 36 | his gardens, like those sluggish animals which, if you supply
2731 III, 55 | seemed like a man roused from slumber ordered Julius Priscus and
2732 II, 41 | rushed on to the front, or slunk back to the rear. ~ ~
2733 I, 18 | conciliated by the very smallest liberality on the part of
2734 IV, 54 | silver and virgin ores, never smelted in the furnace, but still
2735 II, 12 | Fortune seemed to smile on his efforts. Through
2736 IV, 44 | about him, while Crispus smiled. They were drawn back, however,
2737 III, 10 | features convulsed with sobs. This very conduct provoked
2738 II, 92 | unprincipled friends and a state of society calculated to produce such
2739 I, 78 | sinking in the deep and soft snow. The Roman soldier,
2740 II, 96 | and flattering friends softened down its import. "It was,"
2741 II, 80 | addressed the troops in a soldier-like style, and listened to the
2742 IV, 76 | ambitious purposes, but at the solicitation of your ancestors, who were
2743 II, 4 | ordinary answer, but afterwards soliciting a private interview, disclosed
2744 V, 7 | thrown upon them, as on a solid surface, and all persons,
2745 II, 11 | proportionate to their strength and solidity. The auxiliary infantry
2746 I, 36 | that ghastly entry, Galba's solitary victory, when, before the
2747 III, 84 | avoided his presence. The solitude and silence of the place
2748 V, 3 | alleging that they were the Solymi, a nation celebrated in
2749 I, 89 | popular ear with a copious and sonorous diction. The acclamations
2750 III, 57 | selected by Vitellius to soothe the irritation of the soldiery.
2751 III, 10 | had eloquence, the art of soothing an angry crowd, and personal
2752 I, 71 | Tigellinus was achieved. Sophonius Tigellinus, a man of obscure
2753 II, 48 | man, who was anxious and sorrowful, praising his affection
2754 III, 26 | dangerous, as by a sudden sortie they might cause confusion
2755 V, 10 | over the Euphrates. Caius Sosius reduced the Jews to subjection.
2756 II, 4 | phrase concerning himself. Sostratus (that was the name of the
2757 V, 6 | infant. They hold that the souls of all who perish in battle
2758 III, 19 | the motive alleged, and it sounded well, but what every one
2759 V, 24 | The Romans, awakened by sounds, looked for their arms and
2760 I, 85 | noised abroad from various sources increased men's terror.
2761 V, 7 | bounded by Arabia; to the south lies Egypt; on the west
2762 II, 76 | disarming his auxiliaries, and sowing every day fresh seeds of
2763 III, 25 | Messalla. Julius Mansuetus, a Spaniard, enlisting in the legion
2764 I, 6 | brought into the city his Spanish legion, while that which
2765 II, 48 | distributed some gratuities, but sparingly, and not like a man who
2766 IV, 2 | Tarracina, and that the last sparks of war should be trodden
2767 I, 30 | shewed no disrespect to the speaker, displayed their standards,
2768 I, 36 | by similar misnomers, he speaks of strictness instead of
2769 I, 42 | by Otho's direction and specially eager to slay him, Sulpicius
2770 II, 101| legions, strove by every species of artifice to undermine
2771 II, 44 | traitor, not having any specific charge against him, but
2772 I, 49 | worse of the two." Some were speculating on Vespasian and the armies
2773 IV, 61 | from the first legion, and speedily accomplished the murder.
2774 III, 45 | besides being naturally high spirited, and hating the name of
2775 IV, 84 | cheeks and eye-balls with his spittle. Another with a diseased
2776 II, 84 | iniquitous measures, till, spoilt by prosperity and evil counsellors,
2777 IV, 15 | for plunder, new terms for spoliation, are discovered. Now the
2778 IV, 82 | crowd of Nervii, who by a spontaneous movement had taken up arms
2779 III, 12 | more fatal dissensions, springing, not from the suspicions
2780 II, 77 | and Caecina. But do not spurn Mucianus as an associate,
2781 IV, 47 | without arms, filthy and squalid. And when they began to
2782 II, 94 | squander, was building a stable for his charioteers, was
2783 II, 69 | which in the very earliest stage of the revolt had been employed
2784 II, 76 | Though staggered by these apprehensions,
2785 I, 85 | foundations sapped by the stagnant waters, and fell when the
2786 III, 24 | where you may wipe out the stain of past disgrace, and redeem
2787 I, 49 | the Knights, who had some stake and interest in the country,
2788 II, 59 | Asinius Pollio, one of the stanchest friends of Albinus, prefect
2789 V, 5 | circumstance that of the seven stars which rule the destinies
2790 III, 36 | woods of Aricia, he was startled by the treachery of Lucilius
2791 V, 4 | writers, however, agree in stating that once a disease, which
2792 I, 42 | given the citizenship, and Statius Murcus, one of the body-guard.
2793 II, 48 | anger of the conqueror by staying. With the young he used
2794 II, 37 | prayed for peace in the stead of disorder, for a worthy
2795 IV, 5 | same, despising wealth, steadily tenacious of right, and
2796 IV, 27 | generals sought to give steadiness to the troops by such exercises
2797 III, 53 | cavalry, and afterwards by the steady strength of the infantry
2798 I, 57 | day, but to pardon only by stealth. He was kept in prison,
2799 IV, 1 | concealed. Here was the first step to breaking open private
2800 I, 15 | finally Tiberius Nero, his stepson. But Augustus looked for
2801 I, 51 | unusual importance. Though sterner judges pronounced Vitellius
2802 I, 18 | inflexibility, and by an excessive sternness which we are no longer able
2803 I, 48 | indignities, till Argius his steward, who had been one of his
2804 I, 17 | and those who sought to stifle the ill-concealed rumour
2805 IV, 83 | being cowards; Caecina he stigmatized as a captive and a prisoner
2806 I, 12 | easiness of Galba's temper stimulated the greedy cupidity which
2807 IV, 44 | pressed Eprius hard, and stirred the indignation of the Senators.
2808 III, 43 | by adverse weather on the Stoechades, islands off Massilia. There
2809 III, 81 | and to the tenets of the Stoics, had joined the envoys.
2810 I, 32 | will be alarmed, Otho, who stole away to be introduced to
2811 III, 86 | magistrates and Senators, who had stolen out of the city, or were
2812 IV, 16 | Brinno, a man of a certain stolid bravery and of distinguished
2813 V, 20 | When their store of missiles was spent, and
2814 IV, 31 | Batavians had raised a tower two stories high, which they brought
2815 IV, 87 | thronged around the temple. The story becomes at this point more
2816 III, 82 | three divisions, one column straight from where they had halted
2817 III, 9 | had written in a humble strain, as if he feared to offend
2818 IV, 30 | they wheeled round and strained hand and foot. Valour was
2819 IV, 17 | burning the forts, they had stranded at that point, were arranged
2820 I, 14 | cunningly enough, it was as a stranger that Laco supported him,
2821 I, 46 | undecided. The Forum yet streamed with blood, when he was
2822 II, 8 | he put to sea. Driven by stress of weather to the island
2823 III, 27 | loosened, and the ground was strewn with a vast number of lifeless
2824 II, 77 | battle. At this very moment a stricter discipline prevails among
2825 III, 53 | be answerable; the civil strifes of former days cost the
2826 I, 40 | and bade them haste and strike, if it seemed to be for
2827 IV, 67 | ever, we require of you to strip your city of its walls,
2828 IV, 15 | consideration, and mere striplings, but of distinguished beauty (
2829 IV, 54 | height was given to the structure; this was the only variation
2830 II, 92 | produce such feuds. In their struggles for popularity, in their
2831 V, 17 | more like a naval contest. Struggling among the waters, or exerting
2832 IV, 49 | of disagreement was thus studiously sought in the continual
2833 V, 4 | sat for the most part in a stupor of grief, till one of the
2834 II, 29 | found concealment with a subaltern officer of cavalry. After
2835 V, 10 | first of our countrymen to subdue the Jews. Availing himself
2836 II, 81 | was the richest of all the subject-kings. Before long Agrippa, who
2837 V, 11 | reputation, and his excellent subordinates, succeeded within the space
2838 II, 29 | the mutiny was gradually subsiding, promoted the reaction by
2839 III, 23 | aimed at what seemed the substance, fell short, while the Vitellianists,
2840 III, 36 | friendship with Caecina, and substituted in his place Alfenius Varus. ~ ~
2841 V, 14 | inexhaustible spring; there were subterranean excavations in the hill,
2842 II, 76 | not against the profound subtlety of the aged Tiberius, it
2843 III, 61 | unpunished; all loyalty was subverted by the rewards of desertion,
2844 III, 69 | besieged, and that, unless succour arrived, they must be reduced
2845 IV, 60 | prolonging the war, till succouring armies pour in from the
2846 III, 31 | the houses, they would not sue for peace even when they
2847 I, 20 | each recipient should be sued, but should be permitted
2848 III, 72 | of war from the conquered Suessa Pometia, raised the superstructure.
2849 III, 21 | Sido and Italicus, the Suevian chieftains, with a picked
2850 IV, 84 | failure would fall on the sufferers." And so Vespasian, supposing
2851 III, 74 | temple. At the ingenious suggestion of a freedman, he assumed
2852 III, 52 | Varus and Antonius, and suiting the wishes of Mucianus.
2853 I, 16 | To prolong such advice, suits not this occasion, and all
2854 IV, 2 | the look of a suppliant; sullen and savage, they were unmoved
2855 IV, 43 | power. The wife of Crassus, Sulpicia Praetextata, and her four
2856 I, 15 | race the honours of the Sulpician and Lutatian houses. As
2857 I, 42 | specially eager to slay him, Sulpicius Florus, of the British auxiliary
2858 V, 11 | within the space of two summers in occupying with his victorious
2859 I, 45 | should pay these annual sums. It was undoubtedly a salutary
2860 IV, 69 | occupied the territory of the Sunici, and formed the youth of
2861 I, 71 | unpopularity of Vinius being superadded to their old hatred against
2862 III, 72 | the allies, and Tarquinius Superbus, employing the spoils of
2863 II, 30 | commanding person, and a certain superficial attractiveness which he
2864 I, 82 | and courage you have in superfluous abundance. I am come to
2865 IV, 29 | struggle; their numbers were superfluously large, and their loss was
2866 IV, 71 | without consolation, made him superintendent of the sale of corn. To
2867 II, 3 | might not be without some superiority over the foreign stock,
2868 IV, 84 | devoted as it is to many superstitions, worships more than any
2869 III, 58 | rejected. But now he had a superstitious feeling about the name;
2870 III, 72 | Suessa Pometia, raised the superstructure. But the glory of its completion
2871 IV, 19 | on the point of securing supremacy over the most powerful and
2872 II, 69 | the power of Rome found a surer foundation in valour than
2873 II, 3 | males are selected; the surest prognostics are seen in
2874 I, 39 | with every movement of the surging crowd; the halls and temples
2875 II, 76 | in nobility of birth Nero surpassed Vitellius. The man who is
2876 III, 23 | soldiers ventured on a deed of surpassing bravery. Disguising themselves
2877 V, 22 | a legionary encampment, surprised some troops, who had gone
2878 V, 14 | were continual skirmishes, surprises, and incendiary fires, and
2879 I, 84 | and exercised a malignant surveillance over all whom exalted rank,
2880 II, 4 | Titus, after surveying the treasures, the royal
2881 I, 13 | of his wife Octavia. Soon suspecting him with regard to this
2882 II, 23 | fearing that they could not sustain a prolonged siege or the
2883 III, 65 | believed indeed to have sustained the failing credit of his
2884 III, 77 | upon the beach, or were swamped by the weight of the crowds
2885 V, 9 | While the East was under the sway of the Assyrians, the Medes,
2886 IV, 59 | the unheard of baseness of swearing allegiance to foreigners,
2887 III, 44 | captured, everything turned to swell the resources of the conqueror;
2888 II, 13 | prisoners, for they were swift of foot, and knew the country
2889 IV, 53 | He then had some of the swiftest vessels laden with corn,
2890 IV, 13 | special devotion the art of swimming, so that they could stem
2891 V, 5 | Apis. They abstain from swine's flesh, in consideration
2892 I, 4 | of the Equestrian order sympathised most closely with the joy
2893 I, 26 | whom few of them knew. Many symptoms of the approaching outburst
2894 IV, 41 | to their place the brazen tables of the laws, which had fallen
2895 II, 98 | friends or by their own tact. Thus the preparations of
2896 V, 8 | that the surrounding air is tainted, and that thus the growth
2897 IV, 4 | rank, or had a practised talent for flattery, declared their
2898 II, 50 | this strange occurrence tallied with the last scenes of
2899 II, 71 | temper, and could submit tamely to an affront. Pedanius
2900 II, 3 | importation introduced by Tamiras of Cilicia; and that it
2901 II, 63 | stationed at Ostia had been tampered with. Of these grave accusations
2902 V, 14 | excavations in the hill, and tanks and cisterns for holding
2903 II, 11 | self-confidence induced a tardiness of movement proportionate
2904 II, 83 | himself, finding Brundisium, Tarentum, and the shores of Calabria
2905 III, 71 | the Asylum, and where the Tarpeian rock is mounted by a hundred
2906 III, 9 | the marshes of the river Tartarus, where his position was
2907 V, 6 | while the Jewish religion is tasteless and mean. ~ ~
2908 II, 95 | had dedicated one to king Tatius. Within four months from
2909 III, 84 | and he was led along with tattered robes, a revolting spectacle,
2910 II, 66 | legion, a part of the Colonia Taurina was destroyed by the fires
2911 II, 66 | long. At Augusta of the Taurini it happened that a Batavian
2912 I, 20 | Praetorian Guard, Antonius Taurus and Antonius Naso, an officer
2913 II, 34 | however, instead of being taut, hung loose in the water,
2914 II, 76 | wasted in the revelry of taverns and in aping the debaucheries
2915 IV, 67 | watched by sentinels, and taxed for the privilege. But that
2916 IV, 27 | against conscription and taxes, while the Rhine, owing
2917 IV, 77 | fortune in both its forms teach you not to prefer rebellion
2918 IV, 5 | fortune. He followed those teachers of philosophy who hold nothing
2919 V, 7 | by that experience which teaches all other arts. It is naturally
2920 II, 28 | centre in Italy, you must not tear, as it were, from a body
2921 IV, 43 | he had even fastened his teeth in the murdered man's head. "
2922 III, 51 | Pompey's army, as Sisenna tells us, slew his own brother,
2923 III, 32 | he found fault with the temperature of the water, an answer
2924 III, 86 | to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion. Believing
2925 IV, 6 | comments varying with the tempers of men, some praising his
2926 III, 33 | off for themselves coin or temple-offerings of massive gold, were cut
2927 III, 74 | down the chamber of the temple-servant, and built a small chapel,
2928 IV, 89 | Cerialis, by a judicious temporising, eluded the request as prompted
2929 I, 25 | with money with which to tempt the cupidity of others.
2930 I, 15 | tries the heart with keener temptations; for hardships may be endured,
2931 IV, 5 | despising wealth, steadily tenacious of right, and undaunted
2932 III, 81 | of philosophy and to the tenets of the Stoics, had joined
2933 I, 40 | have recorded the name of Terentius, an enrolled pensioner,
2934 IV, 29 | felt. Even darkness did not terminate the struggle. ~ ~
2935 III, 69 | encounter slight indeed, but terminating favourably for the Vitellianists.
2936 IV, 9 | take the votes, Vulcatius Tertullinus, tribune of the people,
2937 III, 54 | but they bear the same testimony to his loyalty and courage. ~ ~
2938 IV, 76 | fought against the Cimbri and Teutones, at the cost of what hardships
2939 IV, 52 | and not to want them. He thanked Vologesus, and recommended
2940 I, 78 | day was damp and the ice thawed, what with the continual
2941 II, 21 | demoralized by the circus and the theatres; the others retorted with
2942 III, 62 | reputation for elegance. In the theatricals performed by young men during
2943 | thee
2944 IV, 11 | youthful beauty made him the theme of common talk; and while
2945 V, 6 | means harmonize with the theory; for Liber established a
2946 | Thereupon
2947 II, 49 | evening he quenched his thirst with a draught of cold water.
2948 V, 5 | deliverance from their long and thirsty wanderings. They slay the
2949 V, 21 | Classicus, and one hundred and thirteen senators of the Treveri,
2950 I, 47 | was then completing his thirty-first year, had enjoyed more fame
2951 II, 89 | the infantry. Next came thirty-four auxiliary cohorts, distinguished
2952 V, 13 | which would have been a thorough defence even for level ground.
2953 II, 64 | along the much frequented thoroughfare of the Flaminian road, he
2954 | thou
2955 I, 11 | Mauritania, Rhaetia, Noricum and Thrace and the other provinces
2956 I, 67 | dislodged by the attack of some Thracian infantry. Closely pursued
2957 III, 48 | protect the suppliant by a threat of hostilities; when, however,
2958 IV, 60 | Of the destruction that threatens me I can hear with cheerfulness;
2959 V, 9 | were forbidden to pass the threshold. While the East was under
2960 I, 51 | honours of a father who was thrice consul, was censor and colleague
2961 III, 66 | becomes the censorship, the thrice-repeated consulate of your father,
2962 IV, 47 | and some to another, a thrill of terror ran through them
2963 II, 14 | rustic band, who were skilful throwers, and who, mixed up as they
2964 IV, 87 | Scydrothemis, warning him to thwart no longer the purposes of
2965 I, 78 | down as if their hands were tied. It is wonderful how entirely
2966 IV, 20 | yielding to his natural timidity and to the alarm of his
2967 III, 59 | into Italy, so now did the timorous retreat of Vitellius give
2968 III, 81 | ridiculous; more thought it tiresome; some were ready to throw
2969 I, 78 | Fulvius Aurelius, Julianus Titius, and Numisius Lupus, the
2970 I, 15 | You and I speak together to-day with perfect frankness,
2971 II, 20 | was wont to speak to their toga-clad citizens. And they resented,
2972 II, 100| embraced Vitellius and received tokens of high distinction, left
2973 IV, 82 | and which was posted at Tolbiacum, on the frontiers of the
2974 V, 6 | in this the Egyptian cus tom; they bestow the same care
2975 III, 3 | eyes, and in the fierce tones that might be most widely
2976 III, 73 | who had not the use of his tongue or his ears, who would not
2977 IV, 28 | of the crime, Gallus his tool. At last, utterly terrified
2978 I, 22 | Poppaea and were the vilest tools in the employ of the imperial
2979 II, 78 | Vespasian's presence the topic was more frequently discussed,
2980 IV, 11 | unquiet and delighted in novel topics, there were persons who
2981 III, 33 | their hands were flaming torches, which, as soon as they
2982 III, 36 | food, lie motionless and torpid, he had dismissed with the
2983 V, 15 | truth. I have heard that the total number of the besieged,
2984 II, 86 | fortunes of Vitellius began to totter, he attached himself to
2985 III, 27 | poles into the broken and tottering "testudo," till the dense
2986 I, 78 | of plates of iron or very tough hides, and though they are
2987 V, 24 | praetorian trireme they towed up the river Lupia as a
2988 I, 82 | the late tumult is to be traced not to rapacity or disaffection,
2989 III, 71 | colonnade, and following the track of the fire would have burst
2990 IV, 75 | was at an end, they were tractable enough in dealing with an
2991 II, 58 | number of Moors, a force trained to war by robbery and plunder.
2992 IV, 13 | arms. They had had a long training in the German wars, and
2993 I, 1 | Nerva and the empire of Trajan, enjoying the rare happiness
2994 III, 81 | ready to throw him down and trample him under foot, had he not
2995 I, 39 | thrusting aside the crowd and trampling on the Senate. Neither the
2996 I, 59 | the province still enjoyed tranquility, though its consular governor
2997 I, 1 | while they had to record the transactions of the Roman people, they
2998 IV, 55 | universal empire for the Transalpine nations. A rumour had also
2999 II, 5 | and for a greatness that transcended in all respects the condition
3000 I, 52 | fell; even then in this transference of its allegiance it had
3001 II, 79 | respectively. The initiative in transferring the Empire to Vespasian
3002 III, 17 | pitch of excitement, that he transfixed with a lance a flying standard
3003 II, 69 | by luxury, a luxury that transgressed our ancient discipline and
3004 II, 12 | and was as reckless in transgressing the good order of military
3005 I, 21 | consolidated. Periods of transition suit great attempts, and
3006 V, 5 | their faith having been transmitted from the Idaei, who are
3007 II, 66 | disposed, and the legion was transported into Britain.~ ~
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