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3008 III, 47 | the old and famous city of Trapezus, founded by the Greeks on
3009 II, 54 | Otho's death made the news travel more quickly. ~ ~
3010 IV, 25 | disliked by his troops, travelled with the fleet. The troops
3011 IV, 73 | in concert. Civilis was traversing the pathless wilds of the
3012 III, 70 | not against me, whom you treacherously deceived, that you must
3013 III, 2 | delighted to follow, and to tread in the footsteps of victory." ~ ~
3014 IV, 63 | guards who were to secure the treasure, the camp-followers, and
3015 I, 70 | of fidelity. Otho did not treat him as a man to be pardoned,
3016 I, 7 | undoubtedly fomenting sedition, by Trebonius Garutianus the procurator,
3017 II, 78 | his thoughts. A cypress tree of remarkable height on
3018 II, 68 | Verginius. Even Vitellius, tremblingly alive as he was to all suspicions,
3019 II, 22 | them by rolling down with a tremendous crash ponderous masses of
3020 V, 26 | him, and they had already trespassed enough in crossing the Rhine
3021 II, 14 | and all the cavalry of the Treviri under the command of Julius
3022 II, 20 | various colours, and the trews, a garment of foreign fashion,
3023 IV, 40 | lavished on his friends tribuneships and prefectures; and then,
3024 I, 46 | by decree upon Otho the tribunitial office, the name of Augustus,
3025 II, 4 | cavalry, each had fleets and tributary kings, and each, though
3026 I, 15 | borne adversity; prosperity tries the heart with keener temptations;
3027 V, 24 | vessels. The praetorian trireme they towed up the river
3028 I, 78 | Moesia, was rewarded with a triumphal statue, while Fulvius Aurelius,
3029 III, 65 | mean, that of Sabinus not triumphant, but rather akin to pity. ~ ~
3030 IV, 2 | sparks of war should be trodden out. The cavalry were sent
3031 II, 46 | more courage in bearing trouble," he said, "than in escaping
3032 III, 81 | He asked for one day of truce before the final struggle,
3033 II, 29 | sentinels, and discontinued the trumpet calls by which the troops
3034 III, 77 | and panic, the braying of trumpets, and the shouts of the foe.
3035 I, 40 | wounds even on the headless trunk. ~ ~
3036 II, 55 | attended as usual. When trustworthy messengers brought into
3037 IV, 86 | monarch to send his most trusty friends to Pontus, and fetch
3038 I, 16 | than a good emperor. Under Tuberous, Chairs, and Claudius, we
3039 II, 88 | the crowds of people, or tumbling down in the slippery streets
3040 I, 35 | in an uproar with their tumultuous cries and their appeals
3041 IV, 17 | lasted long, a cohort of Tungrians carried over their standards
3042 III, 63 | strong enough to crush all turbulence. At the same time Primus
3043 IV, 54 | duly placed the entrails on turf; then, in terms dictated
3044 V, 19 | Wherever," he said, "the Roman turns his eyes, captivity, disaster,
3045 IV, 24 | themselves harmlessly in the turrets and battlements of the walls,
3046 III, 13 | conquered. The first and the twelfth, the sole strength of the
3047 III, 83 | the city; they had done so twice when Sulla, once when Cinna
3048 III, 31 | reproached him with his tyranny, his cruelty, and, so hateful
3049 IV, 43 | will be the last of the tyrants? Those who survived Tiberius,
3050 IV, 15 | intended, while concealing his ulterior designs, to reveal his other
3051 I, 27 | of Apollo, the Haruspex Umbricius announced to him that the
3052 IV, 51 | hands. Many of them were unacquainted with the person of Piso,
3053 II, 57 | Meanwhile Vitellius, as yet unaware of his victory, was bringing
3054 II, 70 | not shudder to behold the unburied corpses of so many thousands
3055 II, 46 | terrible disasters, and its uncertainties both for victors and vanquished.~ ~
3056 IV, 63 | other animals, which, though unclean and disgusting, necessity
3057 V, 7 | to bear fatigue. Rain is uncommon, but the soil is fertile.
3058 I, 29 | Meanwhile the unconscious Galba, busy with his sacrifice,
3059 III, 23 | shining on their faces, were unconsciously exposed to an enemy who
3060 II, 38 | another the consuls had unconstitutional power; it was in the capital
3061 II, 76 | unexhausted by battle, uncorrupted by dissension; you have
3062 IV, 56 | was at that very moment undergoing capture, while all her armies
3063 II, 30 | from an impression that underhand dealing and delay on the
3064 IV, 86 | whose business it is to understand such matters. As they knew
3065 II, 26 | suspicion of a treacherous understanding with his brother who was
3066 II, 24 | fruitlessness of all his undertakings, and by the waning reputation
3067 II, 16 | the fleet." Their feelings underwent a sudden change; they did
3068 IV, 80 | was held by the Germans. Undismayed by the confusion, Cerialis
3069 II, 41 | found too narrow even for an undisturbed advance. Some were gathering
3070 III, 23 | been lost; but the fact is undoubted. Fortune favoured neither
3071 V, 1 | hopes of securing the yet unengaged affections of the Prince.
3072 III, 59 | retreat of Vitellius give an unequivocal bias in favour of the Flavianists.
3073 IV, 27 | Rhine, owing to a drought unexampled in that climate, would hardly
3074 II, 76 | Egypt, nine fresh legions, unexhausted by battle, uncorrupted by
3075 II, 50 | at Bedriacum, a bird of unfamiliar appearance settled in a
3076 III, 68 | to speak for weeping, he unfastened the dagger from his side,
3077 II, 63 | of Lucius Vitellius, with unfeminine ferocity, warned him not
3078 II, 94 | his own service. However unfit, he might, if he preferred
3079 III, 40 | Ravenna, to hurry on by unfrequented paths to Hostilia or Cremona.
3080 IV, 32 | a slight murmur, and not unfrequently in absolute silence. ~ ~
3081 IV, 4 | Vitellius comes too late, and is ungenerous; while certainly it is arrogance
3082 IV, 71 | ruler, and men feared the ungoverned passions of Domitian, while
3083 III, 69 | s son, and to send by an unguarded route a messenger to the
3084 II, 94 | or who shrank from the unhealthiness of the climate. But the
3085 I, 29 | loyalty, your character, stand unimpeached up to this time. Even with
3086 II, 91 | in the Senate even when unimportant matters were under discussion;
3087 IV, 13 | they took possession of an uninhabited district on the extremity
3088 IV, 54 | citizens, with zeal and joy uniting their efforts, dragged the
3089 IV, 67 | For your return into the unity of the German nation and
3090 III, 86 | leaders of the party; he was universally saluted by the title of
3091 IV, 68 | We cannot think you so unjust as to wish that we should
3092 IV, 8 | the worst Emperors love an unlimited despotism, so the noblest
3093 II, 91 | and Allia had marked as unlucky. Thus utterly regardless
3094 I, 73 | frequent letters, disfigured by unmanly flatteries, were addressed
3095 I, 13 | widowed daughter, and Otho was unmarried. I believe that he had also
3096 III, 28 | listen to what seemed to them unmeaning encouragement, pointed to
3097 III, 59 | though their march was unmolested, they perceived what danger
3098 III, 83 | less, but now there was an unnatural recklessness, and men's
3099 III, 64 | and he is proportionately unnerved by disaster. The merit of
3100 III, 70 | advised Martialis to depart unobserved through a concealed part
3101 III, 50 | action. Bassus, with his unobtrusive energy, was ready for everything
3102 II, 95 | gladiators on a vast and hitherto unparalleled scale. He pleased the most
3103 II, 49 | Over Otho was built a tomb unpretending and therefore likely to
3104 I, 50 | discipline rendered at once unprofitable and severe. But that discipline,
3105 IV, 11 | while the country was still unquiet and delighted in novel topics,
3106 II, 100| Guard sought to gratify his unreasonable resentment by an atrocious
3107 IV, 37 | of a slave, and escaped unrecognized in the darkness. When their
3108 III, 38 | splendour of the banquet and the unrestrained gaiety of the guests. There
3109 II, 87 | of soldiers are the most unruly. So numerous a retinue of
3110 I, 86 | easy to do; and thus the unscrupulous and the cunning were preferred
3111 II, 39 | Bedriacum, but it was done so unskilfully, that though it was spring,
3112 I, 27 | their age he suspected to be unsound, and which had therefore
3113 I, 30 | their wants with a most unsparing attention.~ ~
3114 I, 29 | this consolation, a capital unstained by bloodshed, and power
3115 V, 20 | men, who were wavering and unsteady. At the same time a column
3116 III, 59 | pleaded his ill health, unsuited to toil and adventure. Domitian
3117 IV, 67 | subject nations. A pure and untainted race, forgetting your past
3118 IV, 60 | their death, the glory of untarnished loyalty. At this very moment
3119 I, 61 | in their joy, so calm and unterrified was the bird, that it was
3120 V, 25 | familiar to commanders, left untouched the estates and houses of
3121 IV, 51 | The slave with a noble untruth replied, "I am he," and
3122 I, 18 | was a gloomy, stormy day, unusually disturbed by thunder, lightning,
3123 III, 82 | hills, though followed by an unwarlike population, presented the
3124 II, 87 | The crowd was made more unwieldy by Senators and Knights
3125 I, 42 | meet the armed men, and upbraiding them with their crime, he
3126 V, 6 | however introduced, is upheld by its antiquity; all their
3127 I, 49 | said, "was well-nigh turned upside down when the struggle for
3128 III, 62 | while in confinement at Urbinum. His head was displayed
3129 I, 77 | may find an excuse in the urgency of the crisis and the anxieties
3130 IV, 2 | acquiesce in servitude, urgently demanded that Lucius Vitellius
3131 IV, 38 | heterogeneous mass of Chatti, Usipii, and Mattiaci, had raised
3132 V, 10 | approbation of the Emperor, usurped the title of king. He was
3133 I, 41 | instant death choked his utterance, or whether he cried out
3134 IV, 55 | declared, with the prophetic utterances of an idle superstition,
3135 IV, 59 | will be friends." After uttering this defiance, finding that
3136 III, 11 | exerted themselves to the uttermost, that saved him, so much
3137 V | BOOK V~ ~A.D. 70~ ~
3138 IV, 40 | government of Eastern Spain, then vacant in consequence of the departure
3139 II, 8 | himself some deserters, needy vagrants whom he bribed with great
3140 I, 48 | regardless of fame, nor yet vainly fond of it. Other men's
3141 II, 62 | for Otho were held to be valid, and with those who died
3142 III, 8 | people of Verona were a valuable aid; they served the cause
3143 III, 34 | indeed had been rendered valueless to the soldiers by a general
3144 III, 21 | countrymen, manoeuvred in the van. ~ ~
3145 II, 82 | before which all difficulties vanish, seemed sufficient. To all
3146 II, 50 | killed himself; then it vanished. When they came to compute
3147 IV, 54 | structure; this was the only variation which religion would permit,
3148 III, 33 | army which included such varieties of language and character,
3149 I, 79 | arming it was entrusted to Varius Crispinus, one of the tribunes
3150 I, 6 | blood-stained. Cingonius Varro, consul elect, and Petronius
3151 IV, 34 | reinforcement of fresh troops. Some Vascon infantry, levied by Galba,
3152 I, 85 | Tiber. The river became vastly swollen, broke down the
3153 II, 93 | pestilential neighbourhood of the Vatican; hence ensued a great mortality
3154 I, 36 | than the Polycleti, the Vatinii, and the Elii amassed. Vinius
3155 IV, 8 | were delivered with much vehemence on both sides, were heard
3156 II, 35 | Vitellianists, the more vehemently did the Othonianists curse
3157 IV, 89 | thus seeking to throw a veil over his character, and
3158 III, 68 | a rural hiding-place had veiled the flight of Nero. Piso
3159 I, 65 | their danger, assumed the veils and chaplets of suppliants,
3160 III, 45 | husband Venutius, she made Vellocatus, his armour-bearer, the
3161 II, 13 | conflict, the troops of Otho vented their rage on the town of
3162 V, 10 | He was slain by Publius Ventidius, and the Parthians were
3163 V, 22 | that, if they made many ventures, fortune would favour them
3164 II, 2 | the temple of the Paphian Venus, place of celebrity both
3165 I, 46 | were performed by his wife Verania and his brother Scribonianus;
3166 I, 69 | Novaria, Eporedia, and Vercellae. This Caecina had learnt
3167 I, 40 | to have been one Atilius Vergilio) tore off and dashed upon
3168 III, 69 | conspicuous among them being Verulana Gratilla, who was taken
3169 III, 22 | eagle was saved by Atilius Verus, the centurion of the first
3170 I, 42 | his way to the temple of Vesta, where he was admitted by
3171 IV, 54 | assigned by him to Lucius Vestinius, a man of the Equestrian
3172 III, 74 | freedman, he assumed a linen vestment, and passing unnoticed among
3173 IV, 9 | tribune of the people, put his veto on any resolution being
3174 I, 25 | watchword to the bodyguard, and Veturius, a deputy centurion in the
3175 III, 8 | and glory. They secured Vicetia by simply passing through
3176 IV, 2 | Vitellius was executed. Equally vicious with his brother, he had
3177 II, 80 | with which so astonishing a vicissitude had clouded his vision,
3178 I, 57 | Meanwhile, by way of a victim, the centurion Crispinus
3179 II, 97 | Vitellius was prosperous, to vie in obedience, stood aloof
3180 II, 21 | neighbouring colonies, who viewed it with envious and jealous
3181 II, 82 | coined, everything being vigorously carried on in its appointed
3182 II, 87 | pleasures of every town and villa in his way, as with his
3183 IV, 43 | Crispus. Even unsuccessful villany finds some to emulate it:
3184 III, 38 | guests, and Blaesus more vindictively than any, with passing their
3185 V, 6 | of ivy, and that a golden vine was found in the temple,
3186 V, 7 | fluid of dark colour; when vinegar is sprinkled upon it, it
3187 II, 25 | interlacing layers of the vines, and close to which was
3188 II, 95 | Vitellius, what with the Vinii, the Fabii, the Iceli, and
3189 III, 72 | captured, had been able to violate, was destroyed by the madness
3190 I, 30 | encamped in the Portico of Vipsanius. Instructions were also
3191 III, 48 | veterans from the legions under Virdius Geminus, a tried soldier.
3192 IV, 54 | Contributions of gold and silver and virgin ores, never smelted in the
3193 I, 44 | proscription of all the most virtuous citizens, and Otho had not
3194 IV, 80 | extent of the disaster became visible, and he saw that the camp
3195 IV, 87 | bidding of the God, the visions of Ptolemy and himself,
3196 II, 64 | Sextilia, the mother of the two Vitellii, a woman equally blameless,
3197 II, 21 | same time they lauded or vituperated Otho and Vitellius, but
3198 III, 12 | was thrown into prison by Vivennius Rufinus, prefect of a squadron
3199 II, 48 | forget, or remember too vividly, that Otho was your uncle."~ ~
3200 I, 67 | fled for refuge to Mount Vocetius. They were immediately dislodged
3201 III, 10 | very whirlwind of passion, vociferating that he was the kinsman
3202 I, 47 | energetic. His will was made void by his vast wealth; that
3203 II, 75 | Claudius, and his murderer, Volaginius, had been raised from the
3204 IV, 24 | annoying us by a distant volley; then, as they found that
3205 I, 39 | like men who had to drive a Vologeses or Pacorus from the ancestral
3206 I, 34 | of danger, was the most voluble and fierce of speech. No
3207 III, 54 | confirmed his statement by a voluntary death. Some say that he
3208 III, 29 | authors are agreed that Caius Volusius, a soldier of the 3rd legion,
3209 I, 76 | to be associated Pompeius Vopiscus, avowedly on the ground
3210 IV, 64 | Then Civilis fulfilled a vow often made by barbarians;
3211 I, 49 | either would be impious, vows for either a blasphemy,
3212 IV, 9 | came to take the votes, Vulcatius Tertullinus, tribune of
3213 II, 23 | acts of their generals. Vying with each other in an insolence
3214 II, 3 | her birth from the sea was wafted to this spot, but that the
3215 IV, 60 | But Classicus hopes to wage with your strength his war
3216 IV, 76 | with what result we have waged our German wars, is perfectly
3217 IV, 7 | victims; let him enjoy the wages of his crimes and his impunity,
3218 III, 51 | virtue, and the remorse that waited on crime. These and like
3219 II, 77 | ridiculous in me not to waive my claims to Empire in favour
3220 I, 81 | were dejected, the soldiers walked with downcast looks, and
3221 I, 80 | domestics; aged men and women wandered in the darkness of night
3222 II, 24 | undertakings, and by the waning reputation of his army.
3223 I, 30 | Nero, had supplied their wants with a most unsparing attention.~ ~
3224 II, 22 | to the attack with fierce war-cries, brandishing their shields
3225 IV, 19 | victory, or shame defeat. The war-song of the men, and the shrill
3226 IV, 43 | the prosecution, not to ward off any peril from himself,
3227 IV, 37 | first to Gelduba, after, wards to Novesium; Civilis took
3228 III, 32 | that it would soon be warm enough. Thus the words of
3229 IV, 15 | class. When he saw them warmed with the festivities of
3230 III, 81 | had he not yielded to the warnings of the more orderly and
3231 III, 32 | hastened to the baths to wash off the blood; and when
3232 II, 85 | fled through the pathless wastes of Moesia beyond Mount Haemus,
3233 III, 36 | future. While he thus lay wasting his powers in sloth among
3234 III, 22 | with the same weapons; the watch-word, continually asked, became
3235 I, 47 | insulting frolic to the watches and the general arrangements
3236 V, 24 | that, from omitting the watchwords and the usual challenges,
3237 V, 7 | no home either to fish or water-birds. These strange waters support
3238 I, 66 | resorted to as an agreeable watering place. Despatches were sent
3239 III, 29 | he mounted the rampart, waved his hand, and shouted aloud
3240 II, 30 | complained that, though so much weaker in numbers, they had been
3241 II, 32 | civil war is a mightier weapon than the sword. Our soldiers
3242 IV, 47 | claims. The victorious army, wearing their proper decorations
3243 I, 1 | servility, whereas malignity wears the false appearance of
3244 IV, 43 | tardy movements of Nero in wearying himself and his informers
3245 III, 29 | while the 7th legion in wedge-like array was endeavouring to
3246 V, 7 | into pieces with axes and wedges just as timber or stone
3247 II, 76 | difficulty. They must also weigh the circumstances of their
3248 II, 52 | a different anxiety also weighed upon the Senators, who,
3249 I, 86 | publicly purifying the city and weighing various plans for the campaign,
3250 IV, 31 | then, by a shifting of the weights, projected them within the
3251 II, 52 | seem to have been tardy in welcoming the conqueror. Thus they
3252 IV, 44 | grew fiercer, while the well-disposed majority on the one side,
3253 I, 49 | world," they said, "was well-nigh turned upside down when
3254 V, 26 | relatives to change by a well-timed service to the Roman people
3255 II, 3 | the open air, it is never wet with rain. The image of
3256 IV, 39 | disposition. The fact was that the wheat-ships were detained by the severity
3257 II, 41 | compelled the beaten squadron to wheel round and resume the conflict.
3258 IV, 24 | bridge, under which they put wheels, and so propelled it, some
3259 III, 10 | for his death in a very whirlwind of passion, vociferating
3260 II, 89 | centurions of highest rank, in white robes, and the other officers
3261 | whither
3262 | whoever
3263 V, 9 | while they ventured on the wholesale banishment of their subjects,
3264 IV, 8 | good Emperors, I can endure whomsoever we may have. It was not
3265 III, 15 | would have wasted like a wide-spread pestilence, had not Antonius,
3266 III, 3 | tones that might be most widely heard (for the centurions
3267 III, 15 | scouts, as usual, took a wider range. ~ ~
3268 I, 69 | themselves. Aware that the widest part of Italy could not
3269 I, 13 | son-in-law, for Vinius had a widowed daughter, and Otho was unmarried.
3270 I, 78 | an excessive length they wield with both hands. These coats
3271 IV, 73 | traversing the pathless wilds of the Belgae in attempting
3272 II, 62 | property in any case; the wills of those who had fallen
3273 III, 79 | buildings, gardens, and winding lanes, which were well known
3274 II, 98 | sea the prevalent Etesian winds favoured an eastward voyage,
3275 III, 21 | infantry were stationed on the wings; the cavalry covered the
3276 IV, 26 | they arrived at Bonna, the winter-camp of the first legion. The
3277 IV, 52 | risked the perils of the wintry sea. Envoys had come from
3278 IV, 36 | left to their fate by this withdrawal of a part of the legions.
3279 I, 5 | promised in Galba's name was withheld, and reflected that for
3280 IV, 81 | itself into a compact body, withstood, and soon drove back the
3281 III, 65 | their conversation had two witnesses in Cluvius Rufus and Silius
3282 II, 70 | course to Cremona, and after witnessing the spectacle exhibited
3283 IV, 65 | their intrenchments their woeful appearance had not been
3284 I, 29 | and his gait, or by those womanish adornments? They are deceived,
3285 II, 70 | conflict, and gazed with wonder on the piles of weapons
3286 IV, 84 | settled weather at sea, many wonders occurred which seemed to
3287 I, 85 | swollen, broke down the wooden bridge, was checked by the
3288 III, 52 | and with expressions so worded that he could, according
3289 V, 13 | strengthened by enormous works which would have been a
3290 III, 49 | While with this world-wide convulsion the Imperial
3291 III, 37 | both giver and receiver, wormed himself by flattery into
3292 V, 6 | some have thought that they worshipped father Liber, the conqueror
3293 II, 3 | victims are such as each worshipper has vowed, but males are
3294 IV, 84 | is to many superstitions, worships more than any other divinity.
3295 II, 38 | into civil war by the same wrath from heaven, the same madness
3296 IV, 54 | them. He then touched the wreaths, which were wound round
3297 IV, 79 | those that survive from the wreck of the German army, and
3298 III, 8 | time it was thought that in wresting from Vitellius a colony
3299 II, 68 | each other in sport to a wrestling match. The legionary was
3300 IV, 18 | while they falsely gave to a wretched slavery the name of peace. "
3301 II, 60 | Licinus Proculus in all the wretchedness of an odious imprisonment;
3302 III, 52 | of the war, continued to write in ambiguous terms to Varus
3303 II, 55 | modesty of Caecina in not writing at all.~ ~
3304 III, 24 | you again taken up arms? Yonder is the field where you may
3305 IV, 72 | loyalty, and held back the younger by representations of danger
3306 | yourselves
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