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  1     I,      5|          grandfather. This, it was said, Maximus had divulged to
  2     I,      7|            for "the condition," he said, "of holding empire is that
  3     I,      8|        modest tone. "He would," it said, "provide for the honours
  4     I,     12|     glorious of deeds. "Now," they said, "an aged sovereign, whose
  5     I,     13|           praise and censure. Some said "that dutiful feeling towards
  6     I,     14|                             It was said, on the other hand, "that
  7     I,     16|    distrust of himself. "Only," he said, "the intellect of the Divine
  8     I,     17|           Thereupon Asinius Gallus said, "I ask you, Caesar, what
  9     I,     17|     inferred anger from his looks, said that the question had not
 10     I,     18|         temper, Haterius by having said - "How long, Caesar, will
 11     I,     22|         fewer tribunes. "When," he said, "will you dare to demand
 12     I,     24|      consummate tact of an orator, said, "It is not through mutiny
 13     I,     28|  intentions. "You have indeed," he said, "restored light and air
 14     I,     37|          behaviour. He was not, he said, to be conquered by terror
 15     I,     41|             The Roman world," they said, was in their hand; their
 16     I,     52|        than enough blunders," they said, "had been made by granting
 17     I,     57|         and of winter. His son, he said, would come, and the rest
 18     I,     62|         despatch to Caecina, which said that he was on the way with
 19     I,     62|        destruction. "In peace," he said, "the merits of a man's
 20     I,     68|          the mutiny. "Advance," he said, "and hasten to turn your
 21     I,     80|         Varus and his legions were said to lie unburied. ~ ~
 22     I,     90|         crisis. "Their safety," he said, "lay in their arms, which
 23     I,     91|            to storm them would, he said, be easy, and there would
 24     I,     94|         hesitation, because it was said that he had insulted the
 25     I,     95|            Senate voted it, for he said repeatedly that all human
 26     I,     97|         were believed to have been said. ~ ~
 27     I,    101|         and his father had, it was said, rebuked him. Why Tiberius
 28     I,    101|      disgust, though even this was said. ~ ~
 29     I,    104|     fruitful plains of Italy, they said, would be destroyed if the
 30    II,     13|          conflict. Much of what he said was in Roman speech, for
 31    II,     16|           Let daylight come," they said, "let battle be given. The
 32    II,     17|            battle. "It is not," he said, "plains only which are
 33    II,     21|            not be known. Some have said that he was recognised by
 34    II,     31|       neighbouring wood, where, he said, an eagle of one of Varus'
 35    II,     35|          for the communication, he said, might be conveyed to him
 36    II,     41|          Senate's meeting much was said against the luxury of the
 37    II,     41|            private wealth too," he said, "had increased, and there
 38    II,     44|           although the emperor had said that he would be absent,
 39    II,     45|          increased. "It would," he said, "be trying to his moderation
 40    II,     48|         and having paused a while, said that he had given Hortalus
 41    II,     48|       others thanked him; Hortalus said nothing, either from alarm
 42    II,     50|          had become Agrippa, he is said to have replied, "As you
 43    II,     50|          knights and senators were said to have supported him with
 44    II,     56|        commotions in the East," he said, "could be quieted only
 45    II,     62|       earth. Vast mountains, it is said, collapsed; what had been
 46    II,     63|             In both these cases he said that noble rank ought to
 47    II,     65|     uttered against his mother, he said nothing. Afterwards, on
 48    II,     68|           Antonius. For, as I have said, Augustus was his great-uncle,
 49    II,     69|            of any inquirer. It was said that he prophesied to Germanicus,
 50    II,     70| reflections on Germanicus, who, he said, had derogated from the
 51    II,     74|           He was indeed, as I have said, a kind-hearted man. But
 52    II,     77|         Publius Scipio, who, it is said, habitually did the same
 53    II,     81|          nations, he had still, he said, preferred the friendship
 54    II,     84|         place of meeting where, he said, they might settle their
 55    II,     84|           ratify the treaty, as he said, further proposed a banquet;
 56    II,     90|            fear. "If my doors," he said, "are to be besieged, if
 57    II,     95|    stronger than herself. This was said openly; other words were
 58    II,    100|           command. "Go back," they said, "to the province which
 59    II,    100|       return to Rome. "As yet," he said, "you have not contracted
 60    II,    105|          lying charges. "Only," he said, "stand in battle array,
 61    II,    108|        this was the meaning," they said, "of banishing him to the
 62    II,    108|     Plancina. What elderly men had said of Drusus was perfectly
 63    II,    111|         rest, for in eloquence, he said, there was no distinction
 64   III,      6|         the emperor himself," they said, "went in the extreme rigour
 65   III,      9|            ruin of no one. This he said openly, avoiding anything
 66   III,     14|     studied moderation. "Piso," he said, "was my father's representative
 67   III,     16|        cruel. Lastly, he had, they said, destroyed Germanicus himself
 68   III,     20|            Nor did he perish, they said, by his own hand, but by
 69   III,     23|          of a grandmother," people said, "to look a grandson's murderess
 70   III,     36|             Still, personally," he said, "he felt towards him his
 71   III,     48|              With good reason," he said, "had it been formerly decided
 72   III,     49|          genial system. "Rome," he said, "is not now, as formerly,
 73   III,     50|           a husband. "Princes," he said, "must often visit the extremities
 74   III,     51|         something more of which he said nothing, was well understood,
 75   III,     57|         Germanicus. "It was," they said, "a grand opportunity for
 76   III,     58|            Rome, to display, as he said, his valour. But the prisoners
 77   III,     61|           At Rome meanwhile people said that it was not only the
 78   III,     62|       hours of night. "Only," they said, "let us have the foe face
 79   III,     65|       greatness of the empire, and said it would be undignified
 80   III,     83|        have fallen so low," people said, "that even a mere youth
 81   III,     95|          judge. "Laws, indeed," he said, "punish crimes committed;
 82   III,     96|         the motion. "Although," he said, "I am not ignorant of the
 83   III,     97|    personal resentment, he further said that Gyarus was a dreary
 84   III,     98|     independence. "The Senate," he said, "ought not to have wrested
 85   III,    102|            triumphal distinctions, said that he granted them as
 86   III,    103|     interminable war. Never, it is said, was the emperor so exasperated
 87    IV,     11|         Taking them by the hand he said: "Senators, when these boys
 88    IV,     14|          exhausted. Sejanus, it is said, having seduced Livia into
 89    IV,     19|      players. "They had often," he said, "sought to disturb the
 90    IV,     21|            a new law. "It was," he said, "the old custom to nominate
 91    IV,     23|              There were those," he said, "who called themselves
 92    IV,     25|   commonwealth. The accused either said nothing, or, if he attempted
 93    IV,     40|        verge of ruin. "Better," he said, "to subvert the constitution
 94    IV,     47|           the law of treason. I am said to have praised Brutus and
 95    IV,     54|           The noblest men," it was said, "have the loftiest aspirations,
 96    IV,     56|    different position. "Hence," he said, "I do not take refuge in
 97    IV,     59|            been wrested from, they said, by the arms of the Macedonian
 98    IV,     59|         history, they had it, they said, in greater abundance and
 99    IV,     64|           and loyalty, which, they said, would continue, if they
100    IV,     73|       Tyrrhenus and Lydus," it was said, "the sons of King Atys,
101    IV,     74|          also been the first, they said, to build a temple in honour
102    IV,     76|       might find amusement. It was said by men who knew the stars
103    IV,     77|      self-confidence. "This," they said, "was what the Roman people
104    IV,     82|            uninjured. This, it was said, had formerly happened to
105     V,     13|          skilfully questioned, had said that he was the son of Marcus
106    VI,      5|     another. "It must be fear," he said, "and a guilty conscience
107    VI,      6|      hatred. He had spoken, it was said, of Caius Caesar, as if
108    VI,     16|          without government. It is said that Denter Romulius was
109    VI,     28|           safe. Taking what he had said as an oracle, he retained
110    VI,     33|       daily journal of all that he said and did to be read in public.
111    VI,     35|           years before, a fact, he said, to be recorded; and he
112    VI,     36|        Those who knew his thoughts said that as he saw more closely
113    VI,     41|           near, the phoenix, it is said, builds a nest in the land
114    VI,     46|          Rome. "Only a name," they said, "and an authority were
115    VI,     50|        embroidery; warriors, as he said, on one side, spoil on the
116    VI,     51|            arrows; they must, they said, anticipate attack by a
117    VI,     72|          savage face of the other, said, "You will slay this boy,
118    XI,      1|          the throne. Asiaticus, he said, had been the ringleader
119    XI,      4|         scanty harvests. Some have said that it was a vine-wreath,
120    XI,      7|         And, "apart from this," he said, "the first of noble accomplishments
121    XI,     16|           having discovered, as he said, that even the Greek alphabet
122    XI,     18|           haruspices," that, as he said, "the oldest of Italian
123    XI,     19|          house. "Never before," he said, "had a native of Rome,
124    XI,     19|             Is there really," they said, "no native of this country
125    XI,     19|          He was no intruder," they said, "on an unwilling people;
126    XI,     21|          arms. One soldier, it was said, had suffered death for
127    XI,     23|       ridicule from the allies, he said nothing but this, "Happy
128    XI,     30|      commonwealth. But, it will be said, we have fought with the
129    XI,     32|           his rank. Permission, he said, would be readily obtained.
130    XI,     34|   concealment. "They were not," he said, "in such an extremity as
131    XI,     37|  complaints. "When an actor," they said, "impudently thrust himself
132    XI,     39|           a Plautius. Even now, he said, he would not make charges
133    XI,     39|        marriage. "Do you know," he said "of your divorce? The people,
134    XI,     41|           lascivious chorus. It is said that one Vettius Valens
135    XI,     44|         infant children, Vitellius said nothing but, "What audacity!
136    XI,     48|            deed of blood. Such, he said, was the emperor's bidding.
137    XI,     48|           executioner. "Life," she said, "was over; all that could
138   XII,      7|          children. "It cannot," he said, "be long a question that
139   XII,      7|           emperor. But, it will be said, marriage with a brother'
140   XII,      8|         Roman knight, who, as many said, was swayed by the influence
141   XII,     11|               They were not," they said, "unaware of the treaty
142   XII,     12|        been exemplary. "Still," he said, "they must bear with the
143   XII,     24|          emperor's presence he was said to have spoken too proudly
144   XII,     25|          Caius Caesar he purposely said nothing), and then added
145   XII,     29|           of Britannicus. "So," he said, "it had been with the Divine
146   XII,     31|       their insincerity. For he is said to have had by no means
147   XII,     45|           It was as glorious, they said, as the display of Syphax
148   XII,     49|         and the people's vote. She said, too, that, if the perversity
149   XII,     52|   Parthians. But open violence, he said, must be deferred; artful
150   XII,     53|           for aid, his brother, he said, had opposed him, and he
151   XII,     55|    Rhadamistus. "The Iberians," he said, "were not against peace,
152   XII,     71|        respectively flourished. He said too that Xenophon, of whose
153   XII,     75|           suspected Agrippina, was said to have plainly told his
154   XII,     80|           on a litter. Some, it is said, hesitated, and looked round
155  XIII,      5|          empire. "His boyhood," he said, "had not had the taint
156  XIII,      5|          odium. "He would not," he said, "be judge in all cases,
157  XIII,     18|           seeming unconsciousness, said that this was a common occurrence,
158  XIII,     19|           display. For himself, he said, that as he had now lost
159  XIII,     22|           crime, but "any one," he said, "much more a parent, must
160  XIII,     46|                        As yet," he said, "Vologeses had not bestirred
161  XIII,     47|      thousand troopers," Tiridates said, "would be his escort; what
162  XIII,     53|      deserved exile. "The man," he said, "familiar as he was only
163  XIII,     56|            quail in spirit. Rumour said that he supported that lonely
164  XIII,     61|       Sallust's gardens. Sulla, he said, was the author of this
165  XIII,     64|      friends asked an explanation, said "that it was not in ignorance
166  XIII,     69|          This result he repeatedly said would excite the fears of
167  XIII,     72|     impressed by this language and said that people must submit
168   XIV,      5|           the water. "Nothing," he said, "allowed of accidents so
169   XIV,     10|         this mighty boon. "Go," he said, "with all speed and take
170   XIV,     11|        centurion of marines. "If," said she, "you have come to see
171   XIV,     14|             Let him kill her," she said, "provided he is emperor." ~ ~
172   XIV,     19|           go without a fear," they said, "and experience in his
173   XIV,     20|         the gods. Songs indeed, he said, were sacred to Apollo,
174   XIV,     27|          theatre. "Formerly," they said, "the games were usually
175   XIV,     28|       names. "Our ancestors," they said, "were not averse to the
176   XIV,     43|           a strange tongue, it was said, were heard in their Senate-house;
177   XIV,     46|           of women. "But now," she said, "it is not as a woman descended
178   XIV,     47|            barbarians. "There," he said, "you see more women than
179   XIV,     56|            rabble. But, it will be said, the innocent will perish.
180   XIV,     59|          flatterers round him, who said that if aught befell him
181   XIV,     60|    executioner and the halter," he said, "we have long ago abolished;
182   XIV,     73|       Germany. "I have no eye," he said, "like Burrus, to two conflicting
183   XIV,     75|      destroyed. Again Asia, it was said, from its partiality for
184   XIV,     79|        their mistress. One of them said, in answer to the furious
185   XIV,     80|          in war. "Those arms," she said, "have been taken up against
186   XIV,     82|            service. "He alone," he said, "had come to the rescue
187    XV,      1|            quarter - "Already," he said, "Armenia has been given
188    XV,      7|            results of the war, and said repeatedly that there had
189    XV,     11|         the enemy. He could, it is said, scarcely be driven to confess
190    XV,     12|            army; they meantime, he said, would hold to their fidelity
191    XV,     13|          Paetus. "For himself," he said, "he had no forgiveness
192    XV,     20|    departure of Vologeses. Corbulo said that he had no such instructions
193    XV,     21|  legitimate income. He himself, he said, made the state an annual
194    XV,     31|       effect. "He did not," it was said, "repeat his former and
195    XV,     35|           but harsh. "Matters," he said, "have not yet gone so far
196    XV,     44|            but in revolution. They said further that he had nobles
197    XV,     56|         principles. Seneca, it was said, to avert from himself the
198    XV,     61|          of the fatal deed. It was said that Subrius Flavus had
199    XV,     63|              Epicharis accordingly said more, and began the history
200    XV,     64|      preside over it. "Better," he said, "in the capital, in that
201    XV,     65|                              So he said openly, with however a secret
202    XV,     68|            doors shut against him, said again and again that he
203    XV,     69|         freedman. He had often, he said, signed his will without
204    XV,     74|           and of the people. "If," said they, "your accomplices
205    XV,     77|          acknowledged what Natalis said and his own answer. Either
206    XV,     78|              He had no reason," he said, for "preferring the interest
207    XV,     85|           browbeating and menaces, said with a smile that no one
208    XV,     87|         neck resolutely, "I wish," said he, "that your stroke may
209    XV,     90|        fatal end to their banquet, said that they had suffered enough
210    XV,     96|        lash of popular talk, which said that he had destroyed men
211   XVI,      1|          ancient days. In fact, he said, ingots of great weight
212   XVI,      2|          emperor. "Not only," they said, "were there the usual harvests,
213   XVI,      3|         voluntary death. Some have said that he was imprisoned and
214   XVI,     18|            this codicil he is also said to have written, by way
215   XVI,     23|            charges:- "Thrasea," he said, "at the beginning of the
216   XVI,     28|          to enter the Senate house said that they counted confidently
217   XVI,     29|              Spare your ears" they said, "taunts and revilings.
218   XVI,     30|           protester. "My days," he said, "are ended, and I must
219   XVI,     32|          was at stake. "It is," he said, "the stubbornness of inferiors
220   XVI,     34|           in Asia which he had, he said, adapted to his own glory
221   XVI,     37|              Treat separately," he said, "the case of one who is
222   XVI,     41|           quaestor to his side and said, "We pour out a libation