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id: 4250
title: Imperial Purple
author: Saltus, Edgar
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  Rome turned out to see him; he belonged to an earlier day, to an "I received Rome in brick; I shall leave it in marble," said Augustus, Caligula, and Nero, Domitian, Commodus, Caracalla and Heliogabalus peak such as that the young emperors of old Rome balanced themselves, a The mere wish was sufficient--Rome fell at his feet. a citizen of Rome, senator even, emperor! first appearance set Rome wild; he, too, was invited to die. Rome, that had adored Caligula, promptly fell under his sister''s sway. passed that way thought him right to have killed his mother; her crime and a slave aiding, he escaped in disguise from Rome, and killed threw the purple, and Vespasian set out for Rome. all the young emperors of old Rome, his blue, troubled eyes took Hadrian lost a valet, Rome an emperor, and Olympus a god. and the son of a gladiator was emperor of Rome.


id: 6397
title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 12: Domitian
author: Suetonius
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  father''s death, he was for some time in doubt, whether he should not being a long time after again prosecuted and condemned, he ordered to be have been present [823], when an old man, ninety years of age, had his senate, "that he had bestowed the empire on his father and brother, and whom it was his custom on new year''s day to commend the empire for the a short time be torn to pieces by dogs," he ordered him immediately to be The day before his death, he ordered some dates [835], served up at The precise time of Quintilian''s own death is reign alternately for a year at a time; and Eteocles being the elder, got and, a few years after, ended his days, at the age of seventy-five. [804] The Capitol had been burnt, for the third time, in the great fire


id: 6395
title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 10: Vespasian
author: Suetonius
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  Vespasian was born in the country of the Sabines, beyond Reate, in a short time by the same Vespasian, but he would be emperor first [742]. Vespasian as their emperor, on the calends [the 1st] of July, which was Vespasian, the new emperor, having been raised unexpectedly from a been burnt down long before, being a great desight to the city, he gave money lent to young men whilst they lived in their father''s family, not honour of Vespasian, he discovered great zeal in his endeavours to effect preceding emperors, since the time of Augustus. in the height of reputation, as well as in great favour with Vespasian; thought that the conditions were answered by Vespasian, and Titus having It also appears, from his account, that Vespasian offered [748] The account given by Tacitus of the miracles of Vespasian is find Basilides appearing to Vespasian in the temple of Serapis, under Vespasian, it appears from Suetonius,


id: 6396
title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 11: Titus
author: Suetonius
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  time, and even during the reign of his father, he lay under public odium From that time he constantly acted as colleague with his father, gladiators; and in one day brought into the theatre five thousand wild Natural History, in thirty-seven books, compiled from the various writers Natural History, collected during a period of about seven hundred years, Pliny was fifty-six years of age at the time of his death; the manner of existing in the time of Titus, stood on the same spot. emperor was sixty years old, and Titus himself, as he informs us, thirty. reason why Genseric had taken the Palace at Rome, and the Roman army had Titus appears to have erected a palace for himself information, states that lions first appeared in any number, A.U.C. 652; [792] The great fire at Rome happened in the second year of the reign of


id: 6394
title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 09: Vitellius
author: Suetonius
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  Vitellius, after he became emperor, unless the fortunes of the family Quintus Vitellius, quaestor to the Divine Augustus, in which it is said, continued a long time; as the Vitellian Way, reaching from the Janiculum period of time, they desired leave from the government to defend against his prince." The emperor Aulus Vitellius, the son of this Lucius, was born man of pretorian rank, and had by her both sons and daughters. Intelligence of Galba''s death arriving soon after, when he had length, upon his being advanced to the government of a province, gave him Two sons who interceded for their father, he ordered to be executed with therefore, to secure the favour and affection of the people, Vitellius Vitellius, by being a parasite of all the emperors from Tiberius to Nero [700] A.U.C. 767; being the year after the death of the emperor [717] Lucius and Germanicus, the brother and son of Vitellius, were


id: 6387
title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus
author: Suetonius
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  that his great grand-father was of African descent, and at one time kept subject to fits of sickness at stated times every year; for about his The Roman empire, in the time of Augustus, had attained to a prodigious time of the emperor Augustus. So great was the fame of Livy in his own life-time, that people came from He was accordingly interred, by the order of Augustus, with great funeral When at any time Virgil came to Rome, if the people, as was commonly the for some time, in great favour with Augustus, who appointed him governor [123] The Romans employed slaves in their wars only in cases of great [126] There is no other authority for Augustus having viewed Antony''s time of Julius Caesar, the number of senators was increased to nine [243] If these trees flourished at Rome in the time of Augustus, the


id: 6386
title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar
author: Suetonius
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  spectacles exhibited to the people, Caesar added a fight of gladiators, time, therefore, Caesar had the sole management of public affairs; in the senate that some person should be appointed to succeed Caesar in by Cicero, who tells us, in the third book of his Offices, that Caesar senate on the present state of public affairs; and then set out for more than three years at a time; that no senator''s son should go abroad, defect of memory; expressing at the same time an opinion that Caesar Caesar has brought into the senate-house, senate-house built by Pompey, they approved both of the time and place, (56) [104] The termination of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey But in the time of Julius Caesar the barriers of public liberty were number of enemies that Caesar had in the Senate, and the coolness of his Caesar was attacked on various occasions, and even in the senate, after


id: 6391
title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 06: Nero
author: Suetonius
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  afterwards, when emperor, adopted Nero, he gave his: and this not which, by his mother''s order, he wore for some time upon his right arm, Claudius, likewise, at the time he was consul, he made a speech for the He played and sung in the same place several times, and for several days spectacles presented to the people by private persons, and was offered by worthy of Nero." During the time of his musical performance, nobody was time ordering her to be put to death, and giving out, that, to avoid In the person of Nero, it is observed by Suetonius, the race of the The veins of both were opened at the same time; but Nero''s This appears to have been written in the beginning of the reign of Nero, Upon his return to Rome, Nero, who had succeeded Claudius, made [596] The emperor Caligula, who was the brother of Nero''s mother,


id: 6388
title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: Tiberius
author: Suetonius
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  a slave; which caused the people to secede a second time from the senate contending parties, he returned to Rome; and, at the request of Augustus, decree of the senate, erected in a public place in that town. time, and held the tribunitian authority during five years. Upon his return to Rome, having introduced his son Drusus into the Augustus, were ordered to apply to him likewise in his province. Septa, sat with Augustus between the two consuls, whilst the senate gave He did not make the death of Augustus public, until he had taken that he entered the senate-house, after the death of Augustus, as if he very day when the news of Tiberius''s death arrived, and in consequence of was Germanicus, the son of Drusus, Tiberius''s own brother, and who had Augustus, after whose death he courted the friendship of Tiberius, and


id: 6389
title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula
author: Suetonius
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  order among the legions, who, upon the news of Augustus''s death, Caius Caesar was born on the day before the calends [31st August] by Tiberius to Capri, he in one and the same day assumed the manly habit, that he attempted to poison Tiberius, and ordered his ring to be taken After her death, he ordered a public mourning for her; during also (272) prayed for his death, he sent orders round the islands [429] of pretorian rank having sent several times from Anticyra [430], whither great honours, he suddenly put to death, for no other reason, but because observing two rich Roman knights passing by, he ordered them immediately In the mean time, he reprimanded the senate and people of Rome in a very as they were called, were frequent in those times; and the people Tiberius deprived the Roman people of


id: 6390
title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 05: Claudius
author: Suetonius
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  recommending him to the armies, the senate and people of Rome, amongst likewise, by a tribune of the people, to the senate-house, to give his all occasions, he showed a great regard, he gave a Greek comedy, to be The following was well-intended, and well-timed; having, amidst great great-grandson of a Roman citizen, yet he gave the "broad hem" to the son in Greek, (318) from the senate and people of Rome to king Seleucus senate, that they should oblige the emperor to marry Agrippina, as a death, he ordered the day after to be invited to his table, and to game Claudius, at the time of his accession, was fifty years of age; and Strabo likewise informs us, that in his time, the petty British kings Christ from Jerusalem to Rome, and placing him in the time of Claudius, year of the reign of Tiberius, A.U.C. 771; at which time Claudius was


id: 6392
title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 07: Galba
author: Suetonius
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  Livia gave orders to have the hen taken care of, and the noble extraction, being descended from a great and ancient family; for he and the most eloquent man of his time, gave a lustre to the family. likewise, being told that he would come to be emperor, but at an advanced Nero''s reign, he lived for the most part in retirement. discovered that private orders had been sent by Nero to his procurators of persons who had been condemned and put to death by Nero, set up before messengers from Rome that Nero was slain, and that all had taken an oath arrival; such as that he had punished some cities of Spain and Gaul, for by senators and men of the equestrian order, to a term of two years'' to the dignity of consul; and who left him a great legacy at her death.


id: 6393
title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 08: Otho
author: Suetonius
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  Salvius Otho (whose father was a Roman recovered, by discovering to Claudius a design upon his life, carried on For the senate ordered a statue of him to be erected in the palace; an emperor''s secrets, he, upon the day designed for the murder of his Galba''s enterprises, and at the same time conceived hopes of obtaining which attended the emperor on guard, a gold piece; endeavouring likewise seize the camp, and fall upon Galba, whilst he was at supper in the Galba; and being received with a kiss as usual, he attended him at Upon this, sending some soldiers to dispatch Galba and Piso, he unavoidable, and the generals and troops sent forward by Vitellius, emperor''s feet; upon the sight of which, my father said that Otho cried The person and appearance of Otho no way corresponded to the great from Tacitus, that there was, among Otho''s generals, in this battle,


id: 6672
title: The Caesars
author: De Quincey, Thomas
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  Roman emperor, as the great accountant for the happiness of more men, the character of Roman emperor became truly and mysteriously awful. portraits of these great princes, whose public life is sometimes known, soldiers, with the cause of the people of Rome and of Roman liberty; and Great as Cæsar was by the benefit of his original nature, there can--be was the one great purpose of Cæsar, from his first entrance upon public any other themes connected with the public life of Cæsar, we notice of private justice any ways injurious to the great man''s character. great men of Rome, could not but command the reverence of the people. back to Republican Rome, and considering the state of public morals but Probably in the time of Nero, not one man in six was of pure Roman great officers of the republic and the Augustus or Cæsar of the empire,


id: 32637
title: The Envoy, Her
author: Fyfe, H. B. (Horace Bowne)
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  "His Illustrious Sublimity the Lord Vyrtl, Viceroy for Terra, Emperor "Quite," said Vyrtl, urging his lozard forward. A few hours later, Wilkins found Vyrtl and a small retinue resting of Vyrtl''s wives, a chamberlain announced, "The Jursan envoy, Daphne considering the situation and his own position, Vyrtl thought. Vyrtl kept his eyes front as he strode from the hall with Wilkins and Vyrtl took his place on a dais at the head of the table, and his aide "We are disposed to believe your good intentions," said Vyrtl "Relax, Wilkins," said Vyrtl when they were again alone. There Wilkins found him presently, to report that the Jursan envoy was Vyrtl was glad, when she appeared, that Wilkins had placed a deep she looked_, thought Vyrtl, _as this woman might have dome on Klo about "mid-morning." Vyrtl left orders that the woman was "As am I," said Vyrtl.


