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Pagina 8
... hands in the blood of many of the most illustrious Romans , now resolved , says Tacitus , to extirpate virtue itself , by the destruction of Thrasea Pætus and Barcas Soranus . The amount of the charges against Thrasea only evinced his ...
... hands in the blood of many of the most illustrious Romans , now resolved , says Tacitus , to extirpate virtue itself , by the destruction of Thrasea Pætus and Barcas Soranus . The amount of the charges against Thrasea only evinced his ...
Pagina 9
... hands , at that time no uncommon sentence , is uncertain ; if it were not so , he wished to avoid the punish- ment allotted him by a voluntary death ; but at the moment wanted courage . Seeing him staggered and hesitating , Arria seized ...
... hands , at that time no uncommon sentence , is uncertain ; if it were not so , he wished to avoid the punish- ment allotted him by a voluntary death ; but at the moment wanted courage . Seeing him staggered and hesitating , Arria seized ...
Pagina 16
... hands upon himself . LUCIUS CLAUDIUS MACER , proprætor of Africa , in the reign of Nero , on whose death he assumed the imperial dignity , and committed many cruelties . By order of Galba he was arrested and put to death . AULIUS ...
... hands upon himself . LUCIUS CLAUDIUS MACER , proprætor of Africa , in the reign of Nero , on whose death he assumed the imperial dignity , and committed many cruelties . By order of Galba he was arrested and put to death . AULIUS ...
Pagina 17
... hands of Vitellius , might pro- voke his resentment against those who had favoured the cause of an unfortunate ... hand in the blood of his master , have appeared surprising , and have passed for policy , and not the result of a virtuous ...
... hands of Vitellius , might pro- voke his resentment against those who had favoured the cause of an unfortunate ... hand in the blood of his master , have appeared surprising , and have passed for policy , and not the result of a virtuous ...
Pagina 37
... hand a diadem , and a yearly tribute , under the form and title of a pension , which was regularly paid till the time of Trajan , who not only re- fused to be ... hands of the emperor , CENT . 1. ] 37 FROM CALIGULA TO M. A. ANTONINUS .
... hand a diadem , and a yearly tribute , under the form and title of a pension , which was regularly paid till the time of Trajan , who not only re- fused to be ... hands of the emperor , CENT . 1. ] 37 FROM CALIGULA TO M. A. ANTONINUS .
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