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C. Suetonius Tranquillus, The Lives of the Caesars (ed. Alexander Thomson) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Titus Livius (Livy), History of Rome, books 1-10 (ed. Rev. Canon Roberts) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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M. Tullius Cicero, Speech before Roman Citizens on Behalf of Gaius Rabirius, Defendant Against the Charge of Treason (ed. William Blake Tyrrell) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, The Lives of the Caesars (ed. Alexander Thomson) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, for his house, Plancius, Sextius, Coelius, Milo, Ligarius, etc. (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Works of Horace (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb). You can also browse the collection for Campus Martius (Italy) or search for Campus Martius (Italy) in all documents.
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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 86 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 95 (search)
Moreover
Cæcina and Valens celebrated the birthday of Vitellius by exhibiting
in every quarter of the city shows of gladiators on a vast and hitherto
unparalleled scale. He pleased the most infamous characters, but utterly
disgusted all the respectable citizens, by building altars in the Campus Martius, and performing funeral rites to Nero.
Victims were slaughtered and burnt in the name of the State; the pile was
kindled by the Augustales, an order of the priesthood dedicated by the
Emperor Tiberius to the Julian family, just as Romulus had dedicated one to
king Tatius. Within four months from the victory of Bedriacum, Asiaticus, the emperor's freedman, was
rivalling the Polycleti, the Patrobii, and all the old hateful names. No one
sought promotion in that court by integrity or diligence; the sole road to
power was to glut the insatiable appetites of Vitellius by prodigal
entertainments, extravagance, and riot. The Emperor himself, thinking it
enough to enjoy the present,
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 82 (search)