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Browsing named entities in C. Suetonius Tranquillus, The Lives of the Caesars (ed. Alexander Thomson).
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Vila (Vanuatu) (search for this): life gal., chapter 1
Livia (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): life gal., chapter 1
THE race of the Caesars became extinct in Nero; an event prognosticated by various signs, two of which were particularly significant.
Formerly, when Livia, after her marriage with Augustus, was making a visit to her villa at Veii,
Veii; see the note, NERO, c. xxxix.
an eagle flying by, let drop upon her lap a hen, with a sprig of laurel in her mouth, just as she had seized it. Livia gave orders to have the hen taken care of, and the sprig of laurel set; and the hen reared such a numerous brood of chickens, that the villa, to this day, is called the Vila of the Hens.
The laurel groveThe conventional term for what is most commonly known as,
The Laurel, meed of mighty conquerors,
And poets sage. --Spenser's Faerie Queen.
is retained throughout the translation. But the tree or shrub which had this distinction among the ancients, the Laurus nobilts of botany, the Daphne of the Greeks, is the bay tree, indigenous in Italy, Greece an( the East, and introduced into England about 1562. Our
Tiberius (New Mexico, United States) (search for this): life otho, chapter 1
Illyria (search for this): life otho, chapter 1
Otho (Alabama, United States) (search for this): life otho, chapter 1
THE ancestors of Otho were originally of the town of Ferentum, of an ancient and honourable family, and, indeed, one of the most considerable in Etruria.
His grandfather, M. Salvius Otho (whose father was a Roman knight, but his mother of mean extraction, for it is not certain whether she was free-born), by the favour of Livia Augusta, in whose house he had his education, was made a senator, but never rose higher than the praetorship.
His father, Lucius Otho, was by the mother's side nobly descended, allied to several great families, and so dearly beloved by Tiberius, and so much resembled him in his features, that most people believed Tiberius was his father.
He behaved with great strictness and severity, not only in the city offices, but in the pro-consulship of Africa, and some extraordinary commands in the army.
He had the courage to punish with death some soldiers in Illyricum, who, in the disturbance attempted by Camillus, upon changing their minds, had put their generals to the
Camillus (New York, United States) (search for this): life otho, chapter 1
Africa (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): life otho, chapter 1
Hebrus (search for this): life vit., chapter 1
Latium (Italy) (search for this): life vit., chapter 1
Apulia (Italy) (search for this): life vit., chapter 1