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35 BC (search for this): book 7, chapter 46
merus, off the coast of Apulia, where she survived twenty years, dependent on the bounty of the empress Livia. A child born after her dis- grace, was, by order of Augustus, exposed as spurious. She is supposed by some to be the Corinna of Ovid's amatory poems. to which there were added numerous other evils, such as the want of money to pay his soldiers; the revolt of Illyria;He probably alludes to the rising of some tribes in the provinces on the north-eastern coast of the Adriatic, in B.C. 35, who refused to pay their tribute. They were finally vanquished by Statilius Taurus, B.C. 33. the necessity of levying the slaves; the sad deficiency of young men;After the defeat of his general Varus, by Arminius, in Germany. the pestilence that raged in the City;This pestilence is also mentioned by Dion Cassius; it took place A.U.C. 732.—B. the famine in Italy; the design which he had formed of putting an end to his life, and the fast of four days, which brought him within a hair's breadth o
33 BC (search for this): book 7, chapter 46
he empress Livia. A child born after her dis- grace, was, by order of Augustus, exposed as spurious. She is supposed by some to be the Corinna of Ovid's amatory poems. to which there were added numerous other evils, such as the want of money to pay his soldiers; the revolt of Illyria;He probably alludes to the rising of some tribes in the provinces on the north-eastern coast of the Adriatic, in B.C. 35, who refused to pay their tribute. They were finally vanquished by Statilius Taurus, B.C. 33. the necessity of levying the slaves; the sad deficiency of young men;After the defeat of his general Varus, by Arminius, in Germany. the pestilence that raged in the City;This pestilence is also mentioned by Dion Cassius; it took place A.U.C. 732.—B. the famine in Italy; the design which he had formed of putting an end to his life, and the fast of four days, which brought him within a hair's breadth of death. And then, added to all this, the slaughter of Varus;We have an account of the disast
45 BC (search for this): book 7, chapter 46
eified emperor Augustus even, whom the whole world would certainly agree to place in this class,In the class of those who were considered peculiarly fortunate; "hâc censurâ," literally, "in this assessment," in allusion to the classification of the citizens of Rome, according to the estimate of their property.—B. if we carefully examine it in all its features, we shall find remarkable vicissitudes of human fate. There was his rejection from the post of master of the horse, by his uncle,In B.C. 45, when, being but about eighteen years of age, he had the presumption to ask his uncle for the office of "magister equitum;" upon which Julius Cæsar bestowed it on M. Lepidus, probably being of opinion that his nephew was not yet fit for the office. and the preference which was given to Lepidus, and that, too, in opposition to his own requests; the hatred produced by the proscription; his alliance in the TriumvirateIn his triumvirate with Antony and Lepidus, he showed himself no less cruel than
14 AD (search for this): book 7, chapter 46
the son of Livia. Her profligacy was universally known, and Augustus did not scruple to enlarge upon it before the senate; but Pliny is the only writer who states that she contemplated an attempt on the life of his father; though Suetonius says that she became, at a late period of her reign, an object of interest to those who were disaffected. Julia was first banished to Pandataria, off the coast of Campania, and then to Rhegium, which she was never allowed to leave. Her death took place A.D. 14. of his daughter, and the discovery of her parricidal designs; the insulting retreat of his son-in-law, Nero;Tiberius Nero, afterwards emperor. Pliny here alludes to his retirement to Rhodes, where he remained seven years. Tacitus represents that his chief reason for leaving Rome was to escape the society of his wife Julia, who treated him with the utmost contempt, and whose licentious life was not unknown to him. During this retreat he devoted himself to the study of astrology. He left Rome w