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Epictetus, Discourses (ed. George Long), book 3 (search)
M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, The fourteen orations against Marcus Antonius (Philippics) (ed. C. D. Yonge), THE TWELFTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE TWELFTH PHILIPPIC., chapter 3 (search)
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Augustus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 96 (search)
His malady proceeded from diarrhoea; notwithstanding which, he went round the coast of Campania, and the adjacent islands, and spent four days in that of Capri; where he gave himself up entirely to repose and relaxation.
Happening to sail by the bay of Puteoli, the passengers and mariners aboard a ship of Alexandria,
"Puteoli"-" a ship of Alexandria." Words which bring to our recollection a passage in the voyage of St. Paul, Acts xxvili. 11-13. Alexandria was at that time the seat of an extensive commerce. and not only exported to Rome and other cities of Italy, vast quantities of corn and other products of Egypt, but was the mart for spices and other commodities, the fruits of the traffic with the east.
just then arrived, clad all in white, with chaplets upon their heads, and offering incense, loaded him with praises and joyful acclamations, crying out, " By you we live, by you we sail securely, by you enjoy our liberty and our fortunes."
At which being greatly pleased, he distribu
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Claudius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 28 (search)
Amongst his freedmen, the greatest favourite was the eunuch Posides, whom, in his British triumph, he presented with the pointless spear, classing him among the military men.
Next to him, if not equal, in favour was Felix,This is the Felix mentioned in the Acts, cc. xxiii., and xxiv., before
whom St. Paul pleaded.
He is mentioned by Josephus; and Tacitus, who calls him Felix Antonius, gives his character: Annal. v. 9. 6.
whom he not only preferred to commands
both of cohorts and troops, but to the government of the province of Judea; and he became, in consequence of his elevation, the husband of three queens.
It appears that two of these wives of Felix were named Drusilla. One, mentioned Acts xxiv. 24, and there called a Jewess, was the sister of king Agrippa, and had married before, Azizus, king of the Emessenes. The other Drusilla, though not a queen, was of royal birth, being the grand-daughter of Cleopatra by Mark Antony. Who the third wife of Felix was, is unknown.
Another fa
Besides the debauch of married women, he comnmitted rape upon Rubria, a Vestal Virfin.
He was upon the point of marrying Acte,
Acte was a slave who had been bought in Asia, whose beauty so
captivated Nero that he redeemed her, and became greatly attached to her.
She is supposed to be the concubine of Nero mentioned by St.
Chrysostom, as having been converted by St. Paul during his residence at Rome.
The Apostle speaks of the " Saints in Caesar's household." Phl.
iv..22.
his freedwoman, having suborned some men of consular rank to swear that she was of royal descent.
* * * Thomson omits some material here * * *
That he entertained an incestuous passion for his mother,It is said that the advances were made by Agrippina, with flagrant indecency, to secure her power over him.
See Tacitus, Annal. xiv. 2, 3.
but was deterred by her enemies, for fear that this haughty and overbearing woman should, by her compliance, get him entirely into her power, and govern in every thing, was univer