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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 1 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 2 (search)
These and like thoughts made
him waver between hope and fear; but hope triumphed. Some supposed that he
retraced his steps for love of Queen Berenice, nor was his young heart
averse to her charms, but this affection occasioned no hindrance to action.
He passed, it is true, a youth enlivened by pleasure, and practised more
self-restraint in his own than in his father's reign. So, after coasting Achaia and Asia, leaving the
land on his left, he made for the islands of Rhodes
and Cyprus, and then by a bolder course for Syria. Here he conceived a desire to visit and inspect
the temple of the Paphian Venus, a place of celebrity both among natives and
foreigners. It will not be a tedious digression to record briefly the origin
of the worship, the ceremonial of the temple, and the form under which the
goddess is adored, a form found in no other place.
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 8 (search)
About this time Achaia and Asia Minor were
terrified by a false report that Nero was at hand. Various rumours were
current about his death; and so there were many who pretended and believed
that he was still alive. The adventures and enterprises of the other
pretenders I shall relate in the regular course of my work. The pretender in
this case was a slave from Pontus, or, according to
some accounts, a freedman from Italy, a skilful
harp-player and singer, accomplishments, which, added to a resemblance in
the face, gave a very deceptive plausibility to his pretensions. After
attaching to himself some deserters, needy vagrants whom he bribed with
great offers, he put to sea. Driven by stress of weather to the island of
Cythnus, he induced certain soldiers, who were on
their way from the East, to join him, and ordered others, who refused, to be
executed. He also robbed the traders and armed all the most able-bodied of
the slaves. The centurion Sisenna, who was the bearer o
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 81 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 83 (search)