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C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Julius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 25 (search)
During nine years in which he held the government of the province, his achievements were as follows:
he reduced all Gaul, bounded by the Pyrenean forest, the Alps, mount Gebenna, and the two rivers, the Rhine and the Rhone, and being about three thousand two hundred miles in compass, into the form of a province, excepting only the nations in alliance with the republic, and such as had merited his favour; imposing upon this new acquisition an annual tribute of forty millions of sesterces. He
was the first of the Romans who, crossing the Rhine by a
bridge, attacked the Germanic tribes inhabiting the country beyond that river, whom he defeated in several engagements. He also invaded the Britons,
a people formerly unknown, and having vanquished them, exacted
from them contributions and hostages. Amidst such a
series of successes, he experienced thrice only any signal disaster; once in Britain, when his fleet was nearly
wrecked in a storm; in Gaul, at Gergovia, where one of
his legions
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Augustus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 21 (search)
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Augustus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 25 (search)
Soon after this, there being no hostilities, he ordered a few Germans of his guard to be carried over and placed in concealment on the other side of the Rhine, and word to be brought him after dinner, that an enemy was advancing with great impetuosity.
This being accordingly done, he immediately threw himself, with his friends, and a party of the pretorian knights, into the adjoining wood, where lopping branches from the trees, and forming trophies of them, he returned by torch-light, upbraiding those who did not follow him, with timorousness and cowardice: but he presented the companions and sharers of his victory with crowns of a new form, and under a new name, having the sun, moon, and stars represented on them, which he called Exploratorie. Again, some hostages were by his order taken from the school, and privately sent off; upon notice of which he immediately rose from table, pursued them with the cavalry, as if they had run away, and coming up with them, brought them back in f
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Claudius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 1 (search)