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C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Julius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 20 (search)
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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
From Ostia, journeying along the coast of Campania, he halted awhile on receiving intelligence of Augustus's being taken ill, but this giving rise to a rumour that he stayed with a view to something extraordinary, he sailed with the wind almost full against him, and arrived at Rhodes, having been struck with the pleasantness and healthiness of the island at the time of his landing there in his return from Armenia.
Here contenting himself with a small house, and a villa not much larger, near the town, he led entirely a private life, taking his walks sometimes about the Gymnasia,
The Gymnasia were places of exercise, and received their name from the Greek word signifying naked, because the contending parties wore nothing but drawers.
without any lictor or other attendant, and returning the civilities of the Greeks with almost as much complaisance as if he had been upon a level with them.
One morning, in settling the course of his daily excursion, he happened to say, that he should vis
But after the loss of his two sons, of whom Germanicus died in Syria, and Drusus at Rome, he withdrew into Campania;A.U.C. 779 at which time opinion and conversation were almost general, that he never would return, and would die soon.
And both nearly turned out to be true.
For indeed he never more came to Rome; and a few days after leaving it, when he was at a villa of his called the Cave, near Terracina,Terracina, standing at the southern extremity of the Pontine Marshes, on the shore of the Mediterranean. It is surrounded by high calcareous cliffs, in which there are caverns, affording, as Strabo informs us, cool retreats, attached to the Roman villas built round.
during supper a great many huge stones fell from above, which killed several of the guests and attendants; but
he almost hopelessly escaped.
After he had gone round Campania, and dedicated the capitol at Capua, and a temple to Augustus at Nola,Augustus died at Nola, a city in Campania. See c. lviii. of his life.
which he made the pretext of his journey, he retired to Capri; being greatly delighted with the island, because it was accessible only by a narrow beach, being on all sides surrounded with rugged cliffs, of a stupendous height, and by a deep sea.
But immediately, the people of Rome being extremely clamorous for his return,Campania. See c. lviii. of his life.
which he made the pretext of his journey, he retired to Capri; being greatly delighted with the island, because it was accessible only by a narrow beach, being on all sides surrounded with rugged cliffs, of a stupendous height, and by a deep sea.
But immediately, the people of Rome being extremely clamorous for his return, on account of a disaster at Fidenae,
Fidenae stood in a bend of the Tiber, near its junction with the Anio.
There are few traces of it remaining.
Where upwards of twenty thousand persons had been killed by the fall of the amphitheatre, during a public spectacle of gladiators, he crossed over again to the continent, and gave all people free access to him; so much the more, because, at his departure from the city, he had caused it to be proclaimed that no one should address him, and had declined