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Julian (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): book 1, chapter 2
When after the
destruction of Brutus and Cassius there was no longer any army of the
Commonwealth, when Pompeius was crushed in Sicily,
and when, with Lepidus pushed aside and Antonius slain, even the Julian
faction had only Cæsar left to lead it, then, dropping the title of
triumvir, and giving out that he was a Consul, and was satisfied with a
tribune's authority for the protection of the people, Augustus
won
over the soldiers with gifts, the populace with cheap corn, and all men with
the sweets of repose, and so grew greater by degrees, while he concentrated
in himself the functions of the Senate, the magistrates, and the laws. He
was wholly unopposed, for the boldest spirits had fallen in battle, or in
the proscription, while the remaining nobles, the readier they were to be
slaves, were raised the higher by wealth and promotion, so that, aggrandised
by revolution, they preferred the safety of the present to the dangerous
past. Nor did the provinces dislike that cond
Julian (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): book 1, chapter 8
On the first day of the Senate he allowed nothing to be discussed
but the funeral of Augustus, whose will, which was brought in by the Vestal
Virgins, named as his heirs Tiberius and Livia. The latter was to be
admitted into the Julian family with the name of Augusta; next in
expectation were the grand and great-grandchildren. In the third place, he
had named the chief men of the State, most of whom he hated, simply out of
ostentation and to win credit with posterity. His legacies were not beyond
the scale of a private citizen, except a bequest of forty-three million five
hundred thousand sesterces "to the people and populace of Rome," of one thousand to every prætorian soldier,
and of three hundred to every man in the legionary cohorts composed of Roman
citizens.
Next followed a deliberation about funeral honours. Of these
the most imposing were thought fitting. The procession was to be conducted
through "the gate of triumph," on the motion of Gallus Asinius; the titles
o
Julia (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): book 1, chapter 53
That same year Julia ended her days. For her
profligacy she had formerly been confined by her father Augustus in the
island of Pandateria, and then in the town of the
Regini on the shores of the straits of Sicily. She had been the wife of Tiberius while Caius
and Lucius Cæsar were in their glory, and had disdained him as an
unequal match. This was Tiberius's special reason for retiring to Rhodes. When he obtained the empire, he left her in
banishment and disgrace, deprived of all hope after the murder of Postumus
Agrippa, and let her perish by a lingering death of destitution, with the
idea that an obscurity would hang over her end from the length of her exile.
He had a like motive for cruel vengeance on Sempronius Gracchus, a man of
noble family, of shrewd understanding, and a perverse eloquence, who had
seduced this same Julia when she was the wife of Marcus Agrippa. And this
was not the end of the intrigue. When she had been handed over to Tiberius,
her persistent para
Germans (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): book 1, chapter 56
Germanicus accordingly gave
Cæcina four legions, five thousand auxiliaries, with some hastily
raised levies from the Germans dwelling on the left bank of the Rhine. He was himself at the head of an equal number of
legions and twice as many allies. Having established a fort on the site of
his father's entrenchments on Mount Taunus he
hurried his troops in quick marching order against the Chatti, leaving
Lucius Apronius to direct works connected with roads and bridges. With a dry
season and comparatively shallow streams, a rare circumstance in that
climate, he had accomplished, without obstruction, a rapid march, and he
feared for his return heavy rains and swollen rivers. But so suddenly did he
come on the Chatti that all the helpless from age or sex were at once
captured or slaughtered. Their able-bodied men had swum across the river Adrana, and were trying to keep back the Romans as they
were commencing a bridge. Subsequently they were driven back by missiles and
arrows,
Julian (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): book 2, chapter 41
At the close of the year was consecrated an arch near the temple
of Saturn to commemorate the recovery of the standards lost with Varus,
under the leadership of Germanicus and the auspices of Tiberius; a temple of
Fors Fortuna,
by the Tiber, in the gardens
which Cæsar, the dictator, bequeathed to the Roman people; a chapel to
the Julian family, and statues at Bovillæ; to the Divine Augustus.
In the consulship of Caius Cæcilius and Lucius Pomponius,
Germanicus Cæsar, on the 26th day of May, celebrated his triumph over
the Cherusci, Chatti, and Angrivarii, and the other tribes which extend as
far as the Elbe. There were borne in procession
spoils, prisoners, representations of the mountains, the rivers and battles;
and the war, seeing that he had been forbidden to finish it, was taken as
finished. The admiration of the beholders was heightened by the striking
comeliness of the general and the chariot which bore his five children.
Still, there was a latent dread when they