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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 49 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 70 (search)
Cæcina while halting for a few days in the Helvetian
territory, till he could learn the decision of Vitellius, and at the same
time making preparations for the passage of the Alps, received from Italy the
good news, that Silius' Horse, which was quartered in the neighbourhood of
Padus, had sworn allegiance to Vitellius. They had
served under him when he was Proconsul in Africa,
from which place Nero had soon afterwards brought them, intending to send
them on before himself into Egypt, but had recalled
them in consequence of the rebellion of Vindex. They were still in Italy, and now at the instigation of their decurions,
who knew nothing of Otho, but were bound to Vitellius, and who magnified the
strength of the advancing legions and the fame of the German army, they
joined the Vitellianists, and by way of a present to their new Prince they
secured for him the strongest towns of the country north of the Padus, Mediolanum, Novaria, Eporedia, and Vercellæ. This Cæcina had l
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 73 (search)
About the same time a demand
was made for the execution of Galvia Crispinilla. Various artifices on the
part of the Emperor, who incurred much obloquy by his duplicity, rescued her
from the danger. She had instructed Nero in profligacy, had passed over into
Africa, that she might urge Macer into rebellion,
and had openly attempted to bring a famine upon Rome. Yet she afterwards gained universal popularity on
the strength of her alliance with a man of consular rank, and lived unharmed
through the reigns of Galba, Otho, and Vitellius. Soon she became powerful
as a rich and childless woman, circumstances which have as great weight in
good as in evil times.
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 76 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
I, chapter 78 (search)
By similar bounty Otho sought to win the affections of the
cities and provinces. He bestowed on the colonies of Hispalis and Emerita some
additional families, on the entire people of the Lingones the privileges of
Roman citizenship; to the province of Bætica
he joined the states of Mauritania, and granted
to Cappadocia and Africa new
rights, more for display than for permanent utility. In the midst of these
measures, which may find an excuse in the urgency of the crisis and the
anxieties which pressed upon him, he still did not forget his old amours,
and by a decree of the Senate restored the statues of Poppæa. It is
even believed that he thought of celebrating the memory of Nero in the hope
of winning the populace, and persons were found to exhibit statues of that
Prince. There were days on which the people and the soldiers greeted him
with shouts of Nero Otho, as if they were heaping on him new distinction and
honour. Otho himself wavered in suspense, afraid to f
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 58 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
II, chapter 97 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
III, chapter 48 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
IV, chapter 38 (search)
Meanwhile Vespasian (now
consul for the second time) and Titus entered upon their office, both being
absent from Rome. People were gloomy and anxious
under the pressure of manifold fears, for, over and above immediate perils,
they had taken groundless alarm under the impression that Africa was in rebellion through the revolutionary
movements of Lucius Piso. He was governor of that province, and was far from
being a man of turbulent disposition. The fact was that the wheat-ships were
detained by the severity of the weather, and the lower orders, who were
accustomed to buy their provisions from day to day, and to whom cheap corn
was the sole subject of public interest, feared and believed that the ports
had been closed and the supplies stopped, the Vitellianists, who had not yet
given up their party feelings, helping to spread the report, which was not
displeasing even to the conquerors. Their ambition, which even foreign
campaigns could not fill to the full, was not satisfi
Sallust, Conspiracy of Catiline (ed. John Selby Watson, Rev. John Selby Watson, M.A.), BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF SALLUST. (search)