The Works of Cornelius Tacitus: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Notes, Supplements, &c, Volumen4H. C. Carey & I. Lea, 1822 |
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afterwards Alps Antonius Aponius Appendix to Annals arms army battle Bedriacum began BOOK I.
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Página 25 - Under Tiberius, Caligula, and Clau" dius, we were all the property of one family. By " hereditary right the Roman world was theirs. The " prince is now elective, and the freedom of choice " is liberty. The Julian and the Claudian race are -• both extinct, and virtue may now succeed by " adoption. To be born the son of a prince is the "• result of chance; mankind consider it in no higher " light. The method of adoption allows time to de" liberate, and the public voice will serve as a guide " to...
Página 174 - The men who stood at a distance stretched forth their hands in token of their assent, while such as...
Página 8 - ... dignities, and the modesty that declined them, were offences without distinction; where virtue was a crime that led to certain ruin; where the guilt of informers, and the wages of their iniquity, were alike detestable; where the sacerdotal order, the consular dignity, the government of...
Página 227 - Vatican (a), where they contracted diseases, till an epidemic distemper began to rage amongst them. A dreadful mortality followed. The Gauls and Germans suffered most by their own imprudence. Infected with disorders, inflamed with fevers, and being naturally impatient of heat, they plunged into the Tiber, which unluckily was near at hand, and took delight in cooling their limbs; which proved a remedy as bad as the disease. The confusion, introduced by another circumstance, proved the bane of the...
Página 326 - From the foundation of the city to that hour, the Roman people had felt no calamity so deplorable, no disgrace so humiliating. Without the shock of a foreign enemy, and, if we except the vices of the age, without any particular cause to draw down the wrath of heaven, the temple of Jupiter, supreme of gods, — a temple, built in ancient times...
Página 200 - ... and putrefaction ; the trees cut down, and the fruits of the earth trampled under foot: the whole a dreary waste, the desolation of nature. The view of the high road was no less shocking to humanity. The people of Cremona, amidst the horrors that covered the face of the country, had strewed the way with roses and laurels, and had even raised altars, where victims were slain, as if a nation of slaves had been employed to adorn the triumph of a despotic prince. But these servile acts, with which...
Página 38 - ... near the temple of Saturn. At that place a party of the praetorian soldiers, in number three and twenty, saluted him emperor. The sight of such an insignificant handful of men struck him with dismay ; but his partisans drew their swords, and placing him in a litter, carried him off.
Página 32 - only distinction lies between those who leave no -• trace behind, and the heroic spirits who transmit " their names to posterity. And since the same end " awaits alike the guilty and the innocent, the man " of enterprise will provoke his fate, and close the ''• scene with glory.
Página 52 - Galba, meanwhile, was borne in various directions according as the waving multitude impelled him. The temples, and great halls round the forum, were filled with crowds of sorrowing spectators. A deep and sullen silence prevailed : the very rabble was hushed : amazement sat on every face. Their eyes watched every motion, and their ears caught every sound. It was not a tumult — it was not the stillness of peace, but the silence of terrible anticipation and high-wrought resentment.
Página 226 - ... patrons, the freedmen concealed their wealth in obscure places, or else deposited it in the custody of the great. Some of them contrived to insinuate themselves into the imperial family, and, there growing into favour, looked down with pride and insolence on their disappointed masters.