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Identifier: historyofromeofr42duru (find matches)
Title: History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: Boston, Jewett
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Another day when the senate addresses formal thanks to him, he bids them forbear, saying: "Wait until I deserve it." Seneca doubtless suggested the reply; this sentimentality, very uncharacteristic of a Roman, made part of the role which the philosopher desired his pupil to play, and, believing above all things in well-turned periods and effective phrases, Seneca felt that everything was secured when the prince had well recited his lesson. Agrippina, on her part, was not anxious that her son's mind should mature early. She had raised Nero to the imperial throne chiefly that she might reign under his name. It is said that an astrologer had predicted to her that her son should be emperor, but that he would destroy her life. "Let me die," she replied, "if he but reign." Like so many other anecdotes this is made after the event, and shows only one side of Agrippina's character. The sentiment ascribed to her by the French poet is truer: Je le craindrais bientôt, s'il ne me craignait plus. The empress could not expect to retain the supreme power...
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GLADIATORS – From a wall painting at Pompeii
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