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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ractive home than Rome itself.Both Caligula and Claudius, as well as several of their later successors, wereborn in Gaul. Caligula held at Lyons his famous sale in which he himselfacted as auctioneer. This vase was the mighty Antonys, he cried. Au-gustus won it at the battle of Actium. And thus with jibes and falsehoodsand vicious sarcasms he urged the townsfolk to bid upon the heirlooms ofhis family. Nero, the fear and horror of Rome, was admired and trulymourned in Gaul. He sent large sums to Lyons to help rebuild it after agreat fire; and his grave was long kept green with flowers by his provincialadmirers. The land had, of course, its little rebellions, but even these were Romanrather than Gallic in character. Sacrovir, a chief who had adopted the Romanname of Julius, led a revolt in 21 a.d. , but its purpose seems to have beenpolitical rather than patriotic; and he placed his chief dependence not on hisbrother Gauls, but on a band of slave gladiators called crupellarians, whom he
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By (leriiiissi.iii ,.f liruuii, rli-iiieMt &. ( THE MARTYRDOM OF SAINT DENIS France—Gallic Revolts 771 hired. These men were cased in a solid sheet of armor from head to foot.Thus they were like slow walking fortresses, impregnable to sword or spear,but equally incapable of active flight or attack. The half-armed rabble behindthese gladiators soon fled before the organized Roman assault. The crupella-rians perforce held their ground, until the Roman soldiers took huge pickaxesand clubs, and with these, as if battering a wall, pounded down and finallysmashed the iron masses and the unfortunate victims within. A far more serious outbreak followed Neros death. It was a Gaul, Vindex,the governor at Lyons, who first roused the soldiery to revolt against Nero anddepose him. Then there came signs and portents. A Druid priest was cast tothe lions in the arena, and they spared him; the capitol at Rome had burned;and the Druids, venturing from their hiding-places, proclaimed that thesethi

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