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
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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f plaice, brains ofpheasants and peacocks, flamingoes tongues, roe of lamprey, and athousand other things, which the three-banked galleys had soughtfrom the remotest border of the Euxine to the Pillars of Hercules.He could not control his gluttony even during the sacrifices : heate the flesh upon the altar and the cakes which the priests werecooking. In a few months, says Tacitus, he devoured 900,000,000sesterces.- He gave his name to certain dishes which in the timeof Dion were still called by his name. As for the administration, that was the business of Caîcina ^ This dish was of silver, and was preserved until the time of Hadrian, who had it melted.(Dion, Ixv. 3.) Suet., Vifell., 13; Pliny, Ilisf. Xat., xxxv. 12; Dion, Ixv. --4; Josephus, Lell. Jud., iv.4i ; Tac, 7/^-^, 9.-,. Cf..Eutropius, vii. 1± THREE EMPERORS FROM JT^NE f)S TO DECEMBER 69 A.D. 0»0 and Valeus, long rivals, now enemies, and one of them already atraitor. Vitellius had given them tlie consulate for the mouths of
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Vitellius (.Museum of the Capitol, Hall of the Emperors, No. -20). September and October, 61» a.d. : a year rich in consuls, countingas many as fifteen/ When this nomination was made and histwo generals put in charge of the government, he thought he had There were four consuls-elect Avho had not time to enter into office. See Boi^besi, Fasticon-vi.larcfi, p. 68. VOL. IV. QQ 58G THE CESARS AND THE FLAVII, 14 TO 96 A.D. fulfilled his imperial duty, and that it ouly remained to him tolive well and merrily. This coarse man had the easy tempeia-ment of all good liyers. On his way from Cologne to Bedriacumhe had rescued from the rage of the soldiers more unfortunatesthan he had left in their hands ; after his victory he hadspared Othos brother, pardoned Suetonius Paulinus, who haddefeated him in the battle of Campus Castorum ; and towardsthe end, at the most critical moment, having in his powera brother, son, and nephew of Vespasian, he had not takentheir lives. As he had been in the

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