Identifier: historyofromeromv4p1duru (find matches)
Title: History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Orat., 35). The characteristicof the literature of this time is a forced and declamatory tone, which exaggerates all things,ingentia verba. Petronius also ridicules these athletes of the schools who, when they maketheir dibut at the bar, seem to fall from another world, so much are they strangers to real life.In their declamations there were always pirates with chains in ambush on the shore, tyrantscompelling children to murder their fathers, oracles claiming human victims, etc., etc.Satyricon, 2: Nuper ventosa istcec et enormis loquacitas Athenas ex Asia commigrqvitanimosque juvenum et magna eurgentes .... adflavit. In the time of Augustus we findStrabo complaining of the Oriental exaggeration that gained ground in Rome. Suetonius ( Tib., 50) says that he one day betrayed Drusus by showing to Augustus aletter of bis brothers, qua tecum de cogendo ad restituendam libertatem Auguzto agebat. Is itneedful for me to say that 1 no more believe in the republicanism of Drusus than in that of
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THE REIGN OF TIBERIUS TO THE DEATH OF DRUSUS, 14 TO 23. 273 him once more, Tiberius travelled seventy leagues in a day ; andwhen he brought back the body of Drusus from the banks of theEhine to Kome, he walked on foot before the funeral train allthe long road. Twenty years later he still was mindful ofhis brother, whose name he associated with his own upon atemple built with the spoils taken in his victories.1 He separatedfrom his first wife, to marry Julia, only upon the express commandof Augustus, but his heart remained always with Vipsania. Oneday when he accidentally met her, says his biographer, his eyesfilled with tears, and remained fixed upon her so long as shewas in sight; and it was necessaryto guard against Vipsanias appearing before him.2 At the age of nine he pronounced in public the eulogy of his father; Augustus had done this at the age of twelve. The Eoman youth were trained to eloquence as much as to war: language was the weapon of peace, but we shall shortly see that

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