He was
therefore
only in his fifty-fourth year when he died; so that the copyists must probably have written by mistake LVI.
Tacitus
(Ann.
xvi.
11.
) Suetonius (viii.
17) mentions that Domitian used to seize the estates of persons the most unknown to him, if any one could be found to assert that the deceased had expressed an intention to make the emperor his heir.
—White.
]
145 (return)
[ Caligula. This was A. D. 40, when he was sole consul. ]
146 (return)
[ According to this account, the birth of Agricola was on June 13th, in the year of Rome 793, A. D. 40; and his death on August 23d, in the year of Rome 846 A. D. 93: for this appears by the Fasti Consulares to have been the year of the consulate of Collega and Priscus.
He was therefore only in his fifty-fourth year when he died; so that the copyists must probably have written by mistake LVI. instead of LIV. ]
147 (return)
[ From this representation, Dio appears to have been mistaken in asserting that Agricola passed the latter part of his life in dishonor and penury. ]
148 (return)
[ Juvenal breaks out in a noble strain of indignation against this savage cruelty, which distinguished the latter part of Domitian's reign:
Atque utinam his potius nugis tota illa dedisset
Tempora saevitiae: claras quibus abstulit Urbi
Illustresque animas impune, et vindice nullo.
Sed periit, postquam cerdonibus esse timendus
Coeperat: hoc nocuit Lamiarum, caede madenti. —Sat. iv. 150.
"What folly this! but oh! that all the rest
Of his dire reign had thus been spent in jest!
And all that time such trifles had employ'd
In which so many nobles he destroy'd!
He safe, they unrevenged, to the disgrace
Of the surviving, tame, patrician race!
But when he dreadful to the rabble grew,
Him, who so many lords had slain, they slew. "—DUKE. ]
149 (return)
[ This happened in the year of Rome 848.
145 (return)
[ Caligula. This was A. D. 40, when he was sole consul. ]
146 (return)
[ According to this account, the birth of Agricola was on June 13th, in the year of Rome 793, A. D. 40; and his death on August 23d, in the year of Rome 846 A. D. 93: for this appears by the Fasti Consulares to have been the year of the consulate of Collega and Priscus.
He was therefore only in his fifty-fourth year when he died; so that the copyists must probably have written by mistake LVI. instead of LIV. ]
147 (return)
[ From this representation, Dio appears to have been mistaken in asserting that Agricola passed the latter part of his life in dishonor and penury. ]
148 (return)
[ Juvenal breaks out in a noble strain of indignation against this savage cruelty, which distinguished the latter part of Domitian's reign:
Atque utinam his potius nugis tota illa dedisset
Tempora saevitiae: claras quibus abstulit Urbi
Illustresque animas impune, et vindice nullo.
Sed periit, postquam cerdonibus esse timendus
Coeperat: hoc nocuit Lamiarum, caede madenti. —Sat. iv. 150.
"What folly this! but oh! that all the rest
Of his dire reign had thus been spent in jest!
And all that time such trifles had employ'd
In which so many nobles he destroy'd!
He safe, they unrevenged, to the disgrace
Of the surviving, tame, patrician race!
But when he dreadful to the rabble grew,
Him, who so many lords had slain, they slew. "—DUKE. ]
149 (return)
[ This happened in the year of Rome 848.
