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134 (return)
[ These calamitous events are recorded by Suetonius in his Life of Domitian.
134 (return)
[ These calamitous events are recorded by Suetonius in his Life of Domitian.
Tacitus
, represents Domitian as "ever affecting darkness and secrecy, and never emerging from his solitude but in order to make a solitude.
"]
129 (return)
[ Not the triumph itself, which, after the year of Rome 740 was no longer granted to private persons, but reserved for the imperial family. This new piece of adulation was invented by Agrippa in order to gratify Augustus. The "triumphal ornaments" which were still bestowed, were a peculiar garment, statue, and other insignia which had distinguished the person of the triumphing general. ]
130 (return)
[ Of Dover. ]
131 (return)
[ Domitian, it seems, was afraid that Agricola might refuse to obey the recall he forwarded to him, and even maintain his post by force. He therefore despatched one of his confidential freedmen with an autograph letter, wherein he was informed Syria was given to him as his province. This, however, was a mere ruse: and hence it was not to be delivered as Agricola had already set out on his return. In compliance with these instructions, the freedman returned at once to Domitian, when he found Agricola on his passage to Rome According to Dion (liii. ), the emperor's lieutenants were required to leave their province immediately upon the arrival of their successor, and return to Rome within three months. —White. ]
132 (return)
[ Agricola's successor in Britain appears to have been Sallustius Lucullus, who, as Suetonius informs us, was put to death by Domitian because he, permitted certain lances of a new construction to be palled Lucullean. —Life of Domitian, s. 10. ]
133 (return)
[ Of this worst kind of enemies, who praise a man in order to render him obnoxious, the emperor Julian, who had himself suffered greatly by them, speaks feelingly in his 12th epistle to Basilius;—"For we live together not in that state of dissimulation, which, I imagine, you have hitherto experienced: in which those who praise you, hate you with a more confirmed aversion than your most inveterate enemies.
"]
134 (return)
[ These calamitous events are recorded by Suetonius in his Life of Domitian. ]
135 (return)
[ The Rhine and Danube. ]
136 (return)
[ The two senior consulars cast lots for the government of Asia and Africa. ]
137 (return)
[ Suetonius relates that Civica Cerealis was put to death in his proconsulate of Asia, on the charge of meditating a revolt. (Life of Domitian, s. 10. )]
138 (return)
[ Obliging persons to return thanks for an injury was a refinement in tyranny frequently practised by the worst of the Roman emperors. Thus Seneca informs us, that "Caligula was thanked by those whose children had been put to death, and whose property had been confiscated. " (De Tranquil, xiv. ) And again;—"The reply of a person who had grown old in his attendance on kings, when he was asked how he had attained a thing so uncommon in courts as old age? is well known. It was, said he, by receiving injuries, and returning thanks. "—De Ira, ii. 33. ]
139 (return)
[ From a passage in Dio, lxxviii. p.
129 (return)
[ Not the triumph itself, which, after the year of Rome 740 was no longer granted to private persons, but reserved for the imperial family. This new piece of adulation was invented by Agrippa in order to gratify Augustus. The "triumphal ornaments" which were still bestowed, were a peculiar garment, statue, and other insignia which had distinguished the person of the triumphing general. ]
130 (return)
[ Of Dover. ]
131 (return)
[ Domitian, it seems, was afraid that Agricola might refuse to obey the recall he forwarded to him, and even maintain his post by force. He therefore despatched one of his confidential freedmen with an autograph letter, wherein he was informed Syria was given to him as his province. This, however, was a mere ruse: and hence it was not to be delivered as Agricola had already set out on his return. In compliance with these instructions, the freedman returned at once to Domitian, when he found Agricola on his passage to Rome According to Dion (liii. ), the emperor's lieutenants were required to leave their province immediately upon the arrival of their successor, and return to Rome within three months. —White. ]
132 (return)
[ Agricola's successor in Britain appears to have been Sallustius Lucullus, who, as Suetonius informs us, was put to death by Domitian because he, permitted certain lances of a new construction to be palled Lucullean. —Life of Domitian, s. 10. ]
133 (return)
[ Of this worst kind of enemies, who praise a man in order to render him obnoxious, the emperor Julian, who had himself suffered greatly by them, speaks feelingly in his 12th epistle to Basilius;—"For we live together not in that state of dissimulation, which, I imagine, you have hitherto experienced: in which those who praise you, hate you with a more confirmed aversion than your most inveterate enemies.
"]
134 (return)
[ These calamitous events are recorded by Suetonius in his Life of Domitian. ]
135 (return)
[ The Rhine and Danube. ]
136 (return)
[ The two senior consulars cast lots for the government of Asia and Africa. ]
137 (return)
[ Suetonius relates that Civica Cerealis was put to death in his proconsulate of Asia, on the charge of meditating a revolt. (Life of Domitian, s. 10. )]
138 (return)
[ Obliging persons to return thanks for an injury was a refinement in tyranny frequently practised by the worst of the Roman emperors. Thus Seneca informs us, that "Caligula was thanked by those whose children had been put to death, and whose property had been confiscated. " (De Tranquil, xiv. ) And again;—"The reply of a person who had grown old in his attendance on kings, when he was asked how he had attained a thing so uncommon in courts as old age? is well known. It was, said he, by receiving injuries, and returning thanks. "—De Ira, ii. 33. ]
139 (return)
[ From a passage in Dio, lxxviii. p.
