History of the Romans Under the Empire, Volume 5Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1856 |
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... favourite of the people , who , it might be apprehended , would rather choose to seize upon the supreme power at once than wait for its descent to him hereafter.2 Tibe- rius had a further reason for courting the suffrages 1 Tac . Ann ...
... favourite of the people , who , it might be apprehended , would rather choose to seize upon the supreme power at once than wait for its descent to him hereafter.2 Tibe- rius had a further reason for courting the suffrages 1 Tac . Ann ...
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... favourite , a man far less able than himself . The trifling results of his own last cam- paign in Germany made him the more jealous of the plans which Germanicus now urged upon him for the entire subjugation of the insolent vic- tors of ...
... favourite , a man far less able than himself . The trifling results of his own last cam- paign in Germany made him the more jealous of the plans which Germanicus now urged upon him for the entire subjugation of the insolent vic- tors of ...
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... favourite , impatient of the successes of a rival , who now prompted the apprehensions of his master , and suggested the recall of Germanicus , that he might no longer spend the blood and treasure of the empire in schemes for his own ...
... favourite , impatient of the successes of a rival , who now prompted the apprehensions of his master , and suggested the recall of Germanicus , that he might no longer spend the blood and treasure of the empire in schemes for his own ...
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... favourite for the consulship of the ensuing year . It was considered as a special mark of honour that the emperor condescended to accept the same office in conjunction with him . But ere the period for his entering upon it had arrived ...
... favourite for the consulship of the ensuing year . It was considered as a special mark of honour that the emperor condescended to accept the same office in conjunction with him . But ere the period for his entering upon it had arrived ...
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... favourite , and such , as his own child in blood and the child of his cherished Vipsania , he might naturally be . But the citizens immediately threw themselves on the opposite side , and showered all their affection on Germanicus ...
... favourite , and such , as his own child in blood and the child of his cherished Vipsania , he might naturally be . But the citizens immediately threw themselves on the opposite side , and showered all their affection on Germanicus ...
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