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Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 1 (ed. Rev. Canon Roberts), chapter 42 (search)
ServiusHis Political Organisation. consolidated his power quite as much by his private as by his public measures. To guard against the children of Tarquin treating him as those of Ancus had treated Tarquin, he married his two daughters to the scions of the royal house, Lucius and Arruns Tarquin.
Human counsels could not arrest the inevitable course of destiny, nor could Servius prevent the jealousy aroused by his ascending the throne from making his family the scene of disloyalty and hatred. The truce with the Veientines had now expired, and the resumption of war with them and other Etruscan cities came most opportunely to help in maintaining tranquillity at home.
In this war the courage and good fortune of Tullius were conspicuous, and he returned to Rome, after defeating an immense force of the enemy, feeling quite secure on the throne, and assured of the goodwill of both patricians and commons.
Then he set himself to by far the greatest of all works in times o
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Augustus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 29 (search)
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Augustus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 62 (search)
He had three grandsons by Agrippa and Julia, namely, Caius, Lucius, and Agrippa; and two granddaughters, Julia and Agrippina.
Julia he married to Lucius Paulus, the censor's son, and Agrippina to Germanicus, his sister's grandson.
Caius and Lucius he adopted at home, by the ceremony of purchaseThis form of adoption consisted in a fictitious sale. See Cicero,
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their father, advanced them, while yet very young, to offices in the state, and when they were consuls-elect, sent them toLucius Paulus, the censor's son, and Agrippina to Germanicus, his sister's grandson.
Caius and Lucius he adopted at home, by the ceremony of purchaseThis form of adoption consisted in a fictitious sale. See Cicero,
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their father, advanced them, while yet very young, to offices in the state, and when they were consuls-elect, sent them to visit the provinces and armies.
In bringing up his daughter and grand-daughters, he accustomed them to domestic employments, and even spinning, and obliged them to speak and act every thing openly before the family, that it might be put down in the diary.
He so strictly prohibited them from all converse with strangers, that he once wrote a letter to Lucius Vinicius, a handsome young man of a good family, in which he told him, "You have not behaved very modestly, in making a visit to my daughter
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Augustus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 63 (search)
But in the midst of all his joy and hopes in his numerous and well-regulated family, his fortune failed him.
The two Julias, his daughter and grand-daughter, abandoned themselves to such courses of lewdness and debauchery, that he banished them both.
Caius and Lucius he lost within the space of eighteen months; the former dying in Lycia, and the latter at Marseilles.
His third grandson Agrippa, with his step-son Tiberius, he adopted in the forum, by a law passed for the purpose by the sections;
Curiae. Romulus divided the people of Rome into three tribes; and each tribe into ten Curiae.
The number of tribes was afterwards increased by degrees to thirty-five; but that of the Curiae always remained the same.
but he soon afterwards discarded Agrippa for his coarse and unruly temper, and confined him at Surrentum.
He bore the death of his relations with more
patience than he did their disgrace; for he was not overwhelmed by the loss of Caius and Lucius; but in the case of his daughter,
Having summoned the senate to meet by virtue
of his tribunitian authority, and begun a mournful speech,
he drew a deep sigh, as if unable to support himself under his affliction; and wishing that not his voice only, but
his very breath of life, might fail him, gave his speech to
his son Drusus to read. Augustus's will was then brought
in, and read by a freedman; none of the witnesses to it
being admitted, but such as were of the senatorian order,
the rest owning their hand-writing without doors. The
will began thus: " Since my ill-fortune has deprived me
of my two sons, Caius and Lucius, let Tiberius Caesar be
heir to two-thirds of my estate." These words countenanced the suspicion of those who were of opinion, that
Tiberius was appointed successor more out of necessity
than choice, since Augustus could not refrain from prefacing his will in that manner.
It is certain, however, that Publius Vitellius, of Nuceria, whether of an ancient family, or of low extraction, was a Roman knight, and a procurator to Augustus.
He left behind him four sons, all men of very high station, who had the same cognomen, but the different praenomina of Aulus, Quintus.
Publius, and Lucius. Aulus died in the enjoyment of the consulship,A. U. C. 785. which office he bore jointly with Domitius, the father of Nero Caesar.
He was elegant to excess in his manner of living, and notorious for the vast expense of his entertainments.
Quintus was deprived of his rank of senator, when, upon a motion
made by Tiberius, a resolution passed to purge the senate of those who were in any respect not duly qualified for that honour.
Publius, an intimate friend and companion of Germanicus, prosecuted his enemy and murderer, Cneius Piso, and procured sentence against him.
After he had been made praetor, being arrested among the accomplices of Sejanus, and delivered into the hands