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Cornelius Tacitus, The Annals (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK 1, chapter 2 (search)
When after the
destruction of Brutus and Cassius there was no longer any army of the
Commonwealth, when Pompeius was crushed in Sicily,
and when, with Lepidus pushed aside and Antonius slain, even the Julian
faction had only Cæsar left to lead it, then, dropping the title of
triumvir, and giving out that he was a Consul, and was satisfied with a
tribune's authority for the protection of the people, Augustus
won
over the soldiers with gifts, the populace with cheap corn, and all men with
the sweets of repose, and so grew greater by degrees, while he concentrated
in himself the functions of the Senate, the magistrates, and the laws. He
was wholly unopposed, for the boldest spirits had fallen in battle, or in
the proscription, while the remaining nobles, the readier they were to be
slaves, were raised the higher by wealth and promotion, so that, aggrandised
by revolution, they preferred the safety of the present to the dangerous
past. Nor did the provinces dislike that cond
Cornelius Tacitus, The Annals (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK 1, chapter 8 (search)
On the first day of the Senate he allowed nothing to be discussed
but the funeral of Augustus, whose will, which was brought in by the Vestal
Virgins, named as his heirs Tiberius and Livia. The latter was to be
admitted into the Julian family with the name of Augusta; next in
expectation were the grand and great-grandchildren. In the third place, he
had named the chief men of the State, most of whom he hated, simply out of
ostentation and to win credit with posterity. His legacies were not beyond
the scale of a private citizen, except a bequest of forty-three million five
hundred thousand sesterces "to the people and populace of Rome," of one thousand to every prætorian soldier,
and of three hundred to every man in the legionary cohorts composed of Roman
citizens.
Next followed a deliberation about funeral honours. Of these
the most imposing were thought fitting. The procession was to be conducted
through "the gate of triumph," on the motion of Gallus Asinius; the titles
o
Cornelius Tacitus, The Annals (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK XII, chapter 58 (search)
In the consulship of Didius
Junius and Quintus Haterius, Nero, now sixteen years of age, married
Octavia, the emperor's daughter. Anxious to distinguish himself by noble
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pursuits and the reputation of an
orator, he advocated the cause of the people of Ilium, and having eloquently recounted how Rome was the offspring of Troy,
and Æneas the founder of the Julian line, with other old traditions
akin to myths, he gained for his clients exemption from all public burdens.
His pleading too procured for the colony of Bononia,
which had been ruined by a fire, a subvention of ten million sesterces. The
Rhodians also had their freedom restored to them, which had often been taken
away, or confirmed, according to their services to us in our foreign wars,
or their seditious misdeeds at home. Apamea, too,
which had been shaken by an earthquake, had its tribute remitted for five
years
Cornelius Tacitus, The Annals (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK XIV, chapter 22 (search)
A comet meantime blazed in
the sky, which in popular opinion always portends revolution to kingdoms. So
people began to ask, as if Nero was already dethroned, who was to be
elected. In every one's mouth was the name of Rubellius Blandus, who
inherited through his mother the high nobility
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of the Julian family. He was himself attached to
the ideas of our ancestors; his manners were austere, his home was one of
purity and seclusion, and the more he lived in retirement from fear, the
more fame did he acquire. Popular talk was confirmed by an interpretation
put with similar credulity on a flash of lightning. While Nero was reclining
at dinner in his house named Sublaqueum on the Simbruine lake, the table with the banquet was struck
and shattered, and as this happened close to Tibur,
from which town Plautus derived his origin on his father's side, people
believed him to be the man marked out by divine providence; and he was
encouraged by that numero
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Union and Confederate Indians in the civil War. (search)
Union and Confederate Indians in the civil War. Wiley Britton.
The Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole tribes were the only Indian tribes who took an active part in the civil war. Before the war very few of the Indians of these tribes manifested any interest in the question of
Elkhorn Tavern, Pea Ridge.
From a recent photograph. slavery, and only a small number owned slave property.
Slavery among them was not regarded in the same light as among the whites, for in many instances the slaves acted as if they were on an equality with their masters.
But the tribes named occupied valuable territory, and the Confederate authorities lost no time in sending agents among them to win them over.
When the Confederate agents first approached the full-blood leaders of the Cherokee and Creek tribes on the subject of severing their relations with the United States, the Indians expressed themselves cautiously but decidedly as preferring to remain neutral.
Conspicuous amon
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Index. (search)