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... whole was written upon the scale observed in the surviving portion of it , must have greatly exceeded the limits thus reserved for it . But the story of the first eventful year was probably told at greater length and with more detail ...
... whole was written upon the scale observed in the surviving portion of it , must have greatly exceeded the limits thus reserved for it . But the story of the first eventful year was probably told at greater length and with more detail ...
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... whole empire , that so we may become acquainted , not only with the vicissitudes and the issues of events , which are often matters of chance , but also with their relations and their causes . Welcome as the death of Nero had been in ...
... whole empire , that so we may become acquainted , not only with the vicissitudes and the issues of events , which are often matters of chance , but also with their relations and their causes . Welcome as the death of Nero had been in ...
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... whole plans depended on re- volution , was being roused to action by a combination of many motives , by a luxury that would have embarrassed even an emperor , by a poverty that a subject could hardly endure , by his rage against Galba ...
... whole plans depended on re- volution , was being roused to action by a combination of many motives , by a luxury that would have embarrassed even an emperor , by a poverty that a subject could hardly endure , by his rage against Galba ...
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... whole city , and the difficulty of concerted action among a half- intoxicated crowd . It was no care for the state , which they deliberately meditated polluting with the blood of their Emperor ; it was a fear lest in the darkness of ...
... whole city , and the difficulty of concerted action among a half- intoxicated crowd . It was no care for the state , which they deliberately meditated polluting with the blood of their Emperor ; it was a fear lest in the darkness of ...
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... whole populace and the slaves with them were now crowding the palace , clamouring with discordant shouts for the death of Otho and the destruction of the conspirators , just as if they were demanding some spectacle in the circus or ...
... whole populace and the slaves with them were now crowding the palace , clamouring with discordant shouts for the death of Otho and the destruction of the conspirators , just as if they were demanding some spectacle in the circus or ...
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