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Page xviii
... accused of his murder - Trial of Piso before the Senate - Behaviour of the emperor - Strange death of Piso - Renewal of the war in Africa - Defeat of Tacfarinas --Marriage of Germanicus's son Nero to Julia , the daughter of Drusus , the ...
... accused of his murder - Trial of Piso before the Senate - Behaviour of the emperor - Strange death of Piso - Renewal of the war in Africa - Defeat of Tacfarinas --Marriage of Germanicus's son Nero to Julia , the daughter of Drusus , the ...
Page xix
... accused- Intense excitement at Rome . LOST . 30. A year of horrors - Germanicus's sons , Nero and Drusus , are , respectively , imprisoned , and murdered - His wife Agrippina is banished to the island Pandataria - His son Caius ...
... accused- Intense excitement at Rome . LOST . 30. A year of horrors - Germanicus's sons , Nero and Drusus , are , respectively , imprisoned , and murdered - His wife Agrippina is banished to the island Pandataria - His son Caius ...
Page 23
... accused man was on a raised platform and was pointed out by a tribune . If Punishment they shouted out that he was guilty , he was thrown headlong and cut to pieces . The soldiers gloated over the bloodshed as though it gave them ...
... accused man was on a raised platform and was pointed out by a tribune . If Punishment they shouted out that he was guilty , he was thrown headlong and cut to pieces . The soldiers gloated over the bloodshed as though it gave them ...
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... accused of treason by his quaestor , Cæpio Cris- accused of pinus , and the charge was supported by Romanus Hispo . treason . Crispinus then entered on a line of life afterwards rendered notorious by the miseries of the age and men's ...
... accused of treason by his quaestor , Cæpio Cris- accused of pinus , and the charge was supported by Romanus Hispo . treason . Crispinus then entered on a line of life afterwards rendered notorious by the miseries of the age and men's ...
Page 52
... accused of revolutionary schemes . I will explain , somewhat minutely , the beginning , progress , and end of this affair , since then first were originated those practices which for so many years have eaten into the heart of the State ...
... accused of revolutionary schemes . I will explain , somewhat minutely , the beginning , progress , and end of this affair , since then first were originated those practices which for so many years have eaten into the heart of the State ...
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