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... person . " 7. Meanwhile at Rome people plunged into slavery — consuls , to Tiberius . senators , knights . The higher a man's rank , the more eager his hypocrisy , and his looks the more carefully studied , so as neither to betray joy ...
... person . " 7. Meanwhile at Rome people plunged into slavery — consuls , to Tiberius . senators , knights . The higher a man's rank , the more eager his hypocrisy , and his looks the more carefully studied , so as neither to betray joy ...
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... person to carry messages , from his ready wit . Two legions , the eighth and the fifteenth , were actually drawing swords against each other , the former demanding the death of a centurion , whom they nicknamed Sirpicus , while the men ...
... person to carry messages , from his ready wit . Two legions , the eighth and the fifteenth , were actually drawing swords against each other , the former demanding the death of a centurion , whom they nicknamed Sirpicus , while the men ...
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... persons had come at the Senate's orders to cancel the concessions they had extorted by mutiny . And as it is the way with a mob to fix any charge , however groundless , on some particular person , they reproached Munatius Plancus , an ...
... persons had come at the Senate's orders to cancel the concessions they had extorted by mutiny . And as it is the way with a mob to fix any charge , however groundless , on some particular person , they reproached Munatius Plancus , an ...
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... person . Letter of Germanicus to Cecina about the mutineers . They are massacred by their comrades . flexible purpose of Tiberius not to quit the head - quarters of empire or to imperil himself and the State . Indeed , many conflicting ...
... person . Letter of Germanicus to Cecina about the mutineers . They are massacred by their comrades . flexible purpose of Tiberius not to quit the head - quarters of empire or to imperil himself and the State . Indeed , many conflicting ...
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... person , a stately figure , fearless in the remembrance of having been a faithful ally . His speech was to this effect . “ This is not my first day of steadfast loyalty " towards the Roman people . From the time that the Divine Augustus ...
... person , a stately figure , fearless in the remembrance of having been a faithful ally . His speech was to this effect . “ This is not my first day of steadfast loyalty " towards the Roman people . From the time that the Divine Augustus ...
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