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Title: History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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many which havebeen already made concerning this mysterious affair,3 and shallonly call attention to the fact that, at the mere will of the ruler,without public judgment or decree of the senate, a Eoman citizen,even of equestrian rank, could bo deprived of his liberty, inreality of his fortune and his rights, although the rclegatio 1 Seneca, de Clem., i. 9, 10, and Corneille. There was, however, one more conspiracy aftertlii>, thai of Paulas and Rufus. Their fate is not known. - Hi/lint, sun- bonarum artium et robore corporis stolide ferocem. (Tac, Ann., i. 3) ; Veil.Paterc. (ii. 112) and Suet. (Octav., 65) say the same. ! The exile of Ovid was decreed in the same year with that of Julia minor (Tac, Ann.,i\. 71 ; 8 a.d.), whence we may conclude, not without some reason, that the poet shared in themisconduct of her of whom he sang, it is believed, under the name of Corinna. The ruler,who never pardoned his <rrano!-daughter, also never forgave him who may have been herAccomplice.
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Bridsre al Sorrento. THE LAST YEARS OF AUGUSTUS. 145 implied neither the confiscation of the one nor the suppression ofthe1 others; and that no one, not even the sufferer, protested inthe name of the laws. Ovid died at Tomi (Kustendje), survivingAugustus only three years.1 The services which Tiberius rendered to the Empire in theterrible years when Marbod was threatening, Paimonia in revolt,and 30,000 Roman soldiers were slaughtered in Germany,obliterated the previous sentiments of the ruler, and in the year13, Augustus, feeling his end approaching, took Tiberius as hiscolleague. In virtue of a senatus-consnltum and a law of thecenturiae, he shared with his newly-appointed colleague thetribunitian power, the proconsular authority in the provinces,the command of the armies, and the right of making the census.In closing tin- lustrum, he would have Tiberius offer the customaryvows for the prosperity of the Empire. It is not fitting, hesaid, that I should offer vows whose fulfilment I sha

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