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Title: History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: Boston, Jewett
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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asures by his very excesses,he had henceforth but one passion, that of the public welfare. Atthe outset he dismissed his boon companions ; in his fathers life-time he had already sacrificed to Eoman prejudices his tendersentiments for the Jewish queen Berenice, whom he had sent back ^ Titus Flavius Vespnsiiiiius. horn at Kome on the 80th of Deceniher. 41. \ho year of thebirth of Agricola (Suet., Tit., 2). He was accordingly thirty-eight and a half years old wlienhe came to the throne. ^ It was so thought, says Suetonius, and he was long and dangerously ill ( Tif.. 2). ■ Participem atqvr eliam futorem imperii nfjere (Suet. Tit., 6). He bore, even in the life-time of Vespasian, the title of impercrtor (Orelli. Xo. 751), not as a first name, as did thereigning prince, but because he liad rriuniplied with his father. 672 THE C.ESAKtS AND THE FLAYII, U TO 96 A.T). to the East; lu taking possession of the supreme pontificate hedeclared that he would keep his hands pure from blood, and he
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Titus (Bust of the Gallery of tlie Uffizi). kept liis word: n<. one under his rei-n perished hy his orders.Two young patricians liad heen condemned to death for conspiring She was the daughter of Aj,n-ippa. the las, kino- of the .lews, sister of youn^r A.n-ippa theof Ituria, and widow of her uucle llerod, kitig of Chalcis, and of Polen,on king of Cihoa^ king She was thirteen years older than Titus, and consequently fifty-two years old at the deatli ot TITUS AND DOMITIAN, 79 TO 9G A.D. 673 against Lis person ; he pardoned them, nuuh tliem sit by his sideat the games of the circus, and handed them the swords of thegladiators which Avere presented to him : a mark of confidenceattended with slight dangerperhaps, bnt one which wasgreatly applauded. Vespa-sian, menaced by continualplots, had treated with con-sideration certain remains ofthe ancient tyranny, thedelators and suborners ofwitnesses, without employ-ing their services; Titus hadthem beaten with rods, sold,or transported. He ru

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