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  Speaker 1: Section twenty eight of the Complete Works of Tacitus, edited
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  Speaker 1: by Thomas Gordon. This is the LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: to volunteer, visit LibriVox dot org. The Complete Works of Tacitus,
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  Speaker 1: to which are prefixed political discourses upon that author, edited
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  Speaker 1: and translated by Thomas Gordon, with introductory essays by Thomas Gordon,
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  Speaker 1: Volume one, The Annals, Book three, Part four, International Relations
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  Speaker 1: under Tiberius. In the meantime, as the province of Africa
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  Speaker 1: was continued to Junius Blicis Servius Malaganasus, the priest of Jupiter,
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  Speaker 1: demanded that of Asia. He insisted that it was vainly
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  Speaker 1: alleged that such priests were not allowed to leave Italy,
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  Speaker 1: that he was under no other restrictions than that of
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  Speaker 1: Mars and Romulus, and that if they were admitted to
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  Speaker 1: the lots of provinces, why were those of Jupiter debarred.
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  Speaker 1: The same was neither adjudged by the authority of the people,
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  Speaker 1: nor in the books which ascertain the sacred rites. Frequently,
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  Speaker 1: when the priests of Jupiter were detained by sickness or
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  Speaker 1: engaged in the public their function was supplied by the pontiffs.
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  Speaker 1: The function itself lay unfilled for two and seventy years
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  Speaker 1: together after the death of Cornelius Merula, and yet the
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  Speaker 1: exercise of religion never ceased. Now, if in such a
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  Speaker 1: series of years religion could subsist unhurt without the creation
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  Speaker 1: of any such priest at all, how much easier might
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  Speaker 1: his absence be borne in the exercise of the preconsular
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  Speaker 1: power for one year it was to satiate private peaks.
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  Speaker 1: If formerly the priests of Jupiter were by the chief
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  Speaker 1: pontiffs debarred from the government of provinces, but now, by
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  Speaker 1: the goodness of the gods, the chief pontis was also
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  Speaker 1: the chief of Men, a pontiff to whom emulation, hatred,
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  Speaker 1: and other personal prepossessions had no access to. These his reasonings,
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  Speaker 1: several answers were made by Lentulus, the Augur, and others,
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  Speaker 1: but all disagreeing, so that the result was to wait
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  Speaker 1: for the decision of the supreme Pontiff. Tiberius, in his
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  Speaker 1: answer to the Senate, postponing his notice of the pretensions
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  Speaker 1: of the priest of Jupiter, qualified the honors decreed to Jusus,
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  Speaker 1: with the tribunational power, and especially censured the extravagance of
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  Speaker 1: the proposition for golden letters, as contrary to the example
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  Speaker 1: and usage of Rome, letters from Drusus were likewise read,
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  Speaker 1: and though modest and expression, were construed to be full
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  Speaker 1: of haughtiness. Where all things in the Roman state so
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  Speaker 1: miserably reversed that even a youth, one just distinguished with
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  Speaker 1: such supreme honor, deigned not to visit the gods of Rome,
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  Speaker 1: nor appear in the Senate, nor begin in his native
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  Speaker 1: city the auspices of his dignity. No war detained him,
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  Speaker 1: he had no journey to make from remote country trees,
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  Speaker 1: while he was only diverting himself upon the lakes and
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  Speaker 1: shores of Campania and pleasure. His chief advocation with such
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  Speaker 1: tuition was he prepared the future ruler of humankind, that
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  Speaker 1: this lesson he had himself learned from the maxims of
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  Speaker 1: his father. In truth, the emperor himself, an ancient man,
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  Speaker 1: might find uneasiness in living under the eye of the
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  Speaker 1: public and plead a life already fatigued with age and occupations.
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  Speaker 1: But what besides pride and stateliness could obstruct Drusus Tiberius
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  Speaker 1: While he fortified the vitals of his own domination, afforded
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  Speaker 1: the Senate a shadow of their ancient jurisdiction by referring
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  Speaker 1: to their examination, petitions and claims from the provinces. For
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  Speaker 1: there it now prevailed amongst the Greek cities a latitude
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  Speaker 1: of instituting sanctuaries at pleasure. Hence the temples were filled
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  Speaker 1: with the most profligate fugitive slaves. Here debtors found protection
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  Speaker 1: against their creditors, and hither were admitted such as were
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  Speaker 1: pursued for capital crimes. Nor was any authority found sufficient
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  Speaker 1: to brindle the seditious zeal of the people, thus defending
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  Speaker 1: the villanies of men as if the same were the
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  Speaker 1: sacred institutions of the deities. It was therefore ordered that
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  Speaker 1: these cities should send deputies to represent their claims. Some
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  Speaker 1: voluntarily relinquished the privileges which they had arbitrarily assumed. Many
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  Speaker 1: confided in the right from the antiquity of their superstitions
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  Speaker 1: or their service to the Roman people. Glorious to the
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  Speaker 1: Senate was the appearance of that day, when the grants
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  Speaker 1: from our ancestors, the engagements of our confederates, the ordinances
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  Speaker 1: of kings such kings, who had reigned as independent of
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  Speaker 1: the Roman power, and even when the institutions sacred to
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  Speaker 1: the gods were now all subjugated to their inspection and
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  Speaker 1: their judgment, free as of old, to ratify or abolish
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  Speaker 1: with absolute power. First of all, the Ephicens applied and
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  Speaker 1: alleged that Diana and Apollo were not born at Delos,
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  Speaker 1: according to the opinion of the Vulgar. In their territory
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  Speaker 1: flowed the river Cincris, where also stood the Ortigian grove. There,
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  Speaker 1: the big belly Letana, leaning upon an olive tree, which
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  Speaker 1: even then remained, was delivered of these deities, and thence
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  Speaker 1: by their appointment, the grove became sacred thither. Apollo himself,
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  Speaker 1: after his slaughter of the Cyclops, retired for a sanctuary
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  Speaker 1: from the wrath of Jupiter. Soon after, the victorious Bacchus
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  Speaker 1: pardoned the suppliant Amazons, who sought refuge at the altar
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  Speaker 1: of Diana. By the concession of Hercules, when he reigned
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  Speaker 1: in Lydia, her temple was dignified with an augmentation of immunities.
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  Speaker 1: Nor during the Persian monarchy, where they abridged. They were
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  Speaker 1: next maintained by the Macedonians, and then by Us. The
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  Speaker 1: Magnesians next asserted their claim, founded on an establishment of
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  Speaker 1: Leucius Scipio, confirmed by another of Scylla, the former after
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  Speaker 1: the defeat of Antiochus, the latter after that of Mithradates,
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  Speaker 1: having as a testimony of the faith and bravery of
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  Speaker 1: the Magnesians, dignified their temple of the Leucophrenian Diana with
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  Speaker 1: the privileges of an inviolable sanctuary. After them, the Aphrodisians
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  Speaker 1: and Stratosnesians produced a grant from Caesar the Dictator for
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  Speaker 1: their early services to his party, and another lately from Augustus,
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  Speaker 1: with a commendation inserted that with zeal unshaken towards the
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  Speaker 1: Roman people, they had borne the eruptions of the Parthians.
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  Speaker 1: But these two people adored different deities. Aphrodisium was a
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  Speaker 1: city devoted to Venus. That of Stratinsia maintained the worship
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  Speaker 1: of Jupiter and of Diana Trivia. Those of Hirio Caesarea
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  Speaker 1: exhibited claims of higher antiquity, that they possessed the Persian
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  Speaker 1: Diana and her temple consecrated by King Cyrus. They likewise
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  Speaker 1: pleaded the authorities of Perpenna Isauricus, and of many more
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  Speaker 1: Roman captains, who had allowed the same sacred immunity not
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  Speaker 1: to the temple owned, but to the preescinct two miles
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  Speaker 1: around it. Those of Cyprus pleaded right of sanctuary to
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  Speaker 1: three of their temples, the most ancient founded by Arius
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  Speaker 1: to the Paphian Venus, another by his son Amethys to
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  Speaker 1: the Amethusian Venus, the third to the Salamian Jupiter, by Toyker,
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  Speaker 1: the son of Telemann, after he fled from the fury
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  Speaker 1: of his father. The deputies too of the other cities
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  Speaker 1: were heard, but the Senate tired with so many, and
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  Speaker 1: because there was a contention begun amongst particular parties for
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  Speaker 1: particular cities, gave power to the consuls to search into
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  Speaker 1: the validity of their several pretensions, and whether in them
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  Speaker 1: no fraud was interwoven with orders to lay the whole
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  Speaker 1: matter once more before the Senate. The consuls reported that,
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  Speaker 1: besides the cities already mentioned, they had found the temple
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  Speaker 1: of Isiscallapius at Pergamos to be a genuine sanctuary. The
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  Speaker 1: rest claimed upon originals from the darkness of antiquity, Although obscure.
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  Speaker 1: Zmyrna particularly pleaded an oracle of Apollo in obedience to
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  Speaker 1: which they had dedicated a temple to Venus Stratinisius, as
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  Speaker 1: did the Isle of Tenos. An oracular order from the
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  Speaker 1: same god to erect to Neptune, a statue and temple.
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  Speaker 1: Sardis urged a later authority, namely a grant from the
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  Speaker 1: Great Alexander, and Militus insisted on one from King Darius,
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  Speaker 1: as to the deities of these two cities, one worshiped
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  Speaker 1: Diana and the other Apollo. And Crete too demanded the
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  Speaker 1: privilege of sanctuary to a statue of the deified Augustus.
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  Speaker 1: Hence de Vere's orders of the Senate were made, by which,
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  Speaker 1: though great reverence was expressed towards the deities, yet the
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  Speaker 1: extent of the sanctuaries was limited, and the several people
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  Speaker 1: were enjoined to hang up in each temple. The present
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  Speaker 1: decree engraving in brass as a sacred memorial and a
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  Speaker 1: restraint against their lapsing under the color of religion into
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  Speaker 1: claims of superstition and pre eminence. At the same time,
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  Speaker 1: a vahement distemper, having seized Livia, obliged the Emperor to
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  Speaker 1: hasten his return to Rome, seeing the mother and son
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  Speaker 1: lived hitherto in apparent unanimity, or perhaps mutually disguise their hate.
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  Speaker 1: For not long before, Livia, having dedicated a statue to
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  Speaker 1: the deified Augustus near the Theatre of Marcellus, had the
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  Speaker 1: name of Tiberius inscribed after her own. This he was
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  Speaker 1: believed to have resented heinously as the degrading the dignity
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  Speaker 1: of the prince, but to have smothered his resentment under
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  Speaker 1: dark dissimulation. Upon this occasion, therefore, the Senate decreed supplications
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  Speaker 1: to the gods with the celebration of the Greater Roman Games.
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  Speaker 1: Under the direction of the Pontus the Augurs, the College
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  Speaker 1: of fifteen, assisted by the College of Seven and the
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  Speaker 1: Fraternity of Augustal Priests. Lucius Apronius had moved that with
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  Speaker 1: the rest might persuade the company of heralds. Tiberius opposed
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  Speaker 1: it and distinguished between the jurisdiction of the priests and theirs,
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  Speaker 1: for that at no time had the heralds arrived to
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  Speaker 1: so much pre eminence but for the Augustal Fraternity. They
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  Speaker 1: were therefore added, because they exercised a priesthood peculiar to
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  Speaker 1: that family for which the present vows and solemnities were made.
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  Speaker 1: It is no part of my purpose the trace all
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  Speaker 1: the votes of particular men, unless they are memorable for
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  Speaker 1: integrity or for notorious infamy. This I conceived to be
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  Speaker 1: the principal duty of an historian, that he suppressed no
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  Speaker 1: instance of virtue, and that by the dread of future
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  Speaker 1: infamy and the censures of posterity, men may be deterred
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  Speaker 1: from detestable actions and prostitute speeches. In short, such was
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  Speaker 1: the abomination of those times, so prevailing the contagion of flattery,
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  Speaker 1: that not the first nobles whose obnoxious splendord found protection
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  Speaker 1: and obsequiousness, but all who had been consuls. A great
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  Speaker 1: part of such had been praters, and even many of
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  Speaker 1: the unregistered senators strove for priority in the vileness and
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  Speaker 1: excess of their votes. There is a tradition that Tiberius,
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  Speaker 1: as often as he went out of the Senate, was
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  Speaker 1: wont to cry out in Greek o men prepared for bondage.
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  Speaker 1: Even he who could not bear public liberty, nauseated this
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  Speaker 1: prostitute tameness of slaves. Hence, by degrees they proceeded from
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  Speaker 1: acts of abasement to those of vengeance. Caius Sellinus, Proconsul
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  Speaker 1: of Asia, accused by these our allies of robbing the public,
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  Speaker 1: was impleaded by Ramurcus Scorus, once consul Junius Otho Praeter
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  Speaker 1: and Brutidius Niger Edyle. They both charged him with violating
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  Speaker 1: the divinity of Augustus and with despising the majesty of Tiberius.
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  Speaker 1: Memercus boasted that he had imitated the great examples of old,
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  Speaker 1: that Lucius Cata was accused by Scipio, Servius Galba, by Cato,
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  Speaker 1: the censer Publius Rutilius, by Marcus Scorus, as if by
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  Speaker 1: such crimes as these had ever been avenged by Scipio
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  Speaker 1: and Cato, or by that Veriscorus, whom this Marmerchus his
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  Speaker 1: great grandson, and the reproach of his progenitors was now
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  Speaker 1: disgracing by the vile occupation of an informer. The old
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  Speaker 1: employment of Junius Atho was that of a schoolmaster. Thence,
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  Speaker 1: being by the power of Seganus created a senator, he
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  Speaker 1: labored by notorious attempts the triumph over the baseness of
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  Speaker 1: his original Pertidius abounded in worthy accomplishments, and had he
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  Speaker 1: proceeded in the upright road, was in the ready way
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  Speaker 1: to every the most distinguished honor. But eagerness hurried him,
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  Speaker 1: while he pushed to surpass his first equals, afterwards his superiors,
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  Speaker 1: and at last his own very hopes, a course which
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  Speaker 1: has overwhelmed even many virtuous men, who scorning acquirements that
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  Speaker 1: came slow, but attended with security, grasped as such as
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  Speaker 1: were sudden, though linked to destruction. Gellias Publicola and Marcus
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  Speaker 1: Paconius increased the number of the accusers, the former quisterer
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  Speaker 1: to Salanus, the other his lieutenant. Neither was it doubted,
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  Speaker 1: but the accused was guilty of cruelty and extortion. But
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  Speaker 1: he was beset with a series of hardships, dangerous even
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  Speaker 1: to the innocent, When, besides so many senators his foes,
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  Speaker 1: he was to reply single to the most eloquent pleaders
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  Speaker 1: of all Asia, chosen purposely to accuse him, ignorant himself
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  Speaker 1: of pleading, and beset with capital terrors, a circumstance which
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  Speaker 1: disables the most practiced eloquence. Neither did Tiberius spare him,
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  Speaker 1: but with an angry voice and countenance daunted and interrupted
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  Speaker 1: him with incessant questions, nor was he allowed to refute
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  Speaker 1: or evade them. Nay, was often forced to confess, lest
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  Speaker 1: the Emperor should have asked in vain. The slaves, too
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  Speaker 1: of Selinus, in order to be examined by torturers, were
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  Speaker 1: delivered in sail to the city steward, that none of
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  Speaker 1: his relations might engage to insist him when his life
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  Speaker 1: was thus at stake. Crimes of treason were subjoined a
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  Speaker 1: sure bar to all help, and as seal upon their lips.
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  Speaker 1: Having therefore requested an interval a few days, he dropped
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  Speaker 1: all defense and tried the Emperor by a memorial, in
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  Speaker 1: which he menaced him with the public odium and blended
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  Speaker 1: expostulations with prayers. Tiberius, the better to palliate by precedent
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  Speaker 1: his purposes against Selanus, caused to be recited a representation
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  Speaker 1: from Augustus concerning Bellisius Missalla, proconsul of the same province,
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  Speaker 1: and the decree of the Senate was made against him.
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  Speaker 1: He then asked Lucius Piso his opinion. Piso, after a
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  Speaker 1: long preface of the Emperor's clemency, proposed to interdict Salinus
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  Speaker 1: from fire and water, and banish him into the island. Gaius.
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  Speaker 1: The rest voted the same thing, only that Neus Luntullus
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  Speaker 1: moved that the estate descending from his mother Cornelia should
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  Speaker 1: be distinguished from his own and restored to his son.
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  Speaker 1: Tiberius assented, But Cornelius Dolabella, pursuing his old strain of adulation,
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  Speaker 1: and having first exposed the morals of Selinus, added that
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  Speaker 1: no man of profligate manners and marked with infamy, should
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  Speaker 1: be admitted to the lot of provinces, and of this
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  Speaker 1: their character. The prince was to judge transgressions, he said,
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  Speaker 1: were punished by the laws. But how much more merciful
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  Speaker 1: would it be to prevent transgressors, more merciful to the
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  Speaker 1: men themselves, more to the provinces. Against this, Tiberius reasoned
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  Speaker 1: that in truth he was not ignorant of the prevailing
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  Speaker 1: rumors concerning the conduct of Selinus. But establishments must not
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  Speaker 1: be built upon rumors. In the administration of provinces, many
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  Speaker 1: had disappointed our hopes and many our fears. Some were,
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  Speaker 1: by the great weight of affairs roused into diligence and adamant,
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  Speaker 1: others degenerated and sunk under them, the prince could not,
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  Speaker 1: within his own view comprise all things, nor was it
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  Speaker 1: at all expedient for him to make himself answerable for
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  Speaker 1: the characters of other men engaged in pursuits of ambition.
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  Speaker 1: Laws were therefore appointed against facts committed, because all things
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  Speaker 1: future are hid in uncertainty. Such were the institutions of
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  Speaker 1: our ancestors, that if crimes proceeded, punishments were to follow,
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  Speaker 1: nor should they change establishments wisely contrived and always approved.
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  Speaker 1: The prince had already sufficiency of burdens, and even sufficiency
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  Speaker 1: of power. The authority of the laws decreased when that
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  Speaker 1: of the prince advanced, Nor was sovereignty to be exercised
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  Speaker 1: when the laws would serve a popular speech and the
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  Speaker 1: more joyfully heard, as acts of popularity were rare with
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  Speaker 1: Tiberius to it. He added, prudent as he was in
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  Speaker 1: mitigating excesses were his own proper resentments did not control him,
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  Speaker 1: that Gairius was an unhospitable island and devoid of human culture,
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  Speaker 1: that in favor to the Junian family and to a
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  Speaker 1: patrician lately of their own orders, they should allow him
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  Speaker 1: for his place of exile the Isle of Cythyra, that
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  Speaker 1: this too was the request of Torquata, the sister of Salinus,
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  Speaker 1: a vestal virgin, a primitive sanctity. This motion prevailed. The
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  Speaker 1: Syenians were afterwards heard, and Casius Chorus, charged by them,
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  Speaker 1: and impleaded by Ancarius Priscus, for plundering the province, was condemned.
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  Speaker 1: Lucius Enius, a Roman knight, was impeached of treason for
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  Speaker 1: that he had converted an effigies of the prince into
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  Speaker 1: common usages of silver. But Tiberius withstood, admitting him as
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  Speaker 1: a criminal. Against this acquittal, Attius Capito openly declared his
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  Speaker 1: protest from an affected spirit of liberty, for that the
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  Speaker 1: Emperor ought not to snatch from the fathers the power
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  Speaker 1: of penalties, nor ought such a mighty iniquity to pass unpunished.
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  Speaker 1: He indeed might be passive under his own grievances, but
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  Speaker 1: let him not give up the indignation of the Senate
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  Speaker 1: and the injuries done to the commonwealth. Tiberius considered rather
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  Speaker 1: the drift of these words than the expression, and persisted
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  Speaker 1: in his interposition. The infamy of Capito was the more signal,
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  Speaker 1: because learned as he was, in law's human and divine.
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  Speaker 1: He thus debased the dignity of the state and his
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  Speaker 1: own personal accomplishments. The next was a religious debate, and
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  Speaker 1: what temple to place the gift vowed by the Roman
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  Speaker 1: knights to Fortune still the Equestrian for the recovery of Livia,
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  Speaker 1: For though in the city were many temples to this goddess,
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  Speaker 1: yet none had that title. At last was discovered that
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  Speaker 1: at Antium was one thus named, And as all the
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  Speaker 1: religious institutions in the cities of Italy, all the temples
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  Speaker 1: and statues of the deities were included in the jurisdiction
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  Speaker 1: and sovereignty of Rome, the gift was ordered to be
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  Speaker 1: presented there. While matters of religion were on foot, the
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  Speaker 1: answer lately deferred concerning Servius Malaganasus, Priest of Jupiter, was
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  Speaker 1: now produced by Tiberius, who recited a statute of the
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  Speaker 1: pontiffs that when the priest of Jupiter was taken ill,
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  Speaker 1: he might, with the consent of the chief Pontiff, be
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  Speaker 1: absent two knights, except on days of public sacrifices, and
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  Speaker 1: never more than twice in the same year. This regulation,
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  Speaker 1: made under Augustus sufficiently showed that a year's absence and
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  Speaker 1: the administration of provinces were not allowed to the priest
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  Speaker 1: of Jupiter. He likewise quoted the example of Lucius Metellus,
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  Speaker 1: chief pontiff, who was strained to Rome. All this Posthumius,
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  Speaker 1: who was under that character. So the lot of Asia
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  Speaker 1: was conferred on that councilor, who was next in seniority
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  Speaker 1: to Malagnansus. During this time, Lepidus asked leave of the
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  Speaker 1: Senate to strengthen and beautify, at his expense the basilic
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  Speaker 1: of Paulus, a peculiar monument of the Amelian family, For
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  Speaker 1: even then it was usual with private men to be
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  Speaker 1: magnificent in public structures. Nor had Augustus blamed Tarus, Philippus
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  Speaker 1: or Balbus for applying their overflowing wealth or the spoils
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  Speaker 1: of the enemy towards the decoration of the city and
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  Speaker 1: the perpetuation of their own fame. By their example, Lepidus,
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  Speaker 1: though but moderately rich, revived the venerable glory of his ancestors.
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  Speaker 1: But as the Theatre of Pompey was consumed by accidental fire,
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  Speaker 1: Tiberius undertook to rebuild it because none of the family
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  Speaker 1: were equal to the charge, and promised that it should however,
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  Speaker 1: be called still by the name of Pompey. At the
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  Speaker 1: same time he celebrated the praises of Sejanus, and to
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  Speaker 1: his villagence and efforts, ascribed it that a flame so
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  Speaker 1: violent was stopped at one building only. Hence the father's
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  Speaker 1: decreed a statue to Sejanus to be placed under the
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  Speaker 1: theatre of Pompey. Nor was it long after that the Emperor,
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  Speaker 1: when he dignified Junius Blycus with the ensigns of triumph,
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  Speaker 1: declared that in honor of Sejanus, he did it, for
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  Speaker 1: to Sejanus Blicus was uncle. Yet the actions of Blycus
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  Speaker 1: were entitled to so much distinction, for Tacpharinus, though often repulsed,
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  Speaker 1: was still repairing his forces in the heart of Africa,
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  Speaker 1: had arrived to such a pitch of arrogance that he
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  Speaker 1: sent ambassadors to Tiberius with demands for a settlement to
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  Speaker 1: himself and his army. Otherwise he threatened everlasting war. They
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  Speaker 1: say that upon no occasion did ever Tiberius, for any
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  Speaker 1: insult offered himself in the Roman name, manifest a more
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  Speaker 1: sensible indignation that a deserter and a robber should presume
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  Speaker 1: to offer terms like an equal foe, when even to
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  Speaker 1: Spartacus no concession was being made, received and treated under
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  Speaker 1: the sanction of the public faith. While after the slaughter
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  Speaker 1: of so many consular armies, he still carried with impunity,
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  Speaker 1: fire and desolation through Italy. Though the commonwealth was then
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  Speaker 1: gasping under two mighty wars with Sertorious and Mithridates. Much
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  Speaker 1: less was Tacpharynus a freebooter to be bought off by
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  Speaker 1: terms of peace and concession of lands, whilst the Roman
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  Speaker 1: people enjoyed to the highest pitch of glory in power.
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  Speaker 1: Hence he commissioned Lysis to engage, by the hopes of indemnity,
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  Speaker 1: all his followers to lay down their arms, but to
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  Speaker 1: get into his hands the leader himself, by whatever means,
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  Speaker 1: so that by this parton many were brought over, and
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  Speaker 1: the war was forthwith prosecuted against him by stratagems not
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  Speaker 1: unlike his own. For as he, who in strength of
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  Speaker 1: men was unequal, but in arts of stealth and pillaging superior,
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  Speaker 1: made his incursions in separate bands, and thus and thence
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  Speaker 1: could at once elude any attack of ours, and harass
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  Speaker 1: us by ambushes of his. So on our side, three
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  Speaker 1: distinct roots were resolved, and three several bodies formed. Scipio,
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  Speaker 1: the Proconsul's lieutenant, commanded on that quarter whence Tacpharynus had
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  Speaker 1: made his depidations against the Lepitanians, and then his retreat
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  Speaker 1: amongst the Grammaties. In another quarter, Blysis the son led
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  Speaker 1: a band of his own to protect the territory of
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  Speaker 1: the Cirtensians from ravages. Between both marched the Proconsul himself
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  Speaker 1: with the flower of the army, erecting forts and casting
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  Speaker 1: up intrenchments and convenient places. By these dispositions he sorely
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  Speaker 1: cramped the foe and rendered all their movements dangerous. For
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  Speaker 1: whichever way they turned, still some party of the Roman
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  Speaker 1: forces was upon them in front, in flank, and often
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  Speaker 1: at their heels, and by this means many were slain
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  Speaker 1: or made prisoners. This triple army was again split by Blicus,
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  Speaker 1: and the band still smaller, and over each a centurion
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  Speaker 1: of tried bravery placed. Neither did he, as usual at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the season, draw off his forces from
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  Speaker 1: the field or dispose them into winter quarters in the
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  Speaker 1: old province. But as in the first heat of war,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: having raised more forts, he despatched light parties acquainted with
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness, who drove Tacfarinus before them, continually shifting his
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  Speaker 1: huts till having taken his brother. He retreated too suddenly, however,
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  Speaker 1: for the good of the province, as there were still
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  Speaker 1: left behind instruments to rekindle the war. But Tiberius took
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  Speaker 1: it for concluded, and likewise granted to Blicus that he
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  Speaker 1: should be by the legions saluted impiratour, an ancient honor
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  Speaker 1: usually done to the old Roman captains, who, upon their
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  Speaker 1: successful exploits for their country, were in the shouts and
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  Speaker 1: vehemence of victory thus complimented by their armies. And there
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  Speaker 1: had been at once several imperatours, without any pre eminence
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  Speaker 1: of one over the rest. It was a title vouchsafed
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  Speaker 1: to some even by Augustus, and now for the last
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  Speaker 1: time by Tiberius to Blicus. This year died two illustrious Romans,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Ascinius Selonius, splendid in his relations and descent, as Marcus
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Agrippa and Asinius Polio were his grandfathers, Drusus his half brother,
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  Speaker 1: and himself betrothed to the Emperor's granddaughter, and Aetaius Capito,
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  Speaker 1: already mentioned in civil Acquirements, the prince for man in Rome,
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  Speaker 1: as to dissent, his grandfather was only a centurion under Sulla,
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  Speaker 1: But his father arrived to the pratership. Augustus had pushed
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  Speaker 1: him early into the consulship, that by the grandeur of
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  Speaker 1: that office he might be set above Astystius Labio, who
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  Speaker 1: excelled in equal accomplishments for that age, produced together these
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  Speaker 1: two ornaments of peace. But Labio preserved, unstained a spirit
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  Speaker 1: of liberty, and thence was more the object of popular renown,
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  Speaker 1: while Capito gained by obsequiousness greater credit with those who
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  Speaker 1: bore rule. The former, as he was never suffered to
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  Speaker 1: rise beyond the pratership, met with matter of praise from
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  Speaker 1: a source of injury to the other, with the glory
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  Speaker 1: of the consulate, a crude. Likewise the envy, and with
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: envy hatred. Junia, too, now sixty four years after the
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Battle of Philippi, finished her course, the niece of Cato,
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  Speaker 1: sister of Brutus, and wife of Cassius. Her will made
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  Speaker 1: much noise amongst the populace, for that, being immensely rich
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  Speaker 1: and having honorably distinguished with legacies almost all the great
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  Speaker 1: men of Rome. She omitted Tiberius an omission which he
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  Speaker 1: took civilly, nor hindered her pangyic from being pronounced in public,
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  Speaker 1: nor her funeral from being celebrated with other customary solemnities.
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  Speaker 1: Before it were born the images of twenty the most
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  Speaker 1: noble families, the manly e, the quinti e, and other
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  Speaker 1: names of equal luster but superior to all shown Cassius
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  Speaker 1: and Brutus on this very account that their images were
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  Speaker 1: not with the rest seen now. End of Section twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight and end of the Complete Works of Tacitus, Volume one,
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  Speaker 1: translated and edited by Thomas Gordon,