History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . at civilmeasure to drive away the hostile marauders from the If Pliny the Younger and Tacitus are to be believed, thesewars Avere like those Avhich Caligula waged : Domitians victorieswere defeats; his captives, purchased slaves; his triumphs, audaciousfalsehoods. Suetonius is not so severe, but he would not have failedto be so, seeing that he relates with so much complacency the dis-graceful adventures of Cains on the Ehine and on the shore ofthe Channel, if Domitian had renewed the comedy
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . at civilmeasure to drive away the hostile marauders from the If Pliny the Younger and Tacitus are to be believed, thesewars Avere like those Avhich Caligula waged : Domitians victorieswere defeats; his captives, purchased slaves; his triumphs, audaciousfalsehoods. Suetonius is not so severe, but he would not have failedto be so, seeing that he relates with so much complacency the dis-graceful adventures of Cains on the Ehine and on the shore ofthe Channel, if Domitian had renewed the comedy of Caligula, pro-curing himself provincials of triumphal stature. But Suetoniuswrote neither the Panegyric of Trajan nor the Life of Agricola ;he liad no anxiety to eclipse, in behalf of his princ(\ all tlioimperial glories, nor to magnify the renown of a lieutenant by Pbfedrus. Fab., iv. 6. - The cniisul Front inns, a contemporary, says of the Catti: qui in annU crnnt .... {Domitiatiui) majore beîlum molitionc itiifams [Strat., i. 8). TITCJS AND DOMITIAN, 79 TO 96 03. Doinitiiin Germanicus lotting us have a glimpse of the mighty deeds which he would haveperformed but for the jealousy of his chief. Domitian, he says,made several wars; some that he undertook of his own accordand others that he could not avoid, such as the expedition againstthe Sarmatians, who had massacred a legion, and the two campaignsagainst the Dacians to avenge two defeats sustained by his several battles of, mingled success andfailure, he celebrated a double triumph, andoffered to Jupiter Capitolinus a laurel crown. ^ The Empire was constrained, for its own |security, to make its power felt from time to |^time by the restless hordes that bordered itsdouble frontier on the Rhine and the Danube,and Domitian, in setting about this himself, wasonly following the example of. his most illus-trious predecessors. During the revolt of Civilis, the Catti. (Nassau,Hesse, and part of
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