History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . ne suffered in the affliction of the country. Disastrousnews arriving a few days later from tlie provinces produced nomore effect : a fresh proof that Rome was no longer Rome, andthat the people who inhabited it had utterly ceased to be Eoman. Tac. iv. li; ... ncqwufunm mcestn ririfashibfrnd. dcxciriitsc Gallias, Jion uf ma/a, lnquehant^tr. CfCMn , capta leyionum THREE EMPE-KORS TROM JUNE 68 TO DECEMBER 69 601 IScverthcless these dwellers in Kome, incapable of foresight oraction,
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . ne suffered in the affliction of the country. Disastrousnews arriving a few days later from tlie provinces produced nomore effect : a fresh proof that Rome was no longer Rome, andthat the people who inhabited it had utterly ceased to be Eoman. Tac. iv. li; ... ncqwufunm mcestn ririfashibfrnd. dcxciriitsc Gallias, Jion uf ma/a, lnquehant^tr. CfCMn , capta leyionum THREE EMPE-KORS TROM JUNE 68 TO DECEMBER 69 601 IScverthcless these dwellers in Kome, incapable of foresight oraction, whose hearts no longer responded to the public Avoe,quickly learned to their cost—without for that becoming any themore resolute citizens—that cowardice or carelessness which standsaloof from danger is by no means the best way of escaping fromperil. The half-barbarous soldiery scouring the city as conquerorsbegan by killing at random all whom they met. When thestreets had been blocked with heaps of the slain, and the publicsquares and pavement of the temples were red with blood, they. Scene of Baths (Men). (Tisclibein, vol. i. p. 58.) searched the houses for legionaries from the army of the Ehine ;it was enough to be tall and young for a man to be considereda soldier of the German legions and murdered blood, gold : the rich were denounced ; slaves betrayed theirmasters ; the latter were slain as Vitellians and their joropertyseized. Dion and Josephus speak of more than 50,000 murderedat this time. It was a long time before Yitellius was seized. When helearned that the Flavians had entered the city, he escaped by therear of the palace, witli his cook and his baker, and hadhimself carried in a litter to the Aventine, Avhere his wife lived,hoping thence to escape into Campania. There again harassed by VOL. IV. RR 602 THE CESARS AND THE ELAYII, 14 TO 96 uncertainty, he returned to the palace, the silence and desolation ofAvhich tilled him with terror. Af
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