History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . Galba ( of the Museum of the Louvre, Xo. 275). Suetonius, Otho, 6. This speech was much more in keeping with the situation than thediâcourse put by Tacitus into his mouth. VOL. IV. PP 670 THE AND THE ELAVIl, 14 TO 06 devotion of a eeiituriou, and concealed himself in the temple ofYesta, where he Avas ^soon discovered and massacred. Vinius hadbeen killed before, and the three heads upon pikes were borneamong the standards of the cohorts, near the legions eagle (16th. Temple of Vesta
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . Galba ( of the Museum of the Louvre, Xo. 275). Suetonius, Otho, 6. This speech was much more in keeping with the situation than thediâcourse put by Tacitus into his mouth. VOL. IV. PP 670 THE AND THE ELAVIl, 14 TO 06 devotion of a eeiituriou, and concealed himself in the temple ofYesta, where he Avas ^soon discovered and massacred. Vinius hadbeen killed before, and the three heads upon pikes were borneamong the standards of the cohorts, near the legions eagle (16th. Temple of Vesta (Kestoration by Coussin). January, li!» ). Later Yitellius found petitions demanding theprice of blood from 120 persons; he had them all executed. Piso had been emperor four days, Ctesar and Gulbu sevenmonths; Otho was to reign eighty-eight days. ? Tac. Hist., i. 41. Cf. Suetonius and Plutarch, Life of Galba. Dion (I.^liv. 6) says thatmany people perished ^vith Calba, <5vxv^\. It is not probable. ÏHllLE EMPERUK8 iKUM G8 10 U!J ». Jt II.—Otho. Marcus Salvias Othu, burn iu Rome, Aj^ril 2Sth, 32 , thedescendant of an old Etruscan family of Ferentinum, came topower with a very bad re^jutation. The lower classes thoughtthey had another Xero, and saluted him by that princes name,whose statues he allowed to be set up again, and whose intendantshe restored to office, at the same time appropriating 50,000,000sesterces to finish the Golden House. As he hud killed Galba,
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