A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ^ he pleased. His suc-cessor gave up the name of the permanent censorship; but the lateremperors held fast to the rights of the office, and henceforth we findthe places in the senate arbitrarily filled by the emperor by censorialadleetion. Domitian made use of his new right to remove obnoxioussenators witli the same freedom that the earlier censors had employed,. Fig. 39. — The Emperor (From a photograpli.) 132 TUE GOLDEN AGE OF TUE EMPIRE. and to humiliate senatorial families by the exer
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ^ he pleased. His suc-cessor gave up the name of the permanent censorship; but the lateremperors held fast to the rights of the office, and henceforth we findthe places in the senate arbitrarily filled by the emperor by censorialadleetion. Domitian made use of his new right to remove obnoxioussenators witli the same freedom that the earlier censors had employed,. Fig. 39. — The Emperor (From a photograpli.) 132 TUE GOLDEN AGE OF TUE EMPIRE. and to humiliate senatorial families by the exercise of the censorialfunction in the regulation of morals, for which they gave him only toofrequent opportunity. A revolt of the army of Upper Germany in 88 was soon sup-pressed, but it led to investigations and executions at Rome of thoseimplicated, which were extended to whoever was suspected by theemperor, or was repugnant to him for his independent attitude; andthe despot displayed a demoniacal pleasure in the torments of the con-demned. A conspiracy was formed in the palace, with the connivanceof the empress Domitia, by the prefects of the guard and other men inhigh station. At an audience on September 18, 96, the chamber-lain Stephanus struck a dagger into Domitians side, and he was thenstrangled by other conspirators. The conspirators had prepared in advance for a successor. Theprincipate came to M. Cocceius Nerva (),
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