History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . there woreseveral outbreaks in Pannonia, which terminated favourably for (he Ivomaus. (Plhiy, Panef/.,8.) The chronology of Doniitians reign is very difficult to settle. Ileuzeii {Scavi nel boscosacro de fratelli Arcali, p. 107) shows that in the year SO Domitian was absent from Home,perhaps for the war in Pannonia. ^ The triumph for the Dacian war was celebrated, according to Eusebius, in the tenth yearof Doniitians reign, and according to Martial, in the month of January, consequently inJanuary,
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . there woreseveral outbreaks in Pannonia, which terminated favourably for (he Ivomaus. (Plhiy, Panef/.,8.) The chronology of Doniitians reign is very difficult to settle. Ileuzeii {Scavi nel boscosacro de fratelli Arcali, p. 107) shows that in the year SO Domitian was absent from Home,perhaps for the war in Pannonia. ^ The triumph for the Dacian war was celebrated, according to Eusebius, in the tenth yearof Doniitians reign, and according to Martial, in the month of January, consequently inJanuary, 01. ^ This revolt, Zonaras and Eusebius afiirm, was caused hy Doniitians extortions. But whatcould he take from these nomads whom Herodotus shows us living on locusts? The remnantof this tribe settled in the south of Marmaiica. AAA 2 716 THE CESARS AND THE FLAVII, 14 TO 96 and especially the palace. Instead of the wise administrator whomwe have hitherto found there, we shall meet a tyrant whosememory has been justly dishonouied. III.—Cruelties during the Last Years of Domitl^ Coin with leoend : FISCI IUDÂICI CALUMNIA SUBLATA Domitian did not rush into crime through fondness for bloodand brutal caprice. He often used to say that the number ofpunishments does not depend upon princes, and that those whopunish least are not the good princes, but those who have beenfortunate enough to find small occasion for harsh measures.^ Thewords do not come from a monster of cruelty,only he should have added that there aregovernments capable of reducing chastisements,because they know how to prevent theirnecessity. Domitian, *on the contrary, sus-picious and anxious, multiplied them by thevery terror which he felt and by that whichhe inspired. Suetonius explains his tyranny in a fewwords : His conduct was at first a mixtureof good and evil ; but little by little his virtues became vices ;need rendered him avaricious, fear made him cruel, inopia rapax^metu scevHS.^ Vespasian had c
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