. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. Fig. I. WARRIORS Anderson. AndersonFig. 2. APOTHEOSIS OF ANTONINUS AND FAUSTINAPlate 69. RELIEFS FROM THE BASE OF THE ANTONINE COLUMN (See p. 292) [p- 252 VI THE GROWTH OF THE EMPIRE Ambitionem scriptoris facile auerseris, obtrectatio et liuorpronis auribus accipiuntur : quippe adulationi fcedum crimenseruitutis, malignitati falsa species libertatis inest.—Tacitus. N these words, pregnant and terse as ever, Tacitusgives us a key to the true reading of imperial Romanhistory. It is easy, he says, to discount the self-inte
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. Fig. I. WARRIORS Anderson. AndersonFig. 2. APOTHEOSIS OF ANTONINUS AND FAUSTINAPlate 69. RELIEFS FROM THE BASE OF THE ANTONINE COLUMN (See p. 292) [p- 252 VI THE GROWTH OF THE EMPIRE Ambitionem scriptoris facile auerseris, obtrectatio et liuorpronis auribus accipiuntur : quippe adulationi fcedum crimenseruitutis, malignitati falsa species libertatis inest.—Tacitus. N these words, pregnant and terse as ever, Tacitusgives us a key to the true reading of imperial Romanhistory. It is easy, he says, to discount the self-interest of the historian and to reject his eulogies, buthis malicious criticisms are greedily swallowed. Forflattery bears the odious stamp of servility, whilemalignity wears the false disguise of out of his own mouth the foremost historian ofthe early Empire gives us the right to read theliterary sources in a spirit favourable to the when the historians describe Tiberius as a blood-thirsty tyrant who hid himself away in the island ofCapri, and there (at the age of se
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