. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. wz H z < H 2O(J <. D O THE GROWTH OF THE EMPIRE his servants villa. The details are the invention of maliceor the attempt of a literary artist to improve his story. EvenSuetonius admits that the populace continued to deck Nerostomb with spring and summer flowers, that they dressedup his image and placed it on the rostra as if he werestill alive, and that a pretender, who arose in his nametwenty years later, was received with acclamation among theParthians. Having made this concession to the literary tradition
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. wz H z < H 2O(J <. D O THE GROWTH OF THE EMPIRE his servants villa. The details are the invention of maliceor the attempt of a literary artist to improve his story. EvenSuetonius admits that the populace continued to deck Nerostomb with spring and summer flowers, that they dressedup his image and placed it on the rostra as if he werestill alive, and that a pretender, who arose in his nametwenty years later, was received with acclamation among theParthians. Having made this concession to the literary tradition whichcan be shown to be very largely fiction, we may now endeavourto gather up the fragments of history and briefly trace theprogress of the Empire during its first century. First, as toits geographical growth; although Augustus had bequeathedin his testament the advice not to enlarge the frontiers of theEmpire, and Tiberius had observed the precept, yet conqueststill remained an object of ambition in the heart of everyemperor who sought military renown or fresh sources of , the decl
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