. European history : an outline of its development. last years of Tiberius were filled with vio-lent deaths in the emperors family and with suspicion andterror for all who came near him. Caligula his successor made his favorite horse consul andwished the Roman people had a single neck to save thetrouble of so many executions. Claudius, made emperorby the Pretorian guard after the murder of Caligula, gavethe Empire at large a few years of better rule, but could notbring to an end the reign of intrigue and assassination inhis own court. He was himself finally poisoned by his wife,Agrippina, to s
. European history : an outline of its development. last years of Tiberius were filled with vio-lent deaths in the emperors family and with suspicion andterror for all who came near him. Caligula his successor made his favorite horse consul andwished the Roman people had a single neck to save thetrouble of so many executions. Claudius, made emperorby the Pretorian guard after the murder of Caligula, gavethe Empire at large a few years of better rule, but could notbring to an end the reign of intrigue and assassination inhis own court. He was himself finally poisoned by his wife,Agrippina, to secure the throne to her son by anothermarriage. Nero, the last of the family of Augustus, is the typicaltyrant of the period. He murdered his mother, whosecrimes had made him emperor, and a long series of others,among them his wife, his early tutor, the philosopher Seneca,and the poet Lucan ; he was suspected of having kindledthe great fire which destroyed half the city during his reignas a fitting scene for the recitation of his great poem on the. 16 Longith
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