History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . To choose this young man of austere character* was achallenge to this society, too fond of its vices to wish a Cato on He lived thirty years longer in the enjoyment of pnljlic esteem, and only died underNerva. Tacitus, then consul, delivered Ids funeral oration, and Pliny the younger has pre-served for us his epitaph : Ilic situs est Rufus pulso qui Vindice quondamImperiwrn adseruit 7ion sihi sed pat rice. - Ipsius et contumelias conquerentes (Tac, Hist., i. 54). ^ Nisiprincipem, se
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . To choose this young man of austere character* was achallenge to this society, too fond of its vices to wish a Cato on He lived thirty years longer in the enjoyment of pnljlic esteem, and only died underNerva. Tacitus, then consul, delivered Ids funeral oration, and Pliny the younger has pre-served for us his epitaph : Ilic situs est Rufus pulso qui Vindice quondamImperiwrn adseruit 7ion sihi sed pat rice. - Ipsius et contumelias conquerentes (Tac, Hist., i. 54). ^ Nisiprincipem, se stare non posse (Suet., Otho, 5). * Ingénia trucem et longo exsilio efferatum (Tac, Hist., i. 21 ). The adoption was madewithout any legal formalities. Severus still further defied them afterwards, when he hadhimself adopted hy a dead man. (See chapter xc ) 566 THE C^SAES AND THE FLAVII, 14 TO 9(5 the throne. This challenge was accepted by Otho and the prse-torians. In his presentation to them of Piso, Galba had beenbrief and imperious. He came to tell them, he said, that following. Galba (Bust of the Capitol, Hall of the Emperors, No. 18). the example of Augustus he had adopted a son, and that he hadchosen Piso, as in war brave men band together; that the fourthand twenty-second legions had revolted, but that soon they would THREE EMPERORS FROM JUNE 68 TO DECEMBER GO 567 he reduced to order. In this manner a new emperor was presentedto them, a civil war announced, and for the second time the princeforgot the largess ! It is certain, says Tacitus, that the leastliberality would have kept the soldiers to their duty ; he wasruined by this antique austerity and sternness too great for ourhabits. Two soldiers, Proculus and Yeturius, both subaltern officers,undertook to transfer -the Empire, and did transfer it. They knewthe secrets of Otho, and received from him counsel and the time of his first arrival in Eome he had endeavouredto stir up the praetorian coho
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