History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . ever before had they assumedsuch arrogance and cynicism ofcruelty, Metius Cams waswont to say : Do not interferewith my dead men, speakingof those whom he had causedto be proscribed ; he would letno one sj^eak ill of them : theywere his joroperty, a source ofpride to him ; he chose to havethem honoured, that he himselfmight thereby be made moreformidable—the pride of anassassin boasting that hisvictims were all men of those days men saw draggedto the Gemonian steps the realor supposed accompli
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . ever before had they assumedsuch arrogance and cynicism ofcruelty, Metius Cams waswont to say : Do not interferewith my dead men, speakingof those whom he had causedto be proscribed ; he would letno one sj^eak ill of them : theywere his joroperty, a source ofpride to him ; he chose to havethem honoured, that he himselfmight thereby be made moreformidable—the pride of anassassin boasting that hisvictims were all men of those days men saw draggedto the Gemonian steps the realor supposed accomplices of Antonius Saturninus, those whom thestars denounced, those whom wealth or birth, or the independenceof their opinions, seemed to render dangerous. In this last listwere the Stoic philosophers : Herennius Senecio, who had written alife of Helvidius, and Junius Eusticus, who had eulogized , says Tacitus, extended its rage even to their works,and caused to be burned, by the triumvirs hands, the writings ofthese great men in the place where once a free people Domitia Long-ina, wife of Domitian. Bust found upon the Cnplian liill. (Tapitol. Hall of tlie Emperors, Xo. 25.) 722 THE CESARS AND THE FLAYII. 14 TO 0(3 A strange madness which thought itself able to stifle in flames thevoice of the Eoman people, the senates liberty, and the conscienceof the human race. - The son of Hehidius bore a dangerous name, and in an inter-lude which he composed, under the title of Paris and Oenone, wasbelieved to refer to the emperors conjugal misfortunes ; ? Maternusdeclaimed against tyrants ; Salvius celebrated the birthday of hisuncle, the emperor Otho : and all three of them were put to woman having undressed in the presence of the emperorsstatue paid for this disrespect with her life. In the room ofMetius Pompusianus was found a map of the world and some ofLivys discourses; Lucullus in Britain had allowed the troops tocall by his name a new kind of
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