A history of Rome for junior classes : with a map of Italy and ample chronological table . anddefeated a Roman army, whereupon Domitian himselftook the field against them ; but as the German tribesallied with Rome refused to support him, he was obligedto purchase peace of the Dacian king, 90. Not-withstanding this, he did not scruple on his retui-n tocelebrate a tiiumj^h over the Dacians, and even assumed HISTORY OF ROME. 147 the surname of Dacicus. Tiie humiliation to which he wasthus obliged to submit rendered him still more ferocious,and he went so far in his madness as to order himsel
A history of Rome for junior classes : with a map of Italy and ample chronological table . anddefeated a Roman army, whereupon Domitian himselftook the field against them ; but as the German tribesallied with Rome refused to support him, he was obligedto purchase peace of the Dacian king, 90. Not-withstanding this, he did not scruple on his retui-n tocelebrate a tiiumj^h over the Dacians, and even assumed HISTORY OF ROME. 147 the surname of Dacicus. Tiie humiliation to which he wasthus obliged to submit rendered him still more ferocious,and he went so far in his madness as to order himself tobe worshipped as lord and god. The most illustriousmen were executed for expressing their honest opinions;the philosophers, one of whom was the celebrated Epictetus,were expelled; and the Christians, whose numbers weresteadily increasing, were persecuted and murdered with-out mercy. He intended to put his own wife, Domida,to death; but she, on being informed of it, headed a con-spiiacy agamst him, and he was stabbed in his o\ bed-room by one of her freedmen, in September AKCn OF TITLS, RESTORK©
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