History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . ter service : he under-took to pierce the isthmusof Corinth. His praetoriansoldiers, at the signal of atrumpet, struck the soil ;with a golden pick-axethe emperor loosened afew shovelsful of earth,which he bore away intriumph. From all the isles the banished were summoned, and allthe convicts were gathered from every province ; Vespasian sent0,000 Jewish prisoners to him. All death penaltieswere abrogated until the completion of the he soon grew weary of such activity; he con- | ^.^^^.«.«oja
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . ter service : he under-took to pierce the isthmusof Corinth. His praetoriansoldiers, at the signal of atrumpet, struck the soil ;with a golden pick-axethe emperor loosened afew shovelsful of earth,which he bore away intriumph. From all the isles the banished were summoned, and allthe convicts were gathered from every province ; Vespasian sent0,000 Jewish prisoners to him. All death penaltieswere abrogated until the completion of the he soon grew weary of such activity; he con- | ^.^^^.«.«ojawJa^tjsented that tlie canal be proclaimed an impossibility,and returned to his games and his festivities, inter-mingled A\ith executions ; then occurred the death ^r , , ~ -Medal conuiiemo- of C orbulo. The parricide did not dare to be lating the voyage ofpresent at the Eleusinian mysteries, whence allblasphemers and criminals were excluded by the herald.^ ThePythian oracles must have given him an unfavourable response, forhe ordered a number of men to be massacred at Delphi, and their. Danrer on a Bronze Lamp.
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