History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . o dream thathe might become the founder of a newdynasty. In Lower Germany, FonteiusCapito incited his legions equally againstXero and against Galba. He commandeda man who had been accused and whohad appealed to the emperor against his sentence to bring a higherseat, and sitting upon it himself said: You are inthe presence of the emperor now, speak, and con-demned him to death. Claudius Macer, in Africa,resigning the imperial title of ler/afns Auf/usti, assumedthe republican name of proprietor, and sto
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . o dream thathe might become the founder of a newdynasty. In Lower Germany, FonteiusCapito incited his legions equally againstXero and against Galba. He commandeda man who had been accused and whohad appealed to the emperor against his sentence to bring a higherseat, and sitting upon it himself said: You are inthe presence of the emperor now, speak, and con-demned him to death. Claudius Macer, in Africa,resigning the imperial title of ler/afns Auf/usti, assumedthe republican name of proprietor, and stoj^ped all mer- silver Coinchandise on the way to Eome, not so much to re-establish o^ Claudiusthe Republic, as in the hope that the people might bestow Proprfçtor ofthe Empire upon whosoever would bring the famine to end. Otho, in Lusitania, sustained Galba, who might in thefuture open the way to power. The legions of Illyria sent a depu-tation to Terginius, to offer to him their allegiance, and if thearmy of the East did not declare itself, it was because it had on VOL. IV. oo. Legiouary bearing- the Iirage(iinaginarius), from Trajans Column.
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