Vespasian, 9 – 79AD, Roman emperor from 69 to 79AD. The fourth and last in the Year of the Four Emperors, founded the Flavian dynasty that ruled the Empire for 27 years. Titus Flavius Vespasianus. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoor’s Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as Favissæ utriusque antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Græcæ in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 16

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Vespasian, 9 – 79AD, Roman emperor from 69 to 79AD. The fourth and last in the Year of the Four Emperors, founded the Flavian dynasty that ruled the Empire for 27 years. Titus Flavius Vespasianus. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoor’s Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as Favissæ utriusque antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Græcæ in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 1694-1716.

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