History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . ning letter: It is thus that I treat those who offend himself soon appeared in the Senate (June, 197). Hecommended the severities of Sylla, Marius, and Augustus, whichhad saved them, and blamed the moderation of Pompey and ofCaesar, which had been their ruin. He then apologized for Coin-modus, reproaching the senators for voting the latter infamous,3 — 1 < a|.it., 1ft. 12. It is a question whether this letter is authentic. Dion (lxxv. 7)speaks of threatening letters, but quotes none; wha
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . ning letter: It is thus that I treat those who offend himself soon appeared in the Senate (June, 197). Hecommended the severities of Sylla, Marius, and Augustus, whichhad saved them, and blamed the moderation of Pompey and ofCaesar, which had been their ruin. He then apologized for Coin-modus, reproaching the senators for voting the latter infamous,3 — 1 < a|.it., 1ft. 12. It is a question whether this letter is authentic. Dion (lxxv. 7)speaks of threatening letters, but quotes none; what we have of the addresses of Severus tothe Senate give us reason, however, to accept this as genuine. 2 Vatican, Hall of Busts. 3 According to Dion, we may believe that it was not until this time that he declared thelatter divus, fipatms i&iftov ; an inscription of the year 196, in which Severus is spoken ofas -the brother of the divine Commodus, proves that this Emperors apotheosis precededthe battle of Lyons. In assuming the position of son to Marcus Aurelius, at least from. COMMODUS, PERTINAX, JUL1AJSTUS, SEVEKUS, 180 TO 211 a. d. 503 they who themselves for the most part Lived in a more infamousmanner. At the conclusion of his address, which caused the Senategreat alarm,1 a capital process was instituted against sixty-foursenators accused of complicity in the designs of Albinus. Thirty-five, proved innocent, resumed their scats ; and Dion, who is notfriendly to Severus, declares that the Emperor behaved towards themas if they had never given him cause to doubt their , being condemned to death, were Amongthis number was that Sulpicianus whom we saw, after the murderof Pertinax, chaffering for the Empire and kissing the handsstained with his son-in-laws blood. Partisans of Niger who hadhitherto been spared, now perished, — his wife, children, and sixof his near relatives : Severus at this time made a final settlementof all a
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