. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. Plate 79. ALTAR DISCOVERED AT OSTIA Anderson[p. 276 THE GROWTH OF THE EMPIRE senators and permitted the servile modes of address whichAugustus and other emperors had forbidden. These high-handed proceedings made the senators hate andplot against him. Plots were followed by executions, andDomitian gradually became more and more tyrannical. Moreof the Stoic Republican party were executed, and the odiouspractice of delation came once more into vogue. At last therewas a successful plot organised in the palace, and Domitianf
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. Plate 79. ALTAR DISCOVERED AT OSTIA Anderson[p. 276 THE GROWTH OF THE EMPIRE senators and permitted the servile modes of address whichAugustus and other emperors had forbidden. These high-handed proceedings made the senators hate andplot against him. Plots were followed by executions, andDomitian gradually became more and more tyrannical. Moreof the Stoic Republican party were executed, and the odiouspractice of delation came once more into vogue. At last therewas a successful plot organised in the palace, and Domitianfell to the dagger. With the three succeeding emperors, Nerva (96-98), Trajan(98-117), and Hadrian (i 17-138), we have a series of genuineconstitutional rulers who show the system of the principate atits best. The excellent figure which these rulers cut on thepage of history is not wholly unconnected with the fact that wehave now passed beyond the region illuminated by the satire ofTacitus and the tittle-tattle of Suetonius. Their deeds speakfor them. In Nerva we have th
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