History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . e made up to several senators the census required, andestablished in aid of the poor ofconsular rank an annual fund of500,000 sesterces.^ Suetonius renders him thistestimony, that it would be diffi-cult to cite a single individualunjustly punished in his reign,at least unless it were in hisabsence or without his He loved to dispensejustice himself in the Forum ; andin order to settle the arrears ofthe civil war by a speedy ter-mination of the innumerable cases which crowded the rolls of
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . e made up to several senators the census required, andestablished in aid of the poor ofconsular rank an annual fund of500,000 sesterces.^ Suetonius renders him thistestimony, that it would be diffi-cult to cite a single individualunjustly punished in his reign,at least unless it were in hisabsence or without his He loved to dispensejustice himself in the Forum ; andin order to settle the arrears ofthe civil war by a speedy ter-mination of the innumerable cases which crowded the rolls of thecentumviri, he instituted a conunission of judges drawn by lot, torestore what had been seized unlawfully in the disorders of thetimes. In the same spirit he tore up all the treasury certificates,so as to inherit nothing from those unhappy times. The legions, who had made and unmade five emperors in twoyears, were no longer attentive to the ancient discipline. Hebrought them back to it, and putting in practice the saying ofGalba, he chose his soldiers and did not buy them. The mutinous. Vespasinn ( Trésor de Num., pi. IO. No. It). Suet., Jesp., ]7. ? Vesj}., 15. He deplored, he adds, even the most just puuishments. Anauthor of tiie seventh century, John of Antioch, who seems to have drawn from good authorities,says also : . . OSrwç ijv iittloç Kai 7rpo)ç wç ^ii}êt ràç dç avTÔv rt koI ti)v fiaatXiiav ytvofiivaçù^apriaç nipa TiftioptlirGai ^vjîjç .... (Frar/m. Hist. Grœc, vol. iv. p. 578, Didot). Suidas(v. htffiraciavôç) and Eutropius (vii. 13) say that Vespasian is northy to be compared with thebest princes who have ever reigned : . . optimis cotnparandus. [The cnse of J. Sabinusthe Gaul and his wife Eponina, already related, is a sad exception.—i^rf.] VESPASIAN, 69 TO 79 G51 were subdued, the conquerors even waited long for the promisedrewards.^ The morals of the times were bad; he did more than the lawsto reform them—he set good examples. A
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