The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . The Coliseum {Flavian Amphitheater) To-day (§ 622). 472 THE ROMAN EMPIRE :i§ 582 homely in tastes, but honest, industrionis, experienced, andbroad-minded. He had distinguished himself in Britain andin Asia, and he knew the needs of the empire. He quickly-made himself master, and brought to an end the disorder intowhich Neros misrule had plunged the state. His reign waseconomical and thrifty, and was notable as an era of greatpublic works and magnificent buildings (§ 622). He lovedsimple manners and homely virtues, and hated shams. So, atth
The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . The Coliseum {Flavian Amphitheater) To-day (§ 622). 472 THE ROMAN EMPIRE :i§ 582 homely in tastes, but honest, industrionis, experienced, andbroad-minded. He had distinguished himself in Britain andin Asia, and he knew the needs of the empire. He quickly-made himself master, and brought to an end the disorder intowhich Neros misrule had plunged the state. His reign waseconomical and thrifty, and was notable as an era of greatpublic works and magnificent buildings (§ 622). He lovedsimple manners and homely virtues, and hated shams. So, atthe end, as he felt the hand of death upon him, he said, withgrim irony, I think I am becoming a god, — in allusion tothe fact that dead emperors were worshiped as divinities. 582. The siege and destruction of Jerusalem was the moststriking event in Vespasians reign. The kingdom of theJews, which the heroic Maccabees established (§ 467), had beenmade a tributary state by Pompey, during his Eastern wars,. Detail t hum the Triumphal arch of Titus — showing the seven-branchedcandlestick taken from the Temple at Jerusalem. in the year 63 From 40 to 4 the tributary rulerwas Herod the Great, who was bitterly hated by the people. §583] AUGUSTUS TO AURELIUS 473 After his death, Judea became a Eoman province, but the Jews?were restless under foreign rule. The question pressed uponJesus—whether it were *lawful to pay tribute to Caesar —was a matter of constant agitation; and in the year 66, inNeros time, a national uprising drove out the Roman officers. Nero sent his general Vespasian with three legions to putdown this revolt. Vespasian reduced the many hill fortressesof the country in the next two years, and was about to laysiege to Jerusalem, when the disorders of the year 69, and thestruggle for the Empire, called him to Italy. In the year , his oldest son,Titus, besieged and destroyed the city. Hehad made many liberal offers of terms for surrender to t
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