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. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. 348 ROME AS AN Judaea Capta. (Coin of Vespasian.) tation of Nebuchadnezzar, Titus robbed the Temple of itssacred utensils, and bore them away as trophies. Uponthe triumphal arch at Rome that bears his name, may be seen at the present day the sculp-tured representation of the goldencandlestick, which was one of thememorials of the war. At this same time, in the oppositecorner of the empire, there brokeout a dangerous revolt of the Bata-vians under their celebrated leaderClaudius Civilis. The Batavianswere joined by
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. 348 ROME AS AN Judaea Capta. (Coin of Vespasian.) tation of Nebuchadnezzar, Titus robbed the Temple of itssacred utensils, and bore them away as trophies. Uponthe triumphal arch at Rome that bears his name, may be seen at the present day the sculp-tured representation of the goldencandlestick, which was one of thememorials of the war. At this same time, in the oppositecorner of the empire, there brokeout a dangerous revolt of the Bata-vians under their celebrated leaderClaudius Civilis. The Batavianswere joined by many Germansbeyond the Rhine, by a large part of the tribes of Gaul,and by several of the Roman legions in those parts. For-tune for a time attended Civilis; the Roman armies wererepeatedly defeated, and the authority of Rome destroyedin the whole Rhenish region and throughout a great partof Gaul. It looked for a moment as though a Gallo-Germanempire was to be raised on the ruins of the Roman powernorth of the Alps. But dissension arose among the con-federates, which weakened the movement
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