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. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. ,t/n N 1 A%(Colchester W Bath) ^/^^^H^^^^^C C**J CallevsPAtrebatumB e I g\C3 (Siichestet) Durovercmm. x PRI fi/ja n (Canterbury) /W? # Vewia Belgarum° antl L^i(Winchester) Zemanis * Jf Wight) ^ # / (The Cfi. Roman Britain. 354 ROME AS AN EMPIRE. 216). The name of his niece Domitilla has been preservedas one of the victims of this persecution. This is signifi-cant, since it shows that the new faith was thus earlyfinding adherents among the higher classes, even in theroyal household itself. The last of the Twelve Caesa
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. ,t/n N 1 A%(Colchester W Bath) ^/^^^H^^^^^C C**J CallevsPAtrebatumB e I g\C3 (Siichestet) Durovercmm. x PRI fi/ja n (Canterbury) /W? # Vewia Belgarum° antl L^i(Winchester) Zemanis * Jf Wight) ^ # / (The Cfi. Roman Britain. 354 ROME AS AN EMPIRE. 216). The name of his niece Domitilla has been preservedas one of the victims of this persecution. This is signifi-cant, since it shows that the new faith was thus earlyfinding adherents among the higher classes, even in theroyal household itself. The last of the Twelve Caesars perished in his ownpalace, and by the hands of members of his own senate ordered his infamous name to be erased fromthe public monuments and to be blotted from the recordsof the Roman state. V 225. The Five Good Emperors; Reign of Nerva ( 96-98).—The five emperors — Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, andthe two Antonines — who succeeded Domitian were electedby the senate, which during this period assumed somethingof its former weight and influence in the affairs of theempire. The wise and beneficent administration of thegovernment by these rulers secured for them the enviabledistinction of being called the five good emperors. Nerva, who was an aged senator and
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