Identifier: historyofromeofr42duru (find matches)
Title: History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: Boston, Jewett
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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A Corridor of the Coliseum. them ; and, in order that they might recover, in the festivities,at least, their lost sovereignty, he showed them great deference,joked with those present at the theatre, declaring that all should 676 THE CESARS AND THE FLAVII, 14 TO 96 A.D. proceed accurdiug- tu the wishes of the assembly and not hisown; that the spectators had only to ask for Avhat they desiredto obtain it immediately. A greatly overrated saying illustratesthis good-natured easy temper : Oh, my friends ! he sighed, oneevening when he had not made any gift since morning; Oh, myfriends, I have lost my day Î The duties of an emperor are more austere, and popularitythus won at the expense of the States resources is not the best ;but tliat which Titus gained was of course immense after the
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liemaius of the Baths uf Tit us. harsh administration of Vespasian. Let us hasten to state thatcommunities suffering under any calamity found him as prompt toalleviate their miseries as the courtiers to satisfy their desires. Aneruption of Vesuvius overwhelmed Kercidaneum, Pompeii, and3tabiœ ; pestilence carried off thousands of people even in Eome ;and at last a conflagration, which raged thiee days, consumed oncemore the Capitol, the library of Augustus, and Pompeys theatre.To Campania Titus sent men of consular rank m ith large sums ofmoney, and he devoted to the relief of the survivors the propertythat had fallen to the treasury through the death of those whohad perished in the disaster without leaving heirs. At Eome he

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