Imperial Purple
Imperial Purple
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Thebesiegers turned, the mob was with them, and together they fought, first at the gates, then in the streets, in the Forum, retreatingalways, but like lions, their face to the foe. The volatile mob, notingthe retreat, turned from combatant into spectator. Let the soldiersfight; it was their duty, not theirs; and, as the struggle continued, from roof and window they eyed it with that artistic delight which thearena had developed, applauding the clever thrusts, abusing thevanquished, robbing the... dead, and therewith pillaging the wineshops, crowding the lupanars. During the orgy, Vitellius was stabbed. TheFlavians had won the day, the empire was Vespasian's.
The use he made of it was very modest. In spite of his manifestdivinity he had nothing in common with the Caesars that had gonebefore; he had no dreams of the impossible, no desire to frightenJupiter or seduce the moon. He was a plain man, tall and ruddy, verycoarse in speech and thought, open-armed and close-fisted, slappingsenators on the back and keeping a sharp eye on the coppers; taxing thelatrinae, and declaring that money had no smell; yet still, incomparison with Claud and Nero, almost the ideal; absolutelyuninteresting also, yet doing what good he could; effacing at once thetraces of the civil war, rebuilding the Capitol, calming the people, protecting the provinces, restoring to Rome the gardens of Nero, clipping the wings of the Palace of Gold, throwing open again the ViaSacra, over which the Palace had spread; draining the lake that hadshimmered before it, and erecting the Colosseum in its place.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Thebesiegers turned, the mob was with them, and together they fought, first at the gates, then in the streets, in the Forum, retreatingalways, but like lions, their face to the foe. The volatile mob, notingthe retreat, turned from combatant into spectator. Let the soldiersfight; it was their duty, not theirs; and, as the struggle continued, from roof and window they eyed it with that artistic delight which thearena had developed, applauding the clever thrusts, abusing thevanquished, robbing the... dead, and therewith pillaging the wineshops, crowding the lupanars. During the orgy, Vitellius was stabbed. TheFlavians had won the day, the empire was Vespasian's.
The use he made of it was very modest. In spite of his manifestdivinity he had nothing in common with the Caesars that had gonebefore; he had no dreams of the impossible, no desire to frightenJupiter or seduce the moon. He was a plain man, tall and ruddy, verycoarse in speech and thought, open-armed and close-fisted, slappingsenators on the back and keeping a sharp eye on the coppers; taxing thelatrinae, and declaring that money had no smell; yet still, incomparison with Claud and Nero, almost the ideal; absolutelyuninteresting also, yet doing what good he could; effacing at once thetraces of the civil war, rebuilding the Capitol, calming the people, protecting the provinces, restoring to Rome the gardens of Nero, clipping the wings of the Palace of Gold, throwing open again the ViaSacra, over which the Palace had spread; draining the lake that hadshimmered before it, and erecting the Colosseum in its place.
What to read after Imperial Purple?
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