The Reign of Tiberius Out of the First Six Annals of Tacituswith His Account
The Reign of Tiberius Out of the First Six Annals of Tacituswith His Account
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] As the people murmured at the severe dearth of corn, he settled grain at aprice certain to the buyer, and undertook to pay fourteenpence a measureto the seller: neither yet would he accept the name of _Father of hisCountry_, a title offered him before, and for these bounties, now again;nay, he sharply rebuked such as styled these provisions of his, _divineoccupations_, and him, _Lord_: hence freedom of speech became cramped andinsecure, under such a Prince; one who dreaded liberty, and abhorr...edflattery.
I find in the writers of those times, some of them Senators, that in theSenate were read letters from Adgandestrius, prince of the Cattans, undertaking to despatch Arminius, if in order to it poison were sent him;and an answer returned, "that not by frauds and blows in the dark, butarmed and in the face of the sun, the Roman People took vengeance on theirfoes. " In this Tiberius gained equal glory with our ancient captains, whorejected and disclosed a plot to poison King Pyrrhus. Arminius however, who upon the departure of the Romans and expulsion of Maroboduus, aimed atroyalty, became thence engaged in a struggle against the liberty of hiscountry; and, in defence of their liberty, his countrymen took armsagainst him: so that, while with various fortune he contended with them, he fell by the treachery of his own kindred: the deliverer of Germanywithout doubt he was; one who assailed the Roman power, not like otherkings and leaders, in its first elements, but in its highest pride andelevation; one sometimes beaten in battle, but never conquered in war:thirty-seven years he lived; twelve he commanded; and, amongst thesebarbarous nations, his memory is still celebrated in their songs; but hisname unknown in the annals of the Greeks, who only admire their ownnational exploits and renown; nor even amongst the Romans does this greatcaptain bear much distinction, while, overlooking instances of modernprowess and glory, we only delight to magnify men and feats of old.
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] As the people murmured at the severe dearth of corn, he settled grain at aprice certain to the buyer, and undertook to pay fourteenpence a measureto the seller: neither yet would he accept the name of _Father of hisCountry_, a title offered him before, and for these bounties, now again;nay, he sharply rebuked such as styled these provisions of his, _divineoccupations_, and him, _Lord_: hence freedom of speech became cramped andinsecure, under such a Prince; one who dreaded liberty, and abhorr...edflattery.
I find in the writers of those times, some of them Senators, that in theSenate were read letters from Adgandestrius, prince of the Cattans, undertaking to despatch Arminius, if in order to it poison were sent him;and an answer returned, "that not by frauds and blows in the dark, butarmed and in the face of the sun, the Roman People took vengeance on theirfoes. " In this Tiberius gained equal glory with our ancient captains, whorejected and disclosed a plot to poison King Pyrrhus. Arminius however, who upon the departure of the Romans and expulsion of Maroboduus, aimed atroyalty, became thence engaged in a struggle against the liberty of hiscountry; and, in defence of their liberty, his countrymen took armsagainst him: so that, while with various fortune he contended with them, he fell by the treachery of his own kindred: the deliverer of Germanywithout doubt he was; one who assailed the Roman power, not like otherkings and leaders, in its first elements, but in its highest pride andelevation; one sometimes beaten in battle, but never conquered in war:thirty-seven years he lived; twelve he commanded; and, amongst thesebarbarous nations, his memory is still celebrated in their songs; but hisname unknown in the annals of the Greeks, who only admire their ownnational exploits and renown; nor even amongst the Romans does this greatcaptain bear much distinction, while, overlooking instances of modernprowess and glory, we only delight to magnify men and feats of old.
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