The Works of Tacitus
The Works of Tacitus
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s. 22. This was A.u.a 66T. BVom that time no priest of Jupiter was appointed tfll the year of Borne 743, when Augustus rwiyed the oflBce.
2 Tije emperor was not only commander4xi-chief of the armies of Rome, in his character of Imperator, and the sole director of all civil business, by his tribunitian power; but he was also, as high pontiff, at the head of the religion of ms country.
Hi THE ANNALS. [a IIU the honours decreed to Brusus on his assuming the tribu- nitian power; and especially cens...ured the " extravagance of the motion, and the golden letters, as contrary to the custom of Kome." Letters from Drusus were likewise read, and though modest in expression, they were construed to be fuU of haughtiness : — " Had things then come to this pass," they said, " that even a youth, just distinguished with such high honour, deigned not to visit the gods of Home, nor appear in senate; nor take the initiatory auspices in his native city?
A war, forsooth, detained him; he had a journey to mako from remote countries ; while he was doing nothing more than diverting himself upon the lakes and diores of Campania* Thus was the ruler of the earth trained for his task; and this .the lesson he had learnt from the maxims of his father 1 The emperor himself, now in the decline of life, might indeed be averse to living under the eye of the public, and plead ex- hausted energies and the toils he had endured ; but what except insolence could prevent Drusus T' 60, Tiberius, while he fortified himself in the princedom, amused the senate with a shadow of their ancient jurisdiction, by referring to their examination petitions and claims from the provinces.
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s. 22. This was A.u.a 66T. BVom that time no priest of Jupiter was appointed tfll the year of Borne 743, when Augustus rwiyed the oflBce.
2 Tije emperor was not only commander4xi-chief of the armies of Rome, in his character of Imperator, and the sole director of all civil business, by his tribunitian power; but he was also, as high pontiff, at the head of the religion of ms country.
Hi THE ANNALS. [a IIU the honours decreed to Brusus on his assuming the tribu- nitian power; and especially cens...ured the " extravagance of the motion, and the golden letters, as contrary to the custom of Kome." Letters from Drusus were likewise read, and though modest in expression, they were construed to be fuU of haughtiness : — " Had things then come to this pass," they said, " that even a youth, just distinguished with such high honour, deigned not to visit the gods of Home, nor appear in senate; nor take the initiatory auspices in his native city?
A war, forsooth, detained him; he had a journey to mako from remote countries ; while he was doing nothing more than diverting himself upon the lakes and diores of Campania* Thus was the ruler of the earth trained for his task; and this .the lesson he had learnt from the maxims of his father 1 The emperor himself, now in the decline of life, might indeed be averse to living under the eye of the public, and plead ex- hausted energies and the toils he had endured ; but what except insolence could prevent Drusus T' 60, Tiberius, while he fortified himself in the princedom, amused the senate with a shadow of their ancient jurisdiction, by referring to their examination petitions and claims from the provinces.
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