A New Universal Biography: Forming the first volume of seriesSherwood, Jones, and Company, 1825 |
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... favour of Urgulania . The result of the affair was , Livia caused the sum , which Piso claimed , to be paid down to him . CESONIA , wife to the emperor Caligula , was killed by Lupus , as she was weeping over her husband's body , after ...
... favour of Urgulania . The result of the affair was , Livia caused the sum , which Piso claimed , to be paid down to him . CESONIA , wife to the emperor Caligula , was killed by Lupus , as she was weeping over her husband's body , after ...
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... favour , and fearing that such a benefit would engage him more in his mother's interest than in his ; but whe- ther it be that Seneca diverted the thing , or for some other means , Burrus kept his place , and approved of Agrippina's ...
... favour , and fearing that such a benefit would engage him more in his mother's interest than in his ; but whe- ther it be that Seneca diverted the thing , or for some other means , Burrus kept his place , and approved of Agrippina's ...
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... favoured his cause ; he was acknowledged by all the Roman empire ; and the senate con- demned the tyrant to be dragged naked through the streets of Rome , whipped to death , and afterwards to be thrown down from the Tarpeian rock like ...
... favoured his cause ; he was acknowledged by all the Roman empire ; and the senate con- demned the tyrant to be dragged naked through the streets of Rome , whipped to death , and afterwards to be thrown down from the Tarpeian rock like ...
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... favour with Nero . She poisoned Claudius and Britannicus , and at last at- tempted to destroy Nero himself , for which she was executed . NYMPHIDIUS , a favourite of Nero , who said that he was descended from Caligula . He was raised to ...
... favour with Nero . She poisoned Claudius and Britannicus , and at last at- tempted to destroy Nero himself , for which she was executed . NYMPHIDIUS , a favourite of Nero , who said that he was descended from Caligula . He was raised to ...
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... favour of Galba , the new emperor ; but when Galba refused to adopt him as his successor , he procured his assassination , and made himself em- peror . He was acknowledged by the senate , but the sudden revolt of Vitellius , in Germany ...
... favour of Galba , the new emperor ; but when Galba refused to adopt him as his successor , he procured his assassination , and made himself em- peror . He was acknowledged by the senate , but the sudden revolt of Vitellius , in Germany ...
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Страница 391 - After he began by this advantageous match to live at his ease, it was, that he formed the scheme of establishing a new religion, or, as he expressed it, of replanting the only true and ancient one, professed by Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and all the prophets...
Страница 136 - AD 19, in the 34th year of his age. The news of his death was received with the greatest grief and the most bitter lamentations.
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