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Domitian’s wife was of free birth and otherwise noble; and neither had she herself ever done wrong to anybody, nor had she assented in...

As soon as he took over the rule from his uncle, his measure was to spend the public money without restraint, now that he...

For a judge who disregarded its instruction was sentencing himself to death. And many creditors were forced to receipt the bills they had sent...

Some of the opposite party joined this faction so as to get even with the people of their original side who had ill-treated them;...

First the rebels revolutionized the style of wearing their hair. For they had it cut differently from the rest of the Romans: not molesting...

For some he slew without reason, and some he released to struggle with penury, and their fate was worse than that of those who...

By this time he was an old man on the verge of the grave, and so illiterate that he could neither read nor write:...

But when Solomon arrived in Constantinople, the Emperor pardoned him on the ground that the man he killed was a traitor to the Roman...

For they thought the reason for his perjury was not uxoriousness, but his fear of the Empress. But after Theodora died, as I have...

And when he received the monarch’s permission to do this, he left straightway in high spirits, bidding a long farewell to the Roman army...