Part 13

The war in [369]Judea was [370]finished in his time, to which he was sent by Nero, as we have [371]already [372]said. It was [373]begun by some [374]seditious [375]people that were [376]headed by Eleazar, the son of Ananias, the [377]high-priest, who [378]took up arms against the Romans, under the [379]pretence of [380]religion. Cestius Gallus, [381]lieutenant of Syria, [382]laid siege to [383]Jerusalem, but was [384]beaten off with great [385]slaughter in the 12th year of Nero. The [386]victorious Jews upon their [387]return to Jerusalem, amongst other generals, [388]made choice of [389]Josephus, the son of [390]Matthias for one. In the year of Christ 67, Vespasian, [391]carrying his arms through Galilee and Judea, [392]took, besides most of their towns, Josephus their [393]commander, who [394]foretold his [395]rise. At last, he [396]fell upon Jerusalem, the [397]metropolis of the [398]nation, which was taken by his son Titus, in the second year of his reign.

This [399]proved the [400]ruin of the nation, and of the very name of the Jews. The [401]calamity was indeed so [402]violent, and the [403]miseries they [404]suffered so [405]various, that it was [406]visible they were [407]punished for the [408]horrid [409]murder of the [410]only begotten son of God; for a [411]dreadful [412]famine [413]forced the [414]besieged to [415]live on human [416]flesh; mothers to [417]eat their own children; and eleven hundred thousand [418]persons (a thing hardly ever [419]heard of before), [420]perished in that [421]siege. The city was [422]finally [423]razed to the ground. Vespasian, in the third year of his reign [424]triumphed, with his son Titus, over the Jews; upon which he [425]shut up the [426]temple of [427]Janus. He [428]died in his ninth [429]consulship whilst he was [430]giving [431]audience to some [432]ambassadors, having lived sixty-nine years, one month and seven days, and reigned eight years.

Titus, who [433]succeeded his father, is [434]deservedly [435]ranked among the best [436]emperors, although before he [437]came to the [438]empire, he was [439]thought a man of a cruel [440]temper, [441]covetous, and [442]depraved. But upon his [443]advancement, he was so much [444]altered for the better, that he [445]deserved the [446]title of the [447]delight of [448]mankind. He was [449]remarkable for great [450]mildness, and [451]easy temper, and never [452]sent any one away [453]dissatisfied; and [454]remembering once at [455]supper that he had [456]done nobody any [457]kindness that day, he told all those who were about him that he had [458]lost a day. In his reign, in the year of Christ 80, there was a [459]dreadful [460]eruption of [461]flames and [462]ashes out of [463]mount Vesuvius, which [464]flew as far as Africa, Syria, and Egypt; and the two towns of Pompeii and [465]Herculaneum[A] were [466]utterly [467]ruined by it. This good emperor died in the year of Christ 81, two years and three months after he had [468]succeeded his father, and in the one and fortieth year of his [469]age, not without the [470]suspicion of having been [471]poisoned by his [472]brother Domitian.

[A] The Manuscripts, Vases, &c. &c. which within the last few years have been found among the ruins of these places, are in the present day objects of great curiosity and interest.

Titus was very much [473]lamented both by the senate and people: and their [474]concern for his death was very much [475]increased by his brother and [476]successor Domitian, the worst prince of all that [477]came before, or [478]followed after him. At first he made some [479]show of [480]clemency and [481]justice, but soon [482]discovered his [483]temper, and [484]imitated Nero in [485]cruelty, [486]rapine, and [487]debauchery. He [488]ordered himself to be [489]called God, and was at last [490]destroyed by means of a [491]plot, in the year of Christ 96, after he had reigned fifteen years.

FOOTNOTES

[1] _Egítto_

[2] _ridótto_

[3] _forma_

[4] _província_

[5] _trionfáre_

[6] _conquísta_

[7] _Dalmázia_

[8] _sommíssione_

[9] _consigliársi_

[10] _seriaménte_

[11] _fintaménte_

[12] _depórsi_

[13] _autorità_

[14] _consíglio_

[15] _risólvere_

[16] _presentáre_

[17] _dimanda_

[18] _nonostánte_

[19] _per rassegnare_

[20] _stratagémma_

[21] _assicurársi_

[22] _Cornélio Gallo_

[23] _Románo_

[24] _cavaliére_

[25] _governatóre_

[26] _esiliáto_

[27] _insolenza_

[28] _fare_

[29] _luogotenénte_

[30] _sottomessi_

[31] _ritórno_

[32] _ricusáre_

[33] _triónfo_

[34] _esibíto_

[35] _Fraate_

[36] _restituíre_

[37] _stendárdo_

[38] _preso_

[39] _amíco_

[40] _particoláre_

[41] _stima_

[42] _primo_

[43] _protettóre_

[44] _sciénza_

[45] _sapiénte_

[46] _género_

[47] _dare per moglíe_

[48] _nipóte_

[49] _grávida_

[50] _maríto_

[51] _progénie_

[52] _moríre_

[53] _tribunízio_

[54] _potére_

[55] _mandáto_

[56] _regoláre_

[57] _affáre_

[58] _ritirársi_

[59] _cadere_

[60] _dispiacére_

[61] _figliástro_

[62] _continuáre_

[63] _cagióne_

[64] _ritiratézza_

[65] _avversióne_

[66] _passáre_

[67] _sorta_

[68] _dissolutézza_

[69] _scopérta_

[70] _stravagánza_

[71] _bandíre_

[72] _sécolo_

[73] _prodúrre_

[74] _uomo_

[75] _Greco_

[76] _Dionísio Alicarnasséno_

[77] _Nicóla Damascéno_

[78] _célebre_

[79] _talénto_

[80] _istória_

[81] _Latino_

[82] _Cornélio Nepóte_

[83] _género_

[84] _battáglia_

[85] _célebre_

[86] _poéta_

[87] _Virgilio_

[88] _Orázio_

[89] _Ovídio_

[90] _Tibúllo_

[91] _Propérzio_

[92] _Cristo_

[93] _tenúto_

[94] _eccellénte_

[95] _príncipe_

[96] _necessário_

[97] _succédere_

[98] _salvático_

[99] _indole_

[100] _abbandonáto_

[101] _nascóndere_

[102] _vizio_

[103] _princípio_

[104] _maraviglióso_

[105] _arte_

[106] _adottáto_

[107] _comándo_

[108] _suócero_

[109] _acquistáre_

[110] _riputazióne_

[111] _virtù_

[112] _fatto d’arme_

[113] _risguardáto_

[114] _gelóso_

[115] _próprio_

[116] _rimuóvere_

[117] _maraviglióso_

[118] _succésso_

[119] _Levánte_

[120] _battersi_

[121] _rancóre mortále_

[122] _sospétto_

[123] _avvelenáto_

[124] _proseguíto_

[125] _preveníre_

[126] _senténza_

[127] _volontário_

[128] _Elio Sejáno_

[129] _cavaliére_

[130] _innalzáto_

[131] _malvaggio_

[132] _azióne_

[133] _aspiráre_

[134] _léttera_

[135] _precipitáto_

[136] _colmo_

[137] _grandézza_

[138] _mano_

[139] _carnéfice_

[140] _famiglia_

[141] _regno_

[142] _ritirársi_

[143] _ísola_

[144] _costa_

[145] _intenzióne_

[146] _segretamente_

[147] _voltoláre_

[148] _dissolutézza_

[149] _allegrézza_

[150] _Gesù Cristo_

[151] _nato_

[152] _Vergine Mária_

[153] _crocefísso_

[154] _chiamáto_

[155] _scarpa_

[156] _portáto_

[157] _soldatésca_

[158] _portáre_

[159] _succédere_

[160] _entráto_

[161] _avveniménto_

[162] _trono_

[163] _speránza_

[164] _rassomigliáre_

[165] _dotáto_

[166] _qualità_

[167] _corpo_

[168] _mente_

[169] _principiáre_

[170] _segno_

[171] _moderazióne_

[172] _risguárdo_

[173] _spogliáto_

[174] _umanità_

[175] _superáre_

[176] _animále_

[177] _crudeltà_

[178] _strage_

[179] _rango_

[180] _grado_

[181] _uccídere_

[182] _capitáno_

[183] _pretóriano_

[184] _guardia_

[185] _mezzo_

[186] _comméttere_

[187] _delitto_

[188] _dato fondo all’_

[189] _imménso_

[190] _tesóro_

[191] _lasciáto_

[192] _cominciáre_

[193] _proscrívere_

[194] _sacchegiáre_

[195] _sentíto_

[196] _vorréi_

[197] _collo_

[198] _edifízio_

[199] _lavóro_

[200] _effettuáre_

[201] _stimáto_

[202] _farsi_

[203] _adoráre_

[204] _mondo_

[205] _témpio_

[206] _edificáre_

[207] _tribuno_

[208] _coorte_

[209] _guárdia_

[210] _fatto_

[211] _cospirazióne_

[212] _regnáto_

[213] _vissúto_

[214] _regnáre_

[215] _naturalménte_

[216] _insensáto_

[217] _crudéle_

[218] _istigáto_

[219] _sopratútto_

[220] _liberto_

[221] _moglie_

[222] _abbandonársi_

[223] _affáre_

[224] _sfrenatezza_

[225] _dissolutézza_

[226] _essere noto_

[227] _arrischiáre_

[228] _sposáre_

[229] _maríto_

[230] _drudo_

[231] _istigazióne_

[232] _Narcísso_

[233] _Pállade_

[234] _libérto_

[235] _governáre_

[236] _argoménto_

[237] _pazzía_

[238] _messo_

[239] _Británnico_

[240] _Domízio_

[241] _consíglio_

[242] _richiésta_

[243] _adottáre_

[244] _dimenticáre_

[245] _destináre_

[246] _successóre_

[247] _bandíre_

[248] _Giudéo_

[249] _matemático_

[250] _intrapréndere_

[251] _spedizióne_

[252] _Brettágna_

[253] _soggiogáre_

[254] _veléno_

[255] _messo_

[256] _fungo_

[257] _ascéndere_

[258] _patrígno_

[259] _comportársi_

[260] _annoveráto_

[261] _príncipe_

[262] _ascoltáre_

[263] _precétto_

[264] _maéstro_

[265] _corrótto_

[266] _lussúria_

[267] _adulazióne_

[268] _diventáre_

[269] _mostro_

[270] _arrestáre_

[271] _trascórrere_

[272] _valoróso_

[273] _capitáno_

[274] _virtù_

[275] _autorità_

[276] _ricuperáre_

[277] _obbligáre_

[278] _Tiridáte Vologéso_

[279] _veníre_

[280] _domandáre_

[281] _coróna_

[282] _richiamáre_

[283] _far moríre_

[284] _veléno_

[285] _princípio_

[286] _ordináre_

[287] _privatala degli onori_

[288] _bandíto_

[289] _corte_

[290] _parricídio_

[291] _mancáre_

[292] _compíre_

[293] _miséria_

[294] _approváre_

[295] _leváre_

[296] _esiliáre_

[297] _scopérta_

[298] _trama_

[299] _macchináto_

[300] _poéta Lucáno_

[301] _dare dei calci_

[302] _grávida_

[303] _in modo da farla morire_

[304] _sfacciatággine_

[305] _comparíre_

[306] _teátro_

[307] _recitáre_

[308] _commediánte_

[309] _suonatóre d’arpa_

[310] _fare_

[311] _corse di carro_

[312] _giuóchi Circénsi_

[313] _rappresentáre_

[314] _spasso_

[315] _apparénza_

[316] _Troja_

[317] _fiámma_

[318] _incendiáre_

[319] _imputáre_

[320] _Cristiáno_

[321] _diventáre_

[322] _sprezzábile_

[323] _scelleratézza_

[324] _abbandonáto_

[325] _cercáto_

[326] _castigáto_

[327] _eseguíre_

[328] _carnéfice_

[329] _uffício_

[330] _regno_

[331] _C. Giúlio Vindíce_

[332] _propretóre_

[333] _apertaménte_

[334] _ribellársi_

[335] _persuadére_

[336] _governatóre_

[337] _farsi_

[338] _méttere_

[339] _vécchio_

[340] _adottáto_

[341] _proclamáto_

[342] _confidársi_

[343] _legióne_

[344] _comandáre_

[345] _qualità_

[346] _consoláre_

[347] _luogotenénte_

[348] _préndere_

[349] _nome_

[350] _sconfíggere_

[351] _combattiménto_

[352] _Bebríaco_

[353] _stanco_

[354] _succedúto_

[355] _mandáto_

[356] _reprímere_

[357] _Giudéo_

[358] _giustízia_

[359] _cleménza_

[360] _promotóre_

[361] _sciénza_

[362] _sapiénte_

[363] _biasimáto_

[364] _cupidígia_

[365] _scusáre_

[366] _allegáre_

[367] _povertà_

[368] _erário_

[369] _Giudéa_

[370] _termináto_

[371] _già_

[372] _detto_

[373] _principiáto_

[374] _sedizióso_

[375] _gente_

[376] _comandáto_

[377] _gran sacerdóte_

[378] _prendere_

[379] _pretésto_

[380] _religióne_

[381] _luogotenénte_

[382] _assediáre_

[383] _Gierusalémme_

[384] _rispínto_

[385] _stráge_

[386] _vincitóre_

[387] _ritórno_

[388] _scégliere_

[389] _Giuséppe_

[390] _Máttia_

[391] _portáre_

[392] _pigliáre_

[393] _comandánte_

[394] _prédire_

[395] _elevazióne_

[396] _gettársi_

[397] _metrópoli_

[398] _nazióne_

[399] _cagionáre_

[400] _rovína_

[401] _calamità_

[402] _violento_

[403] _miséria_

[404] _soffríre_

[405] _differénte_

[406] _visíbile_

[407] _puníto_

[408] _orréndo_

[409] _omicídio_

[410] _unigénito_

[411] _terríbile_

[412] _fame_

[413] _forzáre_

[414] _assediáto_

[415] _vívere_

[416] _carne_

[417] _mangiáre_

[418] _persóna_

[419] _sentíto_

[420] _períre_

[421] _assédio_

[422] _finalménte_

[423] _spianáto_

[424] _trionfáre_

[425] _chiúdere_

[426] _témpio_

[427] _Giáno_

[428] _moríre_

[429] _consoláto_

[430] _dare_

[431] _udiénza_

[432] _ambasciadóre_

[433] _succédere_

[434] _meritaménte_

[435] _annoveráto_

[436] _imperatóre_

[437] _arriváre_

[438] _império_

[439] _credúto_

[440] _natúra_

[441] _aváro_

[442] _sensuále_

[443] _avanzaménto_

[444] _cambiáto_

[445] _meritáre_

[446] _títolo_

[447] _delízia_

[448] _génere umáno_

[449] _notábile_

[450] _benignità_

[451] _piacevolézza_

[452] _rimandare_

[453] _malconténto_

[454] _ricordársi_

[455] _cena_

[456] _fatto_

[457] _benefício_

[458] _perdúto_

[459] _spaventévole_

[460] _eruzione_

[461] _fiámma_

[462] _cénere_

[463] _Monte Vesúvio_

[464] _spargersi_

[465] _Ercoláno_

[466] _affátto_

[467] _distrútto_

[468] _succedúto_

[469] _età_

[470] _sospétto_

[471] _avvelenáto_

[472] _fratéllo_

[473] _compianto_

[474] _afflizióne_

[475] _accresciúto_

[476] _successóre_

[477] _precedere_

[478] _seguíre_

[479] _mostra_

[480] _cleménza_

[481] _giustízia_

[482] _scopríre_

[483] _natúra_

[484] _imitáre_

[485] _crudeltà_

[486] _rapína_

[487] _lussúria_

[488] _farsi_

[489] _chiamáre_

[490] _uccíso_

[491] _cospirazióne_

CHAP. IX.

_(Of Rome, 836--Of Christ, 96.)_

[1]Cocceius Nerva succeeded Domitian in the empire. He reigned but one year, four months, and eleven days; an [2]excellent prince, but [3]despised for his age. He [4]annulled all the [5]acts of Domitian, and [6]restored what had been [7]taken from the people by [8]violence and [9]injustice: but he [10]wanted [11]authority to [12]keep the soldiers within [13]due bounds; wherefore those who were [14]concerned in the death of Domitian, from whom he had [15]received the empire, were [16]killed by the [17]guards, [18]in spite of all he could do to [19]prevent it. He made Trajan, [20]lieutenant of Germany, his [21]adopted son, with whom he lived three months.

Trajan [22]took upon him the [23]government of the empire at [24]Cologn, being then in the 42nd year of his age; and a man [25]excellently [26]skilled in the [27]military art. He was likewise a person of great prudence, [28]moderation, and [29]meekness of [30]temper; so that he was thought by all to [31]deserve the [32]surname of [33]Optimus. He [34]added Dacia to the empire, and, [35]marching into the [36]East, [37]subdued the [38]Armenians, the [39]Iberians, the [40]Colchians, the [41]Sarmatians, the [42]Osrhoenians, the [43]Arabians, and the [44]Bosphoranians. He likewise [45]fell upon the Parthians, and [46]took the cities Seleucia, [47]Ctesiphon, and [48]Babylon, with several others. But upon his [49]taking a voyage in the [50]Red Sea, almost all those nations [51]rose in rebellion. He, however, [52]quickly [53]reduced them either in person or by his [54]lieutenants. There was in his time a great [55]earthquake, which [56]ruined the city of [57]Antioch: it [58]happened in the year of Christ 115, in the [59]consulship of Messala and Pedo, the latter of whom was [60]buried in the [61]ruins of the [62]place, and Trajan was [63]drawn through a [64]window, and had [65]much ado to [66]escape. The Jews of [67]Syrene [68]took up arms, and [69]exercised all manner of [70]cruelty upon the Romans and Greeks throughout [71]Egypt and [72]Cyprus. Trajan [73]suppressed this rebellion with infinite [74]slaughter, by his lieutenant Martius Turbo. [75]Whilst he was [76]preparing to march against the Parthians, who were up in arms, having [77]forced from amongst them the king that had been [78]given them by the Roman emperor; this excellent prince [79]fell ill, and [80]died at [81]Selinus in Cilicia. He reigned nineteen years, six months, and fifteen days.

[82]Ælius Hadrianus, Trajan’s [83]cousin and [84]countryman, [85]obtained the empire after him, by the [86]favour of Plotina, Trajan’s wife; a man very [87]fickle in his [88]temper and [89]genius, [90]equally [91]formed for virtue and [92]vice. He [93]went through all the [94]provinces of the empire, so that nobody had ever [95]travelled over so much of the [96]world as he. After the death of Trajan, he [97]abandoned Armenia, Syria, and Mesopotamia, to the Parthians, and [98]intended likewise to [99]leave Dacia, had he not been [100]apprehensive of [101]ruining the many thousands of Romans that were there.

He [102]rebuilt Jerusalem, which he [103]called Ælia Capitolina, and [104]settled a colony there; and in the same place where the [105]temple had [106]stood, [107]built another in [108]honour of [109]Jupiter; which so [110]provoked the Jews, that, [111]taking up arms, they [112]carried on the war with more [113]fury than ever, under the [114]conduct of Barchochebas; against whom, amongst other [115]skilful generals that he [116]employed, Hadrian [117]sent for Julius Severus out of [118]Britain, by whom the Jews were by [119]degrees [120]suppressed and utterly [121]destroyed; there being no less than 50,000 slain in that war, besides an [122]innumerable [123]multitude that were [124]consumed by [125]famine, [126]pestilence, and [127]fire; so that [128]Palestine became almost a [129]wilderness. After that time, the Jews were [130]forbidden, [131]under pain of death, to come to Jerusalem, unless one day in a year to [132]lament their [133]misery.

At last Hadrian [134]growing old and [135]infirm, having no [136]children of his own, [137]adopted [138]Arrius Antoninus, who was afterwards [139]surnamed [140]Pius, [141]upon condition that he should adopt Annius Verus, son of Ælius Verus, and [142]M. Aurelius Antoninus. After which he died at Baiæ, in the year of Christ 138, having lived sixty-two years, and reigned twenty-one and eleven months.

Antoninus Pius, adopted by Hadrian, [143]governed the Roman empire with so much virtue and [144]goodness, that he [145]surpassed all [146]example; for he [147]managed the [148]commonwealth rather with the [149]affection of a father, than with the authority of a prince, and [150]kept the world in [151]peace during his whole reign, for which [152]reason he was [153]compared to Numa. [154]Foreign and [155]remote princes and [156]nations [157]feared him to that degree, that they [158]referred the [159]decision of their [160]controversies to him. He [161]forbade any [162]scrutiny to be made after those, who had [163]entered into a [164]plot against his [165]life. He died in the seventieth year of his age, and twenty-fourth of his reign.

After him reigned M. Antonius Verus, [166]son-in-law of Pius; for he had married his daughter Valeria Faustina. He had from [167]his youth been [168]educated as well in the [169]knowledge of other [170]arts as the [171]studies of [172]wisdom, which he [173]made appear no less in his life and [174]conduct, than his [175]words and [176]professions. In the [177]beginning of his reign, he made L. Ælius Verus his [178]partner of the empire, to whom he married his daughter Lucilla. They reigned together eleven years, being of very [179]different [180]inclinations; for Verus was of a [181]listless, [182]luxurious, and [183]morose temper, but was [184]kept within [185]bounds through the [186]respect he had for his father-in-law; by whom he was [187]sent against the Parthians, and [188]carried on the war [189]successfully for four years, by his lieutenants; wherefore they both [190]triumphed over the Parthians. Afterwards they [191]undertook an [192]expedition against the Marcomanni, but upon their [193]march, Verus was [194]seized with an [195]apoplexy, between Concordia and [196]Altinum, and died. M. Aurelius carried on the war for three years against the Marcomanni, to whom the Quadi, [197]Vandals, [198]Sarmatians, and Suevi, [199]joined themselves. His army in [200]want [201]of water, was [202]relieved by a [203]legion of [204]Christians that was in it, who, by their [205]prayers [206]procured [207]rain from [208]heaven, according to [209]Eusebius. The [210]exchequer being quite [211]exhausted by the great [212]expense of the war, that he might not [213]burthen the people with [214]taxes, he [215]produced all the imperial [216]furniture and [217]sold it; and after the victory [218]restored the [219]price to those [220]purchasers who [221]were willing to [222]part with what they had [223]bought. Avidius Cassius, upon [224]false advice that he was [225]dead, [226]seized the [227]government, and was slain three months after. M. Aurelius died at Vienna, after a reign of nineteen years, and eleven months.

He was [228]succeeded by his [229]wicked son Aurelius Commodus Antoninus, who [230]resembled Nero for [231]cruelty, [232]lust, [233]avarice, and such practices as are [234]scandalous in an emperor. Having [235]settled his affairs with the [236]Germans, he triumphed at Rome. He put to death his sister Lucilla, who, with [237]several others, had [238]conspired against his life. He [239]used to [240]fight among the [241]gladiators in the [242]public games. He was at last, after an [243]infamous life, [244]slain by the [245]contrivance of a [246]mistress, and the captain-general of his [247]life-guards, whom he had [248]determined to [249]put to death. He reigned twelve years, nine months, and fourteen days.

After Commodus was [250]killed in the year of Christ 193, P. [251]Helvius Pertinax, was [252]declared emperor, by those who had [253]dispatched Commodus, who [254]endeavouring to [255]reduce the [256]commonwealth into better [257]order, and to [258]curb the [259]licentiousness of the [260]soldiery, was, within eighty days after his coming to the empire, [261]murdered by his own guards. The empire after this, was by the soldiers [262]exposed to [263]sale, and Didius Julianus [264]coming up to their [265]terms, was [266]accepted of, and [267]proclaimed emperor accordingly. But [268]not being able to [269]make up the [270]promised donative, he was [271]forsaken by them, and slain by [272]order of Septimius Severus, after he had reigned two months and five days.

This Severus, a [273]native of Africa, was at that time lieutenant of Pannonia, and [274]took upon him the government, under the [275]pretence of [276]revenging Pertinax’s death. He first of all [277]disbanded the guards for that [278]abominable [279]murder. Then he [280]fell upon Pescennius Niger, lieutenant of Syria, and Clodius Albinus of [281]Britain, his [282]competitor for the empire. Niger was [283]conquered, and Antioch, into which he [284]threw himself, was taken; after which, [285]flying towards the [286]river Euphrates, he was [287]taken and slain. After the [288]taking off of Niger, Severus [289]took [290]Byzantium, which had [291]declared for him, after a [292]siege of three years.

[293]Matters being [294]brought to a [295]peaceable [296]settlement in the [297]East, he [298]turned his arms [299]westward against Clodius Albinus, and [300]engaged him at [301]Lyons in [302]France; where many being slain on both [303]sides, and amongst others, Albinus, he was [304]left sole [305]possessor of the empire. The city was [306]plundered and [307]burnt, Albinus’s [308]head [309]sent to Rome, and a [310]dreadful [311]havoc made among those who had been his [312]favourers and [313]friends.

After this, he [314]marched [315]eastward again, and [316]conquered the Parthians, the [317]Adiabenians, and Arabians, whilst Plotianus, in the mean time, [318]governed all at Rome. Plotilla, this man’s daughter, was [319]contracted to Antoninus, Severus’s son, and the [320]nuptials were [321]celebrated in the tenth year of Severus’s reign. But not long after, Plotianus being [322]engaged in a [323]plot against the emperor, was slain by his [324]son-in-law, and a great many that had been in his [325]interest, killed after him.

Severus [326]undertook an [327]expedition into Britain, with his two sons, in the 15th year of his reign, where he [328]continued three years; being very [329]successful, he [330]drew a [331]wall [332]across the [333]island for its [334]security. He died at York, after he had reigned seventeen years eight months and three days.