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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 07: Galba

Suetonius, 69?-122?; Forester, Thomas [Editor]; Thomson, Alexander, M.D. [Translator]· 2 chapters· 6,465 words

I. The race of the Caesars became extinct in Nero; an event prognosticated by various signs, two of which were particularly significant. Formerly, when Livia, after her marriage with Augustus, was making a visit to her villa at Veii [639], an eagle flying by, let drop upon her...

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I. The race of the Caesars became extinct in Nero; an event prognosticated by various signs, two of which were particularly significant. Formerly, when Livia, after her marriage...

2. Chapter 2

XVI. By this conduct, he incurred the hatred of all orders of the people, but especially of the soldiery. For their commanders having promised them in his name a donative larger...