...to enumerate the unworthy successors of Augustus. Their unparalleled vices, and the splendid theater on which they were acted, have saved them from oblivion....Claudius, the profligate and cruel Nero, the beastly Vitellius,38 and the timid inhuman Domitian, are condemned to everlasting infamy. During fourscore...

...and in worship.") A pretty classification is given of those "scallawags" of history in these words: "The dark, unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula,...and cruel Nero, the beastly Vitellius and the timid, infirm Domitian." In all the hieroglyphical literature of Egypt there . is no allusion to the striking...

...enumerate the unworthy successors of Augustus. Their unparalleled vices, and the splendid theatre in which they were acted, have saved them from oblivion....inhuman Domitian, are condemned to everlasting infamy.' Murder or compulsory suicide was the fate of nearly all the first century emperors. Then came the golden...

...Julian Claudians, and by the plebeian Flavians. Gibbon says : ' It is almost superfluous to enumerate the unworthy successors of Augustus. Their unparalleled vices, and the splendid theatre in which they were acted, have saved them from oblivion. The dark, unrelenting Tiberius, the furious...

...Trajan and the Antonines had been preceded by an age of iron. It is almost superfluous to enumerate the unworthy successors of Augustus. Their unparalleled...dark unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the stupid Claudius, the profligate and cruel Nero, the beastly Vitellius,88 and the timid inhuman Domitian...

...world. 4. When they are preceded by an adjective expressing a quality on which stress is to be laid. The dark, unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula,...Nero, the beastly Vitellius, and the timid, inhuman Domitianus are condemned to everlasting infamy (Oibbon). — "The elder Pliny" in contradistinction...

...vices ' of the previous Emperors — ' the dark unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the stupid Claudius, the profligate and cruel Nero, the beastly Vitellius, and the timid inhuman Domitian. . . . Rome groaned beneath an unremitting tyranny . . . fatal to almost every virtue and every talent.'...

...iron" (I, 86). Gibbon warms to his task with enormous relish: It is almost superfluous to enumerate the unworthy successors of Augustus. Their unparalleled...dark unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the stupid Claudius, the profligate and cruel Nero, the beastly Vitellius, and the timid inhuman Domitian...

...25 1 ; and compare Gibbon's statement that 'The dark unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, and the feeble Claudius, the Profligate and cruel Nero,...inhuman Domitian, are condemned to everlasting infamy' (Decline and Fall, ch. 3). EXAMPLE I. We read in Plutarch, that a soldier of king Pyrrhus being slain,...

...had thus survived the iron age of 'the dark unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the stupid Claudius, the profligate and cruel Nero, the beastly Vitellius, and the timid, inhuman Domitian', and, after breathing again under the Flavians, enjoyed unparalleled peace and prosperity.45 It was...