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| | | |Graiæque apium meruisse coronæ."
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| | | |«Jewish war committed by Nero to Vespasian.»
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| | 68| 821|Nero returns to Rome. Sat. viii. 230, "Et de marmoreo
| | | |citharam suspende Colosso."
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| | | |Vindex revolts and proclaims Galba. Ib. 221, "Quid enim
| | | |Verginius armis Debeat ulcisci magis aut cum Vindice
| | | |Galba."
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| | | |Galba accepts the empire in April.
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| | | |Death of Nero in June, in his 31st year.
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| | | |«Quintilian comes to Rome with Galba, and remains 20
| | | |years.»
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|212| 69| 822|Vitellius proclaimed, Jan. 2. Tac. Hist. i. 56, 57.
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| | | |Galba killed, Jan. 15, in his 73d year. Sat. vi. 559,
| | | |"Magnus civis obit et formidatus Othoni."
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| | | |Otho acknowledged. Battle of Bedriacum. Death of Otho
| | | |at Brixellum in April, in his 37th year. Sat. ii. 106,
| | | |"Bedriaci in campo spolium affectare Palati."
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| | | |Vitellius enters Rome in July, and is killed Dec. 21.
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| | | |Vespasian proclaimed July 1st, æt. 60.
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| | 70| 823|Vespasian enters Rome. Titus takes Jerusalem.
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| | 71| 824|Triumph of Titus and Vespasian. They passed through the
| | | |"Porta Idumæa." Sat. viii. 160.
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| | | |Temple of Peace begun. Sat. ix. 22; i. 115.
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| | | |Temple of Janus closed for the sixth time.
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| | 72| 825|Commagene reduced to a province. Sat. vi. 550,
| | | |"Commagenus Aruspex."
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| | 74| 827|Expulsion of Philosophers by Vespasian.
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| | 75| 828|Temple of Peace concluded. Suet. Vesp. 9.
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| | 76| 829|Birth of Hadrian. Cf. A.D. 138.
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| | 78| 831|Agricola in Britain. Tac. Agric. xviii. Sat. ii. 160.
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| | 79| 832|Death of Vespasian, June 23, in his 70th year.
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| | | |Titus succeeds. «Eruption of Vesuvius. Death of Pliny
| | | |the elder. Cf. Plin. vi. Epist. 16, 20.»
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| | 80| 833|Fire at Rome. Temple of Isis, and Capitol, burnt.
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|215| 81| 834|Death of Titus, Sept. 13.
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| | | |Domitian succeeds. Sat. iv. 37, "Flavius Ultimus, et
| | | |calvo serviret Roma Neroni."
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| | 82| 835|Domitian rebuilds the Capitol (Suet. Dom. 5), and
| | | |patronizes learning. Sat. vii. 1, "Et spes, et ratio
| | | |studiorum in Cæsare tantum."
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| | 83| 836|Domitian's expedition against the Catti and Sarmatæ.
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| | | |Three Vestal virgins punished. Sat. iv. 10, "Sanguine
| | | |adhuc vivo terram subitura Sacerdos."
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| | 84| 837|Domitian takes the name of "Germanicus." Receives the
| | | |censorship for life. Sat. iv. 12; ii. 121.
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| | | |Defeat of Galgacus in Britain. Sat. ii. 160, 161,
| | | |"Domitianus nobiles multos relegavit et optimates
| | | |occidit." Chron. Euseb. Cf. Sat. iv. 151, _seq._
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| | 86| 839|Domitian institutes the Capitoline Games. Suet. Dom.
| | | |4, "Certamen quinquennale triplex, Musicum, Equestre,
| | | |Gymnicum." «Cf. A.D. 60.» Sat. vi. 387, "An Capitolinam
| | | |deberet Pollio quercum Sperare et fidibus promittere."
| | | |Cf. ad Sulpic. 41.
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| | | |Dacian war. Sat. iv. 111, cum Schol.
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| | | |«Birth of Antoninus Pius.»
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|217| 89| 842|Quintilian teaches at Rome ("Publicam Scholam et
| | | |Salarium è fisco accepit," Hieron.), Domitian's
| | | |nephews, among others. Some think Juvenal attended his
| | | |lectures. Sat. vi. 75, 280; vii. 186, 189.
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| | 90| 843|Domitian expels the philosophers (cf. A.D. 74). Tac.
| | | |Agr. 2. (Sat. iii. may perhaps refer to this, "omni
| | | |bonâ arte in exsilium actâ," cf. l. 21.)
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| | | |Senecio put to death for writing a book in praise of
| | | |Helvidius Priscus. Cf. Sat. v. 36.
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| | | |Sulpicia's Satire. «Pliny prætor in his 29th year.»
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| | 91| 844|Domitian's triumphs over Dacians and Germans. «Sat. vi.
| | | |205, "Dacicus et scripto radiat Germanicus auro:" but
| | | |cf. A.D. 110.»
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| | | |Cornelia, a Vestal virgin, buried alive. (Vid. Suet.
| | | |Dom. 8. Plin. iv. Ep. 11. Cf. A.D. 83.) This happened
| | | |after the death of Julia. Sat. ii. 32.
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|218| 98| 846|Sarmatian war. (Sat. ii. 1.) Death of Agricola.
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| | | |Massa and Carus (i. 35, 36) referred by some to this
| | | |date.
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| | | |Influence of Paris. Sat. vi. 87, "Ludos Paridemque
| | | |reliquit." Sat. vii. 87, "Paridi nisi vendat Agaven;"
| | | |and 90, _seq._
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| | | |Palfurius Sura, Armillatus, Pegasus, Vibius Crispus
| | | |Placentinus, Acilius Glabrio, Fabricius Veiento,
| | | |Catullus Messalinus, Curtius Montanus, and Crispinus
| | | |flourish. Sat. iv. 50-150; vi. 82; i. 26; xi. 34.
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| | 94| 847|Lateranus consul. viii. 146, _seq._, "Prætor majorum
| | | |cineres atque ossa volucri Carpento rapitur pinguis
| | | |_Damasippus_, et ipse, Ipse rotam stringit multo
| | | |sufflamine consul;" where some read "Lateranus;" others
| | | |say Lateranus is intended by Damasippus.
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| | | |This is probably the date of the event recorded in Sat.
| | | |iv., "Illa tempora sævitiæ claras quibus abstulit Urbi
| | | |Illustresque animas impune et vindice nullo," l. 151.
| | | |Cf. Tac. Agric. 44, who says that after the death of
| | | |Agricola (A.D. 93) "Domitianus non jam per intervalla
| | | |ac spiramenta temporum sed continuo et velut uno ictu
| | | |Rempublicam exhausit," _et seq._
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| | 95| 848|Death of Clemens, the consul.
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| | | |«Persecution of Christians. St. John at Patmos.»
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| | | |Flavia Domitilla exiled to _Pontia_. «Cf. xiii. 246,
| | | |"Aut maris Ægæi rupem, scopulosque frequentes Exulibus
| | | |magnis."»
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| | | |The fourth book of the Sylvæ of Statius written.
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| | | |In the third book written A.D. 94, he mentions the
| | | |close of the Thebais. Cf. Sat. vii. 82, "Curritur ad
| | | |vocem jucundam et carmen amicæ Thebaidos, lætam fecit
| | | |quum Statius Urbem Promisitque diem."
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| | | |The Thebaid had employed twelve years.
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| | 96| 849|Domitian killed in September, in his 45th year. Sat.
| | | |iv. 153, "Sed periit postquam cerdonibus esse timendus
| | | |Cœperat, hoc nocuit Lamiarum cæde madenti."
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| | | |Nerva succeeds.
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|219| 97| 850|Nerva adopts Trajan. «Tacitus "Consul Suffectus."»
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| | 98| 851|Death of Nerva, Jan. 25th, in his 63d year.
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| | | |Trajan (then at Cologne) succeeds.
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| | | |«Plutarch flourishes. Pliny, Præf. Ærarii Saturni.»
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| | 99| 852|Trajan enters Rome.
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| | | |«Martial, 10th book, 2d edition. Silius Italicus still
| | | |living.»
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| | 100| 853|Consulship of M. Cornelius Fronto with Trajan. Sat. i.
| | | |12, "Frontonis platani, convulsaque marmora clamant
| | | |Semper et assiduo ruptæ lectore columnæ."
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