 | Cornelius Tacitus, Thomas Gordon - Germanic peoples - 1770 - 344 pages
...great reputation brought fure deftruction, the reft grew wifer. Befides, new men frequently chofen Senators from the Municipal towns, from the Colonies, and even from the Provinces, brought with them their own domeftic parcimony ; and though, by fortune or ihduftry, many of them grew wealthy as they... | |
 | Universal history - 1780 - 508 pages
...was raifed to the empire in the fixtieth year of his age. He was, amongft many other new men, chofen from the municipal towns, from the colonies, and even from the provinces, admitted into the fenate by the emperor Caligula. He afterwards ferved in quality of military tribune... | |
 | Frederic Huidekoper - Jews - 1876 - 644 pages
...costly profusion, began then gradually to decline." — Tacitus, An. 3, x>, Bohn's trans. 47 " Hen of no family, frequently chosen senators from the...many of them grew wealthy as they grew old, yet their forwhen the popular party under Vespasian came into partial possession of power, patricians were no... | |
 | Frederic Huidekoper - Bible - 1887 - 618 pages
...most costly profusion, began then gradually to decline." — Tacitus, An. 3, .v>, Bonn's trans. 17 " Men of no family, frequently chosen senators from...many of them grew wealthy as they grew old, yet their forwhen the popular party under Vespasian came into partial possession of power, patricians were no... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 466 pages
...people, the allies and potentates, and to be courted by them : each .was distinguished for populartiy and the number of clients, in proportion to his affluence,...them grew wealthy as they grew old, yet their former habiis continued. But Vespasian was the great promoter of parsimonious living, himself a pattern of... | |
 | Suetonius - Emperors - 1924 - 132 pages
...CENTUMVIRALIA,6 QUIBUS a. homestissimo . . . allecto: Even before the establishTacitus also speaks of senators from the municipal towns, from the colonies and even from the provinces. 2 An inscription records the first Paelignian senator in the time of Augustus. 3 Tiberius admitted... | |
 | Victor Duruy - Rome - 1883 - 358 pages
...Vespasian ; that is, of the Emperor who was born in a moderate condition. " But when tyrants," he says, " shed the blood of their subjects, and the greatness...frequently chosen senators from the municipal towns, brought with them the frugality they observed at home ; and though, by good fortune or industry, many... | |
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But when tyrants shed the blood of their subjects, and the greatness of reputation formed a motive for destruction, those who escaped grew wiser : besides, men of no family frequently chosen senators from the municipal towns, from the colonies, and even... 