The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 61
f he did not relinquishthe empire. To this Claudius would have submitted,had he not been prevented. He invaded the establishedorders of the state, in giving to his officers the right ofadministering justice. The wars of Marius and Syllawere only undertaken, says Montesquieu, to ascertainwho should… … DOMITIAN. Domitian, the son of Vespasian, became only me-morable in history by his elevation to the rank of Csesar.His ambition appeared with his good fortune. Webehold him, during the absence of his father, taking tohimself the supreme authority, by distributing the firstoffices of the state ; a…
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