218-220; his parsimony, 221; exactions, 222;
treatment of Livia, 223; of Drusus and Germanicus, 224; of Agrippina,
225; his grandsons, ib.; his harsh temper, 227; various cruelties,
228-231; his remorse, 233; his person, 234; literary pursuits, 235;
his last illness, 236; and death, 237; rejoicings at it, 238; his
will, 239.
Tiber, inundations of the, 91, and note; bed of, cleaned, 94, and note;
floods, 223; criminals thrown into, 230; island of Esculapius, in, 317,
and note.
Tibullus, his life and works, 185-187.
Tiridates, king, at Rome, 346.
Titinnius, letter of Cicero to, 528, and note.
TITUS, his birth and disposition, 465; educated with Britannicus,
ib.; the honours he paid him, ib.; endowments, personal and mental,
466; serves in Germany and Britain, ib.; in Judaea, ib.; takes
Jerusalem, 467; returns to Rome, ib.; is colleague with Vespasian, 468;
is harsh and unpopular, ib.; his attachment to Berenice, 469; his
character brightens, ib.; his moderation and munificence, 470; public
buildings and spectacles, ib., and note; his clemency, 471; relief of
great disasters, 472; avoids shedding blood, ib.; taken suddenly ill,
473; dies on his paternal estate, 474.
Toga, Praetexta, 101, 103, and notes.
---- Virilis, 101, and note.
Tomb of Domitian, 379, and note.
Treviri (Treves), 254, 256, note.
Triumphs of Julius Caesar, 24, 25; Augustus, 85; description of a, ib.
note; Tiberius, 206; Germanicus, 251; of Vespasian and Titus, 454, 467;
of Domitian, 484.
Valerius Cato, a grammarian, 516.
-------- Maximus, account of his works, 248.
Varro, remarks on his works, 65, 67.
Varus' defeat by the Germans, 86, 205.
Velabrum, a street in Rome, 25, 355.
Velleius Paterculus, his life and Epitome, 247.
Velitrae, town of, seat of the Octavian family, 71, 74.
Venus of Coos, statue of, by Apelles, 457.
VESPASIAN, his descent from the Flavian family, 441; his birth at Reate,
442; fondness for it, ib.; serves in Thrace, 443; has the province of
Crete and Cyrene, ib.; marries Flavia Domitilla, ib.; his children,
ib.; serves in Germany and Britain, 444; is proconsul in Africa, ib.;
goes into retirement, ib.; the Jews, revolt, 445; he is sent to quell
it, ib.; the prophecy of a ruler from the East applied to him. ib.
and note; his campaign, in Judaea, 446; consults
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