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With equal courage Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire, his mother-in-law Sextia, and
his daughter Pollutia submitted to death. They were hated by the emperor
because they seemed a living reproach to him for the murder of Rubellius
Plautus, son-in-law of Lucius Vetus. But the first opportunity of unmasking
his savage wrath was furnished by Fortunatus, a freedman, who having embezzled
his patron's property, deserted him to become his accuser. He had as his
accomplice Claudius Demianus, whom |
There was profound excitement among those present, and they even
tried to soothe her agitation, but she insisted on an interview with her
son. Then, instead of pleading her innocence, as though she lacked confidence,
or her claims on him by way of reproach, she obtained vengeance on her
accusers and rewards for her friends.
The superintendence of the corn supply was given to Faenius Rufus,
the direction of the games which the emperor was preparing, to Arruntius
Stella, and the |
Not equally moderate was his brother, surnamed Felix, who had for
some time been governor of Judaea, and thought that he could do any evil
act with impunity, backed up as he was by such power. It is true that the
Jews had shown symptoms of commotion in a seditious outbreak, and when
they had heard of the assassination of Caius, there was no hearty submission,
as a fear still lingered that any of the emperors might impose the same
orders. Felix meanwhile, by ill-timed remedies, |
Vitellius accordingly, who used the name of censor to screen a
slave's trickeries, and looked forward to new despotisms, already impending,
associated himself in Agrippina's plans, with a view to her favour, and
began to bring charges against Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire, whose sister, Junia Calvina, a
handsome and lively girl, had shortly before become his daughter-in-law.
Here was a starting point for an accuser. Vitellius put an infamous construction
on the somewhat incautious |
Artabanus had now no resources but in some foreigners who guarded
his person, men exiled from their own homes, who had no perception of honour,
or any scruple about a base act, mere hireling instruments of crime. With
these attendants he hastened his flight into the remote country on the
borders of Scythia, in the hope of aid, as he was connected by marriage
alliances with the Hyrcanians and Carmanians. Meantime the Parthians, he
thought, indulgent as they are to an absent prince, |
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