A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar S. Shumway (1885) (14778520655)

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Title: A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar S. Shumway ..
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Lohr, Fr Shumway, Edgar Solomon, ed. (and) tr
Subjects: Rome -- Antiquities Rome (city) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Chautauqua press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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78 galeas residence and death. royal palace (palatiian) could be restored in a short time. Galbaafterward lived in the palatium, and with him three of the mostinfluential men of Rome—Titus Vinius, Cornelius Laco, and the freedman Icelus — whom the people jest-ingly called the em-perors tutors. The Emperor Galbawas to have been mur-dered in his own house,and yet Otho feared thewatchfulness of thebody-guards ; so, on theday on which he in-tended, with the aid ofthe dissatisfied praeto-rians, to execute thecotip dUtat, he had thefalse report spread thatthe disorders in thecamps were over, andhe himself killed. Hav-ing thus induced the^^- credulous Galba to go down to the forum without trustworthy protection, he had himsurprised and killed. Otho himself had affectionately greeted the emperor in themorning, and had then, as Tacitus says, under the pretense ofhaving, with several experts, to look at a house offered for sale,hastened away through the Palace of Tiberius into the Velabrum,