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Often appears with: treaties, truces, and peacemaking · titus · siege and fortification · public works left unfinished · public finance and debt · mount caelius fire indemnities · money lending decree · gladiator games · festivals, games, and spectacle · conquest, plunder, and captives · bribery expectations
Usually: argument (2) · censure (1) · indignation (1) · skepticism (1)
Suetonius describes Tiberius’s reign as stingy in public works and spectacles, modestly aiding some senators, offering lending and fire indemnities, and targeting soldiers and provinces selectively.
his own subjects, and fled to Antioch with a vast treasure, claiming the protection of the Roman people, his allies, was treacherously robbed of all his money, and afterwards murdered. L. He first manifested hatred towards his own relations in the case of his brother Drusus, betraying him by the production of a letter to himself, in which Drusus proposed that Augustus should be forced to restore the public liberty.…
Echion the ragman turns to politics and entertainment, predicting a gladiator show by Titus and other public spectacles, attacking past incompetence, and expecting bribes and money from future events.
"Don't be so down in the mouth," chimed in Echion, the ragman; "if it wasn't that it'd be something else, as the farmer said, when he lost his spotted pig. If a thing don't happen today, it may tomorrow. That's the way life jogs along. You couldn't name a better country, by Hercules, you couldn't, if only the men had any brains. She's in hot water right now, but she ain't the only one. We oughtn't to be so parti…