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The Twelve Caesars

By: Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus; Tony Kline, Translator

...ok I Julius Caesar Book II Augustus Book III Tiberius Book IV Gaius Caligula Book V Claudius Book VI Nero Book VII Galba, Otho, Vitellius Book VIII Vespasian, Titus, Domitian...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...distribution of the Romaine camp, in his kingdome under Publius Sulpitius Galba. See how a man ought to take heed, lest he over-weeningly follow vulg... ...lius the Argian, through ambition offred his to King Philip. Even as that Galba, who bestowed a supper on Mecenas, perceiving him and his wife beginn... ...on. I resigne such distasted and fantasticall appetites unto the Emperour Galba, who medled with none but cast, worne, hard-old flesh; And to that p... ...eir behalfe they should no way lay hands on it. And therefore the Emperor Galba sitting at supper, having taken pleasure to heare a musitian play an... ...ly for words. Oh Pythagoras, why didst not thou conjure this tempest? One Galba, of former ages, being accused for living idlie, answered that 'all ...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume Two

By: Hugh Clough

......................................................................... 785 GALBA ........................................................................ ...poken of, because upon a mutiny of some soldiers, who killed Cosconius and Galba, who had been praetors, he gave them only the slight reprimand of cal... ...his pre- decessors in blood-thirstiness and cruelty. 811 Plutarch’s Lives GALBA GALBA GALBA GALBA GALBA IPHICRATES THE ATHENIAN used to say that it i... ...ived that he de- signed to fly into Egypt, persuaded the troops to declare Galba emperor, as if Nero had been already gone, promising to all the court... ...than ever Nero was. This quickly brought Nero to his grave, and soon after Galba too; they murdered the first in expectation of the promised gift, and... ...erly to my pur- pose, namely, what the Caesars did and suffered. Sulpicius Galba is owned by all to have been the richest private person that ever cam... ... he may have voluntarily yielded to others as regards power and authority. Galba was also akin to Livia, the wife of Augustus, by whose interest he wa... ...gan his insurrection against Nero. And it is reported that letters came to Galba before it fully broke out into an open rebellion, which he neither se... ...themselves as well as him. At last Vindex, plainly declaring war, wrote to Galba, encouraging him to take the government upon him, and give a head to ...

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The C‘Sars

By: Thomas de Quincey

..., that the revolt had extended to the Spanish provinces, and was headed by Galba. He fainted upon hearing this; and falling to the ground, lay for a l... ... a flight to the King of Parthia, or even to throw himself on the mercy of Galba; sometimes inclining rather to the plan of venturing into the forum i... ...uts of the soldiery assailed their ears from the neighboring encampment of Galba. They were probably then getting under arms for their final march to ... ...o very great succes- sion of weeks that same victorious rebel, the Emperor Galba, at whose feet Nero had been self-immolated, was laid a mur- dered co...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Third

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...d, Phaulius the Argian, who offered his to King Philip out of ambition; as Galba did it out of civility, who, having enter- tained Maecenas at supper,... ...with a deformed creature.”] I leave that fantastic appetite to the Emperor Galba, who was only for old curried flesh: and to this poor wretch: 126 Es... ...ssary in abundance, but not touch it themselves; and therefore the Emperor Galba, being pleased with a musician who played to him at supper, called fo... ...y. O Pythagoras, why didst not thou allay this tempest? They ac- cused one Galba of old for living idly; he made answer, “That every one ought to give...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

...prosecuted by Romulus, was found guilty of treason, as Juba says Sulpicius Galba relates. Those who write otherwise concerning T arpeia, as that she w... ...hem; nor were they ready to show their desire of his triumph. When Servius Galba, who was Aemilius’s enemy, though he commanded as tribune under him, ... ...the assembly. The soldiers, growing more vehement on this, thronged all to Galba, and entering into a conspiracy, early in the morning beset the capit... ...sed some parts of his person which it is usual to conceal; and, addressing Galba, said: “You deride me for these, in which I glory be- fore my fellow-... ...for, four years after, when he was fourscore and ten, he accused Servilius Galba: so that his life and actions ex- tended, we may say, as Nestor’s did... ...mself to public affairs,) as to contest with a Scipio Africanus, a Servius Galba, and a Quintius Flamininus, hav- ing no other aid but a tongue free t... ...; the left being committed to the direction of Murena. In the rear of all, Galba and Hortensius, his lieu- tenants, planted themselves on the upper gr...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...is- tribution of the Roman camp formed in his kingdom by Publius Sulpicius Galba, spake to the same effect. By which it appears how cautious men ought...

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The Essays or Counsels, Civil

By: Viscount St. Albans

...o, deserebant. Vespasian in a jest, sitting upon the stool; Ut puto deus fio—Galba with a sentence; Feri, si ex re sit populi Romani; holding forth hi... ...e worse. Omnium consensu capax im perii, nisi imperasset, saith Tacitus of Galba; but of Vespasian he saith, Solus imperantium, Vespasianus mutatus... ...entertained, that he would at one time or other give over his dictatorship. Galba undid himself by that speech, legi a se militem, non emi ; for it p... ...us, in his tent, said to him, Philippis iterum me videbis. Tiberius said to Galba, Tu quoque, Galba, degustabis imperium. In Vespasian’s time, there ...

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