...horrors of war joined the distraction of civil strife, and in which even peace was full of cruelty. Four emperors perished by the sword. There were three...were often wars that had both characters at once. There was success in the East, and disaster in the West. There were disturbances in Illyria : Gaul...

...Tacitus. It was a time of horrible bloodshed and confusion. " I am entering," says the historian, "on a period rich in disasters, frightful in its wars,...civil strife, and even in peace full of horrors." With its close, which witnessed the establishment of the Flavian dynasty, began a more hopeful era....

...rare happiness of times, when we may think what we please, and express what we think. 2. I am entering on the history of a period rich in disasters, frightful...were often wars that had both characters at once. There was BOOK I. TAfAuIkor's plan andpurpose. The character of the times. The state of tke Rwpire....

...are the model on which many subsequent writers have constructed their works. CHAPTEE VI. ' HISTORY.' GALBA — OTHO. WHETHER the year 51 or 54 AD be accepted...by civil strife, and even in peace full of horrors. Pour emperors perished by the sword. There were three civil wars : there were more with foreign enemies...

...interesting and suggestive to compare the opening of Macaulay's History of England. Tacitus : I am entering on the history of a period rich in disasters, frightful...were often wars that had both characters at once. There was success in the East, and disaster in the West. There were disturbances in Illyricum ; Gaul...

...great Roman annalist, " ojiimwn casibus, atrox prœliis, discors seditio:iibus, ipsa etiam pace sœvum (rich in disasters, frightful in its wars, torn by civil strife, and even in peace full of horrors) " — witnessed events which have shaped the fortunes of Ireland almost down to the present day, and...

...interesting and suggestive to compare the opening of Macaulay's History of England. Tacitus : I am entering on the history of a period rich in disasters, frightful...were often wars that had both characters at once. There was success in the East, and disaster in the West. There were disturbances in Illyricum ; Gaul...

...History of England. Tacitus : I am entering on the history of a period rich in disasters, frightfjl ir its wars, torn by civil strife, and even in peace full of horrors. Foui emperors perished by the sword. There were three civil wars ; there were more with foreign enemies;...

...I rich in disasters, gloomy with wars, rent with seditions, nay, savage in its very hours of peace. Four Emperors perished by the sword ; there were three civil wars ; there were more with foreigners — and some had both characters at once. . . . Rome was wasted by fires, its oldest temples...

...rare happiness of times, when we may think what we please, and express what we think. 2. I am entering on the history of a period rich in disasters, frightful...were often wars that had both characters at once. There was success in the East, and disaster in the West. There were disturbances in Illyricum; Gaul...