Identifier: sixthousandyears01sand (find matches)
Title: Six thousand years of history
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Sanderson, Edgar, d. 1907
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Philadelphia : E.R. DuMont
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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inct. Of these, Tiberius had shown himself an able generalduring the rule of Augustus. As Emperor he was agloomy, suspicious, hypocritical, lustful, and in every wayhateful tyrant, whose character has been drawn with con-summate skill and branded with ineffaceable infamy bythe historian Tactitus. A reign of terror existed for all citi-zens who were conspicuous in ability or virtue, while a hostof informers used an elastic law of treason for theirdestruction at the prompting of the Emperor. His wickedminister, Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian Guards,was put to death in 31. Tiberius lived the last ten yearsof his life at the island of Capreae (Capri), on the coast ofCampania, and was then murdered by smothering almostas he drew the last breath of old age and disease. Caligula was a madman of a wicked and malignanttype, and was murdered by a Tribune. Claudius was aweak ruler. His wife, Messalina, is proverbial for immor-ality. In his reign the conquest of Britain was begun(A. D. 43).
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C. MACCARI, PlNX BLIND APPIUS CLAUDIUS LED INTO THE SENATE HISTORY OF ROME 269 Nero was a monster of vice and tyranny. In his reignthe British insurrection under Boadicea took place. Hewas at last deposed by the Senate, and died by his ownhand. Among the crimes of Nero were the murder of hismother, Agrippina, and the persecution of the Christiansin Rome on the false charge of causing the great fire therein A. D. 65. Claudius had been really made Emperor bythe choice of the soldiers, which the Senate confirmed,and this evil precedent was often followed afterward. Therule of the empire was sometimes at the disposal of thefamous Praetorian Guard, the headquarters in Rome ofthe military force, and the armies also in different partsof the Empire chose their own Generals as Emperors inthe two years of confusion that succeeded the suicide ofNero in A. D. 68. The disorders of these calamitous years arose from acause to which the military system and vast extension ofthe Empire rendered it pecu

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