Galba

This is often fanciful and forced, abounds in contrasts rather than resemblances, and is seldom of any special historical value, although it often has great literary charm.

There are also four single lives in our collection, Artaxerxes, Eretus, Galba, and Otho, and we get traces of twelve more that are now lost.

One of the pairs is a double one, where, to match the two Gracchi, Plutarch selects the two reforming Spartan kings Agis and Cleomenes.

We have in all, therefore, fifty lives by Plutarch.

And he was first to take from his arm not only his armlet but at the same time his shield and cast them upon her.

All his men followed his example and the girl was smitten by the gold and buried under the shields and died from the number and weight of them.

And Tarpeius also was convicted of treason when prosecuted by Romulus as, according to Juba, Supicius Galba relates.

Of those who write differently about Tarpeia, they are worthy of no belief at all who say that she was a daughter of Thasius the leader of the Sabines and was living with Romulus under compulsion and acted and suffered as she did at her father's behest.

Histories call it the Year of the Four Emperors.

In the span of just 12 short months in AD 69, the throne became a rotating execution block.

first Galbasius power, only to be butchered by his own troops in the public square.

Next, Otho took the crown, lost a massive battle, and committed suicide.

Then Vitellius marched on Rome, claimed the throne, and eventually was dragged through the streets, tortured, and tossed into the Tiber River.

Away it went, and hurried my Uncle Toby's ideas along with it.

"'For this reason,' continued my father, "'tis worthy to recollect how little alteration in great men the approaches of death have made.' Vespasian died in a jest upon his close stool, Galba with a sentence, Septimus Severus in a dispatch, Tiberius in dissimulation, and Caesar Augustus in a compliment.

I hope t'was a sincere one, quoth my uncle Toby.

T'was to his wife, said my father.

This is often fanciful and forced, abounds in contrasts rather than resemblances, and is seldom of any special historical value, although it often has great literary charm.

There are also four single lives in our collection, Artaxerxes, Eretus, Galba, and Otho, and we get traces of twelve more that are now lost.

One of the pairs is a double one, where, to match the two Gracchi, Plutarch selects the two reforming Spartan kings Agis and Cleomenes.

We have in all, therefore, fifty lives by Plutarch.

And he was first to take from his arm not only his armlet, but at the same time his shield, and cast them upon her.

All his men followed his example, and the girl was smitten by the gold and buried under the shields, and died from the number and weight of them.

And Tarpeius also was convicted of treason when prosecuted by Romulus, as, according to Juba, Supicius Galba relates.

Of those who write differently about Tarpeia, they are worthy of no belief at all who say that she was a daughter of Tatius the leader of the Sabines and was living with Romulus under compulsion, and acted and suffered as she did at her father's behest.