Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo

Right.

Nero's great general, Corbulo, who was so great, Nero forced him to commit suicide.

You're too good.

sent two legions to support Tigranes, but he also had to defend Syria from Volo Jesus, and he was spread thinly, so he asked Nero to send him a general to take over the Armenian operations, and the guy that Nero sent was Sassinius Paedas, former consul who was presently the governor of Cappadocia, or...

That's a real Roman man right there.

Anyway.

But before Sassanus Paetus gets there, Corbulo's already defeated the Parthians.

Yeah, he don't play this.

Clearly, revenge must follow.

The natural choice, the Roman general who had the greatest reputation at that time, and particularly for fighting in the East, was a man called Corbulo.

Now, with Nero's immaculate timing, he had actually asked Corbulo to commit suicide one month before the Jewish revolt broke out.

And when Nero made a request like that, one had to obey.

So Rome had killed off its premier commander, Corbulo, and a month later, the news arrives of the Jewish revolt.

This war would be deadly.

Rome's revenge was seldom swift, but it was inexorable.

It happened that a mere trifle, which grew into a sharp contest, gave the young prince the means of acquiring popularity.

Domitius Corbulo, an ex-praetor, complained to the Senate that Lucius Sulla, a young noble, had not given place to him at a gladiatorial show.

Corbulo had age, national usage, and the feelings of the older senators in his favor.

Against him, Mamercus Scaurus, Lucius Arruntius, and other kinsmen of Sulla strenuously exerted themselves.

There was a keen debate, and appeal was made to the precedents of our ancestors, as having censured in severe decrees disrespect on the part of the young.

Subsequently in his good fortune he fell into a despot's pride, was dethroned, was restored by the help of the Langobardi, and still, in prosperity or adversity, did mischief to the interests of the Cheruscan nation.

It was during the same period that the Chausi, free as it happened from dissension at home and emboldened by the death of Sancininius, made, while Corbulo was on his way, an inroad into Lower Germany under the leadership of Ganascus.

The man was of the tribe of the Caninfates, had served long as our auxiliary, had then deserted, and, getting some light vessels, had made piratical descents specially on the coast of Gaul, inhabited, he knew, by a wealthy and unwarlike population.

Corbulo meanwhile entered the province with careful preparation, and soon winning a renown of which that campaign was the beginning, he brought his triremes up the channel of the Rhine and the rest of his vessels up the estuaries and canals to which they were adapted.

Having sunk the enemy's flotilla, driven out Ganascus, and brought everything into good order, he restored the discipline of former days among legions which had forgotten the labours and toils of the soldier and delighted only in plunder.

No one was to fall out of the line, no one was to fight without orders.

The fear thus inspired variously affected his own troops and the enemy.

Our men gained fresh valour, the barbarians felt their pride broken.

There are a hundred guests, each followed by a kitchener of his own.

Corbulo himself could scarce bear the weight of all the big vessels and other gear which that poor little slave is carrying with head erect, fanning the flame as he runs along.

Newly patched tunics are torn in two.

Up comes a huge log swaying on a wagon, and then a second dray carrying a whole pine-tree, towering aloft and threatening the people.