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Cologne), or, more accurately, emperor of the armies of Upper and Lower Germany. In fact, he was never acknowledged as emperor by the entire Roman See also:

WORLD

world, though at See also:

Rome the See also:

SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

senate accepted him and decreed to him the usual imperial honours. He advanced into See also:

Italy at the See also:

head of a licentious and ruffianly soldiery, and Rome became the See also:

SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of See also:

RIOT (0. Fr. riote, of uncertain etymology)

riot and See also:

MASSACRE

massacre, gladiatorial shows and extravagant feasting. As soon as it was known that the armies of the See also:

East, See also:

DALMATIA (Ger. Dalmatien; Ital. Dalmazia; Serbo-Croatian, Dalmacija)

Dalmatia and Illyricum had declared for See also:

VESPASIAN

Vespasian, Vitellius, deserted by many of his adherents, would have resigned the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of emperor. It was said that the terms of resignation had actually been agreed upon with See also:

PRIMUS, MARCUS ANTONIUS

Primus, one of Vespasian's See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief supporters, but the See also:

PRAETORIANS

praetorians refused to allow him to carry out the agreement, See also:

VITERBO

VITERBO 147 and forced him to return to the See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace, when he was on his way to See also:

DEPOSIT (Lat. depositurn, from deponere, to lay down, to put in the care of)

deposit the insignia of See also:

EMPIRE

empire in the See also:

temple of See also:

Concord.

On the entrance of Vespasian's troops into Rome he was dragged out of some miserable hiding-See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, driven to the fatal Gemonian stairs, and there struck down. " Yet I was once your emperor," were the last and, as far as we know, the noblest words of Vitellius. During his brief See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration Vitellius showed indications of a See also:

DESIRE

desire to govern wisely, but he was completely under the See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control of Valens and Caecina, who for their own ends encouraged him in a course of vicious excesses which threw his better qualities into the background. See See also:

Tacitus, Histories; Suetonius, Vitellius; Dio See also:

Cassius lxv.; See also:

Merivale, Hirt. of the See also:

Romans under the Empire, chs. 56, 57; H. See also:

SCHILLER, JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON (1759-18o5)

Schiller, Geschichte der romischen Kaiserzeit, i. pt. I ; W. A. Spooner's ed. of the Histories of Tacitus (introduction); B. W. See also:

Henderson, See also:

CIVIL

Civil See also:

War and See also:

REBELLION

Rebellion in the Roman Empire, A.D. 69-70 (1908).

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