Identifier: historyofromeromv4p1duru (find matches)
Title: History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Volog-eses I.(Arsaces XXIII.). Tac, Arm. xii. 8-10. 432 the oaesARS and the flavii, 14 to 96 a.i>. Armenia for his brother Tiridates. All the cities opened theirgates to him, but winter and a contagious disorder drove himaway. Rhadamistus, returning from Iberia, put to death withunsparing hand those whom he called rebels. They revolted against
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i i5* Vi^yp Claudius (Bust of the Capitol, Hall of the Emperors, No. 12). him, invested his palace, and the king owed his safety only to hishorses speed. His wife, Zenobia, some months advanced in preg-nancy, accompanied him. Not to retard her husbands flight, shebade him kill her ; he struck her with his sword and she wasthrown into the Araxes for dead. The blow, however, was not CALIGULA AND CLAUDIUS, 37 TO 54 A.D. 433 J mortal; some shepherds rescued her and she was taken to Tiridates,who treated her as a queen. The Eoman influence in Armenia waslost until Corbulo, at the beginning of the reign of Nero, restored it. In Lycia some Eomans had been killed, and this small statewas in great disorder ; Claudius deprived it of a liberty which ithad misused, and the country was united to Pamphylia.1 Else-where we shall take up the affairs of Palestine, only saying nowthat at the death of Agrippa, in 44 a.d., Claudius, who consideredthis kings son too young to succeed him, had again united

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