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Title: History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: Boston, Jewett
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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aimed Vespasian inPannonia, he wrote to Civilis to make a feint of insurrection forthe purpose of hinderiug the legions of the Ehine from hasteningto the assistance of Yitellius. The Batavian willingly acceptedthe commission ; he had lost an eye, and he prided himself uponthis misfortune, which assimilated him to Hannibal and to vSer-torius ; he, like them, cherished the hope of crushing Eome byhis subjects arms. Upon receipt of the letters of Antonius hesecretly called together the chief men of his nation,^ explained tothem that Gaul was in disorder, the Germans friendly to all the The Batavi, a section of the Catti, who had established tlieniselves in the neighbourhoodof the ocean, occupied a part of what is now southern Holland, Utrecht, Gueldres, and northernBrabant. VESPASIAN, 69 TO 79 A.D. 605 enemies of Eome, the Eoman camps deserted,^ Italy in a blaze,and the moment arrived to throw off a hated yoke. The Canuine-fates and Frisians, neighbours of the Batavi, joined in the plot;
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Vespasian (Bust in the Uffizi Gallery at Florence). and emissaries were sent to stimulate the defection of the Britishauxiliaries and of those Batavi who had served with the legions,especially the eight cohorts who had rendered themselves famousby their courage at Bedriacum. The fifth and fifteenth legions togetlier did not contain ),()()() men. 606 THE C^SAES AND THE FLAYII, 14 TO 9F) A.D. In a few days the Eoinans had been driven from all thepositions that they occupied in the island formed by the Ehine,the Yahalis, and the Mosa. As the result of a battle, Civilisobtained their weapons, and the German oarsmen of the fleetcarried over to him the vessels belonging to the legions, twenty-four in number, which made him master of the Lower Ehine.After this brilliant success he sought to persuade Germany andGaul to take up arms. The latter, however, sent him but a fewvolunteers, far more coming from the right shore of the Ehine.Two legions seeking to return into the island were unsuccessf

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