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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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\ iL\l LT ( h IHI ) 1 1-1 iU VNDrawn bv H Leuttmann ROME.~THE FIRST C.ESAIiS. 285 The drama was now, hdwrvfr, almut at anend. In A. D. 66, Nero startL-d uu a jmirm-yto Egypt and the East. Id the mean time aknowledge of his proceedings and characterhad been borne to the legions. The soldierswere disgusted, and the idea easily took rootamong them that they were the instrumentswhereby such an administration should bebrought to a finality. Almost simultaneouslyin A. D. 68 a mutiny broke out in Africa,Spain, Gaul, and Germany. When the newsof the revolt reached Rome the prtBtorians de-serted Nero, and the very rabble began to hootits defiance. The Emperor quaked like an as-pen in the wind of terror that blew chillthrough the basilica. He escaped from thepalace and the city. The Senate declared hima public enemy and condemned him id drath.The sentence was to be executed ■aftiT themanner of the ancients, which required thatthe condemned should have his neck fastenedin the cleft of a stick

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