Identifier: dayinancientrome00lohruoft (find matches)
Title: A day in ancient Rome; being a revision of Lohr's "Aus dem alten Rom", with numerous illustrations, by Edgar S. Shumway ..
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Lohr, Fr Shumway, Edgar Solomon, ed. (and) tr
Subjects: Rome -- Antiquities Rome (city) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Chautauqua press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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people jest-ingly called the em-perors tutors. The Emperor Galbawas to have been mur-dered in his own house,and yet Otho feared thewatchfulness of thebody-guards ; so, on theday on which he in-tended, with the aid ofthe dissatisfied praeto-rians, to execute thecotip dUtat, he had thefalse report spread thatthe disorders in thecamps were over, andhe himself killed. Hav-ing thus induced the^^- credulous Galba to go down to the forum without trustworthy protection, he had himsurprised and killed. Otho himself had affectionately greeted the emperor in themorning, and had then, as Tacitus says, under the pretense ofhaving, with several experts, to look at a house offered for sale,hastened away through the Palace of Tiberius into the Velabrum,thence to the Golden Milestone by the Temple of Saturn—(/rrDomuni Tiberianam in Vclabriwi^ inde ad inilliarhim aiircunt subAedem Saturniy) Suetonius affirms that he made his way throughthe rear portion of the palatium. Frorr a comparison of these two
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OTHO AND VITELLIUS. 79

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