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A source-book of ancient history - The Search For Mecca

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• Provincial Administration 491<br />

1<br />

by private urging and public encouragements to erect Tadtus,<br />

1 11. 1<br />

Tx 1<br />

Agricola, 21.<br />

,<br />

temples,<br />

...<br />

courts <strong>of</strong> justice, and dwellmg-nouses. He bestowed<br />

praise upon those who were prompt in carrying out<br />

his intention, and reprimanded the slow.<br />

promoted the spirit <strong>of</strong> emulation which had all<br />

<strong>of</strong> necessity.<br />

In this way he<br />

the force<br />

Preferring the natural genius <strong>of</strong> the Britons to the attainments<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Gauls, he took care to provide a liberal education<br />

for the sons <strong>of</strong> the chieftains. . . . <strong>The</strong>se attempts<br />

met with such success that they who lately disdained to use<br />

the Roman language were now ambitious to become eloquent.<br />

Hence they began to hold the Roman dress in<br />

honor and to wear the toga.<br />

Domitian's greatest dread was that the name <strong>of</strong> a Retirement<br />

private person might be exalted above that <strong>of</strong> a prince. ° s co<br />

.<br />

Agricola had delivered the province in peace and security ^g^lco/a 30.<br />

to his successor; and lest his entrance into the city might ,j ^<br />

be rendered too conspicuous by the gathering and the acclamations<br />

<strong>of</strong> the people, he declined the salutations <strong>of</strong> his<br />

friends by arriving in the night; and he went by night, as he<br />

was commanded, to the palace.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re after being received<br />

with a slight embrace but with not a word spoken, he was<br />

compelled to mingle with the servile throng.<br />

B. LIFE UNDER THE EARLY PRINCES<br />

I. <strong>The</strong> Rise <strong>of</strong> a Freedman<br />

But to continue what I was saying, my good management<br />

brought me to my present good fortune. I was only<br />

as big as the candlestick here when I came from Asia; in<br />

fact I used to measure myself by it every day and I smeared<br />

my lips with the lamp oil to get a beard on my chin all the<br />

His earlier<br />

^^anquef^<strong>of</strong><br />

TrimdcMo.

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