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			Survey of ancient sources on the Roman Emperor [[Domitian]].

	*This page is edited by [[Samuele Rocca]], Israel		*This page is edited by [[Samuele Rocca]], Israel
	*DICTIONARY: see [[Domitian]]
	*ANCIENT SOURCES: see [[Domitian]] (sources)
	*SCHOLARLY AND FICTIONAL WORKS: see: Category [[Domitian]] (subject)

	~~This page includes ancient sources dealing with the character of the Roman Emperor [[Domitian]].~~

	===Overview===		===Overview===

	The Latin writer [[Suetonius]] wrote a biography of [[Domitian]], the eleventh book of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars. The Greek Historian [[Dio Cassius]] dedicated book 67 of his Roman History to the reign of [[Domitian]].		The Latin writer [[Suetonius]] wrote a biography of [[Domitian]], the eleventh book of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars. The Greek Historian [[Dio Cassius]] dedicated book 67 of his Roman History to the reign of [[Domitian]].


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	12 - - 23. The people received the news of his death with indifference, but the soldiers were greatly grieved and at once attempted to call him the Deified [[Domitian]]; while they were prepared also to avenge him, had they not lacked leaders. This, however, they did accomplish a little later by most insistently demanding the execution of his murderers. The senators on the contrary were so overjoyed, that they raced to fill the House, where they did not refrain from assailing the dead emperor with the most insulting and stinging kind of outcries. They even had ladders brought and his shields and images torn down before their eyes and dashed upon the ground; finally they passed a decree that his inscriptions should everywhere be erased, and all record of him obliterated. A few months before he was killed, a raven perched on the Capitolium and cried "All will be well," an omen which some interpreted as follows: "High on the gable Tarpeian a raven but lately alighting, Could not say 'It is well,' only declared 'It will be.'"		12 - - 23. The people received the news of his death with indifference, but the soldiers were greatly grieved and at once attempted to call him the Deified [[Domitian]]; while they were prepared also to avenge him, had they not lacked leaders. This, however, they did accomplish a little later by most insistently demanding the execution of his murderers. The senators on the contrary were so overjoyed, that they raced to fill the House, where they did not refrain from assailing the dead emperor with the most insulting and stinging kind of outcries. They even had ladders brought and his shields and images torn down before their eyes and dashed upon the ground; finally they passed a decree that his inscriptions should everywhere be erased, and all record of him obliterated. A few months before he was killed, a raven perched on the Capitolium and cried "All will be well," an omen which some interpreted as follows: "High on the gable Tarpeian a raven but lately alighting, Could not say 'It is well,' only declared 'It will be.'"
	[[Domitian]] himself, it is said, dreamed that a golden hump grew out on his back, and he regarded this as an infallible sign that the condition of the empire would be happier and more prosperous after his time; and this was shortly shown to be true through the uprightness and moderate rule of the succeeding emperors.		[[Domitian]] himself, it is said, dreamed that a golden hump grew out on his back, and he regarded this as an infallible sign that the condition of the empire would be happier and more prosperous after his time; and this was shortly shown to be true through the uprightness and moderate rule of the succeeding emperors.



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	The Latin writer [[Suetonius]] wrote a biography of [[Domitian]], the eleventh book of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars. The Greek Historian [[Dio Cassius]] dedicated book 67 of his Roman History to the reign of [[~~Titus~~]].		The Latin writer [[Suetonius]] wrote a biography of [[Domitian]], the eleventh book of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars. The Greek Historian [[Dio Cassius]] dedicated book 67 of his Roman History to the reign of [[Domitian]].

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