We are told that a hundred and twenty persons applied to Otho to be rewarded for killing Galba.

That so many men should contend for the honor of premeditated murder, is sufficiently characteristic of the epoch.

There was then no corruption, no brutal passion, that had not its temple and its high priest.

In the midst of all this wickedness and vice there appeared a man, poor and humble, who accomplished what no man ever did before, and what no man will ever do again--he founded a moral and eternal civilization.

Judaism and the religion of Zoroaster were overthrown.