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Pinnock’s Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith’s History of Rome

CHAPTER XXII
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What was his principal vice?
27.

Give an instance of his domestic extravagance?
SECTION V.
For him no prayers are poured, no paeans sung, No blessings chanted from a nation's tongue .-- _Brereton._ 1.

The impiety, however, of Calig'ula was but subordinate to his cruelties.

He slew many of the senate, and afterwards cited them to appear.

He cast great numbers of old and infirm men to the wild beasts, to free the state from such unserviceable citizens.


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