Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina the Wife of Germanicus volume 3
Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina the Wife of Germanicus volume 3
Elizabeth Hamilton
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That the work from which he had hitherto derived fo much honour and renown, was to be converted into the inftrument of his deflruftion. Cordus, who wrote for pofterity, had exerted the privilege of an hiftorian in fpeaking with truth and freedom of the charafters of the preceding age. Encou- raged by the example of Livius, whofe eloquent encomiums on the enemies of Auguftus had attrafled the admiration, but t "2 3 but never excited the enmity of that let-* tered prince, he had indulged the feel...ings infpircd by refpe^l for the ancient conftitu- tion of his country, in pourtraying the characters of its friends ; and had (tiled Brutus and Caffius the laji cf the Romans. For this fentiment, a profecution, direfted" by Sejanus, was now commenced againft the honed: hiftorian before the emperor and ihefenate, on the law of violated ma- jefly — a la, w fo perfe(5lly accommodating, as to fit every fpecies of offence* Cordus undertook his own defence; but though among the fenators he could not fail to have many intimate friends, and a ftill greater number of well-wifliers, he no fooner cad his eyes on the (tern counte- nance of Tiberius, than he beheld his doom.
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