c. AD 120

Suet. Ves.

The Life of Vespasian

The empire, which for a long time had been unsettled and, as it were, drifting, through the usurpation and violent death of three emperors, was at last taken in hand and given stability by the Flavian family. This house was, it is true, obscure and without family portraits, yet it was one of which our country had no reason whatever to be ashamed, even though it is the general opinion that the…Read now

Author: Suetonius
Chapters: 1-25
Translator: J. C. Rolfe

The Life of Vespasian

Suetonius

translated by J. C. Rolfe