What little is known of Titus's early life has been handed down to us by Suetonius, who records that he was brought up at the imperial court in the company of Britannicus, the son of emperor Claudius, who would be murdered by Nero in 55.

Titus's record among ancient historians stands as one of the most exemplary of any emperor.

Titus has Aaron cut off his hand and send it to the emperor, but in return, a messenger brings Titus Martius and Quintus ' severed heads, along with Titus's severed left hand.

The work is dedicated to the emperor Titus, son of Pliny's close friend, the emperor Vespasian, in the first year of Titus's reign.

He was brought as a captive to Rome, where a dignified speech he made during Claudius's triumph persuaded the emperor to spare his life.

* The captured Caratacus is exhibited in chains in Claudius ' triumph in Rome, but his dignified demeanour persuades the emperor to spare his life and allow his family to live free in the capital for short period of time.

On the second abdication of the emperor ( June 22, 1815 ) Fesch retired to Rome, where he spent the rest of his days in dignified ease, surrounded by numerous masterpieces of art, many of which he bequeathed to the cities of Lyon and Ajaccio.

In disposition Alexander bore little resemblance to his soft-hearted, liberal father, and still less to his refined, philosophic, sentimental, chivalrous, yet cunning granduncle, emperor Alexander I of Russia, who could have been given the title of " the first gentleman of Europe ".

The conflict ended with yet another dynastic marriage, between Michael IX's daughter Theodora and the Bulgarian emperor.

It is true that its origins are buried in the mists of time: there are no records of any emperor who was not said to have been a descendant of other, yet earlier emperors.

Another Fujiwara became regent for his grandson, then a minor emperor, and yet another was appointed kampaku ( regent for an adult emperor ).

Nero became emperor in 54 at seventeen, the youngest Emperor yet.

Roe lamented that the emperor was either " the most impossible man in the world to be converted, or the most easy ; for he loves to hear, and hath so little religion yet, that he can well abide to have any derided.

Dionysus and Plutarch offer various alternatives not found in Livy, and Livy's own pupil, the etruscologist, historian and emperor Claudius offered yet another, based on Etruscan tradition.

* October 7 – Haile Selassie is crowned king ( not yet emperor ) of Abyssinia.

Two great cities, Osaka and Sakaii, have been burned to the ground, each one almost as big as London, and not one house left standing, and it is reported above 300, 000 men have lost their lives, “ yet the old Emperor Ogusho Same hath prevailed and Fidaia Same either been slain or fled secretly away, that no news is to be heard of him .” Jesuits, priests, and friars are banished by the emperor and their churches and monasteries pulled down ; they put the fault on the arrival of the English ; it is said if Fidaia Same had prevailed against the emperor, he promised them entrance again, when without doubt all the English would have been driven out of Japan.

Although it appeared that the Italian city states had achieved a measure of independence from Frederick as a result of his failed fifth expedition into Italy, ( culminating in the Peace of Constance in 1183 ), the emperor had not as yet quite given up on his Italian dominions.

The Catholic Encyclopedia observes: " In this way the difficulties of the future emperor reveal themselves from the beginning ; he wished to spare the religious susceptibilities of French Catholics " and yet to support " the national susceptibilities of the Italian revolutionists — a double aim which explains many an inconsistency " in his policy.

While preparing for yet another offensive against Bulgaria in 1195, Alexios Angelos, the Emperor's older brother, taking advantage of the latter's absence from camp on a hunting expedition, proclaimed himself emperor, and was readily recognised by the soldiers as Emperor Alexios III.

Reportedly, the body of the boy emperor was found near today's Shekou in Shenzhen, though his actual grave has yet to be found.

The main tomb ( located at ) containing the emperor has yet to be opened and there is evidence suggesting that it remains relatively intact.

In return for these favours, he heaped praise upon Napoleon ; yet, in 1814, he helped to draw up the act of abdication of the emperor, and declared to the Cour des Comptes, with reference to the invasion of France by the Sixth Coalition:

Another Fujiwara became regent, Sesshō for his grandson, then a minor emperor, and yet another was appointed Kampaku.

The calculated theater of the Empire style, its aggressive opulence restrained by a slightly dry and correct sense of the antique taste, and its neo-Roman values, imperial yet separate from the ancien régime, appealed to the future emperor.

Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty ( 221 BC-207 BC ), owed much of his success in unifying China ( specifically southern China ) to naval power, although an official navy was not yet established ( see Medieval Asia section below ).

Treves was almost destroyed by the barbarians ; yet the first petition of its few surviving nobles was that the emperor would re-establish the circus games as a remedy for the ruined city ( vi.

Because Sebastian had been thought to have been killed by the arrows, and yet was not, and then later was killed by the same emperor who had ordered him shot, he is sometimes known as the saint who was martyred twice.

Sun Quan had not declared himself emperor yet then, and his state was known as Eastern Wu.

Tuoba Hong was born in 467, when his father Emperor Xianwen was himself young — at the age of 13, and not yet ruling by himself, but instead was emperor under the regency of Emperor Xianwen's stepmother Empress Dowager Feng.

Amanita phalloides and Amanita virosa, those confident in their skills often pick the Amanita rubescens, which is highly prized in Europe and to a much lesser extent in Russia, accounted by some not to superior taste, but to its relation to the Amanita caesarea, which is not found in Russia, but was considered a delicacy worthy of the emperor in Ancient Rome.

After he gained the consent of the emperor Maximinus became excessively confident, and " walked on the streets of the city almost dancing like a brahmin.

The Chauci were outraged by the act of bad faith, so the emperor Claudius forbade further attacks on the Germans in an effort to ease tensions, and the Romans withdrew to the Rhine.

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In the San Juan arbitration he displayed great versatility and skill, winning his case before the emperor with brilliant ease.

On his return to Rome he was nominally the emperor, but in truth the management of imperial policy in the west was in the hands of Aëtius.

91 ), and as praetor ( 70 ) he maintained, in opposition to Vespasian, that the management of the finances ought to be left to the discretion of the senate ; he proposed that the Temple of Jupiter Best and Greatest, which had been destroyed in the Vitelline / Flavian civil war, should be restored at the public expense ; he saluted Vespasian by his private name, and did not recognize him as emperor in his praetorian edicts.

Under the emperors, the Senate continued to have at least the nominal management of the aerarium, while the emperor had a separate exchequer, called fiscus.

The emperor appointed Eumenius to the management of the schools, allowing him to keep the rank of a senior imperial officer and doubling his salary.

After Nijō was formally enthroned, the management of all affairs continued to rest entirely in the hands of the retired emperor, Go-Shirakawa.

According to a reconstructed inscription found on the site, " the emperor Vespasian ordered this new amphitheatre to be erected from his general's share of the booty.

It was replaced by a small stone amphitheatre during the reign of emperor Claudius.

The amphitheatre remained in use until the 5th century, when emperor Honorius prohibited gladiatorial combats.

In the future emperor Tiberius ' coming of age, he staged 2 gladiatorial contests, one at the Forum and other at the amphitheatre, in memory of his father and grandfather.

The emperor is described as a handsome youth, like Mars and Apollo, whose accession marks the beginning of a new golden age, prognosticated by the appearance of a comet, doubtless the same that appeared some time before the death of Claudius ; he exhibits splendid games in the amphitheatre ( probably the wooden amphitheatre erected by Nero in 57 ); and in the words " maternis causam qui vicit lulis " ( i. 45 ) there is a reference to the speech delivered in Greek by Nero on behalf of the Ilienses ( Suetonius, Nero, 7 ; Tacitus, Annals, xii.