Lothair considered his father dethroned for good, and himself henceforth sole Emperor; but he was mistaken.

The bridegroom was the Portuguese Consul, the bride, the daughter of the greatest Jewish merchant of the south, and consequently the Emperor's greatest and most honoured debtor.

He was a great man, but not pre-eminently a great emperor.

He served faithfully and devotedly his emperor as a sacred personage, ruling by divine right, to whom were intrusted the interests of the nation.

When Tiberius learned this, he did not regard the matter as a trivial one, fearing, indeed, that they would hail his rival as emperor outright, and he did not neglect it.

" "To take leave, never to see each other more," said the emperor, sadly.

Armies is the proper term; for, to tell the truth, there was no longer a Roman nation, and very seldom a Roman emperor with some little capacity for government or war.

Toussac has had his revenge.' 'Enough!' said the Emperor sternly.

You can go,' said the Emperor, abruptly.

Yet so much did he investigate and understand what was fated for each of the prominent men that on meeting Galba (subsequently emperor), when the latter had betrothed a wife, he remarked: "You also shall taste of the sovereignty."

Anciently the emperors themselves as well as all other people used to do this.