Note 22 — FIRST DISCOURSE
A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson translation
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◆Brantôme is mistaken; Nero caused Octavia to be killed. (See Suetonius, Nero, Chap. XXXV.)
◆Nero, fifth Roman Emperor, A. D. 54–63.
◆Domitian succeeded his father Titus on the Imperial throne; reigned from A. D. 81 to 96.
◆Pertinax, a man of peasant birth, but who had carved out for himself a distinguished career as soldier and administrator, was elected Emperor by the Prætorian Guards on the murder of Commodus, A. D. 193. Himself murdered after a two months’ reign.