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Sitharaman Narayanan
The Pubises
160x120 cm
Oil on canvas
2003
Louvre, Paris
Claudius was born at Lyons,
in the consulship of Jullus Antonius and Fabius Africanus, upon the first
of August, the very day upon which an altar was first dedicated there to Augustus.
He was named Tiberius Claudius Drusus, but soon afterwards, upon the adoption
his elder brother into the Julian family, he assumed the cognomen of Germanicus.
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To these words Caesar thus replied: - that "on that very account he felt less
hesitation, because he kept in remembrance those circumstances which the Helvetian
embassadors had mentioned, and that he felt the more indignant at them, in proportion
as they had happened undeservedly to the Roman people: for if they had been
conscious of having done any wrong, it would not have been difficult to be on
their guard, but for that very reason had they been deceived, because neither
were they aware that any offense had been given by them, on account of which
they should be afraid, nor did they think that they ought to be afraid without
cause. But even if he were willing to forget their former outrage, could he
also lay aside the remembrance of the late wrongs, in that they had against
his will attempted a route through the Province by force, in that they had molested
the Aedui, the Ambarri, and the Allobroges? That as to their so insolently boasting
of their victory, and as to their being astonished that they had so long committed
their outrages with impunity, [both these things] tended to the same point;
for the immortal gods are wont to allow those persons whom they wish to punish
for their guilt sometimes a greater prosperity and longer impunity, in order
that they may suffer the more severely from a reverse of circumstances. Although
these things are so, yet, if hostages were to be given him by them in order
that he may be assured these will do what they promise, and provided they will
give satisfaction to the Aedui for the outrages which they had committed against
them and their allies, and likewise to the Allobroges, he [Caesar] will make
peace with them." Divico replied, that "the Helvetii had been so trained by
their ancestors..