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...context for New Testament books that deal with persecution, such as I Peter and Revelation. (A tantalizing detail: Revelation 17:10 says that five kings "have fallen." The sixth Roman Emperor, Galba, was the one who succeeded Nero.) Many scholars relate these books to the persecution under the Emperor Domitian (A.D. 81-96), but Robinson says this later persecution has been much exaggerated...
...relic, really, of a classic blunder. Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa, noted Tacitus scornfully-"Britain was conquered and then thrown away." He blamed the Emperor Domitian, who in A.D. 84 suddenly ordered his brilliant field commander Agricola to return to Rome just when a wholly Roman Britain seemed within grasp of the legions. Thereafter, year by year, the troops that had pressed nearly to the top of Scotland fell back under guerrilla attacks from the Britons. At last, in A.D. 119, Rome decided to stem the retreat and make the best of things by building a wall...
...Britain. For generations, antiquaries have poked at it and puzzled over it as antiquaries will, especially if they are British. The latest is David Divine, a military correspondent for the London Sunday Times, who prefers strategy to stones. He has wrung from the grassy ruins evidence to show how Domitian's mistake, and the very existence of the wall, prefigured the eventual doom of Roman Britain...
Juvenal wrote soon after the dark reign of the emperor Domitian, and the subject of his satires is the corruption in Rome of the last two decades of the first century. Consideration of man's folly in the things he prays for is his topic in "The Vanity of Human Wishes," and leads to the more positive question: what should man pray for? Lowell, obviously as disturbed as Juvenal about his age, though perhaps for slightly different reasons, asks a yet more basic question: can we, at this point, find it in us to pray at all? I return again...
...closer to fact than opinion, though taste in succeeding ones will doubtless fluctuate. For the present. I must make the canned appeal to those faintly interested to go out and buy the book--if possible, today, April 21, as the celebration of an anniversary. Anyone wondering what Juvenal, Horace, Domitian and all the rest were doing on this date during their lifetimes could be reliably assured that they were celebrating the Parilia, the traditional birthday of the city of Rome. That was exactly 2,720 years...