 | Richard Robert Madden - 1842 - 470 pages
...confessed that he had been set on by members of the senate. " The words of the assassin sunk deep in the mind of Commodus, and left an indelible impression of fear and hatred on his mind, against the whole body of the senate." As opportunity served, he removed his enemies,... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1860 - 818 pages
...within the walls of the palace." But " the words of the assassin sunk deep into the mind of Commodns, and left an indelible impression of fear and hatred against the whole body of the Senate. The Delators, a race of men discouraged, and almost extinguished under the former reigns, again became... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1860 - 818 pages
...the Senate, but within the walls of the palace." But " the words of the assassin sunk deep into the mind of Commodus, and left an indelible impression of fear and hatred against tho whole body of the Senate. The Delators, a race of men discouraged, and almost extinguished under... | |
 | David Nasmith - Roman law - 1890 - 664 pages
...jealous sister Lucilla, and not the senate, yet the words of the would-be assassin produced in Commodus an indelible impression of fear and hatred against the whole body of the senate. Nearly all the friends of his father and those who had risen to eminence under him were put to death.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1899 - 668 pages
...punished, first with exile, and afterwards with death.15 But the words of the assassin sunk deep into the mind of Commodus, and left an indelible impression...as they discovered that the emperor was desirous of nmding disaffection and treason in the senate. That assembly, whom Marcus had ever considered as the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1900 - 716 pages
...p. 1205. Herodian, 1. ip 16. Hist. August. p. 46. But the words of the assassin sunk deep into the mind of Commodus, and left an indelible impression...became formidable, as soon as they discovered that the * Manilius, the confidential secretary of Avidius Cassius, was discovered after he had lain concealed... | |
 | Ronald Wintrobe - Business & Economics - 2000 - 404 pages
...conspiracy ... [it was originated by the emperor's sister] But the words of the assassin sunk deep into the mind of Commodus and left an indelible impression...fear and hatred against the whole body of the senate, (p. 118) Commodus reacted by employing informers to discover those who could conceivably be treasonous... | |
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But the words of the assassin sunk deep into the mind of Commodus, and left an indelible impression of fear and hatred against the whole body of the senate.* Those whom he had dreaded as importunate ministers, he now suspected as secret enemies. The Delators,... 