His reign though undisturbed by
war, occasioned no less calamity to
his country than would have happen
ed from the loss of twenty battles.—
He was magnificent from vanity af
fable from avarice, and implacable
cowardice. Ho flattered incessantly
the soldiers who despised him and
detes’ed the Senate which caressed
him. He insulted his country bv
his laws, Ilcaven by his impiety and
nature by his pleasures. While R v
ing he was deified, and the assassins
alone, whom his empress had sent to
dispatch him, could convince him of
Jus mortality. Tkis monster govern
ed during fifteen years, yet the ad
ministration of Titus, the delight of
human kind, was confined to two.
