demned. Lucius Volusius dies at the age of ninety-three:
his character. XXXI. The magistrates chosen for the pro-
vinces not to give public spectacles. Regulations for pro-
tecting the masters against their slaves. Pomponia Græcina
charged with embracing a foreign superstition, and acquit-
ted by the judgment of her husband. XXXIII. Pubitus
Celer, Cossutianus Capito, and Eprius Marcellus accused
of extortion. XXXIV. Nero's bounty to Valerius Messala,
and others. New broils with the Parthians about Armenia.
Corbulo reforms his soldiers by the rigour of his discipline.
He enters Armenia: his army suffers by the inclemency of
the winter. Tiridates, brother to Vologeses, king of Par-
thia, makes head against him, but in vain. He flies before
the Romans: Corbulo takes the city of Artaxata, and burns
it to the ground. XLII. Publius Suillius accused at Rome:
he rails bitterly against Seneca. He is tried and condemned.
XLIV. Octavius Sagitta, in a fit of love and fury, stabs
Pontia because she is not willing to perform a promise of
marriage. The fidelity of his freedman: Sagitta is con-
demned. XLV. Nero's passion for Sabina Poppæa. Her
history, her beauty, and her artifices. Otho seduced her
from her husband, Rufus Crispinus. Nero in love with her.
He sends Otho to the government of Lusitania. XLVII.
Nero throws off the mask. He sends Cornelius Sylla into
banishment. A sedition at Puzolli suppressed by military
force. XLIX. Pætus Thrasea opposes a motion in the se-
nate: his enemies inveigh against his character; his answer
to his friends. L. The exorbitant practices of the tax-ga-
therers restrained. Nero thinks of remitting all taxes what-
ever, but is dissuaded from it. The revenue laws laid open
to the public. LII. The tranquillity of affairs in Germany.
The Frisians take the opportunity to settle on the banks of
the Rhine. Their two leading chiefs go to Rome to solicit
the emperor. Their behaviour in Pompey's theatre. By
Nero's order the Frisians extirminated. The Ansibarians,
under Boiocalus, make the same attempt, and with no bet-
ter success The spirited answer of Boiocalus to the Roman
general. LVII. War between the Hermundurians and the
Cattians: both nations entertain superstitious notions about