Quotes for What Vespasian was really like?
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- What was Vespasian really like?
- Sense of Humour
- 'nothing could stop this flow of humour' -Suetonious
- Treatment of Friends
- 'Vespasian showed great patience if his friends took liberties'- Suetonious
- 'Vespasian absolutley adored her'- Cassius Dio
- Morality and Religion
- 'any women who had taken another persons slave as a love should lose her freedom'-Suetonious
- ''his old fashioned habits and lifestyle'- Tacitus
- Money Grubbing and Meanness
- 'his one serious failing was his avarice' Suetonious
- 'nothing of exacting fees from candidates'- Suetonious
- 'Vespasian behaved most generously to all classes'- Suetonious
- 'raised cash from sources secular and sacred alike'- Cassius Dio
- Philosophers and Plots
- 'Vespasian merely commented Good dog'- Suetonious
- 'expel all philosphers from Rome'- Cassius Dio
- 'conspiracy against the emperor...two men he regarded as his closest friends'- Cassius Dio
- Sense of Humour
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