Identifier: historyofallnati05wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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ts splendidtemple on fire, and had murdered Sabinus before the eyes of the despair-ing Vitellius. On the next morning the maddened troops took up themarch upon the city. The Vitellians everywhere gave way before theIllyrians, and in the narrow streets the massacre continued till after-noon. When at last the citadel was stormed and the guard of Vitelliusbutchered, Vitelhus himself was discovered on the Palatine, and putto death. Nearly 50,000 men fell on that day. On the followingmorning the senate assembled CDecember 21), and in due form con-ferred upon Vespasian the imperial title ; but the pillage of the cityonly ceased when Mucianus arrived in Rome, and with a strong handput down the arrogance of the soldiers, sending the ))est of the victori-ous legions to Syria or the Rhine. Vespasian remained several months in the East, but the struggle onthe Rhine and in Judea continued for a much longer time. On the Rhine,the blockade of Vetera was with great difficulty relieved by the twenty-
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THE GALLIC INSURRECTION. 119 second legion under Dilliiis Vocula. But the news of Cremona had adisastrous effect. The leaders declared for Vespasian, but the soldiers,though acquiescing, were bitterly discontented, and their mutin(uis temperweakened the army, while Civilis, throwing off the mask, continued thecontest with increased energy, and was successful iu persuading the BelgianCelts to desert Rome. Under these circumstances the war continued fora long time around Vetera, which Civilis again blockaded in the beginningof A.D. 70, while Vocula, after the mutinous lioman relieving armymurdered its general, the old Hordeouius Flaccus, at Novaesium, wascompelled to retire to Mayence. In Gaul the news of the destructionof the Capitol produced intense excitement. The Druids everywherepreached that the palladium of Rome was lost, and that the power hadnow passed to the Celtic nation. Three leaders of Celtic auxiliaries,Julius Classicus and Julius Tutor of the Treviri, and Julius Sabinus

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