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Suetonius, Vespasianus, 15

nan  It cannot readily be shown that any innocent person was punished save in Vespasian's absence and without his knowledge, or at any rate against his will and by misleading him. Although Helvidius Priscus was the only one who greeted him on his return from Syria by his private name of "Vespasian," and moreover in his praetor­ship left the emperor unhonoured and unmentioned in all his edicts. He did not show anger until by the extravagance of his railing Helvidius had all but degraded him. But even in his case, though he did banish him and later order his death, he was most anxious for any means of saving him, and sent messengers to recall those who were to slay him; and he would have saved him, but for a false report that Helvidius had already been done to death. Certainly he never took pleasure in the death of anyone, but even wept and sighed over those who suffered merited punishment.

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1. Epictetus, Discourses, 4.1.123 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
2. Tacitus, Histories, 4.9, 4.53 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 4.9.  Another dispute followed. The praetors of the treasury — for at that time the public treasury was managed by praetors — complained of the poverty of the state and asked that expenses should be limited. This problem the consul designate wished to reserve for the emperor in view of the magnitude of the burden and the difficulty of the remedy, but Helvidius held that the decision should rest with the senate. When the consuls began to ask the senators their views, Vulcacius Tertullinus, tribune of the people, forbade any decision on so important a matter in the absence of the emperor. Helvidius had proposed that the Capitol should be restored at public expense and that Vespasian should assist in the work. This proposal the more prudent senators passed over in silence, and then allowed it to be forgotten. There were some, however, who remembered it. 4.53.  The charge of restoring the Capitol was given by Vespasian to Lucius Vestinus, a member of the equestrian order, but one whose influence and reputation put him on an equality with the nobility. The haruspices when assembled by him directed that the ruins of the old shrine should be carried away to the marshes and that a new temple should be erected on exactly the same site as the old: the gods were unwilling to have the old plan changed. On the twenty-first of June, under a cloudless sky, the area that was dedicated to the temple was surrounded with fillets and garlands; soldiers, who had auspicious names, entered the enclosure carrying boughs of good omen; then the Vestals, accompanied by boys and girls whose fathers and mothers were living, sprinkled the area with water drawn from fountains and streams. Next Helvidius Priscus, the praetor, guided by the pontifex Plautius Aelianus, purified the area with the sacrifice of the suovetaurilia, and placed the vitals of the victims on an altar of turf; and then, after he had prayed to Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, and to the gods who protect the empire to prosper this undertaking and by their divine assistance to raise again their home which man's piety had begun, he touched the fillets with which the foundation stone was wound and the ropes entwined; at the same time the rest of the magistrates, the priests, senators, knights, and a great part of the people, putting forth their strength together in one enthusiastic and joyful effort, dragged the huge stone to its place. A shower of gold and silver and of virgin ores, never smelted in any furnace, but in their natural state, was thrown everywhere into the foundations: the haruspices had warned against the profanation of the work by the use of stone or gold intended for any other purpose. The temple was given greater height than the old: this was the only change that religious scruples allowed, and the only feature that was thought wanting in the magnificence of the old structure.
3. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.29.15 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.29.15. Here also are buried Conon and Timotheus, father and son, the second pair thus related to accomplish illustrious deeds, Miltiades and Cimon being the first; Zeno too, the son of Mnaseas and Chrysippus Stoic philosophers. of Soli, Nicias the son of Nicomedes, the best painter from life of all his contemporaries, Harmodius and Aristogeiton, who killed Hipparchus, the son of Peisistratus; there are also two orators, Ephialtes, who was chiefly responsible for the abolition of the privileges of the Areopagus 463-1 B.C., and Lycurgus, A contemporary of Demosthenes. the son of Lycophron;
4. Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Hadrian, 16.10 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
cynics	Zanker, The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (1996) 259
demetrius the cynic	Zanker, The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (1996) 259
dio of prusa	Zanker, The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (1996) 259
domitian	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 71; Zanker, The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (1996) 259
emotion, emotions, emotional	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 71
epictetus	Zanker, The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (1996) 259
euergetism'	Westwood, Moses among the Greek Lawgivers: Reading Josephus’ Antiquities through Plutarch’s Lives (2023) 30
experience	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 71
hadrian	Zanker, The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (1996) 259
heliodorus	Zanker, The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (1996) 259
helvidius priscus	Zanker, The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (1996) 259
library	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 71
memory	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 71
monuments	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 71
musonius rufus	Zanker, The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (1996) 259
nero	Zanker, The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (1996) 259
rome, city	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 71
rubens, peter paul	Zanker, The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (1996) 259
second sophistic	Westwood, Moses among the Greek Lawgivers: Reading Josephus’ Antiquities through Plutarch’s Lives (2023) 30
seneca	Zanker, The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (1996) 259
stoic	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 71
thrasea paetus	Zanker, The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (1996) 259
trajan	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 71; Zanker, The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (1996) 259
vespasian	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 71; Zanker, The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (1996) 259