Emperor of Rome who consolidated Roman rule in Germany and Britain and reformed the army and brought prosperity to the empire

Usage examples of vespasian.

On the Ides of October in the second consulship of Vespasian Augustus, his first as Emperor T Flavins Domitianus L Aufidius Crispus Cn Atius Pertinax Caprenius Marcellus Ti Faustus Plautius Ferentinus A Curtius Gordianus A Curtius Longinus Q Cornelius Gracilis I name these men in duty to the Emperor and devotion to the gods.

He was owned by the emperor Vespasian and held the prestigious position of head lanista at the ludus of Rome.

I happened to know that Rubella had joined the Fourth, as a new appointment by Vespasian, three or four years ago, so I had to create a pretty panorama where all members of the glorious Fourth had kept their ugly noses blown the last time they served at Ostia and no hint of these kidnaps could have reached their tribune then.

In the south, the Ala V Gallorum spent two days under the command of Vespasian, legate of the Ilnd Augusta, subduing Vectis, the island that lay off the coast and was supposed already to have spoken for Rome.

Prince of Melito, the Marquess of Burgrave, Vespasian Gonzaga, John Medicis, Amadas of Savoy, in short, the illegitimate sons of all the southern princes, having no lands of their own, were coming to find that necessary of life in this pleasant little wheat-garden.

Leonius Vespasian was in Capua and Mongo Boldry was in foul humor because of it.

If Vespasian had seen nothing that pleased him, Mongo would likely not, either, and now he found himself at the considerable disadvantage in that Vespasian did not expect to be pleased.

So strong and populous was the city that the Trinobantes, during the years that had elapsed since the Romans took possession of it, remained passive under the yoke of their oppressors, and watched, without attempting to take part in them, the rising of the Iceni and Brigantes, the long and desperate war of the Silures and Ordovices under Caractacus, and the reduction of the Belgae and Dumnonii from Hampshire to Cornwall by Vespasian.

On the continent, Julius Civilis was known to command a cohort of Batavian auxiliaries and claimed during a later revolt to have known, and consider himself a friend of, the future emperor Vespasian.

Christ himself, were obliged to expect the second and glorious coming of the Son of Man in the clouds, before that generation was totally extinguished, which had beheld his humble condition upon earth, and which might still be witness of the calamities of the Jews under Vespasian or Hadrian.

Exhausted by the abuse of her strength, by America, and by superstition, her pride might possibly be confounded, if we required such a list of three hundred and sixty cities, as Pliny has exhibited under the reign of Vespasian.

So strong and populous was the city that the Trinobantes, during the years that had elapsed since the Romans took possession of it, remained passive under the yoke of their oppressors, and watched, without attempting to take part in them, the rising of the Iceni and Brigantes, the long and desperate war of the Silures and Ordovices under Caractacus, and the reduction of the Belgae and Dumnonii from Hampshire to Cornwall by Vespasian.

At the appointed hour, Flavius Sabinus walked out to the center of the atrium, his stocky brother Vespasian standing at his side.

Vespasian may be a grouchy old barbarian-basher with a tight-arsed Sabine outlook but I work for him sometimes.

Just at the moment when Vespasian - with whom he had long been on friendly terms - became Emperor, family embarrassments had held Camillus back.