 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1802 - 380 pages
...terror, and he ordered all the astrologers to be banished from Rome. An old woman, having predicted, that if he survived his mother, he should reign many years in happiness and security, he immediately caused her death, by refusing her sustenance, under pretence of its being... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1802 - 392 pages
...terror, and he ordered all the astrologers to be banished from Rome. An old woman, having predicted, that if he survived his mother, he should reign many years in happiness and security, he immediately caused her death, by refusing her sustenance, under pretence of its being... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Rome - 1812 - 494 pages
...with terror, and ordered all the astrologers to be banished from Rome. An old woman having foretold, that, if he survived his mother, he should reign many years in happiness and security, this gave him a desire of putting her to death ; which he did, by refusing her sustenance... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 862 pages
...with terror, and erdered all the astrologers to be banished from Rome. An old woman having foretold, that if he survived his mother, he should reign many years in happiness and the Vitellians supposing that they had received new re security, this gave him a desire of putting... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...with terror, and ordered all the astrologers to be banished from Rome. A woman having foretold thai, if he survived his mother, he should reign many years in happiness, he put her to death, by refusing her sustenance, Under the pretence of its being prejudicial to her... | |
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... death, by refusing her sustenance, under pretence of its being prejudicial to her health. But he soon saw the futility of relying upon such vain prognostications ; for his soldiers, by their cruelty and rapine, having become insupportable to the inhabitants... 