
059- To the Tiber with Tiberius
The History of Rome
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The History of Emperor Coligula
The people of Rome no longer feared daily for their lives and property thanks to Coligula. He canceled an unpopular tax the Italians had been chafing under while simultaneously upping the pay for soldiers on the frontier and in the Praetorian Guard. The pious young emperor gathered up the bones of his dead mother and brothers and brought them back to Rome for burial in the imperial mausoleum. And finally, he renamed the month of September for his dear departed father Germanicus. But behind the happy facade all was not well in the house of Caesar.
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