The lives of the Roman emperors from Domitian, where Suetonius ends, to Constantine the Great containing those of Nerva and Trajan from Dion Cassius : a translation of the six writers of the Augustéan history and those of Dioclesian and his associates from Eusebius and others by John Bernard ...

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The lives of the Roman emperors from Domitian, where Suetonius ends, to Constantine the Great containing those of Nerva and Trajan from Dion Cassius : a translation of the six writers of the Augustéan history and those of Dioclesian and his associates from Eusebius and others by John Bernard ...
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Bernard, John.
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London :: Printed for Charles Harper ...,
1698.
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"The lives of the Roman emperors from Domitian, where Suetonius ends, to Constantine the Great containing those of Nerva and Trajan from Dion Cassius : a translation of the six writers of the Augustéan history and those of Dioclesian and his associates from Eusebius and others by John Bernard ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27492.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.

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16. MAEONIƲS.

THis Person was a Cousin-German to the Excellent Odenatus, whom he killed; drawn to that Fact by nothing but a cursed Envy at the Pleasures of Herod, though in the mean time he was very lewd himself; so that the Soldiers who had put him up to be Empe∣ror after Odenatus by a mistake, killed him

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quickly again, as he deserved, for his Luxury. Zenobia, some says, favoured the Envy of Maeo∣nius, because she could not endure to see a Step-son, made a Prince, before the Sons of her own Body.

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