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vow of virginity, -sworn to the Ilian Minerva,* and neg-lected the holy fire, as a rich atonement to the RomanVesta, he said, I wish atonement was made to you, O Sun,for all the unjust murders committed throughout theworld. These things he said, and these petitions he offeredup, not in private as cowards are wont, but in public andbefore all people.

CHAP. VII.

DOMLTIAN, after putting to death Sabinus,-f- one ofhis relations, married J ulia, who was his widow and hisown niece, she being one of his brother Titus’s daughters:on account of this marriage, the people of Ephesus offereda public sacrifice. Apollonius happening to be present,exclaimed, O night of the Danaids , how singular hastthou been.j;

CHAP VIII.

ALL Apollonius had to do at Rome , was done in thismanner. Nerva was often thought worthy to reign, and itappeared, that when he mounted the throne after thedeath of Domitian , he ruled with great moderation. The

• The statue of Pallas stood in the temple of Vesta, where she isrepresented holding in her hand the Palladium, or the MinervaIliensis.

t He also put to death Flavius Sabinus, one of his cousins, because,upon his being chosen at the consular election into that office, thepublic crier had, by a blunder, declared him to the people, not consul,but Emperor. Suetonius .

t In which the fifty daughters of Danaus, put to death their fiftyhusbands, their cousins, one excepted, Hypcrmnestra, who saved herhusband Lynceus.