Chapter I: Front Matter

Caius Julius Cæsar = Aurelia
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+------------------+-----+
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Julius Cæsar Julia = Atius Balbus
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Atia = Octavius
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+----------------------+---+
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Scribonia = Octavian AUGUSTUS = Livia Octavia = Mark Antony
1st wife | 2d wife, divorced |
| from T.Cl. Nero |
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| +-------+-----------+ |
| | | |
| Vipsania = TIBERIUS = Julia Drusus I = Antonia
+----+ 1st wife 2d wife |
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Marcellus = Julia = Agrippa |
1st Husband | 2d Husband |
TIBERIUS | |
3d Husband | +------+--------------------+-----+
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+------------+ | Lavilla Messalina = CLAUDIUS = Agrippina II
| | 5th wife 6th wife
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Agrippina I = Germanicus
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+---+----------+
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Caius CALIGULA Agrippina II = Cnæus Domitius
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Lucius Domitius NERO

THE JULIAN FAMILY

Showing the relationship of the Five Emperors

AUGUSTUS,--the son of Julius Cæsar’s niece,--was the first Emperor. He was succeeded by his stepson, TIBERIUS; Tiberius by his brother’s grandson, CALIGULA; Caligula by his uncle, CLAUDIUS; and Claudius by his brother’s grandson,--who was also his own stepson,--NERO.]

UNDER CÆSARS’ SHADOW

_Frontispiece_]

UNDER CÆSARS’
SHADOW

BY
HENRY FRANCIS COLBY, D.D.

_Illustrated_

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Copyright, 1918, by
THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE
PREFACE 9

CHAPTER
I CÆSAR AUGUSTUS 11
II TIBERIUS: THE CÆSAR OF CHRIST’S MINISTRY 49
III CALIGULA, THE MADCAP 71
IV CLAUDIUS, THE STOLID 83
V NERO, THE CRUEL 102
POSTSCRIPT 135

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE JULIAN FAMILY _Facing Half-Title_
AUGUSTUS AS EMPEROR _Frontispiece_

_Facing page_
JULIUS CÆSAR 11
MARK ANTONY 16
CICERO 24
ALTAR OF PEACE 37
THE CRYPTOPORTICUS 39
TIBERIUS 49
DRUSUS 54
CALIGULA 71
CLAUDIUS 83
CLAUDIAN AQUEDUCT 90
NERO 102
AGRIPPINA II AND NERO 112
POPPÆA 115
SENECA 121
NOMENTANA BRIDGE 129