c. AD 120

Suet. Gal.

The Life of Galba

The race of the Caesars ended with Nero. That this would be so was shown by many portents and especially by two very significant ones. Years before, as Livia was returning to her estate near Veii, immediately after her marriage with Augustus, an eagle which flew by dropped into her lap a white hen, holding in its beak a sprig of laurel, just as the eagle had carried it off. Livia resolved to rear…Read now

Author: Suetonius
Chapters: 1-23
Translator: J. C. Rolfe

The Life of Galba

Suetonius

translated by J. C. Rolfe