Vespasian
Americannoun
noun
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Anthony Hopkins, classing up the joint, plays Emperor Vespasian, who is preparing to die and is considering which of his two sons will succeed him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
The process of deification had become so routine among later emperors that when the emperor Vespasian was dying, he is reported to have said, “Alas! I think I am becoming a god!”
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
We see this in a manuscript catalogued as Cotton Vespasian D. vi, which is currently held in the British Library in London.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2022
Like Vespasian before him, Donald Trump is now adding to the story of politicians and the airborne food that haunts them.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2022
Mr. Harrod considers they are not Norman, but Roman, the occupation of the site by the Romans being established, and Roman pottery and coins of Vespasian, Constantine, etc., having been found there.
From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent
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