Δομετιανός

Emperor of [the] Romans, younger brother of Titus,¹ similar in manner to Nero and Caligula and Tiberius,² who all ruled in a very shameful and base fashion, rather than to his father and brother.³ For when he had managed the beginning of his reign with moderation, he fell straight to both more and absurd faults of judgement: he was sick with both boundless greed and licentiousness, was both immoderate of temper and inexorable in his punishments,⁴ was a lover both of quarrels and of money as much as anyone was. Indeed, he quickly attracted the hatred of everyone so as to extinguish the fame of his brother and father. For, through the murders of distinguished members of the senate,⁵ he daily defiled the city. Pursuing honors equal to his betters, he did not allow anyone to set up statues for him on the Capitolium↗ unless they were made of gold and silver.⁶ Nor did he refrain from killing his kin but brought his impure hand against all those of his blood,⁷ neither revering his family gods nor justice, but disdaining both the divine and the human alike.⁸