On the 18th September AD 96 another of those dreadful Roman Emperors was done in. This time it was Domitian. His father had been the great military commander Vespasian, who started work on the Colosseum. Domitian succeeded his equally good brother, Titus, but when he fell ill, he left orders to his attendants to let him starve.
Domitian was a sadist and as he grew older he lost his good looks and athletic frame. He took his brother’s daughter as a mistress and executed a man after he had taken his wife from him, because he had joked about it with Titus. His wife hatched a plot with another who also feared for his life, using other members of the Emperor’s exasperated staff.
The assassination came days after Domitian had celebrated his 15th anniversary as Emperor.
The man who would do the deed was Stephanus, the steward to  the Emperor’s niece, Domitilla. Days before he began wearing a sling, feigning an injury. On the 18th September he placed a dagger in it and at a good moment pulled it out, stabbing Domitian in the groin. The two wrestled for their lives, until four more plotters came in and stabbed the Emperor a further seven times.
He was succeeded by a 65 year old Nerva, who was elected by the Senate and who died of natural causes. He was the first of the Five Good Emperors.
Emperor's lock of hair anyone?
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@wittmann:
I thought he was a singer, so I felt no need to go any further into it.
I use the net a lot, but it is principally for historical research.
Not to research children’s poo idols.A wise policy.
I have a policy too. That Justin Bieber photos ruin threads. What do you guys think? :P
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To be rich and famous you have to look like a constipated girl then?
Glad I missed out. -
Not just look like one.
Sound like one too :lol: -
This thread is ruined. No way am I looking at that… thing any longer.
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Mako we just need to post more, to bury it!!
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LOL Disgusting isn’t it?
I can’t bear to look at it either.
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Wouldn’t a few girls notice it was missing if we buried it?
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my….eyes…there burning! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE GARG?!
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Not what I wanted to see my first thirty minutes of my work week.
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I was lying in bed when I saw it!
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my….eyes…there burning! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE GARG?!
Congratulate me for weaponizing pixels into internet tear gas!
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You deserve the Nobel prize for Peace, for inventing the ultimate deterrent to war: that picture. Who would risk war knowing images of that could be flashed before your eyes at any minute?
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my….eyes…there burning! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE GARG?!
Congratulate me for weaponizing pixels into internet tear gas!
Its…working…my EYES ARE STILL BURNING!
@wittmann:
You deserve the Nobel prize for Peace, for inventing the ultimate deterrent to war: that picture. Who would risk war knowing images of that could be flashed before your eyes at any minute?
No one would want that. ever. He just solved how to stop war.
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my….eyes…there burning! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE GARG?!
Congratulate me for weaponizing pixels into internet tear gas!
This can’t be unseen.
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You have scared me.
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…… my life is ruined by that picture…
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It needs to be taken down!
Garg, were you the one who posted it?(I’m NOT scrolling down to check!)
It’s cyber-terrorism! :lol:
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TAKE IT DOWN!!!
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Ahhh……
Puts his feet up on his desk
The price of victory - is never cheap. :P
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@wittmann:
As an aside, the BBC has pointed out a lock of Justin Bieber’s hair sold for �25000 on eBay in 2011.
Who the hell is he?
Actually, I do not want, or need, to know.Too bad. Gargantua at your service!
Now you know it’s a mistake to bring up Justin Bieber
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