Domitian, Titus

FLAVIUS AUGUST US, (do-mish'yan,) the last of the "Twelve Cæsars," and youngest son of the Emperor Vespas i an, was B. 51 A. D. He early displayed the licentiousne and cruelty of his disposition, and was kept - both by his father and by his brother, the noble, generous Titus, who succeeded Vespas i an entirely apart from public life, being intrusted with no employment, and compelled to live altogether as a private citizen. When proclaimed emperor, on the death of Titus, which he is suspected of having accelerated, if not procured, he proved the wisdom of the restraint which had been put upon him by the ferocity in which he ultimately revelled. His first administrative acts were judicious, and gave an augury of better things, which was soon belied. Aspiring to military fame, he was unsucce ful in his undertakings, and after his defeat by the Dacians, who compelled him to make a humiliating peace, his natural disposition - suspicious, savage, gloomy, and morose-manifested itself in all its naked deformity. To be honorable and virtuous was to be a mark for destruction - the mere suspicion of patriotism a warrant for death. His bloody reign furnishes some of the most thrilling pages of that master-spirit among historians, Tacitus; and points with its keenest shafts the withering irony of the great satirist Juvenal. After escaping from many conspiracies, the monster fell, on the 18th of Sept., 96, the victim of a plot in which his wife, Domitia, bore a prominent part. Dom'mel, a river of the Netherlands, rises in N. Brabant, and after a course of 45 m. falls into the Mouse, 4 m. from Bois-le-Duc. Do'mo d'O ola, a charming small town of N. Italy, in Piedmont, on the Foce, at the foot of the Simplon route, 20 m. from Pallauga; pop . 2,716. Dom'remy-la-Pucelle, a village of France, dep. of the Vosges. Joan of Arc was born here. The cottage in which she was born has been lately repaired at the expense of the government.