Domitian, whose several campaigns against tribes beyond…
89 CE
Domitian, whose several campaigns against tribes beyond the Rhine and Danube rivers have borne mixed results, sponsors a number of important domestic reforms and is a generally efficient administrator.
However, these achievements pale before the reign of terror he initiates in CE 89.
Provoked by the failed rebellion of Saturninus in Germany, the emperor becomes progressively more despotic, attacking senators and officials he mistrusts and suppressing even the mildest forms of dissent.
Those who had assisted in the defeat of the mutinous legions at Moguntiacum are duly rewarded, however.
Lappius Maximus receives the governorship of the province of Syria, later a consulship in May 95, and finally a priesthood which he still holds in 102.
Titus Flavius Norbanus may have been appointed to the prefecture of Egypt, but almost certainly became prefect of the Praetorian Guard by 94, with Titus Petronius Secundus as his colleague.
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