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Power, power in all its forms, was at the command Of the Roman Emperor. The lust Of power is said to be one of the mainsprings of human action. The master of the Roman world had the opportunity, if he chose to glut himself with power, to give himself over to the indulgence of it almost without restraint, until the very excess of it might bring with it its natural retribution and unseat his reason, as it did in many an instance. And all the other forms of enjoyment which mortals ordinarily crave, were no less at a Roman emperor's disposal. If power is sweet, so is flattery; and _the incense of flattery was constantly burned before him, even by the Senate, which, once the bulwark of repub lican freedom, had degenerated into a mere simulacrum of its former self. When the emperor spoke, the sena.
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