id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt penelope-uchicago-edu-8649 Cassius Dio — Epitome of Book 72 .html text/html 8752 424 73 3 Yet, though a mighty struggle had taken place and a brilliant victory had been won, the emperor nevertheless refused the request of the soldiers for a donative, declaring that whatever they obtained over and above the regular amount would be wrung from the blood of their parents and kinsmen; 4 as for the fate of the sovereignty, Heaven alone could determine that.1 So temperately and so firmly did he rule them, that, even when involved in so many and so great wars, he did naught that was unseemly either by way of flattery or as the result of fear. Marcus, on being informed of his uprising by Verus, the governor of Cappadocia, concealed the news for a time; but as the soldiers were becoming greatly disturbed by the reports and were talking a great deal, he called them together and read an address to the following purport: ./cache/penelope-uchicago-edu-8649.html ./txt/penelope-uchicago-edu-8649.txt