Vespasian
historical figure · 7 works · 15 mentions · 20 anchored passages
Emperor Vespasian · diuus Vespasianus
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman emperor in whose reign the Sc. Pegasianum was passed.
Pegasianum, passed in the reign of Vespasian, a.
Pegasianum, under the Emperor Vespasian, to the same restrictions as were imposed on legacies.
This decree passed, according to Tacitus, under Claudius (Annales, 11, 13), according to Suetonius, under Vespasian (Suet.
Stromata
Vespasian, Roman emperor who conquered and destroyed Jerusalem and its temple.
but Vespasian prevailed and tore down Jerusalem and laid waste the holy place.
from David to the second year of Vespasian, one thousand one hundred and seventy-nine.
And again, from the seventy-year captivity and the restoration of the people to the land of their fathers, to the captivity under Vespasian, are reckoned together four hundred and ten years;
Adversus Judaeos
Roman emperor who conquered the Jews, fulfilling the terminus of Daniel's seventy weeks and ending the sacrifices.
Vespasian, in the first year of his reign, warred down the Jews, and there are made forty-two years, six months.
and the middle time was from Tiberius to Vespasian.
Letters
Roman emperor under whom Jerusalem was besieged, invoked as historical analogy.
and there have beset us, as it seems, sufferings much like those that once encompassed Jerusalem in the siege of Vespasian.
Meditations
Roman emperor whose era is used as an example of the recurring, transient patterns of human activity.
Consider, for example, the times of Vespasian:
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Roman emperor whose reign marked the approximate time of Suetonius's birth; died in 79 CE
From incidental notices in the following History, we learn that he was born towards the close of the reign of Vespasian, who died in the year 79 of the Christian era.
Adversus Marcionem
Roman emperor named as the endpoint of the interval leading to Jerusalem's destruction.
Now, since with the Jews you deny that their Christ has come, recognize also their own end, which they were foretold to bring upon themselves after Christ, on account of the impiety by which they both despised and slew him.