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Chap. 24. Galba in Spain summoning the people of three Cities together, as if to communicate to them something to their advantage; suddenly commanded seven thousand of them to be slain; amongst which was the flower of their youth. In the same Country Lucius Licinius Lucullus the Consul sent his Souldiers into the City of the Caucæans, and slew twenty thousand of them contrary to the Articles agreed upon at their yielding. Octavianus Augustus when he had taken Perusia; chose out three hundred of the chiefest of both orders, and though they had yielded themselves, he slew them as Sacrifices before an Altar which he had erected to D. Julius Antonius Caracalla, (being offended with those of Alexandria; for I know not what jests upon him) enters that City in a semblance of peace, and when he had commanded all their young Men into the Field; he surrounds them with his Souldiers, upon a Signal given Rh