ce to gain a little something along the way. EFTA_R1_00234079 EFTA01845133 "The best day after a bad emperor is the first," the Roman historian Tacitus once memorably observed. This third Arab awakening is in the scales of history. It has in it both peril and promise, the possibility of prison but

spasian's relations with the senate were on the whole excellent, thanks to his bluff and unassuming character and his parading of his humble origin. Tacitus observes that he was the first man to improve after becoming emperor. Vespasian died in 79, remarking, 'I think I am becoming a god!' Ile was succe