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His Brother Domitian: During Domitian's reign, in 84, Agricola completed the conquest of Britain into what is now southern Scotland; his deeds were celebrated by his son-in-law, the historian Cornelius Tacitus. In 83, after defeating the Chatti, Domitian began the construction of a series of forts along the Rhine. Two years later, he repelled a Dacian invasion of Moesia. Domitian was a good administrator, but he was also a tyrant with tendencies toward the absolutism of an Oriental monarch; he insisted, for example, that he be called dominus (lord).
Titus, who succeeded his father in 79, was also a good ruler. His short reign, however, was marked by two disasters: the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79, which overwhelmed Herculaneum and Pompeii (qq.v.) ; and another large fire in Rome, in 80. His brother Domitian (in full Titus Flavius Domitianus Augustus) became emperor in 81.
RHADAMANTHUS, rad-a-man'thus, according to Greek legend, a son of Zeus and Europa, and brother of Minos, king of Crete. According to another tradition, Rhadamanthus laid the foundation of the Cretan code of laws, which his brother Minos completed. From fear of his brother he is said to have fled to Ocaleia in Boeotia, where he married Alcmene. In the belief of the Greeks, a spirit in the lower world continued the business of life; hence Rhadamanthus, after his death, was made a judge in the kingdom of Pluto, or the Islands oi Blessed, on account of the-justice of his life had for his associates Aeacus and Minos, name suggests an Egyptian origin of the myt.
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