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In that year, there were four emperors (Nero, Otho, Galba, and Vespasian), and the secret of the Roman Empire--that in a time of turmoil, a provincial commander with an army could march on Rome and become emperor--was revealed, but Rome's decline was a long way off.
Most impressive monument of the Imperial Forums, built as an adjunct to the Roman Forum in honor of Julius Caesar, Augustus, Trajan, Vespasian, and Domitian, is the 30-m- (100-ft-) high Trajan’s Column (a.d.
Anthony Burgess, in his Kingdom of the Wicked , remarks that Vespasian's own contemporaries designated street urinals as “vespasians,” certainly a much more ignominous affront because of its timeliness.
Its official name was Flavian Amphitheater , after the family name of its builder, the emperor Vespasian.
The situation stabilized with Vespasian, and the second century A.D. is often considered the golden age of the empire (Gibbon himself says that the time of Marcus Aurelius--late second century--was the best time to live of all in history).