This was Hector Murray, the millionaire who had built and endowed more public baths and institutions than any man since the Emperor vespasian.
"The Sins of Séverac Bablon"
Sax Rohmer
It was at Seville also that in 1498 Pedro Brun printed in quarto the romance of the Emperor vespasian, illustrated with fourteen excellent cuts, some of them full of life and movement; but for these a foreign model is quite likely some day to be discovered.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
The accession of vespasian which, after a deadly struggle, seemed to bring the orgies of a brutal despotism to a close, is regarded as marking not only a political, but a moral, revolution.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
