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POMPEIANA. 53
hastened to this scene of affliction; ap-
pointed curatores1, persons of consular
dignity, to set up the ruined buildings,
and take charge of the effects of those
who perished without heirs, for the benefit
of the surviving sufferers ; to whom he re-
mitted all taxes, and afforded that relief
the nature of their circumstances required;
personally encouraging the desponding,
and alleviating the miseries of the suf-
ferers, until a calamity of an equally me-
lancholy description recalled him to the
capital, where a most destructive fire lay-
ing waste nearly half the city, and raging
three days without intermission, was suc-
ceeded by a pestilence, which for some time
carried off ten thousand persons daily.
The eruptions after that of Titus ap-
pear to have been of very frequent recur-
rence ; but the first of consequence oc-
curred under Severus about the year 200.
1 Suetonius in Vita.
hastened to this scene of affliction; ap-
pointed curatores1, persons of consular
dignity, to set up the ruined buildings,
and take charge of the effects of those
who perished without heirs, for the benefit
of the surviving sufferers ; to whom he re-
mitted all taxes, and afforded that relief
the nature of their circumstances required;
personally encouraging the desponding,
and alleviating the miseries of the suf-
ferers, until a calamity of an equally me-
lancholy description recalled him to the
capital, where a most destructive fire lay-
ing waste nearly half the city, and raging
three days without intermission, was suc-
ceeded by a pestilence, which for some time
carried off ten thousand persons daily.
The eruptions after that of Titus ap-
pear to have been of very frequent recur-
rence ; but the first of consequence oc-
curred under Severus about the year 200.
1 Suetonius in Vita.