Domitianus, An Emperour of Rome, by nature brother vnto the gentle prince Titus, but in conditions and manners farre vnlike. When he was firste admitted to the Empyre, he vsed much to be in a secrete place alone, and there did nothing but take flyes, and pricke them throughe with a ueedle. Wherefore when it was demaunded of one Crispus, who was with the Emperour, he pretily aunswered, not so much as a flie. At % beginning he seemed so much to abhorrsmurder, that he might scantlie suffer an Ore to be killed for sactifice: but in the end, solowing the steps of Nero, and Caligula, he became a most detestable and cruel tyran, as well toward other, as toward them that professed the name of Christ.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Dŏmĭtĭānus, i, m., T. Flavius, a Roman emperor, son of Vespasian, and brother of Titus, who reigned 81-96 A.D., Suet. Dom. passim;Tac. H. 3, 86.—Hence, Dŏ-mĭtĭānus, a, um, adj.: via, a road constructed by him, a branch of the Via Appia, running from Sinuessa to Puteoli, Stat. S. 4 praef.; id. ib. 4, 3: mensis, i. e. October, in which the Emperor Domitian was born, Suet. Dom. 13.