In his ninth consulship, being seized, while in Campania, with a slight
					indisposition, and immediately returning to the city, he soon afterwards went
					thence to Cutiliae, Cutiliae was a small lake, about
						three-quarters of a mile from Reate, now called Lago di Configliano. It was
						very deep, and being fed from springs in the neighbouring hills, the water
						was exceedingly clear and cold, so that it was frequented by invalids, who
						required invigorating. Vespasian's paternal estates lay in the neighbourhood
						of Reate. See chap. i. and his estates in the country about Reate,
					where he used constantly to spend the summer. Here, though his disorder much
					increased, and he injured his bowels by too free use of the cold waters, he
					nevertheless attended to the dispatch of business, and even gave audience to
					ambassadors in bed. At last, being taken ill of a diarrhoea, to such a degree
					that he was ready to faint, he cried out, "An emperor ought to die standing
					upright." In endeavouring to rise, he died in the hands of those who were
					helping him up, upon the eighth of the calends of July A.U.C. 832 [24th June], being sixty-nine years, one month, and seven
					days old.