The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1

Methuen & Company, 1909

A D	xxxvii

Prefatory Note	xxxix

Preface to the Fourth Volume of the Quarto Edition	xlv

A D	1

Contrast of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius	9

Auxiliaries	16

The Danube and Illyrian Frontier	24

CHAPTER II	31

Decius revives the office of Censor in the Person of Valerian	251

CHAPTER X	256

Death of the Emperor who Recommends Aurelian for his Successor	270

Birth Education and Escape of Constantine	274

Tacitus is acknowledged by the Army	276

Third Naval Expedition of the Goths	278

Tiridates the Armenian	282

Character and Elevation of the two Gordians	286

Gaul and Spain	40

Asia	47

Sedition of the Guards and Murder of Elagabalus	52

Posts	55

Of the Constitution of the Roman Empire in the Age of the Antonines	65

Defects of his Reign and Character	67

Consular and Tribunitian powers	72

Attempts of the Senate after the Death of Caligula	80

Death of Niger and Albinus	82

Extent of their Empire left them no Place of Refuge	89

Relaxation of Military Discipline	95

The Minister Perennis	96

Death of Commodus	105

Marches into Italy	122

Recovery of Britain by Constantius	123

General Felicity	127

Secular Games	133

CHAPTER VI	138

Murder of Caracalla	152

CHAPTER VII	181

Is wounded by an Assassin	183

And by the Senate	186

Murder of Pertinax by the Prætorians	193

CHAPTER VIII	211

in	222

Causes which checked the Progress of the Germans	228

Artaxerxes claims the Provinces of Asia and declares War against	230

Character and Maxims of Artaxerxes	240

Ruin of the Temple of Ephesus	288

Degeneracy	290

Their real Number not more than nineteen	296

182	299

She revenges her Husbands Death	304

Death of Constantius and Elevation of Constantine	306

Defeat and Death of Macrinus	308

His Death	312

Dexippus	320

The Gothic	322

The Expedition of Aurelian	328

Picture of Elagabalus	336

CHAPTER XII	341

Election and Character of Carus	344

Chronographer of	354

Eutropius	363

Election of the Emperor Diocletian	375

Association of two Cæsars Galerius and Constantius	381

Reunion of the Empire	425

His Death	430

Julian is acknowledged by the Senate	434

Description of Salona and the adjacent Country	457

Septimius Severus	476

Declared Emperor by the Pannonian Legions	482

Changes in SouthEastern Europe since Gibbon wrote	490

Visigoths and Ostrogoths	497

German campaigns of Diocletian Maximian and Constantius	503

Tittel	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon
Forfatter	Edward Gibbon
Redaktør	John Bagnell Bury
Utgave	4
Utgiver	Methuen & Company, 1909
Original fra	University of Michigan
Digitalisert	13. feb 2012

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