The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 2Baudry's European Library, 1840 |
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Side 9
... Rome , the old emperor broke from the retirement where the authority of Diocletian had condemned him to pass a life of melancholy solitude , and concealed his returning ambition under the disguise of paternal tenderness . At the request ...
... Rome , the old emperor broke from the retirement where the authority of Diocletian had condemned him to pass a life of melancholy solitude , and concealed his returning ambition under the disguise of paternal tenderness . At the request ...
Side 10
... Rome , according to the expression of an orator , recalled her armies ; and the unfortunate Severus , destitute of force and of counsel , retired , or rather fled , with precipitation , to Ravenna . Here he might for some time have been ...
... Rome , according to the expression of an orator , recalled her armies ; and the unfortunate Severus , destitute of force and of counsel , retired , or rather fled , with precipitation , to Ravenna . Here he might for some time have been ...
Side 11
... Rome and of the senate ; but his professions were ambiguous ; and his assistance slow and ineffectual . He considered with atten tion the approaching war between the masters of Italy and the em- peror of the East , and was prepared to ...
... Rome and of the senate ; but his professions were ambiguous ; and his assistance slow and ineffectual . He considered with atten tion the approaching war between the masters of Italy and the em- peror of the East , and was prepared to ...
Side 12
... Rome , by the cities of the East , with which he was ac- quainted , found his forces inadequate to the siege of that immense capital . But the extent of a city serves only to render it more accessible to the enemy : Rome had long since ...
... Rome , by the cities of the East , with which he was ac- quainted , found his forces inadequate to the siege of that immense capital . But the extent of a city serves only to render it more accessible to the enemy : Rome had long since ...
Side 18
... Rome supplied an inexhaustible fund for his vain and prodigal expenses , and the ministers of his revenue were skilled in the arts of rapine . It was under his reign that the method of exacting a free gift from the senators was first ...
... Rome supplied an inexhaustible fund for his vain and prodigal expenses , and the ministers of his revenue were skilled in the arts of rapine . It was under his reign that the method of exacting a free gift from the senators was first ...
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