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... received the title of Augustus , and almost fourteen years and a half after he had been promoted to the rank of Cæsar . His death was immediately succeeded by the elevation of Constantine . The ideas of inheritance and succession are so ...
... received the title of Augustus , and almost fourteen years and a half after he had been promoted to the rank of Cæsar . His death was immediately succeeded by the elevation of Constantine . The ideas of inheritance and succession are so ...
Side 10
... received with humanity , and treated with respect . Maximian conducted the captive emperor to Rome , and gave him the most solemn assurances that he had secured his life by the re- signation of the purple . But Severus could obtain only ...
... received with humanity , and treated with respect . Maximian conducted the captive emperor to Rome , and gave him the most solemn assurances that he had secured his life by the re- signation of the purple . But Severus could obtain only ...
Side 14
... received with respect by that artful prince , and with the appearance of filial ten- derness by the empress Fausta . That he might remove every suŝ- picion , he resigned the Imperial purple a second time ( 34 ) , pro- fessing himself at ...
... received with respect by that artful prince , and with the appearance of filial ten- derness by the empress Fausta . That he might remove every suŝ- picion , he resigned the Imperial purple a second time ( 34 ) , pro- fessing himself at ...
Side 18
... receiving , Italy and Africa groaned under the dominion of a tyrant , as con- 306-312 . temptible as he was odious . The zeal of flattery and faction has indeed too frequently sacrificed the reputation of the vanquished to the glory of ...
... receiving , Italy and Africa groaned under the dominion of a tyrant , as con- 306-312 . temptible as he was odious . The zeal of flattery and faction has indeed too frequently sacrificed the reputation of the vanquished to the glory of ...
Side 21
... received any certain intelligence of his departure from the banks of the Rhine . The city of Susa , however , which is si- ( 53 ) . The three principal passages of the Alps between Gaul and Italy , are those of Mount St. Ber- nard ...
... received any certain intelligence of his departure from the banks of the Rhine . The city of Susa , however , which is si- ( 53 ) . The three principal passages of the Alps between Gaul and Italy , are those of Mount St. Ber- nard ...
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