The Historians' History of the World: The early Roman empireHenry Smith Williams Outlook Company, 1904 |
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... capital of Asia and the seat of the Roman gov- ernment , was no more Romanised than Ancyra or Pergamus . The only exception is Berytus , " the Latin island in the sea of Oriental Hellenism " ; there , in the Colonia Julia Augusta Felix ...
... capital of Asia and the seat of the Roman gov- ernment , was no more Romanised than Ancyra or Pergamus . The only exception is Berytus , " the Latin island in the sea of Oriental Hellenism " ; there , in the Colonia Julia Augusta Felix ...
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... capital to Byzantium was the outward visible sign that the Roman Empire was no more . The process of dissolution had long been at work ; symptoms thereof come to light as early as the first century , and are frightfully apparent under ...
... capital to Byzantium was the outward visible sign that the Roman Empire was no more . The process of dissolution had long been at work ; symptoms thereof come to light as early as the first century , and are frightfully apparent under ...
Side 14
... capital , and realised in practice the idea of division into an Oriental and Occidental world which had stirred the minds of men three centuries before . His successor put a final end to the Roman Empire ; but all he had to do was to ...
... capital , and realised in practice the idea of division into an Oriental and Occidental world which had stirred the minds of men three centuries before . His successor put a final end to the Roman Empire ; but all he had to do was to ...
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... capital . 285. Maximian , joint emperor for administration of the West . 293. Con- stantius Chlorus and Galerius named cæsars . 296. Constantius recovers Britain . Revolt of Egypt suppressed by Diocletian . Battle of Carrhæ . Galerius ...
... capital . 285. Maximian , joint emperor for administration of the West . 293. Con- stantius Chlorus and Galerius named cæsars . 296. Constantius recovers Britain . Revolt of Egypt suppressed by Diocletian . Battle of Carrhæ . Galerius ...
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... capital with the courage of des- peration ; the emperor himself , though wounded in the thigh and in both arms , prosecuted the attack until all men capable of bearing arms had fallen in the fray , and the women , old men , and children ...
... capital with the courage of des- peration ; the emperor himself , though wounded in the thigh and in both arms , prosecuted the attack until all men capable of bearing arms had fallen in the fray , and the women , old men , and children ...
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Side 306 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom.
Side 651 - Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius.
Side 322 - With this view," continues Tacitus,fc " he inflicted the most exquisite tortures on those men who, under the vulgar appellation of Christians, were already branded with deserved infamy. They derived their name and origin from Christ, who, in the reign of Tiberius, had suffered death by the sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilate.
Side 651 - The Roman History, from the Foundation of the City of Rome to the Destruction of the Western Empire.
Side 267 - Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils, — no, nor the human race, as I believe, — and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.
Side 552 - A dark suspicion was entertained that some desperate wretches fed on the bodies of their fellow-creatures, whom they had secretly murdered; and even mothers — such was the horrid conflict of the two most powerful instincts implanted by nature in the human breast — even mothers are said to have tasted the flesh of their slaughtered infants!
Side 450 - The prospect of beauty, of safety, and of wealth, united in a single spot, was sufficient to justify the choice of Constantine. But as some decent mixture of prodigy and fable has, in every age, been supposed to reflect a becoming majesty on the origin of great...
Side 564 - Whether fame, or conquest, or riches, were the object of Alaric, he pursued that object with an indefatigable ardour, which could neither be quelled by adversity, nor satiated by success. No sooner had he reached the extreme land of Italy, than he was attracted by the neighbouring prospect of a fair and peaceful island.
Side 561 - The private revenge of forty thousand slaves was exercised without pity or remorse ; and the ignominious lashes which they had formerly received were washed away in the blood of the guilty or obnoxious families.
Side 651 - ... and is one of the most important sources for the history of the Emperor Julian.