The Historians' History of the World: The early Roman empireHenry Smith Williams Outlook Company, 1904 |
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Side 27
... the inland region of Paphlagonia . The Pontic kingdom , together with Lesser Armenia , Colchis , and the seaboard towns of Pharnacia and Trapezus , were [ 30 B.C. - 14 A.D. ] ruled under favour THE EMPIRE AND THE PROVINCES 27.
... the inland region of Paphlagonia . The Pontic kingdom , together with Lesser Armenia , Colchis , and the seaboard towns of Pharnacia and Trapezus , were [ 30 B.C. - 14 A.D. ] ruled under favour THE EMPIRE AND THE PROVINCES 27.
Side 28
... favour , for the Jul- ian family was at all times well disposed towards the Jews . After the death of King Herod , who had contrived to gain and retain the favour and confidence of the emperor and Agrippa , his son - in - law and ...
... favour , for the Jul- ian family was at all times well disposed towards the Jews . After the death of King Herod , who had contrived to gain and retain the favour and confidence of the emperor and Agrippa , his son - in - law and ...
Side 32
... favour which Antony had outpoured upon Athens , by emancipating the island of Samos , where he had several times ... favoured by exemption from taxes and other privileges . Augustus devoted the same care and circumspection to the ...
... favour which Antony had outpoured upon Athens , by emancipating the island of Samos , where he had several times ... favoured by exemption from taxes and other privileges . Augustus devoted the same care and circumspection to the ...
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... favour ( apart from his love for Cleopatra ) was that the most formidable rival to Rome there would be her own representative . The reasons that led the dictator to maintain the political existence of Egypt likewise induced his son to ...
... favour ( apart from his love for Cleopatra ) was that the most formidable rival to Rome there would be her own representative . The reasons that led the dictator to maintain the political existence of Egypt likewise induced his son to ...
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... favour of the neighbouring harbour of Misenum , which surpassed even that of Ravenna in importance . From both stations small bodies of men used to be detached to Rome to protect the emperor and the capital . The marines naturally did ...
... favour of the neighbouring harbour of Misenum , which surpassed even that of Ravenna in importance . From both stations small bodies of men used to be detached to Rome to protect the emperor and the capital . The marines naturally did ...
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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.