The Historians' History of the World: The early Roman empireHenry Smith Williams Outlook Company, 1904 |
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... friends . 37. Caligula succeeds Tiberius . 41. Murder of Caligula . Clau- dius succeeds . 42. Mauretania becomes a Roman province . 43-47 . Britain subdued by Plautius and Vespasian . 43. Lycia becomes a province . 44. Judea becomes a ...
... friends . 37. Caligula succeeds Tiberius . 41. Murder of Caligula . Clau- dius succeeds . 42. Mauretania becomes a Roman province . 43-47 . Britain subdued by Plautius and Vespasian . 43. Lycia becomes a province . 44. Judea becomes a ...
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... friends ; Agrippa , whose services to the health and cleanliness of the city in the construction of the huge vaulted sewers ( cloaca ) have already been mentioned , perpetuated his name by a succession of magnificent gardens for the use ...
... friends ; Agrippa , whose services to the health and cleanliness of the city in the construction of the huge vaulted sewers ( cloaca ) have already been mentioned , perpetuated his name by a succession of magnificent gardens for the use ...
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... friends and dependents of all ranks . Tiberius had adopted him in deference to the wishes of Augustus , but the talents and excellencies of the youthful hero inspired the gloomy soul of the emperor with envy and suspicion . [ So at ...
... friends and dependents of all ranks . Tiberius had adopted him in deference to the wishes of Augustus , but the talents and excellencies of the youthful hero inspired the gloomy soul of the emperor with envy and suspicion . [ So at ...
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... friends and kindred , of the disasters of war and the lot of mankind , was seized with tenderness and compassion . After Cæcina had been sent forward to spy out the ravines of the forest and to lay bridges and causeways across the ...
... friends and kindred , of the disasters of war and the lot of mankind , was seized with tenderness and compassion . After Cæcina had been sent forward to spy out the ravines of the forest and to lay bridges and causeways across the ...
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... friends . But whilst in the accounts of the latter it is frequently impossible to decide how much is fact , how much poetry , and , at times , imitation of his Greek models , — since so little true life beats through them , in the ...
... friends . But whilst in the accounts of the latter it is frequently impossible to decide how much is fact , how much poetry , and , at times , imitation of his Greek models , — since so little true life beats through them , in the ...
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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.