The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireJ. J. Tourneisen, 1787 - 434 sider |
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... Army.- General State of the Roman Finances . A. D. Page Greatnefs and Difcontent of Severus 168 His Wife the Empress Julia ib . Their two Sons , Caracalla and Geta 169 Their mutual Averfion to each other 170 Three Emperors ib . 208 The ...
... Army.- General State of the Roman Finances . A. D. Page Greatnefs and Difcontent of Severus 168 His Wife the Empress Julia ib . Their two Sons , Caracalla and Geta 169 Their mutual Averfion to each other 170 Three Emperors ib . 208 The ...
Side xvi
... Army 186 Macrinus attempts a Reformation of the Army ib . Death of the Empress Julia 187 Education , Pretenfions , and Revolt of Elagabalus , called at firft Baffianus and Antoninus ib . 218 Defeat and Death of Macrinus 189 Elagabalus ...
... Army 186 Macrinus attempts a Reformation of the Army ib . Death of the Empress Julia 187 Education , Pretenfions , and Revolt of Elagabalus , called at firft Baffianus and Antoninus ib . 218 Defeat and Death of Macrinus 189 Elagabalus ...
Side 13
... army , to whose honours he was affociated . On his first entrance into the fervice , an oath was administered to him , with every circumftance of folemnity . He promifed never to defert his ftan- dard , to fubmit his own will to the ...
... army , to whose honours he was affociated . On his first entrance into the fervice , an oath was administered to him , with every circumftance of folemnity . He promifed never to defert his ftan- dard , to fubmit his own will to the ...
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... army was borrowed from the word which fignified exercise " . Military exercises were the important and unre- mitted object of their discipline . The recruits and young foldiers were conftantly trained both in the morning and in the ...
... army was borrowed from the word which fignified exercise " . Military exercises were the important and unre- mitted object of their discipline . The recruits and young foldiers were conftantly trained both in the morning and in the ...
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... army " . The cavalry of the emperors was no longer compofed , like that of the ancient republic , of the nobleft youths of Rome and Italy , who , by performing their military fervice on horseback , prepared themselves for the offices of ...
... army " . The cavalry of the emperors was no longer compofed , like that of the ancient republic , of the nobleft youths of Rome and Italy , who , by performing their military fervice on horseback , prepared themselves for the offices of ...
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