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... tion might double those rewards . The troops professed the fondest attachment to the house of Cæsar ; but the attachments of the multitude are capricious and inconstant . Augustus summoned to his aid whatever remained in those fierce ...
... tion might double those rewards . The troops professed the fondest attachment to the house of Cæsar ; but the attachments of the multitude are capricious and inconstant . Augustus summoned to his aid whatever remained in those fierce ...
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... tion of authority As soon as the Gordians had appeased the first tumult of a They so- popular election they removed their court to Carthage . They confirma- were received with the acclamations of the Africans , who their honoured their ...
... tion of authority As soon as the Gordians had appeased the first tumult of a They so- popular election they removed their court to Carthage . They confirma- were received with the acclamations of the Africans , who their honoured their ...
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... tion of Claudius ; and , as his predecessor had shown himself the personal enemy of their order , they exercised , under the name of justice , a severe revenge against his friends and family . The senate was permitted to discharge the ...
... tion of Claudius ; and , as his predecessor had shown himself the personal enemy of their order , they exercised , under the name of justice , a severe revenge against his friends and family . The senate was permitted to discharge the ...
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A D | xxxvii |
Prefatory Note | xxxix |
Preface to the Fourth Volume of the Quarto Edition | xlv |
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volum 1 Edward Gibbon Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1914 |
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