The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus: During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and ValensBell, 1887 - 646 sider |
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... fortune of Constantius . 9. While perplexed with these vast and weighty anxieties he received continual letters from the emperor , advising and entreating him to come to him ; and giving him hints that the republic neither could nor ...
... fortune of Constantius . 9. While perplexed with these vast and weighty anxieties he received continual letters from the emperor , advising and entreating him to come to him ; and giving him hints that the republic neither could nor ...
Side 39
... fortune , quitted Antioch under the guidance of an unfriendly star , and hurried , as the old proverb has it , out of the smoke into the flame ; ' and having arrived at Constantinople as if in great prosperity and security , at the ...
... fortune , quitted Antioch under the guidance of an unfriendly star , and hurried , as the old proverb has it , out of the smoke into the flame ; ' and having arrived at Constantinople as if in great prosperity and security , at the ...
Side 42
... fortune which we behold in the world , frequently bringing our undertakings to an issue different from what we in- tended , and involving and changing great numbers of actions . She also , binding the vainly swelling pride of mankind by ...
... fortune which we behold in the world , frequently bringing our undertakings to an issue different from what we in- tended , and involving and changing great numbers of actions . She also , binding the vainly swelling pride of mankind by ...
Side 43
... fortune which mocks mortality , sometimes raising individuals to the 1 Ammianus here confounds Nemesis with Fortuna . Horace's description of the latter goddess , Lib . i . Od . 34 : —- Valet ima summis 66 Mutare , et insignia attenuat ...
... fortune which mocks mortality , sometimes raising individuals to the 1 Ammianus here confounds Nemesis with Fortuna . Horace's description of the latter goddess , Lib . i . Od . 34 : —- Valet ima summis 66 Mutare , et insignia attenuat ...
Side 44
... fortune made Agathocles , the Sicilian , a king from being a potter , and reduced Dionysius , formerly the terror of all nations , to be the master of a grammar school . This same fortune emboldened Andriscus of Adramyttium , who had ...
... fortune made Agathocles , the Sicilian , a king from being a potter , and reduced Dionysius , formerly the terror of all nations , to be the master of a grammar school . This same fortune emboldened Andriscus of Adramyttium , who had ...
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