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... Severus , do we meet with any goodness of heart , or even amiableness of manners . The best of the future emperors , in a public sense , were harsh and repulsive in private character . w The second group , as we have classed them , THE ...
... Severus , do we meet with any goodness of heart , or even amiableness of manners . The best of the future emperors , in a public sense , were harsh and repulsive in private character . w The second group , as we have classed them , THE ...
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... Severus , who commanded the armies in Illyria , Pescennius Niger in Syria , and Albinus in Britain . Severus , as the nearest to Rome , marched and possessed himself of that city . Ven- geance followed upon all parties concerned in the ...
... Severus , who commanded the armies in Illyria , Pescennius Niger in Syria , and Albinus in Britain . Severus , as the nearest to Rome , marched and possessed himself of that city . Ven- geance followed upon all parties concerned in the ...
Side 206
... Severus , whose bitter enmity is so memo- rably put on record by their actions , travelled simul- taneously to Rome ; but so mistrustful of each other , that at every stage the two princes took up their 206 THE CESARS .
... Severus , whose bitter enmity is so memo- rably put on record by their actions , travelled simul- taneously to Rome ; but so mistrustful of each other , that at every stage the two princes took up their 206 THE CESARS .
Side 209
... Severus , on losing his first wife , had resolved to strengthen the pretensions of his family by a second marriage with some lady having a regal " genesis , " that is , whose horoscope promised a regal destiny . Julia Domna , a native ...
... Severus , on losing his first wife , had resolved to strengthen the pretensions of his family by a second marriage with some lady having a regal " genesis , " that is , whose horoscope promised a regal destiny . Julia Domna , a native ...
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... Severus , were extensive and search- ing ; not only in his court , which he purged of all notorious abuses , but throughout the economy of the army . He cashiered , upon one occasion , an entire legion he restored , as far as he was ...
... Severus , were extensive and search- ing ; not only in his court , which he purged of all notorious abuses , but throughout the economy of the army . He cashiered , upon one occasion , an entire legion he restored , as far as he was ...
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