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Side 6
... Cæsar . Ubi Cæsar , ibi Roma - was a maxim of Roman jurisprudence . And the same maxim ̧ may be translated into a wider meaning ; in which it becomes true also for our historical experience . Cæsar and Rome have flourished and expired ...
... Cæsar . Ubi Cæsar , ibi Roma - was a maxim of Roman jurisprudence . And the same maxim ̧ may be translated into a wider meaning ; in which it becomes true also for our historical experience . Cæsar and Rome have flourished and expired ...
Side 7
... Cæsar came the destruction of Roman greatness . Peace , hollow rhetoricians ! Until Cæsar came , Rome was a minor ; by him , she attained her majority , and fulfilled her destiny . Caius Julius , you say , deflowered the virgin purity ...
... Cæsar came the destruction of Roman greatness . Peace , hollow rhetoricians ! Until Cæsar came , Rome was a minor ; by him , she attained her majority , and fulfilled her destiny . Caius Julius , you say , deflowered the virgin purity ...
Side 8
... Cæsar , her final Romulus , completed for Rome that which the rape under Romulus , her earliest Cæsar , had prosperously begun . And thus by one godlike man was a nation - city matured ; and from the ever- lasting and nameless 3 city ...
... Cæsar , her final Romulus , completed for Rome that which the rape under Romulus , her earliest Cæsar , had prosperously begun . And thus by one godlike man was a nation - city matured ; and from the ever- lasting and nameless 3 city ...
Side 15
... Cæsar . Ubi Casar , ibi Roma maxim of Roman jurisprudence . And the same maxim may be translated into a wider meaning ; in which it becomes true also for our historical experience . Cæsar ... and Rome have flourished and expired ...
... Cæsar . Ubi Casar , ibi Roma maxim of Roman jurisprudence . And the same maxim may be translated into a wider meaning ; in which it becomes true also for our historical experience . Cæsar ... and Rome have flourished and expired ...
Side 15
... Cæsar came the destruction of Roman greatness . Peace , hollow rhetoricians ! Until Cæsar came , Rome was a minor ; by him , she attained her majority , and fulfilled her destiny . Caius Julius , you say , deflowered the virgin purity ...
... Cæsar came the destruction of Roman greatness . Peace , hollow rhetoricians ! Until Cæsar came , Rome was a minor ; by him , she attained her majority , and fulfilled her destiny . Caius Julius , you say , deflowered the virgin purity ...
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Alexander Alexander Severus amongst ancient anecdotes army assassination Augustus Aurelian barbarians body Cæsar Caligula Caracalla Carus Cassius character Christian Cicero circumstances civic civil Commodus condition death Decius declension defeated Dioclesian discipline doubt doubtless effect Emilianus enemy express eyes fact father favor fear frontier Galerius Gallienus Gaul Goths grandeur habits Hadrian hand happened historians honors human nature imperial instance interest Julius Julius Cæsar king legions less luxury Macrinus Marcus Aurelius Maximin means memorable mighty military mode monarchy moral mother murder necessity Nero never NOTE notice Numerian occasion original palace party perhaps Persian Philip the Arab philosopher popular prætorian prince Probus prosperity provinces purpose rank reason reign remarkable republic republican revolution rival Roman emperor Roman empire Rome sacred seems senate sense Severus soldier spirit succession Suetonius supposed Sylla thousand throne tion troops true vast victory whilst whole writer
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Side 242 - Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread But as the marigold at the sun's eye; And in themselves their pride lies buried, For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foil'd, Is from the book of honour razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd.
Side 19 - Czesarean (so to speak) in their tone of moral feeling. Thus, for example, the night before he was assassinated, he dreamt at intervals that he was soarIng above the clouds on wings, and that he placed his hand within the right hand of Jove.
Side 54 - Men like Mark Antony, with minds of chaotic composition — light conflicting with darkness, proportions of colossal grandeur disfigured by unsymmetrical arrangement, the angelic in close neighborhood with the brutal — are first read in their true meaning by an age learned in the philosophy of the human heart.