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... Pertinax , an upright man , a good officer , and an unseasonable reformer ; unseasonable for those times , but more so for himself . Lætus , the ringleader in the assassination of Commodus , had been at that time the prætorian prefect ...
... Pertinax , an upright man , a good officer , and an unseasonable reformer ; unseasonable for those times , but more so for himself . Lætus , the ringleader in the assassination of Commodus , had been at that time the prætorian prefect ...
Side 203
... Pertinax the danger began from the moment when he had fulfilled it . Conceiving himself to be now released from his dependency , he commenced his reforms , civil as well as military , with a zeal which alarmed all those who had an ...
... Pertinax the danger began from the moment when he had fulfilled it . Conceiving himself to be now released from his dependency , he commenced his reforms , civil as well as military , with a zeal which alarmed all those who had an ...
Side 204
... Pertinax attempted to harangue them , and to vindicate himself ; but not being able to obtain a hearing , he folded his robe about his head , called upon Jove the Avenger , and was immediately dispatched . The throne was again empty ...
... Pertinax attempted to harangue them , and to vindicate himself ; but not being able to obtain a hearing , he folded his robe about his head , called upon Jove the Avenger , and was immediately dispatched . The throne was again empty ...
Side 218
... Pertinax , Didius Julianus , Septimius Severus , Caracalla , and Geta , Macrinus , Heliogabalus , Alexan- der Severus , Maximin , the two Gordians , Pupienus and Balbinus , the third Gordian , and Philip the Arab . In looking back at ...
... Pertinax , Didius Julianus , Septimius Severus , Caracalla , and Geta , Macrinus , Heliogabalus , Alexan- der Severus , Maximin , the two Gordians , Pupienus and Balbinus , the third Gordian , and Philip the Arab . In looking back at ...
Side 287
... Pertinax for the throne on a consideration of his ability to protect the assassins of Commodus . NOTE 50. Page 227 . And it is a striking illustration of the extent to which the revolution had gone , that , previously to the Persian ...
... Pertinax for the throne on a consideration of his ability to protect the assassins of Commodus . NOTE 50. Page 227 . And it is a striking illustration of the extent to which the revolution had gone , that , previously to the Persian ...
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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.