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Side 73
... called ) , were very corrupt ; and easily swayed to an unconscientious verdict , by the appearance in court of any great man on behalf of one of the parties interested : nor was such an interference with the course of private justice ...
... called ) , were very corrupt ; and easily swayed to an unconscientious verdict , by the appearance in court of any great man on behalf of one of the parties interested : nor was such an interference with the course of private justice ...
Side 105
... called for a gladiator of the household to come and dispatch him . But none ap- pearing What ! ' said he , ' have I neither friend nor foe ? ' And so saying , he ran towards the Tiber , with the purpose of drowning himself . But that ...
... called for a gladiator of the household to come and dispatch him . But none ap- pearing What ! ' said he , ' have I neither friend nor foe ? ' And so saying , he ran towards the Tiber , with the purpose of drowning himself . But that ...
Side 110
... called upon Sporus , the infamous partner in his former excesses , to commence the funeral anthem . Others , again , he besought to lead the way in dying , and to sustain him by the spectacle of their example . But this purpose also he ...
... called upon Sporus , the infamous partner in his former excesses , to commence the funeral anthem . Others , again , he besought to lead the way in dying , and to sustain him by the spectacle of their example . But this purpose also he ...
Side 112
... called the Roman stratocracy then disposing of the world , that within no very great succession of weeks that same victorious rebel , the Emperor Galba , at whose feet Nero had been self - immolated , was laid a murdered corpse in the ...
... called the Roman stratocracy then disposing of the world , that within no very great succession of weeks that same victorious rebel , the Emperor Galba , at whose feet Nero had been self - immolated , was laid a murdered corpse in the ...
Side 113
... called , we find matter for deeper political meditation and subjects of curious research . But these emperors would be more properly classed with the five who succeed them - Nerva , Trajan , Hadrian , and the two Antonines ; after whom ...
... called , we find matter for deeper political meditation and subjects of curious research . But these emperors would be more properly classed with the five who succeed them - Nerva , Trajan , Hadrian , and the two Antonines ; after whom ...
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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.