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Side 8
... 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 was a man ...
... 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 was a man ...
Side 15
... 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 was a man ...
... 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 was a man ...
Side 24
... final details were arranged ; and those also would have prospered but for a trifling accident . The season was one of general carnival at Rome ; and , by the help of those disguises which the license of this festal time allowed , the ...
... final details were arranged ; and those also would have prospered but for a trifling accident . The season was one of general carnival at Rome ; and , by the help of those disguises which the license of this festal time allowed , the ...
Side 35
... final step ) which placed him in arms against the state , it happened that his head- quarters were at some distance from the little river Rubicon , which formed the boundary of his province . With his usual caution , that no news of his ...
... final step ) which placed him in arms against the state , it happened that his head- quarters were at some distance from the little river Rubicon , which formed the boundary of his province . With his usual caution , that no news of his ...
Side 44
... forestall the victory of an antagonist , or to avenge their own defeat , it was not at all impossible that a body of incensed competitors might intercept his final triumph by assassination . For this danger 44 THE CESARS .
... forestall the victory of an antagonist , or to avenge their own defeat , it was not at all impossible that a body of incensed competitors might intercept his final triumph by assassination . For this danger 44 THE CESARS .
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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.