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Side 33
... legions had so often obeyed his voice ; and , thirdly , as the bird of Jove . To this triple relation of the bird his dream covertly appears to point . And a singular coincidence appears between this dream and a little anecdote brought ...
... legions had so often obeyed his voice ; and , thirdly , as the bird of Jove . To this triple relation of the bird his dream covertly appears to point . And a singular coincidence appears between this dream and a little anecdote brought ...
Side 41
... legions afterwards asso- ciated with them in the same camps , ) that Cæsar had vowed never to lay down his arms until he had obtained for every man , the very meanest of those who heard him , the rank , privileges and appointments of a ...
... legions afterwards asso- ciated with them in the same camps , ) that Cæsar had vowed never to lay down his arms until he had obtained for every man , the very meanest of those who heard him , the rank , privileges and appointments of a ...
Side 50
... legion severally maintain a horse soldier , but even the privates volunteered to serve without pay and ( what might seem impossible ) with- out their daily rations . This was accomplished by subscriptions amongst themselves , the more ...
... legion severally maintain a horse soldier , but even the privates volunteered to serve without pay and ( what might seem impossible ) with- out their daily rations . This was accomplished by subscriptions amongst themselves , the more ...
Side 54
... legions allowed to him for the accomplishment of his mission raised him for a number of years above all fear of ... legion amounting , perhaps , to six or seven thousand men , who were bound by no sacrament of military obedience to the ...
... legions allowed to him for the accomplishment of his mission raised him for a number of years above all fear of ... legion amounting , perhaps , to six or seven thousand men , who were bound by no sacrament of military obedience to the ...
Side 50
... legion severally maintain a horse soldier , but even the privates volunteered to serve without pay and ( what might seem impossible ) with- out their daily rations . This was accomplished by subscriptions amongst themselves , the more ...
... legion severally maintain a horse soldier , but even the privates volunteered to serve without pay and ( what might seem impossible ) with- out their daily rations . This was accomplished by subscriptions amongst themselves , the more ...
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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.