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Side 31
... popular credulity , impressed him perhaps even un- duly with contempt for those who could be its dupes . And we may add - that Cæsar was constitutionally , as well as by accident of position , too much a man of the world , had too ...
... popular credulity , impressed him perhaps even un- duly with contempt for those who could be its dupes . And we may add - that Cæsar was constitutionally , as well as by accident of position , too much a man of the world , had too ...
Side 44
... popular election for an office of dignity , and to launch himself upon the storms of the Campus Martius . At that period , besides other and more ordinary dangers , the bands of gladia tors , kept in the pay of the more ambitious ...
... popular election for an office of dignity , and to launch himself upon the storms of the Campus Martius . At that period , besides other and more ordinary dangers , the bands of gladia tors , kept in the pay of the more ambitious ...
Side 54
... popular name of the Alauda ( or Lark ) legion . And very sin- gular it was that Cato , or Marcellus , or some amongst those enemies of Cæsar , who watched his conduct during the period of his Gaulish command with the vigilance of ...
... popular name of the Alauda ( or Lark ) legion . And very sin- gular it was that Cato , or Marcellus , or some amongst those enemies of Cæsar , who watched his conduct during the period of his Gaulish command with the vigilance of ...
Side 54
... popular name of the Alauda ( or Lark ) legion . And very sin- gular it was that Cato , or Marcellus , or some amongst those enemies of Cæsar , who watched his conduct during the period of his Gaulish command with the vigilance of ...
... popular name of the Alauda ( or Lark ) legion . And very sin- gular it was that Cato , or Marcellus , or some amongst those enemies of Cæsar , who watched his conduct during the period of his Gaulish command with the vigilance of ...
Side 63
... popular crea- tion , and spoke of him always by his family name of Octavius . The flattery of the populace , by the way , must , in this instance , have been doubly accept- able to the emperor , first , for what it gave , and secondly ...
... popular crea- tion , and spoke of him always by his family name of Octavius . The flattery of the populace , by the way , must , in this instance , have been doubly accept- able to the emperor , first , for what it gave , and secondly ...
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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.