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Side 33
... senate - house , consecrated by Pompey , whilst a crowd of other birds were seen to hang upon its flight in close pursuit . What might be the object of the chase , whether the little king himself , or a sprig of laurel which he bore in ...
... senate - house , consecrated by Pompey , whilst a crowd of other birds were seen to hang upon its flight in close pursuit . What might be the object of the chase , whether the little king himself , or a sprig of laurel which he bore in ...
Side 34
... senate on the approaching Ides of March , it is very little to be doubted that it had a considerable effect upon his feelings , and that , in fact , his own dream grew out of the impression which it had made . This way of linking the ...
... senate on the approaching Ides of March , it is very little to be doubted that it had a considerable effect upon his feelings , and that , in fact , his own dream grew out of the impression which it had made . This way of linking the ...
Side 51
... 1. Le salır the vas strea ... senator downwards 10 12 108- hired body of dependent , P equal in numbers to a nam in distan : kingdoms , he purse . Every where I hau a bouy 6 - most object . In this there was in I ...
... 1. Le salır the vas strea ... senator downwards 10 12 108- hired body of dependent , P equal in numbers to a nam in distan : kingdoms , he purse . Every where I hau a bouy 6 - most object . In this there was in I ...
Side 53
... senator downwards to the lowest fax Romuli , he had a hired body of dependents , both in and out of Rome , equal in numbers to a nation . In the provinces , and in distant kingdoms , he pursued the same schemes . Every where he had a ...
... senator downwards to the lowest fax Romuli , he had a hired body of dependents , both in and out of Rome , equal in numbers to a nation . In the provinces , and in distant kingdoms , he pursued the same schemes . Every where he had a ...
Side 54
... knowledge of this fact ; in which case we may be sure that it would have been denounced to the senate . Such , then , for its purpose and its uniform motive , was the sagacious munificence of Cæsar . Apart from this 54 THE CESARS .
... knowledge of this fact ; in which case we may be sure that it would have been denounced to the senate . Such , then , for its purpose and its uniform motive , was the sagacious munificence of Cæsar . Apart from this 54 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.