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Side 83
... father of Phoebe ! ' It must , however , be granted , that in this miserable affair he behaved with very little of his usual discretion . In the first paroxysms of his rage , on discovering his daughter's criminal conduct , he made a ...
... father of Phoebe ! ' It must , however , be granted , that in this miserable affair he behaved with very little of his usual discretion . In the first paroxysms of his rage , on discovering his daughter's criminal conduct , he made a ...
Side 86
... father Augustus . His three sisters he debauched . One died , and her he canonized ; the other two he prostituted to the basest of his own attendants . Of his wives , it would be hard to whether they were first sought and won with more ...
... father Augustus . His three sisters he debauched . One died , and her he canonized ; the other two he prostituted to the basest of his own attendants . Of his wives , it would be hard to whether they were first sought and won with more ...
Side 150
... father , to associate in the order of succession with the philosophic Marcus Aure- lius Antoninus . This fact , and the certainty that to the second Elius Verus he gave his own daughter in marriage , rather than to his associate Cæsar ...
... father , to associate in the order of succession with the philosophic Marcus Aure- lius Antoninus . This fact , and the certainty that to the second Elius Verus he gave his own daughter in marriage , rather than to his associate Cæsar ...
Side 151
... father by fiction of law , for his adoption into the reigning family , and his consecration as one of the Cæsars . He , says one historian , shed no ray of light or illustration upon the imperial house , except by one solitary quality ...
... father by fiction of law , for his adoption into the reigning family , and his consecration as one of the Cæsars . He , says one historian , shed no ray of light or illustration upon the imperial house , except by one solitary quality ...
Side 155
... fathers , deducting only what might repair the public loss . And so resolutely did he refuse to shed the blood of any in the senatorial order , to whom he conceived himself more especially bound in paternal ties , that even a parricide ...
... fathers , deducting only what might repair the public loss . And so resolutely did he refuse to shed the blood of any in the senatorial order , to whom he conceived himself more especially bound in paternal ties , that even a parricide ...
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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.