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Pagina xi
... formed of Adrian's character , 178 . SECT . II . Adrian's voyages . He does not visit his own country , 179. He comes into Gaul and Germany . In Great Britain he builds a wall , to stop the incursions of the barba- rians , 189. Troubles ...
... formed of Adrian's character , 178 . SECT . II . Adrian's voyages . He does not visit his own country , 179. He comes into Gaul and Germany . In Great Britain he builds a wall , to stop the incursions of the barba- rians , 189. Troubles ...
Pagina xv
... formed against him , 405. He dies , poisoned and stran- gled , 406. Almost all his successors die , like him , a violent death . His memory is detested , 407. He erected no public work . An useful establishment of which he was the ...
... formed against him , 405. He dies , poisoned and stran- gled , 406. Almost all his successors die , like him , a violent death . His memory is detested , 407. He erected no public work . An useful establishment of which he was the ...
Pagina 11
... formed on the model of that of Titus . Like Titus , he confirmed by an edict all the gifts his predecessor had made . Pliny has preserved that Plin . X. edict , in which the emperor's goodness of heart is striking . " I have preferred ...
... formed on the model of that of Titus . Like Titus , he confirmed by an edict all the gifts his predecessor had made . Pliny has preserved that Plin . X. edict , in which the emperor's goodness of heart is striking . " I have preferred ...
Pagina 68
... formed different bodies there , and crea- ted a general uproar and confusion . The senators , sensible of the inconvenience of such proceedings , unanimously agreed , either towards the end of Trajan's third consulship , or the ...
... formed different bodies there , and crea- ted a general uproar and confusion . The senators , sensible of the inconvenience of such proceedings , unanimously agreed , either towards the end of Trajan's third consulship , or the ...
Pagina 74
... formed the haven by building two piers out into the sea , and , in the space between them , a mole or little island , by which the violence of the waves was broken , and the ships in the basin within secured from storms and bad weather ...
... formed the haven by building two piers out into the sea , and , in the space between them , a mole or little island , by which the violence of the waves was broken , and the ships in the basin within secured from storms and bad weather ...
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Pagina 77 - Adfirmabant autem hanc fuisse summam vel culpae suae vel erroris, quod essent soliti stato die ante lucem convenire carmenque Christo quasi deo dicere secum invicem seque sacramento non in scelus aliquod obstringere, sed ne furta, ne latrocinia, ne adulteria committerent, ne fidem fallerent, ne depositum appellati abnegarent.
Pagina 213 - Poor little pretty, fluttering thing, Must we no longer live together ? And dost thou prune thy trembling wing To take thy flight thou know'st not whither ? Thy humorous vein, thy pleasing folly, Lies all neglected, all forgot ; And, pensive, wavering, melancholy, Thou dread'st and hop'st thou know'st not what.
Pagina 190 - Usque ad praesentem diem perfidi coloni post interfectionem servorum et ad extremum filii dei excepto planctu prohibentur ingredi Jerusalem, et ut ruinam suae eis flere liceat civitatis pretio redimunt, ut qui quondam emerant sanguinem Christi emant lacrymas suas et ne fletus quidem eis gratuitus sit.
Pagina 55 - Nam cui nihil ad augendum fastigium superest, hic uno modo crescere potest, si se ipse summittat, securus magnitudinis suae : neque enim ab ullo periculo fortuna principum longius abest quam humilitatis.
Pagina 33 - Te parvuli noscere, ostentare iuvenes, mirari senes, aegri quoque neglecto medentium imperio ad conspectum tui quasi ad salutem sanitatemque prorepere. Inde alii se satis vixisse te viso te recepto, alii nunc magis esse vivendum praedicabant.
Pagina 57 - Marius bibit et fruitur dis iratis, at tu victrix, provincia, ploras. 50 haec ego non credam Venusina digna lucerna? haec ego non agitem? sed quid magis? Heracleas aut Diomedeas aut mugitum labyrinthi et mare percussum puero fabrumque volantem...
Pagina 39 - Seis, ut sunt diversa natura dominatio et principatus, ita non aliis esse principem gratiorem quam qui maxime dominum graventur.
Pagina 38 - Eadem quippe sub principe virtutibus praemia , quae in libertate; nee benefacto tantum ex conscieutia merces. Amas constantiam civium, rectosque ac vividos animos non, ut alii, contundis ac deprimis, sed foves et attollis. Prodest bonos esse...
Pagina 385 - Commodus, and to make himself emperor in his room. He perceived that he could not succeed in such a design, if he showed himself openly; and as his art was equal to his courage, he formed an admirable plan : he divided his troops, and ordered them to go into Italy and to Rome in small parties, and...
Pagina 183 - ... indefatigable traveller Adrian. He restored them old privileges and conferred new ones. When his back was turned their wit could content itself with no less royal a whetstone than himself and his son Pius. The emperor inflicted no punishment, but in a letter to Servian expresses, with the utmost naivete, a wish, ' that this city, by its grandeur and riches the first of all /Egypt, were furnished with better inhabitants.