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Pagina ix
... virtue of a forged adoption , Honours done to Trajan's memory . Duration of his life and reign . His virtues and his vices , 123 . 122 . BOOK XIX . SECT . I. Adrian proclaimed emperor in Syria , writes to the senate to desire a ...
... virtue of a forged adoption , Honours done to Trajan's memory . Duration of his life and reign . His virtues and his vices , 123 . 122 . BOOK XIX . SECT . I. Adrian proclaimed emperor in Syria , writes to the senate to desire a ...
Pagina x
... virtues and vices in Adrian . A popular maxim of Adrian concerning the nature of power , 148. His taste for simpli- city , 149. He lives familiarly with his friends , 150. His conduct towards the people mixed with complaisance and ...
... virtues and vices in Adrian . A popular maxim of Adrian concerning the nature of power , 148. His taste for simpli- city , 149. He lives familiarly with his friends , 150. His conduct towards the people mixed with complaisance and ...
Pagina 5
... virtues well deserved the high post to Mildness which he was promoted . He was uncommonly mild racter and and judicious , fond of all honest men , and a strict govern observer of the laws . Vigour and resolution were the only qualities ...
... virtues well deserved the high post to Mildness which he was promoted . He was uncommonly mild racter and and judicious , fond of all honest men , and a strict govern observer of the laws . Vigour and resolution were the only qualities ...
Pagina 7
... virtue and public decency , so highly injured by that wretch . I could wish that a desire to distinguish himself , too had not been one of the motives that induced him to undertake so laudable a prosecution . In the execution of this ...
... virtue and public decency , so highly injured by that wretch . I could wish that a desire to distinguish himself , too had not been one of the motives that induced him to undertake so laudable a prosecution . In the execution of this ...
Pagina 10
... . He could not have said a better nor a truer thing . Nerva would have been glad to see virtue triumph ; but he knew not how to put a stop to vice , or pre- Another of vent the abuse of good . The liberty vent 10 HISTORY OF THE EMPERORS .
... . He could not have said a better nor a truer thing . Nerva would have been glad to see virtue triumph ; but he knew not how to put a stop to vice , or pre- Another of vent the abuse of good . The liberty vent 10 HISTORY OF THE EMPERORS .
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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.