Tacitus. Tr. by A. Murphy, Volume 4 |
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Pagina 288 - Another who had lost the use of his hand, inspired by the same god, begged that he would tread on the part affected. Vespasian smiled at a request so absurd and wild. The wretched objects persisted to implore his aid. He dreaded the ridicule of a vain attempt ; but the importunity of the men and the crowd of flatterers prevailed upon the prince not entirely to disregard their petition. ' He ordered the physicians to consider...
Pagina 287 - Vespasian passed some months at Alexandria, having resolved to defer his voyage to Italy till the return of summer, when the winds, blowing in a regular direction, afford a safe and pleasant navigation. During his residence in that city, a number of incidents, out of the ordinary course of nature, seemed to mark him as the peculiar favorite of the gods.
Pagina 50 - ... to the field and restore the state of their party. The men who stood at a distance stretched forth their hands in token of their assent, while such as gathered round the prince clasped his knees ; Plotius Firmus being the most zealous.
Pagina 289 - ... not accomplish. In the presence of a prodigious multitude, all erect with expectation, he advanced with an air of serenity, and hazarded the experiment. The paralytic hand recovered its functions, and the blind man saw the light of the sun. By living witnesses, who were actually on the spot, both events are confirmed at this hour, when deceit and flattery can hope for no reward (d).
Pagina 288 - He presented himself before Vespasian, and falling prostrate on the ground, implored the emperor to administer a cure for his blindness. He came, he said, by the admonition of Serapis, the god whom the superstition of the Egyptians holds in the highest veneration.
Pagina 79 - Judaea stands a mountain known by the name of Mount Carmel, on the top of which a god is worshipped under no other title than that of the place, and, according to the ancient usage, without a, temple or even a statue.
Pagina 175 - Having passed the forum, and the temples that surround it, they marched up the hill that fronts the Capitol, and after halting there to form their ranks, advanced in regular order to the gates of the citadel. On the right side of the ascent, a range of porticos had been built in ancient times. From the top of those edifices the besieged annoyed the enemy with stones and tiles. The assailants had no weapons but their swords. To wait for warlike engines seemed a tedious delay to men impatient for the...
Pagina 177 - Jupiter, supreme of gods, — a temple, built in ancient times with solemn rites and religious auspices, the pledge of future grandeur, — which neither Porsena, when Rome surrendered to his arms, nor the Gauls, when they took the city by storm, had dared to violate ; that sacred edifice was now demolished by the rage of men contending for a master to reign over them. The Capitol, it is true, was once before destroyed by fire during the violence of a civil war ; but the guilt was then confined to...
Pagina 42 - Paulinus were no more than-mere nominal generals. No man sought their advice. They were in fact superseded; serving no purpose but that of screening the folly of others, and bearing the blame of blunders not their own. The tribunes and centurions could render no effectual service, while ignorance and insufficiency were preferred, and real talents lay neglected. The common men appeared with an air of alacrity, but more disposed to cavil with their generals than to execute their orders.
Pagina 5 - The altar is never stained with blood, and, though exposed to the open air, never moistened' by a drop of rain. Supplications and the pure flame of fire are the only offerings. The statue of the goddess bears no resemblance to the human form. You see a round figure, broad at the base, but growing fine by degrees, till, like a cone, it lessens to a point. The reason,?