 He is said to have been sensual in his private life, but his good qualities as a ruler were such that even 250 years after his death senators greeted a new emperor with the wish that he might be more fortunate than Augustus and better than Trajan.  British Museum: The Townley Gallery - Pagina 33di Sir Henry Ellis - 1836Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | John Aikin - 1814 - 662 pagine
...death, the senators, in their acclamations on the accession of a new emperor, were accustomed to utter the wish, that he might be " more fortunate than Augustus, and better than Trajan !" Univers. Hist. Crevier. — A. TRALLES, BALTHASAR-LEWIS, an eminent physician, was born at Breslaw... | |
 | John Platts - 1825 - 702 pagine
...years after his death, the senators, in their acclamations on the choice of a new emperor, vociferated the wish that he might be " more fortunate than Augustus, and better than Trajan." POMPEIA PLOTINA, a Roman lady, who married Trajan while he was yet a private man. She entered Rome... | |
 | John Platts - 1825 - 706 pagine
...years after his death, the senators, in their acclamations on the choice of a new emperor, vociferated the wish that he might be " more fortunate than Augustus, and better than Trajan." POMPEIA PLOTINA, a Roman lady, who married Trajan while he was yet a private man. She entered Rome... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 624 pagine
...his death, the senators, in their acclamations on the accession of a new emperor, were accustomed to wish that he might be more fortunate than Augustus and better than Trajan. TRAJAN'S COLUMN. (See Column.) TRAMONTANA. The Italians give this name to the north wind, because it... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pagine
...his death, the senators, in their acclamations on the accession of a new emperor, were accustomed to wish that he might be more fortunate than Augustus and better than Trajan. TRAJAN'S COLUMN. (See Column.) TRAMONTANA. The Italians give this name to the north wiud, because it... | |
 | John Gorton - 1833 - 918 pagine
...his death, the senators, in their acclamations on the accession of a new emperor, were accustomed to wish that he might be more fortunate than Augustus and better than Trajan. — Univ. Hut. Crnier. TRALLES(BALTHASAR LEWIS) thename of a highly intelligent native of Switzerland,... | |
 | sir Henry Ellis - 1846 - 480 pagine
...led him to persecute the Christians. He died, according to Eutropius, at Seleucia in Isauria *° — Dion Cassius says, at Selinus in Cilicia" — in the...more fortunate than Augustus, and better than TRAJAN 68. Trie bust of Trajan here represented is of the size of large life: its height, including the pedestal,... | |
 | British Museum, Henry Ellis - 1846 - 780 pagine
...according to Eutropius, at Seleucia in Isauria " — Dion Cassius says, at Selinus in Cilkia 6J — in the year 117. The senate gave Trajan the title...more fortunate than Augustus, and better than TRAJAN **. The bust of Trajan here represented is of the size of large life : its height, including the pedestal,... | |
 | 1847 - 568 pagine
...fifty years after his death the senators were accustomed to greet the accession of a new emperor with the wish that he might be more fortunate than Augustus and better than Trajan. Let us now retrace our steps, return to the north of Italy, and look at some of the cities in that... | |
 | John Lynch - 1848 - 544 pagine
...gave their blood; in the churches they prayed for his cause; and they prayed, according to old ritual, that he might be more fortunate than Augustus, and better than Trajan. The most cherished wish of their hearts was to cross the sea, if possible, and make their bodies a... | |
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