The History of Rome: From the First Punic War to the Death of Constantine, Volumi 1-2S. Bentley, 1844 |
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Pagina 421 - As regards the manners and mode of life of the Romans, their great object at this time was the acquisition and possession of money. Their moral conduct, which had been corrupt enough before the social war, became still more so by their systematic plunder and rapine. Immense riches were accumulated and squandered upon brutal pleasures. The simplicity of the old manners and mode of living had been abandoned for Greek luxuries and frivolities, and the whole household arrangements had become altered.
Pagina 152 - ... once to exert themselves no longer against what they call fate, as if thereby they could avenge themselves upon fate ; others grow desponding and hopeless ; but a third class of men will rouse themselves just at such moments, and say to themselves, " The more difficult it is to attain my ends, the more honourable it will be;" and this is a maxim which every one should impress upon himself as a law.
Pagina 254 - Scipio is very instructive, for it shows how the state was hastening towards its dissolution. No one thought of the republic being in danger, and the danger was indeed as yet far distant; but the seeds of dissolution were nevertheless sown, and its symptoms were already beginning to become visible. We hear it generally said that, with the victories of the Romans in Asia, luxury, and all the vices which accompany avarice and rapacity, began to break in upon them. This is indeed true enough, but it...
Pagina 13 - that among the ancient Romans it was the custom at banquets for the praises of great men to be sung to the flute," have no authority, I really do not know what have any. The three inscriptions on the monuments of the Scipios, written in the Saturnian verse, may be regarded as specimens of ancient songs, as I have shown in my history of Rome.
Pagina 358 - Every one knows the miserable death of Constautine's son Crispus, who was sent into exile to Pola, and then put to death. If however people will make a tragedy of this event, I must confess that I do not see how it can be proved that Crispus was innocent. When I read of so many insurrections of sons against their fathers...
Pagina 18 - But he was a diner-out, and liked merriment at table, • — a man full of light pleasantry and wit, for he was naturally of a joyous temperament, until public and private sorrow cast a shadow over his existence. Niebuhr says, " The predominant and most brilliant faculty of his mind was his wit. In what the French call esprit — light, unexpected, and inexhaustible wit — he is not excelled by any among the ancients.
Pagina 175 - Augustus' family during the latter years of his life. LECTURE CIX. IT is well known that Augustus said he had found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble...
Pagina 101 - Octavian, we must admit that Antony was open-hearted; whereas Octavian was made up of hypocrisy: his whole life was a farce. It is well known that on his death-bed at Nola he asked his friends whether he had not played the comedy of his life well? He was an actor throughout; everything he did was a farce, well devised and skilfully executed. The most profound hypocrisy was his greatest talent. In the vicious and profligate life of Antony, on the other hand, there occur some actions which shew good...
Pagina xi - ... notwithstanding this deficiency in Niebuhr as a lecturer, there was an indescribable charm in the manner in which he treated his subject; the warmth of his feelings, the sympathy which he felt with the persons and things he was speaking of, his strong conviction of the truth of what he was saying, his earnestness, and, above all, the vividness with which he conceived and described the characters of the most prominent men, who were to him living realities, with souls, feelings and passions like...
Pagina 261 - Odyssey, but made an abridgement of it in the national Italian rhythm, and not in a Greek metre. All that Livius wrote besides his Odyssey are tragedies which, like the Atellanae, were not performed in standing theatres, but on a kind of scaffolding in the Circus