The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith, Band 51854 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 72
Seite 5
... fortune the prudence and firmness of Theo- doric were equally conspicuous : whether he threatened He under- Constantinople at the head of the confederate Goths , or conquest retreated with a faithful band to the mountains and sea- A.D. ...
... fortune the prudence and firmness of Theo- doric were equally conspicuous : whether he threatened He under- Constantinople at the head of the confederate Goths , or conquest retreated with a faithful band to the mountains and sea- A.D. ...
Seite 29
... fortunes , in his public honours and private alliances , in the cultivation of science and the consciousness of virtue , Boethius might have been styled happy , if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of ...
... fortunes , in his public honours and private alliances , in the cultivation of science and the consciousness of virtue , Boethius might have been styled happy , if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of ...
Seite 30
... fortunes were exhausted by public and private rapine ; and Boethius alone had courage to oppose the tyranny of the barbarians , elated by conquest , excited by avarice , and , as he complains , encouraged by impunity . In these ...
... fortunes were exhausted by public and private rapine ; and Boethius alone had courage to oppose the tyranny of the barbarians , elated by conquest , excited by avarice , and , as he complains , encouraged by impunity . In these ...
Seite 31
... fortune . Reason had informed him of the precarious condition of her gifts ; experience had satisfied him of their real value ; he had enjoyed them without guilt , he might resign them without a sigh , and calmly disdain the impotent ...
... fortune . Reason had informed him of the precarious condition of her gifts ; experience had satisfied him of their real value ; he had enjoyed them without guilt , he might resign them without a sigh , and calmly disdain the impotent ...
Seite 37
... fortune , and at length of the Eastern empire . Adoption sion of it A.D. 520-527 . Since the eunuch Amantius had been defrauded of his money , became necessary to deprive him of his life . The task was easily accomplished by the charge ...
... fortune , and at length of the Eastern empire . Adoption sion of it A.D. 520-527 . Since the eunuch Amantius had been defrauded of his money , became necessary to deprive him of his life . The task was easily accomplished by the charge ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Africa Agathias Aleman ambassadors Anastasius ancient Anecdot Antonina applauded arms army avarice barbarians Baronius Belisarius Boethius Bonn Byzantine Cæsars camp capital Carthage Cassiodorus Chosroes Christian Chron church civil command conqueror conquest Constantinople danger death East edict edit emperor empire enemy Ennodius Evagrius factions faith favour fortune gates Gelimer Gibbon gold Gothic king Goths Greek guards Heraclius Heruli Hist historian honours horses hundred Italian Italy John Malala John of Cappadocia Jornandes justice Justinian labour laws Lombards Lydus Malala Marcellinus merit military monarch Muratori Narses nation native Odoacer Ostrogoths palace Pandects Pavia peace perhaps Persian philosopher Prætorian præfect prince Procop Procopius Procopius Goth provinces Ravenna reign restored Roman Rome royal ruins senate Sicily siege soldiers soon sovereign spirit subjects Theodora Theodoric Theophanes thousand throne Totila treasures troops valour Vandals victory viii virtue Vitiges walls Zeno καὶ
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 29 - While Boethius, oppressed with fetters, expected each moment the sentence or the stroke of death, he composed, in the tower of Pavia, the Consolation of Philosophy ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit, from the barbarism of the times, and the situation of the author.
Seite 87 - Sicily ; and these studies became the patrimony of a city whose inhabitants, about thirty thousand males, condensed, within the period of a single life, the genius of ages and millions. Our sense of the dignity of human nature is exalted by the simple recollection that Isocrates143 was the companion of Plato and Xenophon ; that he assisted, perhaps with the historian Thucydides, at the first representations of the Oedipus of Sophocles and the Iphigenia of Euripides...
Seite 251 - In a damp, hot, stagnating air, this African fever is generated from the putrefaction of animal substances, and especially from the swarms of locusts, not less destructive to mankind in their death than in their lives.
Seite 389 - Euphrates to the Thracian Bosphorus; Chalcedon surrendered after a long siege, and a Persian camp was maintained above ten years in the presence of Constantinople. The sea-coast of Pontus, the city of Ancyra, and the isle of Rhodes are enumerated among the last conquests of the Great King ; and if Chosroes had possessed any maritime power, his boundless ambition would have spread slavery and desolation over the provinces of Europe.
Seite 6 - Although your servant is maintained in affluence by your liberality, graciously listen to the wishes of my heart! Italy, the inheritance of your predecessors, and Rome, itself the head and mistress of the world, now fluctuate under the violence and oppression of Odoacer the mercenary. Direct me, with my national troops, to march against the tyrant. If I fall, you will be relieved from an expensive and troublesome friend; if, with the Divine permission, I succeed, 1 shall govern in your name, and...
Seite 289 - The same protection was due to every period of existence : and reason must applaud the humanity of Paulus, for imputing the crime of murder to the father, who strangles, or starves, or abandons his new-born infant ; or exposes him in a public place to find the mercy which he himself had denied. But the exposition of children...
Seite 137 - Paros and decorated by the statues of gods and heroes, and the lover of the arts must read with a sigh that the works of Praxiteles or Lysippus were torn from their lofty pedestals and hurled into the ditch on the heads of the besiegers...
Seite 353 - ... and dominion. A vague tradition was embraced, that two Jewish teachers, a tent-maker and a fisherman, had formerly been executed in the circus of Nero, and at the end of five hundred years, their genuine or fictitious relics were adored as the Palladium of Christian Rome.