The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith, Band 51854 |
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... Gates 87 The Schools of Athens . 89 58 92 92 • 93 • The last of the Philosophers 82 94 8 686858 218 * * 94 They are suppressed by Jus- tinian - CHAPTER XLI . CONQUESTS OF JUSTINIAN IN THE WEST . - CHARACTER AND FIRST CAMPAIGNS OF ...
... Gates 87 The Schools of Athens . 89 58 92 92 • 93 • The last of the Philosophers 82 94 8 686858 218 * * 94 They are suppressed by Jus- tinian - CHAPTER XLI . CONQUESTS OF JUSTINIAN IN THE WEST . - CHARACTER AND FIRST CAMPAIGNS OF ...
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... gates against the flying usurper . 21 Ravenna alone , secure in the fortifications of art and nature , still sustained a siege of almost three years , and the daring sallies of Odoacer carried slaughter and dismay into the Gothic camp ...
... gates against the flying usurper . 21 Ravenna alone , secure in the fortifications of art and nature , still sustained a siege of almost three years , and the daring sallies of Odoacer carried slaughter and dismay into the Gothic camp ...
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... gates of the hippodrome . In this narrow space the dis- orderly and affrighted crowd was incapable of resisting on either side a firm and regular attack ; the blues signalised the fury of their repentance , and it is computed that above ...
... gates of the hippodrome . In this narrow space the dis- orderly and affrighted crowd was incapable of resisting on either side a firm and regular attack ; the blues signalised the fury of their repentance , and it is computed that above ...
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... gates of the city a prætor was stationed , the minister of Imperial avarice ; heavy customs were imposed on the vessels and their mer- chandise ; the oppression was retaliated on the helpless consumer ; 85 One to Scythopolis , capital ...
... gates of the city a prætor was stationed , the minister of Imperial avarice ; heavy customs were imposed on the vessels and their mer- chandise ; the oppression was retaliated on the helpless consumer ; 85 One to Scythopolis , capital ...
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... gates of the Imperial city . At the distance only of forty miles , Anastasius was constrained to esta- blish a last frontier ; his long wall of sixty miles , from the Propontis to the Euxine , proclaimed the impotence of his arms ; and ...
... gates of the Imperial city . At the distance only of forty miles , Anastasius was constrained to esta- blish a last frontier ; his long wall of sixty miles , from the Propontis to the Euxine , proclaimed the impotence of his arms ; and ...
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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 85 - 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 249 - 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 387 - 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 287 - 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 135 - 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 351 - ... 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.