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... King of Italy . Partition of Lands - 2 : - LAST Page 16 . 17 19 • • 20 23 509. His Naval Armament . Civil Government of Italy ac- cording to the Roman Laws Prosperity of Rome . Flourishing State of Italy . Theodoric an Arian . His ...
... King of Italy . Partition of Lands - 2 : - LAST Page 16 . 17 19 • • 20 23 509. His Naval Armament . Civil Government of Italy ac- cording to the Roman Laws Prosperity of Rome . Flourishing State of Italy . Theodoric an Arian . His ...
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... King of Italy . 130 537. Belisarius invades Italy , and reduces Naples 132 536-540 . Vitiges , King of Italy 536. Belisarius enters Rome 134 136 537. Siege of Rome by the Goths . 136 Valour of Belisarius His Defence of Rome Repulses a ...
... King of Italy . 130 537. Belisarius invades Italy , and reduces Naples 132 536-540 . Vitiges , King of Italy 536. Belisarius enters Rome 134 136 537. Siege of Rome by the Goths . 136 Valour of Belisarius His Defence of Rome Repulses a ...
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... King of the Goths 235 Invasion of Italy by the Franks and Alemanni 554. Defeat of the Franks and Ale- manni by Narses . • 237 239 554-568 . Settlement of Italy . 241 559. Invasion of the Bulgarians 543-558 . Rebellion of the Moors 213 ...
... King of the Goths 235 Invasion of Italy by the Franks and Alemanni 554. Defeat of the Franks and Ale- manni by Narses . • 237 239 554-568 . Settlement of Italy . 241 559. Invasion of the Bulgarians 543-558 . Rebellion of the Moors 213 ...
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... King and King- 568-570 . Conquest of a great Part of Italy by the Lombards . 337 573. Alboin is murdered by his Wife Rosamond Her Flight and Death . Clepho , King of the Lom- bards · • Weakness of the Emperor Justin 338 340 341 332 The ...
... King and King- 568-570 . Conquest of a great Part of Italy by the Lombards . 337 573. Alboin is murdered by his Wife Rosamond Her Flight and Death . Clepho , King of the Lom- bards · • Weakness of the Emperor Justin 338 340 341 332 The ...
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... king drew his pen through the intervals ( Anonym . Valesian . ad calcem Amm . Marcellin . p . 722 [ tom . ii . p ... king of the Vandals . Amalasuentha , Theodahadus , ob . 534 , m . Eutharicus . Amalaberga , ob . 536. m . Hermenfredus ...
... king drew his pen through the intervals ( Anonym . Valesian . ad calcem Amm . Marcellin . p . 722 [ tom . ii . p ... king of the Vandals . Amalasuentha , Theodahadus , ob . 534 , m . Eutharicus . Amalaberga , ob . 536. m . Hermenfredus ...
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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 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.