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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... PERSONS . Freemen and IV . OF CRIMES AND PUNISH- Severity of the Twelve Tables 316 Abolition or Oblivion of penal 316 Slaves 289 Laws 318 . • Fathers and Children 291 Revival of capital Punish- Limitations of the Paternal ments 320 ...
... PERSONS . Freemen and IV . OF CRIMES AND PUNISH- Severity of the Twelve Tables 316 Abolition or Oblivion of penal 316 Slaves 289 Laws 318 . • Fathers and Children 291 Revival of capital Punish- Limitations of the Paternal ments 320 ...
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... person of Basiliscus , were betrayed ; and his whole family was condemned to the long agony of cold and hunger by the inhuman conqueror , who wanted courage to encounter or to forgive his enemies . The haughty spirit of Verina was still ...
... person of Basiliscus , were betrayed ; and his whole family was condemned to the long agony of cold and hunger by the inhuman conqueror , who wanted courage to encounter or to forgive his enemies . The haughty spirit of Verina was still ...
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... person in the palace of Ravenna . 50 The Gothic sovereignty was established from Sicily to the Danube , from Sirmium or Belgrade to the Atlantic Ocean ; and the Greeks themselves have acknow- ledged that Theodoric reigned over the ...
... person in the palace of Ravenna . 50 The Gothic sovereignty was established from Sicily to the Danube , from Sirmium or Belgrade to the Atlantic Ocean ; and the Greeks themselves have acknow- ledged that Theodoric reigned over the ...
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... person or rank of Anastasius . The alliance of the East and West was annually declared by the unanimous choice of two consuls ; but it should seem that the Italian candidate , who was named by Theodoric , accepted a formal confirmation ...
... person or rank of Anastasius . The alliance of the East and West was annually declared by the unanimous choice of two consuls ; but it should seem that the Italian candidate , who was named by Theodoric , accepted a formal confirmation ...
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... person , and the courteous demeanour of the Gothic king , excited the admiration of the Romans , and he contemplated , with equal curiosity and surprise , the monuments that remained of their ancient greatness . He imprinted the ...
... person , and the courteous demeanour of the Gothic king , excited the admiration of the Romans , and he contemplated , with equal curiosity and surprise , the monuments that remained of their ancient greatness . He imprinted the ...
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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
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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.