The Twelve Caesars (Julius to Domitian)for the author, 1877 - 55 pagina's |
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Agrippina altar ancient Apollo army beardless bronze coin bust undraped CAES Cæsar Caligula Censor Ceres civic crown Claudius coin struck coin was struck coinage COINS TEACH CONCERNING Colony Consul cornucopiae crown daughter death Decree deity denarius Diana Domitian Domitilla draped Drusus eagle Egypt emblem Emperor Empire exercised imperial authority exercising the Tribunitian father figure Galba goddess Greek Imperial hair hasta pura head of Augustus High Priest honor INSCRIPTION abbreviated introduced by engravers Julia Julius Caesar Jupiter Laureate head laurel left arm left hand LEGEND abbreviated legions Mark Antony Messalina metal is distinguished mint-master mother Nero numismatic numismatist OBVERSE Otho Pater Patriae patera Pontifex Maximus Poppaea reign REVERSE right hand Roman Rome sacred Senate Senatus Consulto shield silver and bronze soldiers spear styled substitute modern type supplied temple Titus Tribunitia Potestate Tribunitian Power twelve Caesars Unlaureate head Vespasian Victory Vitellius wife word wreath
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Pagina 33 - When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: but when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
Pagina 10 - Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
Pagina 11 - He was great,' repeats a modern writer, ' in every thing he undertook ; as a captain, a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, an historian, a grammarian, a mathematician, and an architect.
Pagina 34 - ... he was associated. On his first entrance into the service, an oath was administered to him with every circumstance of solemnity. He promised never to desert his standard, to submit his own will to the commands of his leaders, and to sacrifice his life for the safety of the emperor and the empire.
Pagina 4 - The very basis of history is truth, without which the causes of human action, nay the actions themselves, are disguised, and the instruction arising from the narration totally lost, or converted into an empty chimera. Now the sole evidence ,we can have of the veracity of a historian consists in such collateral documents as are palpable to all, and can admit of no falsification.
Pagina 39 - They knew and valued the advantages of religion, as it is connected with civil government. they encouraged the public festivals which humanize the manners of the people. They managed the arts of divination as a convenient instrument of policy; and they respected, as the firmest bond of society, the useful persuasion that, either in this or in a future life, the crime of perjury is most assuredly punished by the avenging gods.9 But, whilst they acknowledged the general advantages of religion, they...
Pagina 11 - He was at one and the same time a general, a statesman, a lawgiver, a jurist, an orator, a poet, an historian, a philologer, a mathematician, and an architect. He was equally fitted to excel in all, and has given proofs that he would have surpassed almost all other men in any subject to which he devoted the energies of his extraordinary mind.
Pagina 21 - His cruelty proved at last fatal to himself. He had shed with impunity the noblest blood of Rome: he perished as soon as he was dreaded by his own domestics. Marcia his...
Pagina 11 - ... preponderance of the knights; others, the privileges of the aristocracy. They failed. To establish a durable order of things there wanted a man who, raising himself above vulgar passions, should unite in himself the essential qualities and just ideas of each of his predecessors, avoiding their faults as well as their errors. To the greatness of soul and love of the people of certain tribunes, it was needful to join the military genius of great generals and the strong sentiments of the Dictator...
Pagina 50 - She was represented with wings, crowned with laurel and holding the branch of a palm tree in her hand.