Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's Abridgment of the History of Rome: To which is Prefixed an Introduction to the Study of Roman History, and a Great Variety of Valuable Information Added Throughout the Work, on the Manners, Institutions, and Antiquities of the RomansThomas, Cowperthwait, & Company, 1846 - 399 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
Antony arms army attempt Augustus barbarians battle became began besieged body Brennus Brutus Cæsar Calig'ula called Camil'lus camp Carthage Carthaginians Cassius cavalry character Christians citizens Clau'dius Cleopa'tra command conduct conqueror conquest consequence conspiracy conspirators Constan'tius consul continued Coriola'nus cried cruelties Danube death decemviri defeated emperor empire endeavoured enemy engagement fate father favour followed forces formidable friends Galba Gaul gave German'icus Goths Gracchus Hannibal honour inhabitants Italy Jugurtha Julius Cæsar king laws legions length lictors Ma'rius Man'lius means Nero obliged occasion offered oppose patricians peace person plebeians Pompey Pompey's possessed pretence prisoners provinces punishment Pyr'rhus Questions for Examination received reign resolution resolved Roman empire Romans Rome Samnites seemed seized senate sent slain slave soldiers soon Spain success Sylla Tarquin temple thousand throne Tibe'rius tion took Trajan tribes tribunes triumph troops victory virtues Visigoths Vitellius Volsci
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Página 270 - Such were the honours paid to Augustus, whose power began in the slaughter, and terminated in the happiness of his subjects ; so that it was said of him, " That " it had been good for mankind if he had never been " born, or if he never had died.
Página 25 - Augustus himself boasted that he found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble.
Página 291 - began his reign with the general approbation of mankind. He appeared just, liberal, and humane : when a warrant for the execution of a criminal was brought him to be signed, he was heard to cry out, with seeming concern, " Would to heaven that I had never learned to write !" But as he increased in years, his crimes seemed to increase in equal proportion.
Página 282 - Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck that he might cut it off...
Página 217 - permit me to share in this honor also ; among all the miseries of my exile, it will be my last sad comfort that I have been able to assist at the funeral of my old commander, and touch the body of the bravest general that ever Rome produced.
Página 26 - Severus, and from thence, winding to the left, passed near the ruined pillars of the temple of Concord, as it is commonly but improperly called, and from thence led to the...
Página 214 - are we pursued to our very entrenchments ?" And immediately quitting1 his armour, for a habit more suitable to his circumstances, he fled on horseback ; giving way to all the agonizing reflections which his deplorable situation must naturally suggest. In this melancholy manner he passed along the vale of Tempe, and pursuing the course of the river Peneus, at last arrived at a fisherman's hut, in which he passed the night. From thence he went on board a little bark, and keeping along the seashore...
Página 68 - ... the Roman youth rushed in among them with drawn swords, seized the youngest and most beautiful women, and carried them off by violence.
Página 49 - Per'seus's table. Next to these came Per'seus's chariot, in which his armour was placed, and on that his diadem.
Página 50 - ... a laurel branch in his right hand. All the army, in like manner, with boughs of laurel in their hands, divided into...