History of the Later Roman Commonwealth from the End of the Second Punic War to the Death of Julius Caesar: And of the Reign of Augustus : with a Life of Trajan, Band 1B. Fellowes, 1845 |
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Seite 254 - Sylla had a general taste for literature ; he was intimately acquainted with the writers of Greece ; he delighted in the society of men of talent ; and he was himself long and carefully engaged in recording the history of his own actions : yet no man was ever more stained with cruelty, nor was ever any more degraded by habitual and gross profligacy. Nor is this at all wonderful, if we consider that the intellectual faculties, like the sensual, are gratified by exercise ; and that the pleasure derived...
Seite 540 - He received the due reward of his honest patriotism, in the unusual honours and trusts that were conferred upon him ; but his greatness could not corrupt his virtue : and the boundless powers with which he was repeatedly invested, he wielded with the highest ability and uprightness to the accomplishment of his task, and then, without any undue attempts to prolong their duration, he honestly resigned them. At a period of general cruelty and extortion towards the enemies and subjects of the Commonwealth,...
Seite 540 - ... associates plunged in rapine and massacre, but he preserved himself pure from the contagion of their crimes ; and when the death of Sylla left him almost at the head of the Aristocratical party, he served them ably and faithfully with his sword, while he endeavoured to mitigate the evils of their ascendency, by restoring to the Commons of Rome, on the earliest opportunity, the most important of those privileges and liberties which they had lost under the tyranny of their late master. He received...
Seite 540 - The tears that were shed for Pompey were not only those of domestic affliction ; his fate called forth a more general and honourable mourning. No man had ever gained, at so early an age, the affections of his countrymen ; none had enjoyed them so largely, or preserved them so long with so little interruption.
Seite 538 - Casius, the Egyptian army was seen on the shore, and their fleet lying off at some distance, when presently a boat was observed approaching the ship from the land ; and it was soon found to contain one of the King's chief officers, a man of the name of Achillas, attended by two or three other persons of inferior rank. Among these was a Roman, named L. Septimius, who had served as a Centurion under Pompey in the war with the Pirates, and who, when the boat came near the ship, addressed his old General...
Seite 541 - Pompey, in his foreign commands, was marked by its humanity and spotless integrity ; his conquest of the Pirates was effected with wonderful rapidity, and cemented by a merciful policy, which, instead' of taking vengeance for the past, accomplished the prevention of evil for the future : his presence in Asia, when he conducted the war with Mithridates, was no less a relief to the Provinces from the tyranny of their Governors, than it was their protection against the arms of the enemy.
Seite 395 - ... from the rostra into the Senate-house, and there set fire to it on a pile made at the moment out of the benches, tables, and other furniture which they found at hand. The consequence was, as might have been expected, that the Senate-house itself was involved in the conflagration, and burnt to the ground ; many of the populace, no doubt, delighting in the accident, and pleased to see Clodius, even after his death, becoming the. cause of mischief to that assembly, which, during his lifetime, he...
Seite 4 - Macedon. The Greeks, unable to read the future, and having as yet had no experience of the ambition of Rome, received this act with the warmest gratitude, and seemed to acknowledge the Romans in the character which they assumed, of protectors and deliverers of Greece.
Seite 426 - Ac 59 carry back his answer to Pompey, in which, after studiously dwelling on his supposed injuries, he proposed that both Pompey and himself should give up their armies ; that Pompey should go into Spain ; and that all the forces in Italy should be disbanded on both sides, that the senate and people of Rome might deliberate and decide on all public questions with perfect freedom ; that he himself should resign his provinces of Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul to the officers appointed by the senate...
Seite 334 - ... slight sketch of his extraction also, and of the beginnings of his public career. M. Porcius Cato was the great grandson of Cato the Censor, and the son of M. Cato and Livia, the sister of M. L/ivius Drusus, and the divorced wife of Q. Servilius Cœpio, who perished in the war with the Italian allies.