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... Empire , " from Julius Cæsar to Gallienus , and exhibits Roman art from the dawn of its perfection to the eve of its decline . The facts thus recorded are also clear and satisfactory , not obscured by the dense mists with which the ...
... Empire , " from Julius Cæsar to Gallienus , and exhibits Roman art from the dawn of its perfection to the eve of its decline . The facts thus recorded are also clear and satisfactory , not obscured by the dense mists with which the ...
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... Empire were current money , or merely testimonials of the glory of its princes ; but it would seem that they must have constituted the cash of the realm , for otherwise it may be asked , " what has become of the current coin ? " And ...
... Empire were current money , or merely testimonials of the glory of its princes ; but it would seem that they must have constituted the cash of the realm , for otherwise it may be asked , " what has become of the current coin ? " And ...
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... Empire having been more busied with embroidery , than with sculpture or medals . Although the Sestertii only are made of brass , it is usual to class the three sizes of Es into Large , Middle , and Small - Brass ; the two last of which ...
... Empire having been more busied with embroidery , than with sculpture or medals . Although the Sestertii only are made of brass , it is usual to class the three sizes of Es into Large , Middle , and Small - Brass ; the two last of which ...
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... Empire . Besides these , there are instances of " Two Coppers , " in which medals are hooped round , as it were , with a different metal from that of which they are formed ; and there are specimens of lead money , which ...
... Empire . Besides these , there are instances of " Two Coppers , " in which medals are hooped round , as it were , with a different metal from that of which they are formed ; and there are specimens of lead money , which ...
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... empire . He gained the battle of Philippi , B. C. 42 ; and that of Actium , which made him master of the Roman world , eleven years afterwards . After the defeat and death of all his competitors , the senate dig- nified him with the ...
... empire . He gained the battle of Philippi , B. C. 42 ; and that of Actium , which made him master of the Roman world , eleven years afterwards . After the defeat and death of all his competitors , the senate dig- nified him with the ...
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Agrippina Alexander altar Antoninus Pius ANTONINVS AVG attired Augustorum Augustus AVGG AVGVSTA Balbinus beard bearing brass brown patina CAES CAESAR Caligula Caracalla CCCXCV Claudius coins commemorate Commodus condition Consul iterum Consul tertium cornucopiæ countenance covered crown curule chair death Decius denarii device DIVI Domitian Drusus Eckhel Elagabalus empire excellent preservation exergum S. C. expression father Faustina Felix field S. C. figure Galba Gallienus Germanicus goddess Gordian Hadrian hair holds honour Imperator Cæsar Marcus inscribed Julia large-brass laureated profile laurelled head left hand legend Lucius Macrinus Marcus Aurelius Maximinus naked neck Nero Nerva Obverse P. M. TR Pater Patriæ patina Pertinax PIVS AVG Pontifex Maximus portrait Prætorian Prince procured Pupienus purchased reign represented Reverse right hand Roman Rome S. C. The Emperor seated Senate Severus shew shoulders silver small-brass soldiers standing struck A. D. temple Tiberius Titus togated Trajan Trattle's sale Tribunitia potestate Verus Vespasian Victory
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Page 267 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 188 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.
Page 292 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of life, and poesy, and light — The Sun in human limbs array'd, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight; The shaft hath just been shot — the arrow bright With an immortal's vengeance; in his eye And nostril beautiful disdain, and might, And majesty, flash their full lightnings by Developing in that one glance the Deity.
Page 215 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 248 - There is the moral of all human tales ; « 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption, — barbarism at last And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page...
Page 267 - and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Daci.an mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday! — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire And unavenged? — Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Page 132 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus [ie 96—180 AD].
Page 141 - Tartara solvat; 205 ut sceptrum hoc' (dextra sceptrum nam forte gerebat) ' numquam fronde levi fundet virgulta nee umbras, cum semel in silvis imo de stirpe recisum matre caret, posuitque comas et bracchia ferro, olim arbos, nunc artificis manus aere decoro 210 inclusit, patribusque dedit gestare Latinis.
Page 182 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.
Page 221 - Astarte, queen of Heaven, with crescent horns : To whose bright image nightly by the moon Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs...