The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith, Band 41854 |
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... Rome 36 37 39 29 at Ravenna The Gladiators abolished Honorius fixes his Residence 400. The Revolutions of Scythia 40 41 43 31 405. Emigration of the northern 31 · 403. Honorius flies from Milan 33 He is pursued and besieged by the Goths ...
... Rome 36 37 39 29 at Ravenna The Gladiators abolished Honorius fixes his Residence 400. The Revolutions of Scythia 40 41 43 31 405. Emigration of the northern 31 · 403. Honorius flies from Milan 33 He is pursued and besieged by the Goths ...
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... Rome 67 68 Genealogy of the Senators 71 • The Anician Family 72 73 75 Wealth of the Roman Nobles Their Manners Character of the Roman No- bles , by Ammianus Marcel- linus State and Character of the People of Rome · Public Distribution ...
... Rome 67 68 Genealogy of the Senators 71 • The Anician Family 72 73 75 Wealth of the Roman Nobles Their Manners Character of the Roman No- bles , by Ammianus Marcel- linus State and Character of the People of Rome · Public Distribution ...
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... ROME BY GENSERIC , KING OF THE VANDALS . HIS NAVAL DEPRE- DATIONS . SUCCESSION OF THE LAST EMPERORS OF THE WEST , MAXIMUS , AVITUS , MAJORIAN , SEVERUS , ANTHEMIUS , OLYBRIUS , GLYCERIUS , NEPOS , AUGUSTULUS . TOTAL EXTINCTION OF THE ...
... ROME BY GENSERIC , KING OF THE VANDALS . HIS NAVAL DEPRE- DATIONS . SUCCESSION OF THE LAST EMPERORS OF THE WEST , MAXIMUS , AVITUS , MAJORIAN , SEVERUS , ANTHEMIUS , OLYBRIUS , GLYCERIUS , NEPOS , AUGUSTULUS . TOTAL EXTINCTION OF THE ...
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... Rome expired with Theodosius , the last of the succes- sors of Augustus and Constantine who appeared in the Division of field at the head of their armies , and whose authority was the empire universally acknowledged throughout the whole ...
... Rome expired with Theodosius , the last of the succes- sors of Augustus and Constantine who appeared in the Division of field at the head of their armies , and whose authority was the empire universally acknowledged throughout the whole ...
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... Rome raised him to the dignity of a military count ; the narrow policy of the court of Theodosius had adopted the mischievous expedient of supporting a legal government by the interest of a powerful family ; and the brother of Firmus ...
... Rome raised him to the dignity of a military count ; the narrow policy of the court of Theodosius had adopted the mischievous expedient of supporting a legal government by the interest of a powerful family ; and the brother of Firmus ...
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Aëtius Africa Alani Alaric Alps ambition ancient Anthemius Arcadius arms army arts Attila Augustin Avitus barbarians bishop Bonn Cæsar camp captive Carthage cavalry celebrated character Christian Chronicle Chrysostom church Claudian command conqueror conquest Constantine Constantinople consulship court danger Danube death deserved disgrace East Ecclés emperor enemy Epist eunuch Eutropius expression faithful favour favourite fortune Gaul Genseric gold Gothic king Goths Greek Hist historian Honorius honourable hundred Huns Idatius Imperial Italy Jerom Jornandes laws Majorian Marcellinus Mém military minister monarch monks nations negociation noble Odoacer oppressed Orosius Pagan palace palace of Constantinople Panegyr peace perhaps Placidia poet præfect prince Priscus Procopius provinces Radagaisus rank Ravenna reign republic retreat revenge Ricimer Roman Rome royal Rufinus ruin Scythia senate Sidonius soldiers soon sovereign Sozomen Spain spirit Stilicho subjects Suevi Theodosius thousand throne Tillemont treaty troops tyrant usurper Valentinian valour Vandals victory Visigoths Zosimus
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Seite 111 - The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic coast The prostrate South to the destroyer yields Her boasted titles and her golden fields • With grim delight the brood of winter view A brighter day, and heavens of azure hue, Scent the new fragrance of the breathing rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows.
Seite 24 - MAWE'S (HL) Journal of a Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, crossing the Andes in the Northern Provinces of Peru, and descending the great River Maranon.
Seite 194 - Attila, the son of Mundzuk, deduced his noble, perhaps his regal, descent from the ancient Huns, who had formerly contended with the monarchs of China. His features, according to the observation of a Gothic historian, bore the stamp of his national origin; and the portrait of Attila exhibits the genuine deformity of a modern Calmuk; a large head, a swarthy complexion, small, deep-seated eyes, a flat nose, a few hairs in the place of a beard, broad shoulders, and a short square body, of nervous strength,...
Seite 10 - From the First Invasion by the Romans, down to the 14th year of Queen Victoria's Reign. By MRS.
Seite 46 - The correspondence of nations was in that age so imperfect and precarious that the revolutions of the North might escape the knowledge of the court of Ravenna; till the dark cloud which was collected along the coast of the Baltic burst in thunder upon the banks of the Upper Danube.
Seite 5 - The three witnesses have been established in our Greek Testaments by the prudence of Erasmus; the honest bigotry of the Complutensian editors; the typographical fraud, or error, of Robert Stephens in the placing a crotchet; and the deliberate falsehood, or strange misapprehension, of Theodore Beza.