The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Band 1Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 1994 - 3360 Seiten A new critical edition, complete & unmodernized. Contains variants, & comments & notes by Gibbon, plus his famous Vindication. Also includes description of the development of the work within the framework of Gibbon's life & the culture of the era. |
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... person , when the general of the army was , at the same time , the minister of the senate and the representative of the Roman people , it was impossible to resist the exercise , nor was it easy to define the limits , of his imperial ...
... person , when the general of the army was , at the same time , the minister of the senate and the representative of the Roman people , it was impossible to resist the exercise , nor was it easy to define the limits , of his imperial ...
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... person from the dagger of a determined republican ; and the Romans , who revered the memory of Brutus , " would applaud the imitation of his virtue . Cæsar had provoked his fate as much by the osten- tation of his power as by his power ...
... person from the dagger of a determined republican ; and the Romans , who revered the memory of Brutus , " would applaud the imitation of his virtue . Cæsar had provoked his fate as much by the osten- tation of his power as by his power ...
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... person of her son . In a hasty sally of passion Elagabalus resolved to execute by force what he had been unable to compass by fraud , and by a despotic sentence degraded his cousin from the rank and hon- ors of Cæsar . The message was ...
... person of her son . In a hasty sally of passion Elagabalus resolved to execute by force what he had been unable to compass by fraud , and by a despotic sentence degraded his cousin from the rank and hon- ors of Cæsar . The message was ...
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