 | Brian O'Kill - 1986 - 200 Seiten
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 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 Seiten
...iron" (I, 86). Gibbon warms to his task with enormous relish: It is almost superfluous to enumerate the unworthy successors of Augustus. Their unparalleled...dark unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the stupid Claudius, the profligate and cruel Nero, the beastly Vitellius, and the timid inhuman Domitian... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1988 - 476 Seiten
...25 1 ; and compare Gibbon's statement that 'The dark unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, and the feeble Claudius, the Profligate and cruel Nero,...inhuman Domitian, are condemned to everlasting infamy' (Decline and Fall, ch. 3). EXAMPLE I. We read in Plutarch, that a soldier of king Pyrrhus being slain,... | |
 | Martin Thom - 1995 - 376 Seiten
...had thus survived the iron age of 'the dark unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the stupid Claudius, the profligate and cruel Nero, the beastly Vitellius, and the timid, inhuman Domitian', and, after breathing again under the Flavians, enjoyed unparalleled peace and prosperity.45 It was... | |
 | Michael Attyah Flower, Michael A. Flower - 1997 - 286 Seiten
...sensational, and only a writer of consummate literary art can avoid the latter. Gibbon could refer to 'the dark unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula,...beastly Vitellius, and the timid inhuman Domitian' and remain within the sphere of the brilliant.5 But Theopompus, regardless of whether his accusations... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 Seiten
...Trajan and the Antonines had been preceded by an age of iron. It is almost superfluous to enumerate the unworthy successors of Augustus. Their unparalleled...dark unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the stupid Claudius, the profligate and cruel Nero, the beastly Vitellius,50 and the timid inhuman Domitian... | |
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It is almost superfluous to enumerate the unworthy successors of Augustus. Their unparalleled vices, and the splendid theatre on which they were acted, have saved them from oblivion. The dark unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the feeble Claudius,... 
