ItalyCovers period to 1870. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alps Antony aristocratic arms army assassination Austria banners barbarians battle blood Brutus Cæsar called camp Carthage Carthaginians Catiline cause Christian church Cicero citizens Cleopatra command commenced compelled conflict Constantine consuls court crown death decemvirs declared Diocletian duchy duke Elagabalus emperor endeavored energy entered Europe father favor fled fleet force France French friends Gaul Genoa Greece Hannibal head holy honor hundred illustrious immediately imperial insurrection island Italian Italy Julius Cæsar king kingdom kingdom of Naples land legions Lombardy Marius Milan miles military monarch Naples Napoleon nations Nero nobles Octavius palace papal party patricians peace placed plebeians plunder Pompey pope popular prince provinces rallied ravaged received reign renowned republic retreat Roman empire Rome roused Sardinia Scipio senate sent shore Sicily slain slaves soldiers soon sovereign Spain surrendered sword Sylla territory thousand throne Tiber Tiberius tion took triumph troops Tuscany Victor Emanuel victory whole
Popular passages
Page 326 - Hence, to suppress the rumor, he falsely charged with the guilt and punished with the most exquisite tortures the persons commonly called Christians, who were hated for their enormities. Christus, the founder of that name, was put to death as a criminal by Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea, in the reign of Tiberius...
Page 338 - You have done perfectly right, my dear Pliny, in the inquiry which you have made concerning Christians. For truly no one general rule can be laid down, which will apply itself to all cases. These people must not be sought after— if they are brought before you and convicted let them be capitally punished, yet with this restriction, that if any one renounce Christianity, and evidence his sincerity by supplicating our gods, however suspected he may be for the past, he shall obtain pardon for the future,...
Page 506 - The hour of vengeance has struck ; but the people of all nations may rest in peace : we are the friends of every people, and especially of the descendants of Brutus, Scipio, and the other great men whom we have taken for examples. To restore the Capitol ; to replace there the statues of the heroes who have rendered it immortal ; to rouse the Romans from centuries of slavery ; such will be the fruit of our victories ; they will form an era in history ; to you will belong the glory of having changed...
Page 341 - Poor little, pretty, fluttering thing, Must we no longer live together, And dost thou prune thy trembling wing, To take thy flight thou know'st not whither. Thy humorous vein, thy pleasing folly, Lies all neglected, all forgot; And pensive, wavering, melancholy, Thou dread'st and hop'st thou know'st not what.
Page 375 - Roman people," says Aurelian, in an original letter, "speak with contempt of the war which I am waging against a woman. They are ignorant both of the character and of the power of Zenobia. It is impossible to enumerate her warlike preparations of stones, of arrows, and of every species of missile weapons. Every part of the walls is provided with two or three balistce, and artificial fires are thrown from her military engines.
Page 326 - Christians; next, on their information, a vast multitude were convicted, not so much on the charge of burning the city, as of hating the human race.
Page 414 - ... of the Goths was incapable of bearing the salutary yoke of laws and civil government. From that moment I proposed to myself a different object of glory and ambition ; and it is now my sincere wish, that the gratitude of future ages should acknowledge the merit of a stranger, who employed the sword of the Goths, not to subvert, but to restore and maintain, the prosperity of the Roman Empire.
Page 326 - And in their deaths they were also made the subjects of sport, for they were covered with the hides of wild beasts, and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses, or set fire to, and when day declined, burned to serve for nocturnal lights.