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... Augustus fashioned two strong weapons . An all - controlling Central Government checked sternly all incipient nationalist disloyalty . But this by itself was not enough . There was also need of some common bond of union to link every ...
... Augustus fashioned two strong weapons . An all - controlling Central Government checked sternly all incipient nationalist disloyalty . But this by itself was not enough . There was also need of some common bond of union to link every ...
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... Augustan monument of marble . The Janiculum on the western bank was the " bridge - head . " So long as a Roman garrison held this hill , Rome was safe from attack from the north . The red flag floating on the hilltop showed that the ...
... Augustan monument of marble . The Janiculum on the western bank was the " bridge - head . " So long as a Roman garrison held this hill , Rome was safe from attack from the north . The red flag floating on the hilltop showed that the ...
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... Augustus to devise a new form of Constitution in place of the out - worn Republic , wherein this Collegiate principle could seem to be reconciled with the actual possession by one man of supreme power in the State . The char- acter of ...
... Augustus to devise a new form of Constitution in place of the out - worn Republic , wherein this Collegiate principle could seem to be reconciled with the actual possession by one man of supreme power in the State . The char- acter of ...
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... Principate for study and that series of Roman Emperors , Augustus , Tiberius , Caligula , Claudius , and Nero , who , both by the gloomy genius of a Tacitus and the venomous gossip of a Suetonius , live for us as do THE " THREE PERIODS " ...
... Principate for study and that series of Roman Emperors , Augustus , Tiberius , Caligula , Claudius , and Nero , who , both by the gloomy genius of a Tacitus and the venomous gossip of a Suetonius , live for us as do THE " THREE PERIODS " ...
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... Augustus ' stately manifesto , graven for us on Ancyra's temple walls , may rivet the attention duly . But in a sense no less appealing is the simple record of service , regiment , decorations , " 1 Women , it has been said , play no ...
... Augustus ' stately manifesto , graven for us on Ancyra's temple walls , may rivet the attention duly . But in a sense no less appealing is the simple record of service , regiment , decorations , " 1 Women , it has been said , play no ...
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Page 75 - ... tum vos, o Tyrii, stirpem et genus omne futurum exercete odiis, cinerique haec mittite nostro munera. nullus amor populis, nec foedera sunto. exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor, qui face Dardanios ferroque sequare colonos, nunc, olim, quocumque dabunt se tempore vires. litora litoribus contraria, fluctibus undas inprecor, arma armis ; pugnent ipsique nepotesque.
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Page 75 - Ah me, when the mallows wither in the garden, and the green parsley, and the curled tendrils of the anise, on a later day they live again, and spring in another year ; but we men, we, the great and mighty, or wise, when once we have died, in hollow earth we sleep, gone down into silence ; a right long, and endless, and unawakening sleep.
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Page 131 - And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labour fall From their tired hands, and rest Never yet comes more near, Gloom settles slowly down over their breast. And while they try to stem The waves of mournful thought by which they are prest, Death in their prison reaches them, Unfreed, having seen nothing, still unblest.