The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 3Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1856 - Rome |
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Adolphus Africa Alani Alaric Ambrose Ammianus ancient Arcadius arms army Attalus Attila Augustin Barbarians bishop calamities camp captive celebrated character Christian Chrysostom church civil Claudian conqueror conquest Constantine Constantinople court danger Danube death deserved disgrace East Eccles edit emperor empire enemy Epist Etius Eunapius eunuch Eutropius faith father favor favorite fortune Fritigern Gaul gold Gothic Goths Gratian Greek Hist historian honorable Honorius hundred Huns Idatius Imperial insult Italy Jerom Jornandes king laws Libanius Maximus Mém merit Milan military ministers monarch nation Orosius Pagan palace passions peace perhaps person Philostorgius Placidia poet præfect prince Procopius provinces Radagaisus rank Ravenna reign republic revenge Roman Rome royal Rufinus ruin Scythia senate siege slaves soldiers soon sovereign Sozomen spirit Stilicho success Theodos Theodosius thousand throne Tillemont tion treaty tribes troops tyrant usurper Valens Valentinian valor Vandals victory youth zeal Zosimus
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Page 226 - Amiens, experienced the cruel oppression of the German yoke; and the consuming flames of war spread from the banks of the Rhine over the greatest part of the seventeen provinces of Gaul. That rich and extensive country, as far as the ocean, the Alps, and the Pyrenees, was delivered to the Barbarians, who drove before them, in a promiscuous crowd, the bishop, the senator, and the virgin, laden with the spoils of their houses and altars.
Page 391 - Gothic historian, bore the stamp of his national origin ; and the portrait of Attila exhibits the genuine deformity of a modern Calmuck; a large head, a swarthy complexion, small deepseated eyes, a flat nose, a few hairs in the place of a beard, broad shoulders, and a short square body, of nervous strength, though of a disproportioned form.
Page 257 - Caesar and Alexander. Yet should a fly presume to settle on the silken folds of their gilded umbrellas, should a sunbeam penetrate through some unguarded and imperceptible chink, they deplore their intolerable hardships, and lament in affected language that they were not born in the land of the Cimmerians, the regions of eternal darkness.
Page 279 - These impending calamities were, however, averted, not indeed by the wisdom of Honorius, but by the prudence or humanity of the Gothic King; who employed a milder, though not less effectual, method of conquest. Instead of assaulting the capital, he successfully directed his efforts against the port of Ostia, one of the boldest and most stupendous works of Roman magnificence.
Page 284 - At the hour of midnight, the Salarian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic trumpet.
Page 391 - 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, though of a disproportioned form. The haughty step and...
Page 452 - Great, by the successful zeal with which he labored to establish his opinions and his authority, under the venerable names of orthodox faith and ecclesiastical discipline. The Roman ambassadors were introduced to the tent of Attila, as he lay encamped at the place where the slow-winding Mincius is lost in the foaming waves of the Lake Benacus," and trampled, with his Scythian cavalry, the farms of Catullus and Virgil.
Page 260 - Tesserarian art (which may be interpreted the game of dice and tables) is a sure road to wealth and reputation. A master of that sublime science, who in a supper or assembly is placed below a magistrate, displays in his countenance the surprise and indignation which Cato might be supposed to feel when he was refused the praetorship by the votes of a capricious people.
Page 125 - John 115 had constructed, with his own hands, an humble cell, in which he had dwelt above fifty years, without opening his door, without seeing the face of a woman, and without tasting any food that had been prepared by fire, or any human art. Five days of the week he spent in prayer and meditation; but on Saturdays and Sundays he regularly opened a small window, and gave audience to the crowd of suppliants who successively flowed from every part of the Christian world. The eunuch of Theodosius approached...
Page 483 - Vandals he ventured, after disguising the colour of his hair, to visit Carthage in the character of his own ambassador; and Genseric was afterwards mortified by the discovery that he had entertained and dismissed the emperor of the Romans. Such an anecdote may be rejected as an improbable fiction...