Lectures on the History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of the Western Empire, Volume 2Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, 1849 - Rome |
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Page 67 - ... themselves no longer against what they call fate, as if thereby they could avenge themselves upon fate : others grow desponding and hopeless : but a third class of men will rouse themselves just at such moments, and say to themselves, ' the more difficult it is to attain my ends, the more honourable it will be ¡' and this is a maxim which every one should impress upon himself as a law.
Page 38 - ... in silence. The common account of the death of Regulus may be effaced from the pages of history without any scruple. It may be that it was taken from Naevius, for Diodorus was not acquainted with it, as is clear from his fragments. He knew...
Page 269 - ... we have seen inflicted upon Missolonghi, they at length wished to surrender, Scipio demanded that they should lay down their arms and surrender at discretion. The Numantines then begged for a truce of three days to consider the proposal. This time they employed, especially the persons of the higher classes, in destroying their wives and children, that they might not fall into the hands of the Romans; and the slaughter which they made among themselves was so great, that on the third day only a...
Page 376 - The victory which the rebels had thus gained was followed by the wildest cruelties. Marius had a body-guard of slaves, whom he sent out to murder those whom he wished to get rid of. In this manner the most distinguished persons were despatched, especially his personal enemies.
Page 300 - ... filled that it was unnecessary to change the corn into money. At the time of the Social War the treasury contained about sixty millions sterling. The best use that could be made of it was to benefit the people, that is, the sovereign, and a vast number of whom were as poor as the poor in our own days. What should such a population of free men do? Were they to beg, or should the State support them? The idea of the dignity of every individual belonging to a free State lies at the bottom of many...
Page 195 - Scipio is very instructive, for it shews how the state was hastening towards its dissolution. No one thought of the republic being in danger, and the danger was indeed as yet far distant; but the seeds of dissolution were nevertheless sown, and its symptoms were already beginning to become visible.
Page xiii - ... notwithstanding this deficiency in Niebuhr as a lecturer, there was an indescribable charm in the manner in which he treated his subject; the warmth of his feelings, the sympathy which he felt with the persons and things he was speaking of, his strong conviction of the truth of what he was saying, his earnestness, and, above all, the vividness with which he conceived and described the characters of the most prominent men, who were to him living realities, with souls, feelings and passions like...
Page 67 - The differences of character are never more distinctly seen than in times when men are surrounded by difficulties and misfortunes. There are some who, when disappointed by the failure of an undertaking from which they had expected great things, make up their minds at once to exert themselves no longer against what they call fate, as if thereby they could avenge themselves...
Page 37 - Beaufort afterwards adduced further reasons to prove that this tragedy is a complete fiction,2 and that it was probably invented because the Romans allowed that the terms of peace proposed by Regulus were abominable, and that he had to make amends for his shameful conduct.
Page 189 - Gauls into his pay, there being then only 10,000 armed men among them, defeated his rival, and founded the Bithynian state, which gradually became Hellenised. From that time the Gauls sold their services to any one who might seek them, and made the whole of western Asia tributary to themselves. Their history is yet in great confusion; but it can be cleared up, many materials existing for it. They were defeated by Antiochus Soter, whereupon they withdrew into the mountains, whence they afterwards...