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Page 194 - ... the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images.
Page 142 - ROMAN EMPERORS FROM AUGUSTUS TO MARCUS AURELIUS. (From 31 BC to AD 180.) Augustus reigns . 31 BC to AD 14 Tiberius AD 14-37 Caligula 37-41 Claudius 41-54 Nero 54-68 Galba 68-69 Otho . . . 69 Vitellius 69 Vespasian 69-79 Titus 79-81 Domitian 81-96 Nerva 96-98 Trajan 98-117 Hadrian . . 117-138 Antoninus Pius 138-161 Marcus Aurelius .... 161-180 Verus associated with Aurelius 161-169 The first eleven, in connection with Julius Caesar, are called the Twelve Caesars.
Page 169 - Attila, even if they did not belong to the same subdivision of that stock. Nor is there any improbability in the tradition that after Attila's death many of his warriors remained in Hungary, and that their descendants afterwards joined the Huns of Arpad in their career of conquest. It is certain that Attila made Hungary the seat of his empire.
Page 17 - The Aborigines and Trojans were soon after attacked together in war. Turnus, king of the Rutulians, to whom Lavinia had been affianced before the coming of ^Eneas, enraged that a stranger had been preferred to himself, made war on J£neas and Latinus together.
Page 139 - The consent of antiquity plainly declares that Antoninus was the first, and, saving his colleague and successor Aurelius, the only one of the emperors who devoted himself to the task of government with a single view to the happiness of his people.