The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 5Abraham Small and M. Carey, 1816 |
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... Gelimer Debates on the African war Character and choice of Belisarius 529-532 His services in the Persian war 533 Preparations for the African war Departure of the fleet Belisarius lands on the coast of Africa Defeats the Vandals in a ...
... Gelimer Debates on the African war Character and choice of Belisarius 529-532 His services in the Persian war 533 Preparations for the African war Departure of the fleet Belisarius lands on the coast of Africa Defeats the Vandals in a ...
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... Gelimer , whose Gelimer , 1 The complete series of the Vandal war is related by Procopius in a regular and elegant narrative ( l . i . c . 9-25 . 1. ii . c . 1-13 ) ; and happy would be my lot , could I always tread in the footsteps of ...
... Gelimer , whose Gelimer , 1 The complete series of the Vandal war is related by Procopius in a regular and elegant narrative ( l . i . c . 9-25 . 1. ii . c . 1-13 ) ; and happy would be my lot , could I always tread in the footsteps of ...
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... Gelimer compelled him to reject these requests , which were urged in the haughty tone of menace and command ; and justified his ambition in a language rarely spoken in the By- zantine court . by alleging the right of a free people to ...
... Gelimer compelled him to reject these requests , which were urged in the haughty tone of menace and command ; and justified his ambition in a language rarely spoken in the By- zantine court . by alleging the right of a free people to ...
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... Gelimer had been informed of the approach of Belisarius the enemy , he must have delayed the conquest of Sar- the coast dinia , for the immediate defence of his person and of Africa . kingdom . A detachment of five thousand soldiers ...
... Gelimer had been informed of the approach of Belisarius the enemy , he must have delayed the conquest of Sar- the coast dinia , for the immediate defence of his person and of Africa . kingdom . A detachment of five thousand soldiers ...
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... Gelimer with anxiety and terror . He prudently wished to pro- tract the war till his brother , with his veteran troops , should return from the conquest of Sardinia ; and he now lamented the rash policy of his ancestors , who , by ...
... Gelimer with anxiety and terror . He prudently wished to pro- tract the war till his brother , with his veteran troops , should return from the conquest of Sardinia ; and he now lamented the rash policy of his ancestors , who , by ...
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Africa Agathias Aleman ambassadors Anastasius ancient Anecdot Antonina applauded Arian arms army avarice Barbarians Baronius Belisa Belisarius Bibliot Boethius Byzantine camp Campania capital captives Carthage Cassiodorius cavalry CHAP Chosroes Chron church Colchians Colchos command conqueror conquest Constantinople d'Anville danger Danube death deserted disgrace East emperor empire empress enemy Ennodius Euxine factions faith favour fortifications gates Gelimer gold Gothic king Goths Greek guards hero Heruli Hist historian honourable horses hundred Huns Italy John Malala John of Cappadocia Jornandes justice Justinian laboured Marcellinus merit miles military Mingrelia monarch Muratori Narses nation palace peace perhaps Perozes Persian philosopher præfect prince Procopius Procopius Goth Procopius Persic provinces Ravenna reign restored rius Roman Rome royal Sclavonians senate Sicily siege silk soldiers soon Theodora Theodoric Theophanes thousand throne tinian tion Totila treasures treaty troops valour Vandals victory virtue Vitiges walls XLII XXXIX
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Page 111 - ... either fabulous or doubtful; 1000 of ancient history, commencing with the Persian empire, and the Republics of Rome and Athens...
Page 303 - Institutions : the public reason of the Romans has been silently or studiously transfused into the domestic institutions of Europe, and the laws of Justinian still command the respect or obedience of independent nations. Wise or fortunate is the prince who connects his own reputation with the honour and interest of a perpetual order of men.
Page 378 - In a period of thirteen hundred years, the laws had reluctantly followed the changes of government and manners; and the laudable desire of conciliating ancient names with recent institutions destroyed the harmony, and swelled the magnitude, of the obscure and irregular system. The laws which excuse on any occasions the ignorance of their subjects, confess their own imperfections; the civil jurisprudence, as it was abridged by Justinian, still continued a mysterious science and a profitable trade,...
Page 340 - But the exposition of children was the prevailing and stubborn vice of antiquity : it was sometimes prescribed, often permitted, almost always practised with impunity, by the nations who never entertained the Roman ideas of paternal power...
Page 35 - While Boethius, oppressed with fetters, expected each moment the sentence or the stroke of death, he composed, in the tower of Pavia, the Consolation of Philosophy ; a golden volume not unworthy of the leisure of Plato or Tully, but which claims incomparable merit from the barbarism of the times and the situation of the author.
Page 32 - Athens, which were supported by the zeal, the learning, and the diligence of Proclus and his disciples. The reason and piety of their Roman pupil were fortunately saved from the contagion of mystery and magic, which polluted the groves of the Academy; but he imbibed the spirit, and imitated the method of his dead and living masters , who attempted to reconcile the strong and subtle sense of Aristotle with the devout contemplation and sublime fancy of Plato. After his return to Rome, and his marriage...
Page 461 - Of the characters conspicuous in history, that of Heraclius is one of the most extraordinary and inconsistent. In the first and last years of a long reign, the emperor appears to be the slave of sloth, of pleasure, or of superstition, the careless and impotent spectator of the public calamities. But the languid mists of the morning and evening are separated by the brightness of the meridian sun : the Arcadius of the palace arose the Caesar of the camp ; and the honor of Rome and Heraclius was gloriously...
Page 84 - Anthemius formed the design, and his genius directed the hands of ten thousand workmen, whose payment in pieces of fine silver was never delayed beyond the evening. The emperor himself, clad in a linen tunic, surveyed each day their rapid progress, and encouraged their diligence by his familiarity, his zeal, and his rewards. The new cathedral of St. Sophia was consecrated by the patriarch, five years, eleven months, and ten days from the first foundation; and in the midst of the solemn festival Justinian...
Page 372 - In defiance of every principle of justice, he stretched to past as well as future offences the operations of his edicts, with the previous allowance of a short respite for confession and pardon. A painful death was inflicted by the amputation of the sinful instrument, or the insertion of sharp reeds into the pores and tubes of most exquisite sensibility...
Page 290 - ... to announce the death of the tyrant, and to excite a sedition in the capital. But the indiscretion of an accomplice saved the poor remnant of the days of Justinian. The conspirators were detected and seized, with daggers hidden under their garments : Marcellus died by his own hand, and Sergius was dragged from the sanctuary.