Why I am a Platonisthttps://friesian.com/ross/platonis.htm
I hope that it was a tribute to the general objectivity and even-handness of my presentations, rather than an exposure of the cluelessness of the student, that they might be left
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exempted them from tribute, and whose cowardice was seldom exposed to military service. But the wiser citizens, who judged of the future by the past, revolved in their memory the
Chapter 41 of 'The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire' - Conquests of Justinian, Belisarius; Siege of Rome by the Goths
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her temples, with the attributes of Juno, Venus, and Ceres; and it was decreed, that on the day of their nuptials, the youth of either sex should pay their vows before the altar o
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or superstition, contributed to raise the Syrian youth to the empire of Rome. A numerous body of troops was stationed at Emesa; and, as the severe discipline of Macrinus had const
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Scotch-Irish Settlers in the Valley of Virginiahttps://www.electricscotland.com/history/articles/washington.htm
Its primal dowry was a tribute from the Father of his country to patriotism and valor, so long and often illustrated under his own eye, from the fatal day of Braddock's defeat til
Scotch-Irish Settlers in the Valley of Virginia Alumni Address at Washington College, Lexington, Va., by Bolivar Christian (1860)
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conceived that the tribute of subjects must forever nourish the metropolis of the church and empire. This prejudice was encouraged in some degree by the resort of pilgrims to the
Chapter 69 of 'The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire'; State of Rome from the Twelfth Century.
Eunapius, Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists (1921) pp.343-565. English translationhttps://tertullian.org/fathers/eunapius_02_text.htm
forum and every crowd attributed to Plotinus the credit of Porphyry's renown. For |359 Plotinus, because of the celestial quality of his soul and the oblique and enigmatic charact
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with paying a small tribute. Yet afterwards, recollecting himself, he bore it with great impatience, and though he lived rather like a slave that was pleased with ease, than a man
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and employments was distributed among his friends by the grateful Palaeologus. In his own family he created a despot and two sebastocrators; Alexius Strategopulus was decorated wi
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was the withholding the tribute of Italy, and depriving him of a power which he had recently abused by the imposition of a new capitation. ( 38 ) A form of administration was pres
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as the old registers of tribute had been burnt by the Vandals, he indulged his fancy in a liberal calculation and arbitrary assessment of the wealth of Africa. ( 1 ) The increase
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Suetonius • Life of Claudiushttp://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Claudius*.html
21 1 He very often distributed largess to the people. He also gave several splendid shows, not merely the usual ones in the customary places, but some of a new kind and some revi
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