epub |eng | 2018-03-07 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]

CII (F I, 5 b) TO P. LENTULUS SPINTHER (IN CILICIA) Rome (February) B.C. 56, ÆT. 50 What is being done and has been done here I imagine you know ...

epub |eng | 2008-09-30 | Author:Einhard & Notker The Stammerer

In the preface to this little work I said I would follow three authorities only. But as the chief of these, Werinbert, died seven days ago and today (30 May) ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-18 | Author:Suetonius

DIVUS CLAUDIUS 1. When, three months after her marriage to Augustus, Livia gave birth to Decimus (later Nero) Drusus, the father of Claudius Caesar, people suspected that Augustus, not her ...

epub |eng | 2010-01-07 | Author:Tacitus

Glossary of Terms auxiliaries Non-citizen troops, often from less developed parts of the empire, serving with the Roman army; from the reign of Augustus on they constituted a formal and ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:Watson, Alaric;

The purpose and legacy of Aurelian’s walls The circumstances that inspired Aurelian to build the walls to a large degree dictated their nature. They had to be built in a ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-06-08 | Author:Douglas Boin [Boin, Douglas]

CHAPTER EIGHT Into the Labyrinth To the fight / which lies before me now I go with Justice. —EURIPIDES In 397 Arcadius’s men appointed Alaric general of Illyricum. He had ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Lucan [Lucan]

CORDUS BURIES POMPEY But before the victor reached the sands of Pharos, Fortune granted Pompey a hasty burial, lest he have a better tomb, or none at all. Out of ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Lucan

CORDUS BURIES POMPEY But before the victor reached the sands of Pharos, Fortune granted Pompey a hasty burial, lest he have a better tomb, or none at all. Out of ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Einhard & Notker

The Second Book of the Deeds of Charles 1. As I am going to found this narrative on the story told by a man of the world, who had little ...

epub |eng | 2016-12-21 | Author:Cicero

“The three following years the city was free from the tumult of arms; but either by the death, the voluntary retirement, or the flight of our ablest Orators (for even ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lord Mahon

epub |eng | 2008-03-05 | Author:Suetonius

epub |eng | 2016-01-22 | Author:Martijn Icks [Icks, Martijn]

THE ‘EVIL TYRANT’: SELECTED WORKS Elagabalus in Aureli and Cavalli’s Eliogabalo (1667) Francesco Cavalli (1602–76) was one of the greatest opera composers of his time. When the impresario of the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Potter, David;

In very truth it was not without good cause that the mercy of Christ withdrew from these, in whom it is clear as day that their madness is of such ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Kathryn Tempest [Tempest, Kathryn]

Terror at Rome For the remaining months of Cicero’s life, we must make do without any speeches or letters from his hands. It makes little difference; by then Cicero had ...