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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3CHAPTER V. 1 There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.' ?Shakspeare. HADRIAN?ANTONINUS PIUS?AURELIUS ANTONINUS?COMMODUS. Hadrian is generally classed as the first of the philosophical Emperors; but his genius was many-sided, and entitles him to rank with the foremost soldiers and statesmen of the Empire. His first acts were to secure the favour of the army by a double largess, and to conciliate the Senate by a vow, that no Senator's blood should ever stain his hands. Recurring to the policy of Augustus, he next proceeded to confine the possessions of the Empire within natural and easily defended limits, and abandoned all Trajan's new conquests in the East; alleging that there was no soil beyond the Euphrates in which the Roman institutions could take root, while the expense of maintaining them would be utterly exhausting. Though ample and liberal, Hadrian was by no means extravagant; and even his buildings, however splendid, were far less numerous and various than those of Trajan. On great occasions, the shows and processions with which he favoured the populace were exceedingly magnificent. Once he exhibited combats of gladiators for six days in succession, and gave a birth-day massacre of a thousand wild beasts but such banquets of blood and treasure were not often repeated. Hadrian piqued himself on his passion for philosophy and taste for the fine arts, and delighted in the society of scholars and in trials of skill with them, though seldom able to control his temper. One day a rhetorician, after yielding a strong position to the Emperor, being asked ' Why he defended himself so feebly ?' replied, with a smile, ' It is ill arguing with the master of thirty legions.' But more important engagements soon engrossed his hours; for, partly from ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443286695
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 156
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1443286699
  • Publisher Date: 03 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 290 gr


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