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History of the Romans Under the Empire (Volume 2 )

History of the Romans Under the Empire (Volume 2 )

Merivale, Charles

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ISBN10: 1235788571
ISBN13: 9781235788574
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.36 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1850 Excerpt: ... CHAP. XXII. REFLECTIONS UPON C-fiSAR's ASSASSINATION.--HIS PERSON, CHARACTER, AND ABILITIES CESAR REPRESENTS THK VIRTUES AND DEFECTS OF HIS AGE INFLUENCE OF THE OLD ETRUSCAN DISCIPLINE UPON THE ROMANS: IT IS GRA-DUALLY SUPPLANTED BY THE CIVILIZATION OF THE GREEKS.--CHARACTER OF GREEK CIVILIZATION IN ITS DECAY. PHILOSOPHY AND FREE-THINKING INTRODUCED INTO ROME. DECAY OF THE OLD ITALIAN FAITH, AND RISE OF ORIENTAL SUPERSTITIONS. INFLUENCE OF GREEK IDEAS UPON THK PRINCIPLES OF ROMAN LAW.--LIBERAL TENDENCIES OF CICERO AND THE CONTEMPORARY JURISCONSULTS. INFLU-ENCE OF GREEK LITERATURE UPON THE ROMANS.--CONFLICT BETWEEN THE GREEK AND ITALIAN SPIRIT: ENNIUS, Njevius, LUCILIUS SPIRIT OF IMITATION DIFFUSED OVER ROMAN LITERATURE.--STUDY OF THE GREEK RHETORICIANS: ITS EFFECT UPON ROMAN ELOQUENCE. DECAY OF MILITARY DISCIPLINE. FAMILIARITY WITH THE COURTS AND STANDING ARMIES OF THE EAST DEMORALIZES THE FROCONSULS AND THE LEGIONS FATAL EFFECTS OF THE OBSERVATION OF ROYALTY ABROAD. CONCLUDING REMARKS. Chap. Cjesar was assassinated in his fifty-sixth year. He XXII. fell pierced with twenty-three wounds, only one of Cesar.s which, as the physician who examined his body E?tUre affirmed, was in itself mortal.1 In early life his health had been delicate, and at a later period he was subject to fits of epilepsy, which attacked him in the campaign of Africa, and again before the battle of Munda.2 Yet the energy and habitual i Suet. Jul. 86. 1 Suet. Jul. 45.; Plut. Cam. 17.; Dion, xliii. 32.; Appian. B. C. ii. 101. Comp. Sir Henry Halford.s Essays, p. 61.: Many attacks of epilepsy are symptomatic only of some irritation in the alimentary rapidity of all his movements seem to prove the Chap. robustness of his constitution, at least in middle xxir. life. It may be presumed that if...

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