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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)Gibbon, Edward

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

Name: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
Author: Gibbon, Edward

Gibbon, Edward

Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527; Indexes; Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

government.


      42 (return) [ Without the help of medals and inscriptions, we
      should be ignorant of this fact, so honorable to the memory of
      Pius. Note: Gibbon attributes to Antoninus Pius a merit which he
      either did not possess, or was not in a situation to display.


      1. He was adopted only on the condition that he would adopt, in
      his turn, Marcus Aurelius and L. Verus.


      2. His two sons died children, and one of them, M. Galerius,
      alone, appears to have survived, for a few years, his father’s
      coronation. Gibbon is also mistaken when he says (note 42) that
      “without the help of medals and inscriptions, we should be
      ignorant that Antoninus had two sons.” Capitolinus says
      expressly, (c. 1,) Filii mares duo, duæ-fœminæ; we only owe their
      names to the medals. Pagi. Cont. Baron, i. 33, edit Paris.—W.]


      43 (return) [ During the twenty-three years of Pius’s reign,
      Marcus was only two nights absent from the palace, and even those
      were at different times. Hist. August. p. 25.]


      Titus Antoninus Pius has been justly denominated a second Numa.
      The same love of religion, justice, and peace, was the
      distinguishing characteristic of both princes. But the situation
      of the latter opened a much larger field for the exercise of
      those virtues. Numa could only prevent a few neighboring villages
      from plundering each other’s harvests. Antoninus diffused order
      and tranquillity over the greatest part of the earth. His reign
      is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials
      for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of
      the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. In private life,
      he was an amiable, as well as a good man. The native simplicity
      of his virtue was a stranger to vanity or affectation. He enjoyed
      with moderation the conveniences of his fortune, and the innocent
      pleasures of society; 44 and the benevolence of his soul
      displayed itself in a cheerful serenity of temper.


      44 (return) [ He was fond of the theatre, and not insensible to
      the charms of the fair sex. Marcus Antoninus, i. 16. Hist.
      August. p. 20, 21. Julian in Cæsar.]

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)Gibbon, Edward

History

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

Gibbon, Edward

Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527; Indexes; Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.

government.


      42 (return) [ Without the help of medals and inscriptions, we
      should be ignorant of this fact, so honorable to the memory of
      Pius. Note: Gibbon attributes to Antoninus Pius a merit which he
      either did not possess, or was not in a situation to display.


      1. He was adopted only on the condition that he would adopt, in
      his turn, Marcus Aurelius and L. Verus.


      2. His two sons died children, and one of them, M. Galerius,
      alone, appears to have survived, for a few years, his father’s
      coronation. Gibbon is also mistaken when he says (note 42) that
      “without the help of medals and inscriptions, we should be
      ignorant that Antoninus had two sons.” Capitolinus says
      expressly, (c. 1,) Filii mares duo, duæ-fœminæ; we only owe their
      names to the medals. Pagi. Cont. Baron, i. 33, edit Paris.—W.]


      43 (return) [ During the twenty-three years of Pius’s reign,
      Marcus was only two nights absent from the palace, and even those
      were at different times. Hist. August. p. 25.]


      Titus Antoninus Pius has been justly denominated a second Numa.
      The same love of religion, justice, and peace, was the
      distinguishing characteristic of both princes. But the situation
      of the latter opened a much larger field for the exercise of
      those virtues. Numa could only prevent a few neighboring villages
      from plundering each other’s harvests. Antoninus diffused order
      and tranquillity over the greatest part of the earth. His reign
      is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials
      for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of
      the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. In private life,
      he was an amiable, as well as a good man. The native simplicity
      of his virtue was a stranger to vanity or affectation. He enjoyed
      with moderation the conveniences of his fortune, and the innocent
      pleasures of society; 44 and the benevolence of his soul
      displayed itself in a cheerful serenity of temper.


      44 (return) [ He was fond of the theatre, and not insensible to
      the charms of the fair sex. Marcus Antoninus, i. 16. Hist.
      August. p. 20, 21. Julian in Cæsar.]

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

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