Identifier: historyofallnati05wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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h. )............. 150 XI. Bridge and Castle of St. Angelo (Hadrians Mausoleum), in Rome. (From a photograph.) ............ 151 XII. The Porta Nigra at Treves. Exterior view. (From a photograph.) . . 167 XIII. The Amphitheatre at Verona. (From a photograph.) 168 XIV. Bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, on the Capitol in Rome. (From a photograph.) .......... 190 XV. Reliefs on the Column of Marcus Aurelius, in Rome. (From Bartoli- Bellorius.) 191 XVI. Triumphal Arch of Septimius Severus, near the Roman Forum. (From a photograph.).........••• 197 XVII. Ruins of the Baths of Caracalla : interior view. (From a photograph.) . 202XVIII. Remains of the Palace of the Caesars, in Treves. (From a photograph.) . 218XIX. Triumphal Arch of Constantino the Great, in Rome. (From a photo-graph.) ............. 22Ö XX. Apin-oach to the Capitol, Rome. (From a photograph.) .... 239 BOOK I. EOME: FROM THE FOUNDING OF THE EMPIRE TO THE DEATH OF SEPTIMIUS SEVERXJS. (B.C. 31-A.D. 211.) PLATE I
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Statue of the Emperor Augustus. From the ruuis of the Villa ofOvia, at Primaporta, near Rome. Vatican. (From a photograph.) History of All Nations, Vol. V., page 19. PART I. THE JULIA)^ EMPEROES. (B.c. 31-A.D. 68.) CHAPTER I. THE PRINCIPATE OF AUGUSTUS. (B.c. 31—A.D. 14.) WHEN Octavian (Plate I.) closed the temple of Janus in August,B.c. 29, he stood before a heap of ruins. The world, from theAtlantic to the Euphrates, was exhausted, and the old Roman constitu-tion had received its final blow. The one universal wish was for thepermanence of peace. Octavian did not shrink from the task before him. During theforty-four years allotted him, he exercised his power wisely and on thewhole benevolently. If he did not possess the genius of his adoptivefather, he must, nevertheless, be counted among the great rulers; andhe did succeed in drawing the lines witliin which the Roman worldwas confined for three centuries. For the central government and theruling Roman-Italian people there was builhistoryofallnati05wrig

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