# The Continental Monthly Vol 5 No 3 March 1864 Devoted To Litera

Author: Unknown

Genre: Public Domain

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: Local public-domain TXT source

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## Summary

When, in the second year of Titus Vespasian, the Roman general Sergius Vanno returned from his armed expedition in the East, and asked for public honors, there were some in the senate who made objection. It was not fitting, they argued, that formal tokens of national commendation should be too readily bestowed. It had not been so in the time of their fathers. Long years of noble, self-sacrificing zeal and arduous service, crowned with conquests of supreme importance, had then been the only acknowledged title to the prize. It was scarcely proper that the same distinctions which had hitherto been awarded for the acquisition of the most valuable provinces should be granted for the annexation...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-continental-monthly-vol-5-no-3-march-1864-devoted-to-litera-dcedbf5d/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-continental-monthly-vol-5-no-3-march-1864-devoted-to-litera-dcedbf5d/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-continental-monthly-vol-5-no-3-march-1864-devoted-to-litera-dcedbf5d/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-continental-monthly-vol-5-no-3-march-1864-devoted-to-litera-dcedbf5d/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-continental-monthly-vol-5-no-3-march-1864-devoted-to-litera-dcedbf5d/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-continental-monthly-vol-5-no-3-march-1864-devoted-to-litera-dcedbf5d/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-continental-monthly-vol-5-no-3-march-1864-devoted-to-litera-dcedbf5d/chapters/5/index.md)