Category: History - Ancient
Such information as may be directly obtained from literary tradition is not merely without form and colour, but in fact for the most part without substance. The list of the Roman monarchs is just about as trustworthy and just about as instructive as that of the consuls of the...
The Roman Republic extended its territory chiefly by means of the sea towards the west, south, and east: little was done towards extending it in the direction, in which Italy an...
11. CHAPTER VI.As the frontier on the Rhine was the work of Caesar, so the frontier on the Danube was the work of Augustus. When he came to the helm, the Romans were in the Italian peninsula h...
12. CHAPTER VII.With the general intellectual development of the Hellenes the political development of their republics had not kept equal pace, or rather the luxuriant growth of the former had-...
7. CHAPTER IV.The two Roman provinces of Upper and Lower Germany were the result of that defeat of the Roman arms and of Roman policy under the reign of Augustus which has been already (p. 55...
16. CHAPTER VIII.The great peninsula which is washed on three sides by the three seas, the Black, the Aegean, and the Mediterranean, and which is connected towards the east with the Asiatic cont...
6. CHAPTER III.Like Spain, southern Gaul had already in the time of the republic become a part of the Roman empire, yet neither so early nor so completely as the former country. The two Spanis...
19. li. 20: τοῖς ξένοις, Ἕλληνας σφᾶς ἐπικαλέσας, ἑαυτῷ τινα, τοῖς μὲν[238: Besides the Galatarchs (Marquardt, _Staatsverw._ i. 515) we meet in Galatia even under Hadrian Helladarchae (_Bull. de corr. Hell._ vii. 18), who can only be taken here li...
8. CHAPTER V.Ninety-seven years elapsed from the time when Roman troops had entered, subdued, and again abandoned the great island in the north-western ocean, before the Roman government res...
4. CHAPTER II.The accidents of external policy caused the Romans to establish themselves on the Pyrenaean peninsula earlier than in any other part of the transmarine mainland, and to institut...
13. v. 12, 6, οἱ πάντες Ἕλληνες set up statues in Olympia to Trajan, and αἱ[163: So (only that the Dorians are wanting; comp. p. 259, note 2) the union is termed on the inscription of Acraephia (Keil, _Syll. Inscr. Boeot._ n. 31). But this very documen...
15. iii. 11, 6) are not military districts, but, as is apparent withspecial clearness in Ptolemy, land-districts, which correspond with the tribes (στρατηγία Μαιδική, Βεσσική κ. τ. λ.) and form a contrast to the towns. The designation στρατηγός...
2. CHAPTER VIII.Such information as may be directly obtained from literary tradition is not merely without form and colour, but in fact for the most part without substance. The list of the Roma...
18. c. 11, reports as to the distinctions and salaries granted by Pius to[228: Dio of Prusa, in his address to the citizens of Nicomedia and of Tarsus, excellently lays it down that no man of culture would have such empty distinctions for himself, an...
14. xxxix. 53), for which latter place also the distinctively Macedonian[201: Calybe near Byzantium arose according to Strabo (vii. 6, 2, p. 320) φιλίππου τοῦ Ἀμύντου τοὺς πονηροτάτους ἐνταῦθα ἱδρύσαντος. Philippopolis is alleged even according to t...
9. lxxv. 5), but cannot possibly, even according to the description whichDio gives of their district, be placed to the south of Hadrian's wall, and those of the Caledonians have extended up to the latter. Thus what is here meant is the line from Glas...
10. xiv. 31), is probably to be taken not as a sanctuary for the town[116: The command stationed here was, at least in later times, without question the most important among the Britannic; and there is also mention here (for it is beyond doubt Eb...
5. ii. 2776)--the only Spanish example of this worship so widely diffused_Verona docti syllabas amat vatis, Marone felix Mantua est, Censetur Apona Livio suo tellus Stellaque nec Flacco minus, Apollodoro plaudit imbrifer Nilus, Nasone Peligni sonant,...
17. xxvii. 1, 6, 3) "interests all provinces, although it is directed tothe people of Asia." It is suitable, in fact, only where there are classes of towns, and the jurist adds an instruction how it is to be applied to provinces otherwise organised....
1. CHAPTER VI.