Category: History - European
The only great state with which the Roman empire bordered was the empire of Iran,[1] based upon that nationality which was best known in antiquity, as it is in the present day, under the name of the Persians, consolidated politically by the old Persian royal family of the Acha...
The only great state with which the Roman empire bordered was the empire of Iran,[1] based upon that nationality which was best known in antiquity, as it is in the present day,...
4. CHAPTER XI.The history of the Jewish land is as little the history of the Jewish people as the history of the States of the Church is that of the Catholics; it is just as requisite to sepa...
5. CHAPTER XII.The two kingdoms of Egypt and Syria, which had so long striven and vied with each other in every respect, fell nearly about the same time without resistance into the power of th...
6. CHAPTER XIII.North Africa, in a physical and ethnographic point of view, stands by itself like an island. Nature has isolated it on all sides, partly by the Atlantic and the Mediterranean Se...
3. CHAPTER X.It was very gradually that the Romans, after acquiring the western half of the coasts of the Mediterranean, resolved on possessing themselves also of the eastern half. Not the r...
16. ii. 1120, 2015); these events prove at least that the conflicts withthe Moors on the Riff and the associates that flocked to them from the country lying behind did not cease. When the Baquates on the same coast besieged the pretty remote Cartenn...
15. v. 39), are modelled on the assistants associated with the legatesof the imperial provinces for the administration of justice (_legati iuridici_) and the finances (_procuratores provinciae_; _Staatsrecht_ 1^2, p. 223, note 5). That they were a...
7. xvi. 12) and Armageddon, whatever may be meant by it, as the rendezvous[2] This holds true even in some measure for the chronology. The official historiography of the Sassanids reduces the space between the last Darius and the first Sassanid from 5...
13. xvii. 11, 4, to about 1200 talents, whereof about 100 fell to Batanaeawith the adjoining lands, 200 to Galilee and Peraea, the rest to the share of Archelaus; in this doubtless the older Hebrew talent (of about £390) is meant, not, as Hultsch (Met...
8. v. 7, at that time merely Lesser Armenia remained Roman, this may not[83] The Biblical account (1 Kings, ix. 18) as to the building of the town Thamar in Idumaea by king Solomon has only been transferred to Tadmor by a misunderstanding doubtless...
17. i. 164;Probus, opens vine-culture to provincials, i. 109; resumes aggression against the Germans, 166 f.; transfers Bastarnae to Roman bank, 249; subdues Lydus in Isauria, 337; deliver...
11. xi. 32, partly by the recently-established fact (see following note)that the rule of the Nabataeans to the north-east of Damascus was still continuing under Trajan.--Those who start, on the other hand, from the view that, if Aretas ruled in Dama...
9. c. 8; but at the outbreak of the Persian war under Diocletian it isRoman. There is mention at the same place of internal troubles in the Persian empire; also in a discourse held in the year 289 (_Paneg._ iii. c. 17) there is mention of the war,...
14. ii. 13 (written about 250), shows that the circumcision of the non-Jew[198] This exclusion of the joint rule of the senate as of the senators is indicated by Tacitus (_Hist._ i. 11) with the words that Augustus wished to have Egypt administered ex...
10. x. 1634; for Damascus it is at least suggested by that which is thereset up (x. 1576) to the _Iupiter optimus maximus Damascenus_.--We may add that it is here apparent with how good reason Puteoli is called Little Delos. At Delos in the last age...
12. xviii. 1, 1; ἡγησόμενος Ἰουδαίων τῇ ἐπὶ πᾶσιν ἐξουσίᾳ) and their wholedemeanour show that they did not belong to those who, placed under an imperial legate, attended only to financial affairs, but rather, like the procurators of Noricum and Raetia...
1. CHAPTER XIII.