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Page 11
... dignity of the gods by embodying in themselves all the baser popular legends . Relics of their deified ancestor Romulus , were objects of passionate worship at Rome , especially the black stone which was supposed to be that marking his ...
... dignity of the gods by embodying in themselves all the baser popular legends . Relics of their deified ancestor Romulus , were objects of passionate worship at Rome , especially the black stone which was supposed to be that marking his ...
Page 14
... dignity ; and , so unable was he to stem the superstitious feelings of his countrymen that he crawled on his knees up the steps of the Capitoline temple , to appease Nemesis , the avenging deity who frowns on human pros- perity . The ...
... dignity ; and , so unable was he to stem the superstitious feelings of his countrymen that he crawled on his knees up the steps of the Capitoline temple , to appease Nemesis , the avenging deity who frowns on human pros- perity . The ...
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... dignity in his dealings with the Senate , and treated the nobles with marked distinction . He would not allow himself to be called Dominus , or Lord , as the style of a slave towards his master ; never entered the Senate - house with ...
... dignity in his dealings with the Senate , and treated the nobles with marked distinction . He would not allow himself to be called Dominus , or Lord , as the style of a slave towards his master ; never entered the Senate - house with ...
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... dignity , one of the Sena- tors named Macro arose , read the Emperor's letter , and arrested him as a traitor . Amidst loud plaudits , the fallen favourite was sentenced to death ; and , as he was hurried along from the Senate - house ...
... dignity , one of the Sena- tors named Macro arose , read the Emperor's letter , and arrested him as a traitor . Amidst loud plaudits , the fallen favourite was sentenced to death ; and , as he was hurried along from the Senate - house ...
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... dignity to engage in ' laborious nonsense ' with the Greek scholars of his court , though his praise and patronage were but barren honours , for the slightest difference of opinion , or faintest murmur from the irritable race , ' awoke ...
... dignity to engage in ' laborious nonsense ' with the Greek scholars of his court , though his praise and patronage were but barren honours , for the slightest difference of opinion , or faintest murmur from the irritable race , ' awoke ...
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