Memoirs of the Court of Augustus, Volume 3Hamilton, Balfour and Neill, 1753 - Rome |
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Page 79 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.
Page 247 - Popish, as it did for the Pagan worship, for which it was built. For as in the old temple, every one might find the god of his country, and address himself to that deity whose religion he was most devoted to, so it is the same thing now ; every one chooses the patron whom he likes best ; and one may see here different services going on at the same time at different altars, with...
Page 153 - All the judges were touched with compassion at this affecting scene ; Octavius himself relented, and granted to old Metellus his life and liberty.
Page 232 - AUGUSTUS took possession of his first consulship ; that he celebrated three triumphs ; that he received the oath of allegiance of the .legions that occupied the Janiculum; that he reduced EGYPT under the power of the Roman people; that he put an end to all civil wars ; it appears that this month is and has been a most happy month to this empire; the senate therefore ordains, that this month shall henceforth be called AUGUSTUS...
Page 248 - ... errors, — whose merit, like that of Demetrius, in the Acts, was their skill of raising rebellions in defence of an idol, and throwing kingdoms into convulsions for the sake of some gainful imposture.
Page 247 - Demigods mew, to the adoration now paid to them, than the old ones, whofe mrines they have ufurped ? Or how comes it to be lefs criminal to worjhip Images, erected by the Pope, than thofe which Agrippa,- or that, which Nebuchadnezzar fet up ? If there be any real difference, moft People, I dare fay, will be apt to determine in...
Page 147 - Cleopatra's ship, was taken on board of it, yet he saw her not through all this voyage ; but setting himself down in the prow of the ship, and there leaning his elbows on his knees, and his head on both his hands, as one confounded with anger and shame for the ill conduct and miscarriage of his affairs, continued in this melancholy posture for three days together, till his arrival at Tenarus. But after this, being brought again together, they again conversed with each other, and did eat together,...
Page 215 - Parts of a Crown, took him by his Foible , and remonftrated to him, That he had done too much to go back ; That after fo much Bloodfhed , there...
Page 182 - Caesar was much disappointed by it, he admired her fortitude, and ordered her to be buried in the tomb of Antony, with all the magnificence due to her quality. Her women, too, were, by his orders, interred with great funeral pomp. Cleopatra died at the age of thirty-nine, after having reigned twenty-two years, the fourteen last in conjunction with Antony.
Page 152 - Caesar, says he, my father has been your enemy, and I your officer ; he deserves to be punished, and I to be rewarded. The favour I desire of you is, either to save him on my account, or to order me to be executed with him.