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... præfect , 105 ; the senate oppressed by military despotism , 106 ; the impe- rial prerogative , 106 . CHAP . VI . - The Death of Severus . - Tyranny of Caracalla.- Usurpation of Macrinus . - Follies of Elagabalus . - Virtues of Alex ...
... præfect , 105 ; the senate oppressed by military despotism , 106 ; the impe- rial prerogative , 106 . CHAP . VI . - The Death of Severus . - Tyranny of Caracalla.- Usurpation of Macrinus . - Follies of Elagabalus . - Virtues of Alex ...
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... præfect was seated on the splendid throne of the Ptolemies ; I Periplus of Arrian . He examined the coasts of the Euxine , when he was governor of Cappadocia . 2 The progress of religion is well known . The use of letters was introduced ...
... præfect was seated on the splendid throne of the Ptolemies ; I Periplus of Arrian . He examined the coasts of the Euxine , when he was governor of Cappadocia . 2 The progress of religion is well known . The use of letters was introduced ...
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... præfect . As the other freedmen were styled , from their several departments , a rationibus , ab epistolis ; Cleander called himself a pugione , as intrusted with the defence of his master's person . Salmasius and Casaubon seem to have ...
... præfect . As the other freedmen were styled , from their several departments , a rationibus , ab epistolis ; Cleander called himself a pugione , as intrusted with the defence of his master's person . Salmasius and Casaubon seem to have ...
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... præfect , alarmed by the fate of their com- I Lipsius , 1. ii . c . 7 , 8. Juvenal , in the eighth satire , gives a ... præfects were changed almost hourly or daily ; and the caprice of Commodus was often fatal to his most favourite ...
... præfect , alarmed by the fate of their com- I Lipsius , 1. ii . c . 7 , 8. Juvenal , in the eighth satire , gives a ... præfects were changed almost hourly or daily ; and the caprice of Commodus was often fatal to his most favourite ...
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... præfect of the city , an ancient senator of consular rank , whose conspicuous merit had broke through the ob- scurity of his birth , and raised him to the first honours of the state . He had successively governed most of the provinces ...
... præfect of the city , an ancient senator of consular rank , whose conspicuous merit had broke through the ob- scurity of his birth , and raised him to the first honours of the state . He had successively governed most of the provinces ...
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