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Paul Shorey, Commentary on Horace, Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Saeculare, book 1 (search)
lines, its apparent frequency in Pindar was a stumbling-block to French critics. audiet . . . iuventus: note position. Our sons will marvel at the crime and folly of this generation. Cf. 1. 35. 35; Epode 7. 1; 16. 1-9. civis: emphatic, but the ellipsis of in civis (against their fellow-citizens) is harsh. The reference is to the civil war by which the state had been so long distracted. graves: formidable; cf. 3. 5. 4. So baru/s.—Persae: the empire of the East was Parthian from B.C. 250 to A.D. 226. But Horace uses Oriental names freely, and to a student of Greek literature Eastern was Persian, or Mede.—melius perirent: would better have perished; cf. 3. 14. 27; 4. 6. 16. For the general thought in this passage, cf. Lucan, cited on Epode 7. 5. vitio: gives cause of rara. rara: thinned; the thought is rhetorically amplified by Lucan, 7. 398, crimen civile videmus, | tot vacuas urbes. Cf. ibid. 535 sqq. 1. 25 sqq.; Verg. G. 1. 507. divum: gen. plur.; only a god can save. Ten years ear
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Artabanus IV. (search)
tore the prisoners and treasures taken by Caracalla, and to pay a large stun of money besides. On these conditions a peace was concluded, and Artabanus withdrew his forces. In this war, however, Artabanus had lost the best of his troops, and the Persians seized the opportunity of recovering their long-lost independence. They were led by Artaxerxes (Ardshir), the son of Sassan, and defeated the Parthians in three great battles, in the last of which Artabanus was taken prisoner and killed, A. D. 226. Thus ended the Parthian empire of the Arsacidae, after it had existed 476 years. (D. C. 78.1, 3, 26, 27, 80.3; Herodian, 4.9, 11, 11, 15, 6.2; Capitolin. Macrin. cc. 8, 12; Agathias, Ilist. 4.24; Syncellus, vol. i. p. 677, ed. Dindorf.) The Parthians were now obliged to submit to Artaxerxes, the founder of the dynasty of the Sassanidae, which continued to reign till A. D. 651. [SASSANIDAE.] The family of the Arsacidae, however, still continued to exist in Armenia as an independent dynasty
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
ms to have remained there for about three years, on account of the various points which had to be settled. At the expiration of his office, however, he did not return to Rome, but went to Nicaea in Bithynia. On his arrival there he was taken ill, but notwithstanding was raised, during his absence, to the consulship, either A. D. 219 or 220. After this he obtained the proconsulship of Africa, which, however, cannot have been earlier than A. D. 224. After his return to Italy, he was sent, in A. D. 226, as legate to Dalmatia, and the year after to Pannonia. In the latter province he restored strict discipline among the troops; and on his return to Rome, the praetorians began to fear lest he should use his influence for the purpose of interfering with their conduct likewise, and in order to prevent this, they demanded of the emperor Alexander Severus to put him to death. But the emperor not only disregarded their clamour, but raised Dion, A. D. 229, to his second consulship, in which Alex
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sassanidae (search)
Sassanidae the name of a dynasty which reigned in Persia from A. D. 226 to A. D. 651. ARDISHIR 1. ARDISHIR or ARDSHIR, the ARTAXERXES (*)Artace/rchs) of the Romans and Greeks, the founder of the dynasty of the Sassanidae, reigned from A. D. 226-240. He was a son of one Babek, an inferior officer, who was the son of Sassan, perhaps a person of some consequence, since his royal descendants chose to call themselves after him. The Persian Zínut-al-Tuarikh makes Sassan a descendant from Bahman, to the sympathy of the people, and he gained his great object. It seems that he spent many years in warlike efforts against Artabanus, till at last his progress became so alarming that the king took the field against him with all his forces. In A. D. 226 Artabanus was defeated, in a decisive battle, in the plain of Hormuz, not far from the Persian Gulf; and Ardishir thereupon assumed the pompous, but national title of Shahinshah, or "King of Kings." That year is consequently considered as the b
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
ARDISHIR 1. ARDISHIR or ARDSHIR, the ARTAXERXES (*)Artace/rchs) of the Romans and Greeks, the founder of the dynasty of the Sassanidae, reigned from A. D. 226-240. He was a son of one Babek, an inferior officer, who was the son of Sassan, perhaps a person of some consequence, since his royal descendants chose to call themselves after him. The Persian Zínut-al-Tuarikh makes Sassan a descendant from Bahman, who was in his turn descended from one Isfendear, who lived many centuries before Ardishito the sympathy of the people, and he gained his great object. It seems that he spent many years in warlike efforts against Artabanus, till at last his progress became so alarming that the king took the field against him with all his forces. In A. D. 226 Artabanus was defeated, in a decisive battle, in the plain of Hormuz, not far from the Persian Gulf; and Ardishir thereupon assumed the pompous, but national title of Shahinshah, or "King of Kings." That year is consequently considered as the b
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), Index (search)
of, 47. Long's Bridge, 156, 157. Longstreet, James, 94, 95, 122, 126. Loring, Charles Greely, 200, 211, 239, 246. Ludlow, Benjamin Chambers, 54, 56. Lunn, —, 276, 277. Lyman, Elizabeth (Russell), III, 3. Lyman, Mary (Henderson), II. Lyman, Richard, i. Lyman, Theodore (1st), i. Lyman, Theodore (1792-1849), II. Lyman, Theodore (1833-1897), account of, i; joins Meade's staff 1; with Pleasonton, 14; goes to Washington, 36; astronomical observations, 44; thirty-first year , 226; visits the North, 228, 303; important, 335; meets Lee, 361; Meade's letter, 362. Lyon, Nathaniel, 9. McClellan, Arthur, 70, 112. McClellan, George Brinton, 141, 262. McGregor, —, 234. McKibbin, Chambers, 220. McLaughlen Napoleon Bonaparte, 261, 323. McMahon, John E., 154. McMahon, Martin Thomas, 107, 247. McParlin, Thomas Andrew, 115, 221. Macy, George Nelson, 97, 215. Madison's ordinary, 119. Mahon, Lord, see Stanhope. Mahone, William, 188. Mangohick Church, 130. Maps