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Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan), BOOK I, CHAPTER I: THE EDUCATION OF THE ARCHITECT (search)
Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan), BOOK I, CHAPTER VI: THE DIRECTIONS OF THE STREETS; WITH REMARKS ON THE WINDS (search)
Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan), BOOK VIII, CHAPTER III: VARIOUS PROPERTIES OF DIFFERENT WATERS (search)
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan), CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES of THE CIVIL WAR. , chapter 5 (search)
To subsist this mighty army, he had taken care to amass vast quantities of
corn from Thessaly, Asia, Egypt, Crete, Cyrene, and other countries; resolving to
quarter his troops, during the winter, at Dyrrhachium, Apollonia, and the other maritime
towns, to prevent Caesar's passing the sea; for which purpose, he ordered
his fleet to cruise perpetually about the coasts. Young Pompey commanded the
Egyptian squadron ; D. Lalius and C. Triarius the Asiatic; C. Cassius the
Syrian; C. Marcellus and C. Coponius the Rhodian; Scribonius Libo and M.
Octavius the Liburnian and Achaian: but the chief authority was vested in M.
Bibulus, who was admiral of the whole, and gave his orders accordingly.
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
IV, chapter 45 (search)
A trial, conducted in the
Senate according to ancient precedents, brought into harmony for a time the
feelings of its members. Manlius Patruitus, a Senator, laid a complaint,
that he had been beaten by a mob in the colony of Sena, and that by order of the magistrates; that the
wrong had not stopped here, but that lamentations and wailings, in fact a
representation of funeral obsequies, had been enacted in his presence,
accompanied with contemptuous and insulting expressions levelled against the
whole Senate. The persons accused were summoned to appear, and after the
case had been investigated, punishment was inflicted on those who were found
guilty. A resolution of the Senate was also passed, recommending more
orderly behaviour to the people of Sena. About the
same time Antonius Flamma was condemned under the law against extortion, at
the suit of the people of Cyrene, and was banished
for cruel practices.
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
IV, chapter 48 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
IV, chapter 49 (search)
At this time the legion in Africa was commanded by Valerius Festus, a young man of
extravagant habits and immoderate ambition, who was now made uneasy by his
relationship to Vitellius. Whether this man in their frequent interviews
tempted Piso to revolt, or whether he resisted
PLOT AGAINST PISO IN AFRICA
such
overtures, is AFRICA
such
overtures, is not known for certain, for no one was present at their
confidential meetings, and, after Piso's death, many were disposed to
ingratiate themselves with the murderer. There is no doubt that the province
and the troops entertained feelings of hostility to Vespasian, and some of
the Vitellianists, who had escaped from the capital ho in peace must be suspected war was the safer
course. While this was going on, Claudius Sagitta, prefect of Petra's Horse,
making a very quick passage reached Africa before
Papirius, the centurion despatched by Mucianus. He declared that an order to
put Piso to death had been given to the centurion, and that Galerianus, his
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
IV, chapter 50 (search)
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK V, chapter 2 (search)
As I am
about to relate the last days of a famous city, it seems appropriate to
throw some light on its origin.
Some say that the Jews were fugitives
from the island of Crete, who settled on the nearest
coast of Africa about the time when Saturn was
driven from his throne by the power
of Jupiter. Evidence of this
is sought in the name. There is a famous mountain in Crete called Ida; the
neighbouring tribe, the Idæi, came to be called Judæi by a
barbarous lengthening of the national name. Others assert that in the reign
of Isis the overflowing population of Egypt, led by
Hierosolymus and Judas, discharged itself into the neighbouring countries.
Many, again, say that they were a race of Ethiopian origin, who in the time
of king Cepheus were driven by fear and hatred of their neighbours to seek a
new dwelling-place. Others describe them as an Assyrian horde who, not
having sufficient territory, took possession of part of Egypt, and founded cities of their own in what is
T. Maccius Plautus, Rudens, or The Fisherman's Rope (ed. Henry Thomas Riley), Introduction, THE SUBJECT (search)
THE SUBJECT
DÆMONES, an aged Athenian, having lost his property, goes to live in retirement near the sea-shore of Cyrene, in the vicinity of the Temple of Venus. It so happens that Labrax, a Procurer, makes purchase of two damsels, Palæstra and Ampelisca, and comes to reside at Cyrene. Plesidippus, a young Athenian, sees Palæstra there, and falls in love with her; and making an arrangement with the Procurer, gives him a sum in part payment for her, on which occasion, Labrax invites him to a saCyrene. Plesidippus, a young Athenian, sees Palæstra there, and falls in love with her; and making an arrangement with the Procurer, gives him a sum in part payment for her, on which occasion, Labrax invites him to a sacrifice in the Temple of Venus. A Sicilian guest of his, however, named Charmides, persuades him to carry the young women over to Sicily, where he is sure to make a greater profit by them. On this, the Procurer, accompanied by his guest, sets sail with them. A tempest arises, and they are shipwrecked. The young women escape in a boat, and arriving ashore, are hospitably received by the Priestess of Venus. Labrax and Charmides also escape, and on discovering where the women are, the former attemp