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Asia (search for this): book 1, chapter 2
Persia (Iran) (search for this): book 1, chapter 2
Importance and Magnitude of the Subject
We shall best show how marvellous and vast our subject is by comparing the most famous Empires
which preceded, and which have been the
Immensity of the Roman Empire shown by comparison with Persia, Sparta, Macedonia. 1. Persia.
favourite themes of historians, and measuring
them with the superior greatness of Rome.
There are but three that deserve even to be so
compared and measured: and they are these.
The Persians for a certain length of time were possesPersia.
favourite themes of historians, and measuring
them with the superior greatness of Rome.
There are but three that deserve even to be so
compared and measured: and they are these.
The Persians for a certain length of time were possessed of
a great empire and dominion. But every time they ventured beyond the limits of Asia, they found not only their
empire, but their own existence also in danger. 2. Sparta. B. C. 405-394.
The Lacedaemonians, after contending for supremacy in Greece for many generations, when they did get
it, held it without dispute for barely twelve
years.3. Macedonia.The Macedonians obtained dominion
in Europe from the lands bordering on the Adriatic to the
Danube,—which after all is but a small fraction of
Danube (search for this): book 1, chapter 2
Libya (Libya) (search for this): book 1, chapter 2
Rome (Italy) (search for this): book 1, chapter 2
Importance and Magnitude of the Subject
We shall best show how marvellous and vast our subject is by comparing the most famous Empires
which preceded, and which have been the
Immensity of the Roman Empire shown by comparison with Persia, Sparta, Macedonia. 1. Persia.
favourite themes of historians, and measuring
them with the superior greatness of Rome.
There are but three that deserve even to be so
compared and measured: and they are these.
The Persians for a certain length of time were possessed of
a great empire and dominion. But every time they ventured beyond the limits of Asia, they found not only their
empire, but their own existence also in danger. 2. Sparta. B. C. 405-394.
The Lacedaemonians, after contending for supremacy in Greece for many generations, when they did get
it, held it without dispute for barely twelve
years.3. Macedonia.The Macedonians obtained dominion
in Europe from the lands bordering on the Adriatic to the
Danube,—which after all is but a small fraction of
Greece (Greece) (search for this): book 1, chapter 2
Europe (search for this): book 1, chapter 2
Sardinia (Italy) (search for this): book 1, chapter 2
Sicily (Italy) (search for this): book 1, chapter 2
Macedonia (Macedonia) (search for this): book 1, chapter 2