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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK III, chapter 52 (search)
Antonius and the other generals of the party judged it expedient to send forward the cavalry and explore the whole of Umbria for some point where the Apennines presented a more gentle ascent, and also to bring up the eagles and standards and all the troops at Verona, while they were to cover the Padus and the sea with convoys. Some there were among the generals who were contriving delays, for Antonius in fact was now becoming too great a man, and their hopes from Mucianus were more definite. That commander, troubled at so speedy a success, and imagining that unless he occupied Rome in person he should lose all share in the glory of the war, continued to write in ambiguous terms to Varus and Antonius, enlarging at one time on the necessity of following up their operations, at another on the advantage of delay, and with expressions so worded that he could, according to the event, repudiate a disastrous, or claim a successful policy. To Plotius Griphus, who had lately been ra
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Julius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 34 (search)
Of his subsequent proceedings I shall give a cursory detail, in the order in which they occurred. A.U.C. 70 He took possession of Picenum, Umbria, and Etruria; and having obliged Lucius Domitius, who had been tumultuously nominated his successor, and held Corsinium with a garrison, to surrender, and dismissed him, he marched along the coast of the Upper Sea, to Brundusium, to which place the consuls and Pompey were fled with the intention of crossing the sea as soon as possible. After vain attempts, by all the obstacles he could oppose, to prevent their leaving the harbour, he turned his steps towards Rome, where he appealed to the senate on the present state of public affairs; and then set out for Spain, in which province Pompey had a numerous army, under the command of three lieutenants, Marcus Petreius, Lucius Afranius, and Marcus Varro; declaring amongst his friends, before he set forward, "That he was going against an army without a general, and should return thence against ra g
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Augustus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 30 (search)
e sake of the valuable remains of art which it is supposed to contain. To render the approaches to the city more commodious, he took upon himself the charge of repairing the Flaminian way as far as Ariminum, The Via Flaminia was probably undertaken by the censor Caius Flaminius, and finished by his son of the same name, who was consul A.U.C. 566, and employed his soldiers in forming it after subduing the Ligurians. It led from the Flumentan gate, now the Porta del Popolo, through Etruria and Umbria into the Cisalpine Gaul, ending at Ariminum, the frontier town of the territories of the republic, now Rimini, on the Adriatic; and is travelled by every tourist who takes the route, north of the Appenines, through the States of the Church, to Rome. Every one knows that the great highways, not only in Italy but in the provinces, were among the most magnificent and enduring works of the Roman people. and distributed the repairs of the other roads amongst several persons who had obtained the
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Caligula (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 43 (search)
Only once in his life did he take an active part in military affairs, and then not from any set purpose, but during his journey to Mevania, to see the grove and river of Clitumnus. Mevania, a town in Umbria. Its present name is Bevagna. The Clitumnus is a river in the same country, celebrated for the breed of white cattle, which feed in the neighbouring pastures. Being recommended to recruit a body of Batavians, who attended him, he resolved upon an expedition into Germany. Immediately he drew together several legions, and auxiliary forces from all quarters, and made every where new levies with the utmost rigour. Collecting supplies of all kinds, such as never had been assembled upon the like occasion, he set forward on his march, and pursued it sometimes with so much haste and precipitation, that the pretorian cohorts were obliged, contrary to custom, to pack their standards on horses or mules, and so follow him. At other times, he would march so slow and luxuriously, that he was car
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Caligula (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 51 (search)
he heads of the crowd. Soon afterwards, upon hearing that the Germans were again in rebellion, he prepared to quit Rome and equipped a fleet, comforting himself with this consideration, that if the enemy should prove victorious and possess themselves of the heights of the Alps as the Cimbri The Cimbri were German tribes on the Elbe, who invaded Italy A. U. C. 640, and were defeated by Metellus. had done, or of the city, as the Senones The Senones were a tribe of Cis-Alpine Gauls, settled in Umbria, who sacked and pillaged Rome A. U. C. 363. formerly did, he should still have in reserve the transmarine provinces.By the transmarine provinces, Asia, Egypt, etc. are meant; so that we find Caligula entertaining visions of an eastern empire, and removing the seat of government, which were long afterwards realized in the time of Constantine. Hence it was, I suppose, that it occurred to his assassins to invent the story intended to pacify the troops who mutinied at his death, that he had lai
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Vespasianus (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 1 (search)
, and there died, leaving behind him his wife, Vespasia Polla, and two sons by her; the elder of whom, Sabinus, came to be prefect of the city, and the younger, Vespasian, to be emperor. Polla, descended of a good family, at Nursia,In the ancient Umbria. afterwards the duchy of Spoleto; its modern name being Norcia. had for her father Vespasius Pollio, thrice appointed military tribune, and at last prefect of the camp; and her brother was a senator of praetorian dignity. There is to this day, ab will not deny that some have pretended to say. that Petro's father was a native of Gallia Transpadana, Gaul beyond, north of, the Po, now Lombardy. whose employment was to hire work-people who used to emigrate every year from the country of the Umbria into that of the Sabines, to assist them in their husbandry; We find the annual migration of labourers in husbandry a very common practice in ancient as well as in modern times. At present, several thousand industrious labourers cross over every
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 2, line 439 (search)
gnus most The people's favour held, yet faith with fear Fought in their breasts. As when, with strident blast, A southern tempest has possessed the main And all the billows follow in its track: Then, by the Storm-king smitten, should the earth Set Eurus free upon the swollen deep, It shall not yield to him, though cloud and sky Confess his strength; but in the former wind Still find its master. But their fears prevailed, And Caesar's fortune, o'er their wavering faith. For Libo fled Etruria; Umbria lost Her freedom, driving Thermus Thermus, to whom Iguvium had been entrusted by the Senate, was compelled to quit it owing to the disaffection of the inhabitants. (Merivale, chapter xiv.) Auximon in a similar way rose against Varus. from her bounds; Great Sulla's son, unworthy of his sire, Feared at the name of Caesar: Varus sought The caves and woods, when smote the hostile horse The gates of Auximon; and Spinther driven From Asculum, the victor on his track, Fled with his standards, sold
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
ele's greenArsenite of copper. VerdigrisAcetate of copper. Brown. Terra di SiennaA natural earth found in the vicinity of Sienna, Italy; when burned it forms a red. UmberAn earth from that part of Italy anciently forming the Roman province of Umbria. BistreSoot of wood, preferably beech. Numerous other colors are used by artists for producing different shades, and a large list might be made of those employed in dyeing and paper-staining, each having its peculiar fitness for special purpThe solitary monument of Cyrus in the Murghab, the records of Babylon and Nineveh, of the caves of India, the monuments of Lycia, the tombs of Etruria, the truncated pyramids and portals of Palenque and Uamal in Yucatan, and the broken tablets of Umbria and Samnium, all present riddles of more or less complexity to the students of language. The setting up of memorial stones was the usual mode of celebrating an achievement or witnessing a pact. Two rival tribes or families set up an altar or
The Daily Dispatch: August 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], The French occupation of Rome. (search)
l summarises the result of the discussions, which he thinks have been attended with considerable advantages. He says: "M. Thouvenel no longer speaks of the difficulty of persuading the Italian Government to accept of such conditions as her Majesty's Government had suggested. Nor is there any question of forcing the Pope to abandon his temporal power and remain in Italy as the subject of another sovereign. The whole question is, whether the Pope, having lost Romagna, the Marches, and Umbria, should retain the whole of the territory now occupied by France, or whether the French troops should occupy for the Pope only the Patrimony of St. Peter, including the Vatican. Setting aside all difference between a Protestant and Roman Catholic sovereign, it is manifest that the principle thus upheld is at variance with the principles maintained everywhere else by France as well as by Great Britain. Rome is foreign territory; the Romans are to have nothing, and foreign troops everything,
The Daily Dispatch: January 30, 1865., [Electronic resource], Religious duties of masters to slaves. (search)
ndred and eighty galley slaves whom the Holy See is about to restore to Italy? Mm. Pisanelli and Peruzzi had thought proper to restore to the Holy See about two hundred convicts belonging to the provinces comprised in the present domain of St. Peter. Cardinal Antonelli, not over grateful for this indirect recognition of the Pope's temporal sovereignty, then called on the Italian Government to accept delivery of seven hundred and eighty convicts belonging to the provinces of the Marches and Umbria. The exchange is not considered at all advantageous to mm. Pisanelli and Peruzzi, and the discomfiture of those gentlemen is the cause of no little merriment not only at Rome but also at Turin." Letters from Saigon, Cochin China, to the 28th of October, mention the arrival there, three days previously, of His Majesty Sandachprea-Norodon, King of Cambodia, on a visit to the French Governor, who had sent him an invitation and placed a gunboat at his disposal for the voyage. On the occas
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