The Provinces of the Roman Empire from Caesar to Diocletian, Volume 1C. Scribner's sons, 1906 |
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Page 7 - ... if an Angel of the Lord were to strike the balance whether the domain ruled by Severus Antoninus was governed with the greater intelligence and the greater humanity at that time or in the present day, whether civilization and national prosperity generally have since that time advanced or retrograded, it is very doubtful whether the decision would prove in favour of the present.
Page 205 - Thule speaks of hiring a professor for itself." These schoolmasters were in the first instance Latin, but Greeks also came ; Plutarch tells of a conversation which he held at Delphi with a Greek teacher of languages from Tarsus returning home from Britain. If in modern England, apart from Wales and Cumberland, the old native language has disappeared, it has given way not to the Angles or to the Saxons, but to the Roman idiom ; and, as usually happens in border-lands, in the later imperial period...
Page 7 - It is in the agricultural towns of Africa, in the homes of vinedressers on the Moselle, in the flourishing townships of the Lycian mountains, and on the margin of the Syrian desert that the work of the imperial period is to be sought and to be found.
Page 113 - ... been very active, and must have been much developed and fostered by the network of roads. The great imperial highway from Rome to the mouth of the Baetis, which has been mentioned, under Spain (p. 81), was the main artery for the land traffic of the south province ; the whole stretch, kept in repair in republican times from the Alps to the Rhone by the Massaliots, from thence to the Pyrenees by the Romans, was laid anew by Augustus. In the north the imperial highways led mainly to the Gallic...
Page 92 - Celts and the Germans, are throughout tribes more than townships; this very essential element was peculiar to all Celtic territories, and was often covered over rather than obliterated even by the subsequent Romanising. Mediolanum and Brixia were indebted for their wide bounds and their lasting power essentially to the fact that they were, properly speaking, nothing but the cantons of the Insubres and the Cenomani.
Page 56 - Tiberius himself, there is no other reason to be found for it than that they recognized the plans pursued by them for twenty years for the changing of the boundary to the north as incapable of execution, and the subjugation and mastery of the region between the Rhine and the Elbe appeared to them to transcend the resources of the empire.
Page 363 - Hellenic law subsisted in Galatia, is a proof of this from the sphere of private law. In public relations there were in this country still only the three old communities of the Tectosages, the Tolistobogi, the Trocmi, who perhaps appended to their names those of the three chief places, Ancyra, Pessinus, and Tavium, but were essentially nothing but the wellknown Gallic cantons, which also indeed were not without their chief place.
Page 76 - Lusitama, Callaecia, Asturia — the native gods, with their singular names, ending mostly in -icus and -ecus, such as Endovellicus, Eaecus, Vagodonnaegus, and the like, maintained their ground still even under the principate at the old seats. But not a single votive stone has been found in all Baetica, which might not quite as well have been set up in Italy. And the same holds true of Tarraconensis proper, only that isolated traces are met with on the upper Douro of the worship of Celtic gods.
Page 203 - The network of roads in the island,' says Mommsen, ' which was uncommonly developed, and for which in particular Hadrian did much in connection with the building of his wall, was of course primarily subservient to military ends ; but alongside of, and in part taking precedence over the legionary camps, Londinium occupies in that respect a place which brings clearly into view its leading position in traffic.
Page 292 - VIII. the moderate property which he had inherited. In this Chaeronean the contrast between the Hellenes and the Hellenised finds expression ; such a type of Greek life was not possible in Smyrna or in Antioch ; it belonged to the soil like the honey of Hymettus. There were men enough of more powerful talents and of deeper natures, but hardly any second author has known in so happy a measure how to reconcile himself serenely to necessity, and how to impress upon his writings the stamp of his tranquillity...