Identifier: historyofromeofr42duru (find matches)
Title: History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: Boston, Jewett
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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at constitutes Latin elegance; but there are few literaryworks so tedious as this long and chilling amplification. Trajan was perhaps condemned toread it ; happily he did not understand it. Pliny developed into a volume the senatorialharangue which he addressed to the emperor on accepting the consulate in the autumn of theyear 100, that is to say, at a time when Trajan had as yet done nothing. When one sees whateulogiums an exceedingly honest man like Pliny is able to lavish upon a prince so soon after hisaccession, one can comprehend what others did, and can say that it must have required prettystrong heads to have resisted the intoxication which these flatterers poured forth. ^ Dion well says : roic ri xpîjiutaiv, ci kut troc Aâ/t/3aj0) fiapxnôi.iiroç (Ixviii. G), but wehave seen (p. 713) to what it was necessary to reduce this tribute. ^ Panegyr., 12 and 16, or at least before the autumn of the year 100, the time of the com-pilation of the panegyric. * See on this point p. 703.
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NERYA AND TRAJAX, 96 TO 117 A.D. 755 of the Temes) from the immense Wallachian plain, the Balkanssend out on the right bank mighty undulations of land which riseon the bank of the river to the height of 2,000 or 3,000 feet, andby their lower strata cross the bed of the Danube, which they fillwith dangerous reefs. This is the celebrated pass called the IronGate, which begins at Drenkova and terminates near Orsova. Themajestic river, confined in this narrow gorge, which does notmeasure at Cazan GoO feet in width, rushes angrily along, whitewith foam ; a violent wind raises in that defile such waves as areunknown to rivers generallj^, and in the shallow waters it requiresthe most skilful pilot and the firmest hand at the wheel to keepin the channels formed by the ledges at the bottom.^ Xatuie isthere magnificent, imposing, and bold. Man, too, was great there,for Trajan chained this river by a bridge which the moderns havenot yet dared to reconstruct,- and this mountain, which on the left

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