Identifier: ancienthistoryof00duru (find matches)
Title: Ancient history of the East;
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894 Grosvenor, Edwin Augustus, 1845- (from old catalog) ed. and tr
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York, Boston, T. Y. Crowell & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ti.etA.eJ 1,) Cllo... Ol.j, A.D. 96-100.) THE ANTONINES 147 XI THE ANTONINES(96-192) Nerva (96-98).—The Flavian family was extinct. Thesenate made haste to proclaim Nerva, a former consul.With this prince began a period of eighty years which hasbeen called the golden age of humanity. It is the epoch ofthe Antonines. Though !Nerva displayed good intentions,he had neither the strength nor the time to realize them.He adopted the Spanish Trajan, the best general of theempire. Trajan (98-117). — When Nerva died, Trajan was atCologne. Recognized as emperor by the senate, the peopleand the armies, he remained one year more on the banksof the Rhine to pacify the frontiers and restore discipline.He wished to enter Rome on foot. The Empress Plotinafollowed his example. As she ascended the palace steps,she turned toward the crowd to say, What I am on enter-ing, I wish to be on departing. Trajan banished informers,diminished the taxes and sold the numerous palaces whichhis predecessors had ac

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