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Title: The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Westermann, William Linn, 1873-1954
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York : London : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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THE EMPIRE AT A STANDSTILL 425 greatest extent it ever attained. But Trajan was greateras a conqueror than as a statesman, and his successor,Hadrian, deemed it wise to give up all these new provinces,excepting Arabia and Dacia. 535. Hadrian the Traveler, 117-138 A. D.—In theSpaniard Hadrian there came to power a man who typifiesin his temperament and abilities that mixture of Greek andRoman qualities which makes the civilization of the RomanEmpire. The great love of everything beautiful, poetry,art, rhetoric, the drama, which he possessed in full measure,is Greek. His earnestness as a ruler, his devotion to duty,his respect for law, and his soldierly qualities—these areRoman. There is no glamour of war about his rule. He gavehimself up to the less showy task of studying the financesof his wide empire. There is something which remindsus of a modern rulers task in the statement of an ancienthistorian: Hadrian was better acquainted with the expen-ditures and revenues of the state tha

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