Edward Gibbon: History Books, Essays & Autobiographical Writings. Эдвард Гиббон

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Faustinas, all of gold, many of them fresh and beautiful, others defaced or perforated, as if they had been worn as ornaments. (Asiatic Researches, ii. 19.) — M.]

      “ — O Juvenes, circumspicit et stimulat vos.

       Materiamque sibi Ducis indulgentia quaerit.” — Satir. vii. 20.

      Note: Vespasian first gave a salary to professors: he assigned to each professor of rhetoric, Greek and Roman, centena sestertia. (Sueton. in Vesp. 18. Hadrian and the Antonines, though still liberal, were less profuse. — G. from W. Suetonius wrote annua centena L. 807, 5, 10. — M.]

      Jurisprudence gained much by the labors of Salvius Julianus, Julius Celsus, Sex. Pomponius, Caius, and others. — G. from W. Yet where, among these, is the writer of original genius, unless, perhaps Plutarch? or even of a style really elegant? — M.]

      CHAPTER III

       Table of Contents

      Of The Constitution Of The Roman Empire, In The Age Of The Antonines.


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