The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... Emperor Augustus , who , on the conquest of Rhætia by Drusus , established a Roman colony named Augusta Vindelicorum ( about 14 B.C. ) In the 5th century it was sacked by the Huns , and afterwards came under the power of the Frankish ...
... Emperor Augustus , who , on the conquest of Rhætia by Drusus , established a Roman colony named Augusta Vindelicorum ( about 14 B.C. ) In the 5th century it was sacked by the Huns , and afterwards came under the power of the Frankish ...
Page 73
... emperor by conferring a similar honour upon him . August was selected , not as being the natal month of Augustus ... emperors , from Hadrian to Carinus , written under Diocletian and Constan- III . - ΙΟ tine , and usually regarded as the ...
... emperor by conferring a similar honour upon him . August was selected , not as being the natal month of Augustus ... emperors , from Hadrian to Carinus , written under Diocletian and Constan- III . - ΙΟ tine , and usually regarded as the ...
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... emperors who had borne the title of Augustus from Julius Cæsar down to Hadrian , he purposes from that point to comprise ... emperor's own diary in the Ulpian library . The writers ' historical estimates are superficial and conventional ...
... emperors who had borne the title of Augustus from Julius Cæsar down to Hadrian , he purposes from that point to comprise ... emperor's own diary in the Ulpian library . The writers ' historical estimates are superficial and conventional ...
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... Emperor Con- tantine , to whom they personally appealed . Augustine was strongly moved by the lawlessness of the party , and launched forth a series of writings against them , the most important of which survive , though some are lost ...
... Emperor Con- tantine , to whom they personally appealed . Augustine was strongly moved by the lawlessness of the party , and launched forth a series of writings against them , the most important of which survive , though some are lost ...
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... emperor Caius Julius Cæsar Octavianus , or , as he was originally designated , Caius Octavius . This title was intended to be hereditary in his family , but all the succeeding Cæsars or emperors of Rome continued to adopt it , long ...
... emperor Caius Julius Cæsar Octavianus , or , as he was originally designated , Caius Octavius . This title was intended to be hereditary in his family , but all the succeeding Cæsars or emperors of Rome continued to adopt it , long ...
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