A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . f St. Angelo) Trajan; and he was guilty of occasional acts of cruelty. Hespent the larger portion of his reign in traveling through hisdominions, personally attending to the wants and conditionsof his subjects. He constructed great works in differentportions of the empire: in Eome, his Mausoleum (now theCastle of St. Angelo), and his grand temple of Kome andVenus. The Pantheon, first built in the time of Augustus,was by him rebuilt in its present form. He began the wall 186 ROME connecting the Scottish friths. A fresh revol
A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . f St. Angelo) Trajan; and he was guilty of occasional acts of cruelty. Hespent the larger portion of his reign in traveling through hisdominions, personally attending to the wants and conditionsof his subjects. He constructed great works in differentportions of the empire: in Eome, his Mausoleum (now theCastle of St. Angelo), and his grand temple of Kome andVenus. The Pantheon, first built in the time of Augustus,was by him rebuilt in its present form. He began the wall 186 ROME connecting the Scottish friths. A fresh revolt broke outamong the Jews ( 131), under a fanatic named Bar-cochba, which was suppressed in 135. Jerusalem was razedto the ground, and the Jewish rites were forbidden within thenew city of Aelia Capitolina, which the emperor founded onits site. This gave a finishing blow to the Jewish and Juda-izing types of Christianity within the limits of the Church. Antoninus Pius ( 138-161).—Antoninus Pius was theadopted son and successor of Hadrian. He was one of the. TiiK Pantheon(After the model in the Metropolitan ihineuin, New York) noblest of princes, a man of almost blameless life. His reignwas an era of peace, the golden age in the imperial fostered learning, was generous without being prodigal,was firm, yet patient and indulgent, and watched over theinterests of his subjects with the care of a father. It is a signof the happiness of his reign that it does not afford startlingoccurrences to the narrator. Marcus Aurelius ( 161-180).—Hardly less eminent forhis virtues was the next in the succession of sovereigns, MarcusAurelius (161-180). A sage upon the throne/ he combined FLAVIANS AND ANTONINES 187 a love of learning with tlie moral vigor and energy of the oldEoman character, and with the self-government and serenityof the Stoic school, of the tenets of which he was a nobleexemplar as well as a deeply interesting expounder. A philos-opher was now on the t
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