The world: historical and actual . CHAPTER XXVIII The Path of Empire—Tiberius Caesar—Caligula and Nero—Rome in the Days of Nero—The Siege of Jerusalem—From Vespasian to Trajan—Hadrian—The Forum—MarcusAurelius—The Age of the Antonines—Ulpian the Lawyer—Diocletian—Constantineand Coxtantinople—Julian the Apostate—Weakness and Dissension—Theodosius andthe Permanent Division of the Empire—Creek and Roman Churches—Last Days ofImperial Rome. K-<-§3}x{e!»-^ AVING seen the neph-ew of the great Csesarreap for himself theharvest of imperialism,enjoying the honorsand prerogatives of ab-solute authority
The world: historical and actual . CHAPTER XXVIII The Path of Empire—Tiberius Caesar—Caligula and Nero—Rome in the Days of Nero—The Siege of Jerusalem—From Vespasian to Trajan—Hadrian—The Forum—MarcusAurelius—The Age of the Antonines—Ulpian the Lawyer—Diocletian—Constantineand Coxtantinople—Julian the Apostate—Weakness and Dissension—Theodosius andthe Permanent Division of the Empire—Creek and Roman Churches—Last Days ofImperial Rome. K-<-§3}x{e!»-^ AVING seen the neph-ew of the great Csesarreap for himself theharvest of imperialism,enjoying the honorsand prerogatives of ab-solute authority, as re-newed hy popular andsenatorial delegation, from time totime until the public became ac-customed to the one-man rule,we come now to trace the path ofempire. The Rome which would not followout the suggestion of Mark Antonyto crown the most illustrious Julius,has passed away, and a generationhas come which accepted the mean and contempti-ble Tiberius as a matter of course. He was thesuccess
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