The world: historical and actual . Marcus Alexander Severus. morals. The Antonines did much to raise the pub-lic standard of right, and give an impetus to highermorality. With the death of Marcus Aurelius, A. D. 180, anew and calamitous era began. His son Conino-dus, was a vile wretch, early assassinated, and fol-lowed, at brief intervals, by several emperors of theNero and Caligula type, whose names are not enti-tled to even the honor of mention. About theyear 220, Alex-ander, betterknown as Sev-erus, came tothe throne. Hewas amiable andhonorable if notgreat. He it waswho placed at
The world: historical and actual . Marcus Alexander Severus. morals. The Antonines did much to raise the pub-lic standard of right, and give an impetus to highermorality. With the death of Marcus Aurelius, A. D. 180, anew and calamitous era began. His son Conino-dus, was a vile wretch, early assassinated, and fol-lowed, at brief intervals, by several emperors of theNero and Caligula type, whose names are not enti-tled to even the honor of mention. About theyear 220, Alex-ander, betterknown as Sev-erus, came tothe throne. Hewas amiable andhonorable if notgreat. He it waswho placed atthe head of af-fairs, in point offact, Ulpian, aman pre-emi-nent in rule of thirteen years was of incalculable ben-efit, not alone or mainly to the empire of his day,but to the science of law. Under the genius of Ul-pian, justice became indeed a science, if such ithad not become prior to that time. While engaged in a military expedition upon theRhine, Severus was slain in a mutiny instituted byan officer named Maximus, a rude
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