Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . ina. the late Empress. His onlyresentment for this insult was a negative ex-pression of contempt for the city, to which hecontributed no public building or other markof his favor. He next visited Athens, andreturned Rome in A. D. 134. Having establ
Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . ina. the late Empress. His onlyresentment for this insult was a negative ex-pression of contempt for the city, to which hecontributed no public building or other markof his favor. He next visited Athens, andreturned Rome in A. D. 134. Having established his inthe capital, he a series of public ROME.—FROM NKRVA TO AMVXIXUS. aoo iiuprovements. To this epoch of hiiililinu Ih-luii^s what was perhaps the luost iiia-nirKTutreligious edifice that ever ailonicil the citv—the Temple of Eoma. The t^eiiiiis of themistress of the ?world was persouitied, deified,and worshiped somewhat after the manner ofPallas Athene at Athens. For the deposition prudent insiylit into the litiiess of the certain youth of iiuhle rank, liut small ca-pacity, named CEIO^Ius Commodus Vercs, waspresented to the Senate as the Imperial expectancy which may have been enter-tained of his fitness was doomed to a speedydisappointment. Verus was unable to THE M Vl-OLFt Mil H \I i I \\ AMI 1 mcu^e ^epulchei kno^ as the Mausolt um ofHuliiin, still standing as a meraoiiil ol itsbuiliki With moie geneio^its and le^s )eal-ou^N thin Ind maiLed the chaiacteis of manyof his predecessors, he carefully restored thenuiiwrial liuildiugs of other reigns, such as therantlioon, the temple of Augustus, and theTliiriiur (if Agrippa. Ill the choice of a successor Hadiiau dis-played his personal preference rather than a nnd Ht was assigned t i thtitii> f nets m Piuniinn but ]u nll\ fillsick md died The public ^\ls httk .ia\edat the calamity The second choice of the Emperor fortunate. The lot fell on Titus Au
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