. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. and one to Venus, thegoddess mother of the Julian house. There were games inwhich the foreign captives fought to the death. On another daythe boys of the nobility fought a Battle of Troy in the another there was a great beast-hunt of strange animalsfrom Egypt when the rhinoceros and hippopotamus made theirfirst historical appearance in Europe. For the first time fornearly two centuries, that is, for the first time since thePunic Wars, the temple of the war-god Janus was solemnlyclosed. VEmpire c^est la paix. T
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. and one to Venus, thegoddess mother of the Julian house. There were games inwhich the foreign captives fought to the death. On another daythe boys of the nobility fought a Battle of Troy in the another there was a great beast-hunt of strange animalsfrom Egypt when the rhinoceros and hippopotamus made theirfirst historical appearance in Europe. For the first time fornearly two centuries, that is, for the first time since thePunic Wars, the temple of the war-god Janus was solemnlyclosed. VEmpire c^est la paix. There are many signs of theearnest longing for Peace in the Roman world, Pax and Irene became common names in the West and East; Paxwas the legend on coins. This was a new thing at war had been the desired as well as the normalcondition. But even the Romans had now drunk their fill ofbloodshed in those dreary civil wars. It was upon this newcondition of things that Augustus had the wisdom to build hismonarchy. The army was greatly reduced at once. Fortu-166. Fig. I. ARCH OF MARIUS, ORANGE \eurdcin
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