History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . ook sides with Severus, because Nicomedeia, Antioch,Berytus, and Jerusalem had declared for his Palestine the Jews and Samaritans fought withone another fiercely. In the Wesl Alhinus will finda hundred and fifty thousand Britons, Gauls, andSpaniards to follow his fortunes, while others willfollow the fortunes of Severus. Thus it happened whenever the imperial author-ity was divided. Without Rome and a unity of com-mand, the world would have fallen hack into chaos. — a truth neverto be lost si
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . ook sides with Severus, because Nicomedeia, Antioch,Berytus, and Jerusalem had declared for his Palestine the Jews and Samaritans fought withone another fiercely. In the Wesl Alhinus will finda hundred and fifty thousand Britons, Gauls, andSpaniards to follow his fortunes, while others willfollow the fortunes of Severus. Thus it happened whenever the imperial author-ity was divided. Without Rome and a unity of com-mand, the world would have fallen hack into chaos. — a truth neverto be lost sight of, for it is the justification of the Roman Empirein history. Niger being overthrown, his partisans were punished and hisadversaries rewarded, after the customary procedure and in thespirit of all ages. Antioch, which had struck coins in honor of theAsiatic imperator, lost her privi-- and her title of metropolis,which Laodiceia inherited for theentire reign of This Heliopolis, or Baalbec, andothers, obtained the titles of colo-nies, with the jus Sev-. COIX OF AXTIOCH WITH TUF. NAMEOF erus however pardoned the Jews wdio had declared for Niger;5 hut Nablous lost its citizenship, while Samaria obtained the rank and privileges of a Roman colony. circumstances, whence he could keep watch at once over Europe and Asia. Cf. Eckhel, ii. 41 ;iv. 440. 1 SEP(timia) COL. LA YD. METUO(polis). in four lines, surrounded with a wreath ofolive-leaves. Reverse of a bronze coin of Laodiceia under Geta. - Eckhel. iii. 200. According to Malalas (Chronogr. xii. 294), he authorized theinhabitants of Laodiceia to take hi* name, Septimius ; he made them very great largesses,instituted gratuitous distributions, Tzapio-x* ovrois (Tiravuca xitijixara TrnWn. ((instructed in theircity a hippodrome, a eynegion, hot baths, a hexastoon, and gave the senatorial laticlave, dfiastTvyK\r)TtxZ>v, to all of their most notable citizens who survived, a^iafia
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