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 . natical people to rise against the Romans. Thehatred of the Jews was already inflamed with Kit IL li-i. 11, \\ 1 himself been a pi i>~t;U( ,-. 1 Mr f. J , had They rose !.? ail. tl. . of IN ..111 y t. 1
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 . natical people to rise against the Romans. Thehatred of the Jews was already inflamed with Kit IL li-i. 11, \\ 1 himself been a pi i>~t;U( ,-. 1 Mr f. J , had They rose !.? ail. tl. . of IN ..111 y t. b, at .?n .l.,wn and de- he k- on- of Had ian. The leader iint 11 ) ii Bethar, Avhich place was ..rm, mil the re\ olt extinguished Ial.^ Avas ag; in ]mlatcd. Ml-abl, n- iinant of the people . J. IISI vm \\a« by the. PDmans, and received the name of jElia Cap-itolina. A shrine nf Jupiter was set up amongthe ruins of the temple of Jehovah, and an-other was t.) Venus on Jlount Cal-vary. The genius of the Emperor Hadrian wascurious in matters of learning and Athens and Alexandria he gave way freelyto his inquiring disposition, and became him-self learned in the things about which men,since they know nothing, dispute the Egyjit, however, it was the antiquities,rather than the speculations of the scholastics,that more particularly elicited the Emperorsinterest. The country, moreover, bore an im-portant relation to Eome, in that it was theprincipal granary of the Empire; and thisfact was not less interesting to t>he rulers ofthe world than were the cats, bulls, and croc-odiles, so sacred to the faith of Egyjit. It was during Hadrians sojourn in thiscmnitry that his favorite, the beautiful Bith-yiiiaii named Axtinous, cast himself for sake into the Nile, a
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