. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. half a million of Jews aresaid to have perished inthe hopeless struggle,and the most of the sur-vivors were driven intoexile — the last disper-sion of the race ( 135). The latter years of hisreign Hadrian passed atRome. It was here thatthis princely buildererected his most splen-did structures. Amongthese were a magnificenttemple consecrated tothe goddesses Venus andRoma, and a vast mausoleum erected on the banks of theTiber, and designed as a tomb for himself (par. 297).6 With all his virtues, Hadrian was foolishly va
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. half a million of Jews aresaid to have perished inthe hopeless struggle,and the most of the sur-vivors were driven intoexile — the last disper-sion of the race ( 135). The latter years of hisreign Hadrian passed atRome. It was here thatthis princely buildererected his most splen-did structures. Amongthese were a magnificenttemple consecrated tothe goddesses Venus andRoma, and a vast mausoleum erected on the banks of theTiber, and designed as a tomb for himself (par. 297).6 With all his virtues, Hadrian was foolishly vain of hisaccomplishments, impatient of contradiction, and oftenmost unreasonable and imperious. It is related that heput to death the architect Apollodorus for venturing tocriticise the royal taste in some architectural , the rhetorician, was evidently more judicious,for when asked why he suffered the emperor to silence 5 ALU a Capitolina. 6 For a description of the celebrated villa which Hadrian constructedat Tibur, the modern Tivoli, see par. Hadrian. (From a bust in the Capitoline Museum.) 364 ROME AS AN EMPIRE. him in an argument on a point of grammar, he replied,4 It is ill disputing with the master of thirty legions. 228. The Antonines ( 138-180).—Aurelius Antoninus,surnamed Pius, the adopted son of Hadrian, and his suc-cessor, gave the Roman empire an administration singularlypure and parental. Of him it has been said that he wasthe first, and, saving his colleague and successor Aurelius,the only one of the emperors who devoted himself to thetask of government with a single view to the happiness ofhis people. Throughout his long reign of twenty-threeyears, the empire was in a state of profound peace. Theattention of the historian is attracted by no striking events,which fact, as many have not failed to observe, illustratesadmirably the oft-repeated epigram, Happy is that peoplewhose annals are brief. Antoninus, early in his reign, had united
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