. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. *> r A. v^/ iJr ( B CE T/l o 4 *< / A L\ \ I N^sgSaloiu / %J / ROMXa ^L so —^mT^e^j ^-7\^___^^VlK USICILIA // ^^ Gaithai)^) ^ \ft Syracuse tA I ~~T~ /THE ROMAN EMPIRE^ / AT THE ?—-__/____^ ^v 25 ^C DEATH OF AUGUSTUS / 14 / / Poates, Engr., ^ 5 10 15. ,v$toOpe po ^ icM 3> /nC^f S Ephesus pWpHTLlA ~~\\ CYPU^S U*tlocY* ^ CYRENAICA Alex. acdr/a Memp ^ ; -Rl R ^ ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EMPIRE. 321 On the south, the sands of the great African desert werethe boundaries set by nature to Roman domination in tha
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. *> r A. v^/ iJr ( B CE T/l o 4 *< / A L\ \ I N^sgSaloiu / %J / ROMXa ^L so —^mT^e^j ^-7\^___^^VlK USICILIA // ^^ Gaithai)^) ^ \ft Syracuse tA I ~~T~ /THE ROMAN EMPIRE^ / AT THE ?—-__/____^ ^v 25 ^C DEATH OF AUGUSTUS / 14 / / Poates, Engr., ^ 5 10 15. ,v$toOpe po ^ icM 3> /nC^f S Ephesus pWpHTLlA ~~\\ CYPU^S U*tlocY* ^ CYRENAICA Alex. acdr/a Memp ^ ; -Rl R ^ ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EMPIRE. 321 On the south, the sands of the great African desert werethe boundaries set by nature to Roman domination in thatdirection. The rounding out of the empire on this siderequired the absorption of the dependent state of But the addition of this to the dominions of Romewas secured, not by Augustus, but by one of his On the east, the wastes of Arabia and the Upper Euphra-tes gave the empire its natural boundaries. Between theUpper Euphrates and the Euxine there was debatableland. The fixing of the frontiers of the Roman dominionsin this region was also left by Augustus to a later time. Towards the west there was still lacking to the actualrounding out of the empire the acquisition of the north-western part of the Iberian peninsula, for the native tribesof these regions were still maintaining their fo
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