The book Readings in Ancient History: Rome And the West was written by author William Stearns Davis, Willis Mason West Here you can read free online of Readings in Ancient History: Rome And the West book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Readings in Ancient History: Rome And the West a good or bad book?
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. the [Greek] letter P [Latin 22] being intersected by X [Latin CH] exactly in its center ; and these letters the Emperor was in the habit of wearing on his helmet at a later period. From the traverse piece which crossed the spear [was a purple streamer, embroidered with jewels and gold ; and on the staff hung a square banner bearing] a golden portrait, half length, of the pious Emperor and of his children. [Constantino now devoted himself to the study of Christianity and the Bible,] and he mad...e the priests of God his councilors and deemed it incumbent upon him to honor the God who appeared to him with all devotion. After this, being fortified by well-grounded hopes in Him, he undertook to quench the fury of the fire of tyranny. [Meantime Maxentius at Rome was giving himself utterly over to deeds of cruelty and lust, and on one occasion caused his guards to massacre a great multitude of the Roman populace.] In short it is impossible to describe the manifold acts of oppression by which this tyrant of Rome oppressed all his subjects; so that by this time they were reduced to the most extreme penury and want of necessary food, a scarcity such as our contemporaries do not remember ever to have existed before at Rome.
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