The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire 3
The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire 3
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794
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1. XTii, c. 12. The Sannatian horses were castrated, to prevent the miscbievons accidents which might happen from the noisy ^ and ungovernable passions of the males. " Pausanias, 1. 1, p. 50, edit. Knbn. > That inquisitive traveller had carefully examined a SarmatiaUi cuirass, which was preserved ia the ttmpleof ^cnlapius at Athens^ OF THE ROMAN EMPIRK^ 121 mo impotent a resource.* Whenever these bar- chap, barians issued from their deserts in quest of *^"^- prey» their shaggy beards^ uncombed ...locks, the £urs' with which they were covered from head to foot, and their fierce countenances, which seemed to express the innate cruelty of their ininds, inspired the more civilized provincials of Rome with horror and dismay. The tender Ovid, after a youth spent in the Their itt. enjoyment of fame and luxury, waB condemned near tb« to an hopeless exile on the frozen banks of the ^^^""^ Danube, where he was exposed, almost without defence, to the fury of these monsters of the desert, with whose stern spirits he feared that his gentle shade might hereafter be confounded.
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