The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 1
The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 1
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794
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164. ] [Footnote 17: Hist. August. P. 151, 152. He sometimes gave five hundredpair of gladiators, never less than one hundred and fifty. He once gavefor the use of the circus one hundred Sicilian, and as many CappaecianCappadecian horses. The animals designed for hunting were chiefly bears, boars, bulls, stags, elks, wild asses, &c. Elephants and lions seem tohave been appropriated to Imperial magnificence. ] [Footnote 18: See the original letter, in the Augustan History, p. 152, which at once ...shows Alexander's respect for the authority of the senate, and his esteem for the proconsul appointed by that assembly. ] [Footnote 181: Herodian expressly says that he had administered manyprovinces, lib. Vii. 10. --W. ] [Footnote 19: By each of his concubines, the younger Gordian left threeor four children. His literary productions, though less numerous, wereby no means contemptible. ] [Footnote 191: Not the personal likeness, but the family descent from theScipiod. --W. ] As soon as the Gordians had appeased the first tumult of a popularelection, they removed their court to Carthage.
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