Identifier: historyofrome00myer (find matches)
Title: A history of Rome
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Fig. 35. Siege of a City. (From Trajans Column) writer. His Meditations breathe the tenderest sentiments of devotionand benevolence, and make the nearest approach to the spirit ofChristianity of all the writings of pagan antiquity. He established aninstitution or home for orphan girls, and, finding the poorer classesthroughout Italy burdened by their taxes and greatly in arrears inpaying them, he caused all the tax claims to be heaped in the Forumand burned. The tastes and sympathies of Aurelius would have led him tochoose a life passed in retirement and study at the capital; buthostile movements of the Parthians, and especially invasions of thebarbarians along the Rhenish and Danubian frontiers, called him fromhis books and forced him to spend most of the latter years of hisreign in the camp. The Parthians, who had violated their treaty with
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A Rock-hewn Facade at Petra, Arabia Petr.ea. (From a photo-graph ; see p. 127, n.) Most of the numerous rock-cuttings at Petra are tombs, but several of the largest andmost elaborate, including the one here shown, were probablv temples or public shrines §139) THE ANTONINES 131 Rome, were chastised by the lieutenants of the emperor, and a partof Mesopotamia again fell under Roman authority (165 a.d.). This war drew after it a series of terrible calamities. The return-ing soldiers brought with them the Asiatic plague, which swept offvast numbers, especially in Italy, where entire cities and districtswere depopulated. The Empire never wholly recovered from theeffects of this pestilence. In the general distress and panic the super-stitious people were led to believe that it was the new sect of Chris-tians that had called down upon the nation the anger of the gods.Aurelius permitted a fearful persecution to be instituted againstthem, during which the celebrated Christian fathers, Justin M

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