Descriptive Catalogue of a Cabinet of Roman Imperial Large-brass MedalsWebb, 1834 - 352 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xiii
... Latin proper names into English by apocope , custom having rendered familiar such as Tully , Pliny , Horace , Ovid , Virgil , Livy , Terence- while Statius , Tacitus , Ausonius , Prudentius , and others , retain their original ...
... Latin proper names into English by apocope , custom having rendered familiar such as Tully , Pliny , Horace , Ovid , Virgil , Livy , Terence- while Statius , Tacitus , Ausonius , Prudentius , and others , retain their original ...
الصفحة xiv
... Latin quotations , and too prone to repetition : but the first arose from the interest of the study , and the conflicting tenour of the evidence that was examined ; the second is assuredly allowable for the illustration of Latin medals ...
... Latin quotations , and too prone to repetition : but the first arose from the interest of the study , and the conflicting tenour of the evidence that was examined ; the second is assuredly allowable for the illustration of Latin medals ...
الصفحة 10
... Latin large - brass medals , with the portrait , are very rare ; but those of the middle size which bear the types Justitia , Pietas , and Salus — the last from Livia's being deemed " potissima Salutis causa " -are frequently met with ...
... Latin large - brass medals , with the portrait , are very rare ; but those of the middle size which bear the types Justitia , Pietas , and Salus — the last from Livia's being deemed " potissima Salutis causa " -are frequently met with ...
الصفحة 11
... Latin mint , its magnitude , merit , and Roman legend , secure its admission into the large - brass series . It is finely figured by Florez . XIV . Obverse . S. P. Q. R. IVLIAE AVGVST . ( Senatus Populus Que Romanus , Julia Augusta ...
... Latin mint , its magnitude , merit , and Roman legend , secure its admission into the large - brass series . It is finely figured by Florez . XIV . Obverse . S. P. Q. R. IVLIAE AVGVST . ( Senatus Populus Que Romanus , Julia Augusta ...
الصفحة 14
... Latin medals in honour of Julia , though a portrait on a monetary one of C. Marius Trogus , has been ascribed to her and her sons , Caius and Lucius . But , as usual with those members of the Imperial family not found in the regular ...
... Latin medals in honour of Julia , though a portrait on a monetary one of C. Marius Trogus , has been ascribed to her and her sons , Caius and Lucius . But , as usual with those members of the Imperial family not found in the regular ...
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Agrippina Alexander altar Antoninus Pius ANTONINVS AVG attired Augustorum Augustus AVGG AVGVSTA Balbinus beard bearing brass brown patina CAES CAESAR Caligula Caracalla CCCXCV Claudius coins commemorate Commodus condition Consul iterum Consul tertium cornucopiæ countenance covered crown curule chair death Decius denarii device DIVI Domitian Drusus Eckhel Elagabalus empire excellent preservation exergum S. C. expression father Faustina Felix field S. C. figure Galba Gallienus Germanicus goddess Gordian Hadrian hair holds honour Imperator Cæsar Marcus inscribed Julia large-brass laureated profile laurelled head left hand legend Lucius Macrinus Marcus Aurelius Maximinus naked neck Nero Nerva Obverse P. M. TR Pater Patriæ patina Pertinax PIVS AVG Pontifex Maximus portrait Prætorian Prince procured Pupienus purchased reign represented Reverse right hand Roman Rome S. C. The Emperor seated Senate Severus shew shoulders silver small-brass soldiers standing struck A. D. temple Tiberius Titus togated Trajan Trattle's sale Tribunitia potestate Verus Vespasian Victory
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الصفحة 267 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
الصفحة 188 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.
الصفحة 292 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of life, and poesy, and light — The Sun in human limbs array'd, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight; The shaft hath just been shot — the arrow bright With an immortal's vengeance; in his eye And nostril beautiful disdain, and might, And majesty, flash their full lightnings by Developing in that one glance the Deity.
الصفحة 215 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
الصفحة 248 - There is the moral of all human tales ; « 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption, — barbarism at last And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page...
الصفحة 267 - and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Daci.an mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday! — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire And unavenged? — Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire!
الصفحة 132 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus [ie 96—180 AD].
الصفحة 141 - Tartara solvat; 205 ut sceptrum hoc' (dextra sceptrum nam forte gerebat) ' numquam fronde levi fundet virgulta nee umbras, cum semel in silvis imo de stirpe recisum matre caret, posuitque comas et bracchia ferro, olim arbos, nunc artificis manus aere decoro 210 inclusit, patribusque dedit gestare Latinis.
الصفحة 182 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.
الصفحة 221 - Astarte, queen of Heaven, with crescent horns : To whose bright image nightly by the moon Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs...