...united the vanity and inconstancy of the (I"TW ""'' Greeks, with the superstition and obstinacy oTthe Egyptians. The most trifling ' occasion, a transient...salutation, a mistake of precedency in the public baths, or even a religious dispute f , were, at any time, sufficient to kindle a sedition among that vast multitude,...

...Sicul. l.xvll. p. 5ПО. Edit. Wetselini See « very curiou. Idler of Hadrian, in the Augmtan HUtory, p. the superstition and obstinacy of the Egyptians. The...trifling occasion, a transient scarcity of flesh or lentiles, the neglect of an accustomed salutation, a mistake of precedency in the public baths, or...

...occupations suited to their conditional 72) But the people of Alexandria, a various mixture of nations, united the vanity and inconstancy of the Greeks, with...salutation, a mistake of precedency in the public balhs, or even a religious dispute,(l73) were at any time sufficient to kindle a sedition among that...

...occupations suited to their conditional 72) But the people of Alexandria, a varkms mixture of nations, united the vanity and inconstancy of the Greeks, with...superstition and obstinacy of the Egyptians. The most triflinç occasion, a transient scarcity of flesh or lentils, the neglect of an accustomed salutation,...

...evident what deity or what form of worship they had substituted to the gods and temples of antiquity. 6. The most trifling occasion, a transient scarcity of...salutation, a mistake of precedency in the public baths, or even a religious dispute, were at any time sufficient to kindle a sedition. 7. They were all equally...

...want occupation suited to their condition. But the people of Alexandria, a various mixture of nations, united the vanity and inconstancy of the Greeks with...salutation, a mistake of precedency in the public baths, or even a religious dispute, were at any time sufficient to kindle a sedition among that vast multitude,...

...extreme pathos, nor sublimity of the very first order, are discoverable in Pope." — Edinburgh Review. " The most trifling occasion, a transient scarcity of...salutation, a mistake of precedency in the public baths, or even a religious dispute, were at any time sufficient to kindle a sedition." — Gibbon. " Danger,...

...Edinlturgh. Review. " THjUost trifling occasion, a transient scarcity of flesh or lentils, the rifeglwt of an accustomed salutation, a mistake of precedency in the public baths, or even a religious dispute, were at any time sufficient to kindle a. sedition. "—Gibbon. " Danger,...

...parte mutare.' — Servius ad -3£n. vi. 723. ' The people of Alexandria (a various mixture of nations) united the vanity and inconstancy of the Greeks with...the superstition and obstinacy of the Egyptians.' — Gibbon, c. 10. (46) ' Gens ante omnes alias eo magis dedita religionibus, quod excelleret arte...

...occupations suited to their condition.i"3 But the people of Alexandria, a various mixture of nations, united the vanity and inconstancy of the Greeks with the superstition and obstinacy of the i09 The Augustan History, p. 177 [Pollio, Gallieni duo, c. 4], calls it servile bellum. See Diodor....