 | John Coleman Adams - 1890 - 216 páginas
...informers and spies. No property was safe from the rapacity of those in power. " Freemen," says Tacitus, " betrayed their patrons, and he who had lived without an enemy died by the treachery of a friend." Poisoning was reduced to a system. Crimes against purity grew more and more nefarious. Marriage was... | |
 | Alonzo Trévier Jones - 1891 - 1046 páginas
...detestable ; where the sacerdotal order, the consular dignity, the government of provinces, and even the cabinet of the prince, were seized by that execrable...their own malevolence excited against their masters ; whore freemen betrayed their patrons, and he who had lived without an enemy died by the treachery... | |
 | Charles Henry Stanley Davis - 1903 - 294 páginas
...detestable ; where the sacerdotal order, the consular dignity, the government of provinces, and even the cabinet of the prince, were seized by that execrable...without an enemy died by the treachery of a friend." In this very corrupt age, Stoicism was the i philoso£Jhycongenial_tothe "Roman__t.ypp. The emphasis... | |
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... provinces, and even the cabinet of the prince, were seized by that execrable race, as their lawful prey; where nothing was sacred, nothing safe from the hand of rapacity; where slaves were suborned, or, by their own malevolence, excited against their... 
