The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century - a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and (14591490560)

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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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of his works have come down to us, but more have been lost, th6 onebest known to antiquity being his tragedy Medea. Other famous writers follow, after the Augustan age. Pliny the Elder wasborn in the north of Italy in a.d. 23. He went to Rome when quite young,and his high birth and ample means secured him every advantage in educationand advancement. He served in Germany as the commander of a troop of cav-alry, but spent the greater part of the reign of Nero in authorship, producing anumber of miscellaneous works. In the year 79, he was stationed off Misenum,in command of the Roman fleet, when the great eruption of Vesuvius occurred which buried Herculaneum and Pompeii. Eager to examine the phenomenonmore closely, he landed at Stabise, and was suffocated by the noxious fumes.His nephew, Pliny the Younger, attributed this misfortune to his corpulentand asthmatic habit, since none of his companions perished. Of Plinysnumerous works, only his Historia Naturalis has come down to us. It has
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Rome—Later Writers 417 many faults, lacking scientific merit and philosophical arrangement, but it is amonument of industry and research, and supplies us with details on a variety ofsubjects which could be obtained in no other way. Juvenal, the satirist, was a native of Aquinum, a Volscian town. The dateof his birth is unknown, but he wrote during the time of Domitian (81-96 a.d.)and lived many years later. The sixteen of his satires which still survive holdthe first rank in satirical literature, and are invaluable as pictures of the Romanlife of the Empire. Tacitus is remembered as receiving marks of favor from the emperors Ves-pasian, Titus, and Domitian, but there is no record of the date and place of hisbirth, nor of the time of his death, which was in the early part of the secondcentury. He was one of the greatest of historians. In love of truth and in-tegrity of purpose none surpassed him, and he possessed a remarkable concise-ness of phrase and the power of saying much and im