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Title: Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
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Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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The Colosseum. (From a photograph.) reign of Nero (par. 220). The second was the destruction,by an eruption of Vesuvius, of the Campanian cities ofPompeii and Herculaneum. T1 a cities were buried beneathshowers of cinders, ashes, and streams of volcanic mud.Pliny the Elder, the great naturalist, venturing too nearthe mountain, to investigate the phenomenon, lost his life.1 1 In the year 1713, sixteen centuries after the destruction of the cities,the ruins were discovered by some persons engaged in digging a well,and since then extensive excavations have been made, which have FROM TIBERIUS TO MARCUS AURELIUS. 3Si 224. Domitian — Last of the Twelve Caesars (a.d. 81-96).—Domitian, the brother of Titus, was the last of the lineof emperors known as the Twelve Caesars. The title,however, was assumed by, and is applied to, all the suc-ceeding emperors; the sole reason that the first twelve
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A Street in Pompeii. (From a photograph.) princes are grouped together is because the Roman biog-rapher Suetonius completed the lives of that number only. The greater part of Domitians reign was an exact con-trast to that of his brother Titus. It was, after the first uncovered a large part of Pompeii, and revealed to us the streets, homes,theatres, baths, shops, temples, and various monuments of the ancientcity — all of which presents to us a very vivid picture of Roman lifeduring the imperial period, eighteen hundred years ago. 352 ROME AS AN EMPIRE. few years, one succession of extravagances, tyrannies,confiscations, murders, and persecutions. During the reign, however, transactions of interest andimportance were taking place on the northern frontier-lines. In Britain the able commander Agricola, the father-in-law of the historian Tacitus, pushed the conquests ofRome to the utmost limits that they ever reached. Heeither subjected or crowded back the warlike tribes until hehad exte

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