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Page 145 - ... never have the Romans and their allies thrived in such peace and plenty as that which was afforded them by Augustus Caesar, from the time he assumed the absolute authority, and is now being afforded them by his son and successor, Tiberius, who is making Augustus the model of his administration and decrees.
Page 181 - ... for all agree in regarding the women as the chief founders of religion, and it is the women who provoke the men to the more attentive worship of the gods...
Page 203 - Other writers, he says, tell only about their savagery because they know that the terrible and the marvellous are startling, but one should tell the opposite facts too and make them patterns of conduct; and he himself therefore will tell only about those who follow 'most just
Page 221 - As for the Nomads, their tents, made of felt, are fastened on the wagons in which they spend their lives ; and round about the tents are the herds which afford the milk, cheese, and meat on which they live ; and they follow the grazing herds, from time to time moving to other places that have grass, living only in the marsh-meadows about Lake Maeotis in winter, but also in the plains in summer.
Page 197 - And yet our mode of life has spread its change for the worse to almost all peoples, introducing amongst them luxury and sensual pleasures and, to satisfy these vices, base artifices that lead to innumerable acts of greed.
Page 99 - ... 125, attended by a submarine eruption, the emergence of a small island in the sea and changes in the coastline (188). Stromboli, then as now, acted as a lighthouse and weatherglass for sailors. Poseidonius (189) describes such a sunmarine eruption: "Poseidonius says that within his own recollections, one morning at daybreak about the time of the summer solstice, the sea between Hiera and Eunymus was seen raised to an enormous height, and by a sustained blast remained puffed up for a considerable...
Page 151 - Now, the parts beyond the Rhenus, immediately after the country of the Celti, slope towards the east and are occupied by the Germani, who, though they vary slightly from the Celtic stock in that they are wilder, taller and have yellower hair, are in all other respects similar, for in build, habits and modes of life they are such as I have said the Celti are. And I also think that it was for this reason that the Romans assigned to them the name [of "Germani"] as though they wished to indicate thereby...
Page 99 - Poseidonius says that within his own recollections, one morning at daybreak about the time of the summer solstice, the sea between Hiera and Eunymus was seen raised to an enormous height, and by a sustained blast remained puffed up for a considerable time, and then subsided; and when those who had the hardihood to sail up to it saw dead fish driven by the current, and some of the men were stricken ill because of the heat and stench, they took flight, one of the boats, however, approaching more closely,...
Page 155 - It is a common characteristic of all the peoples in this part of the world,' he wrote, ' that they migrate with ease, because of the meagreness of their livelihood and because they do not till the soil or even store up food, but live in small huts that are merely temporary structures ; and they live for the most part off their flocks, as the Nomads do, 1 EG v, 14, ' interferes plerique frumenta non serunt, sed lacte et carne vivunt pellibusque sunt vestiti.