Identifier: historyofromeromv4p1duru (find matches)
Title: History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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the Weser, and the Elbe—which, running northward, form a series of lines of defenceagainst an enemy coming from the Rhine. But, should this enemy 1 Dion, liv. 28. He was fifty-one years of age. (Pliny, Hist. Nat., vii. 8.) A gustuspronounced his funeral oration, and caused him to be buried in the imperial tomb. 2 Tacitus, at least, says this (Ann., iii. 30): Aitate provecta, speciem magi* in amicitiaprinciple quam rim tenuit; and he adds a fine sentence in regard to the fatality of power whichcannot last for ever, and the disgust which seizes princes who have given all and favouriteswho have obtained all. Pliny, much more simply and truly, says (vii. 52) that Maecenassuffered for a long time from a nervous malady, and from a feverish condition, which, duringthe last three years of his life, never allowed him an hours sleep. It is plain that a counsellorin such a condition of health could have been but rarely consulted. How often the grand styleof Tacitus conceal emptiness or error!
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ORGANIZATION OF THE FRONTIERS. 113 arrive by sea, these rivers give him access to the interior of thecountry. Drusus took this latter route, which brought him rapidlyupon the rear of the most tumultuous of the German tribes. Toavoid the dangerous navigation along the Batavian const, he madea canal (Fossa Drusiana) from the Ehine to the Yssel,1 by whichhis vessels passed through to the Flevo Lacus (Zuyder-Zee), whoseoutlet was into the North Sea. The Frisii having allowedthemselves to be readily gained over, Drusus boldly sailed up theEms, where he defeated the Bructeri in a naval engagement, andthen advanced as far as the mouths of the Weser, where hisvessels, stranded at low tide, would have been destroyed by theChauci had not the Frisii, who were following his movements byland, arrived in time to relieve him. This first expedition either frightened or persuaded into alliancewith Home the northern tribes, long hostile to their neighboursof the south ; among others, the Chauci, who ga

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