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Title: Eastern Nations and Greece
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Myers, Philip Van Ness, 1846-1937
Subjects: History, Ancient Greece -- History
Publisher: Boston, Ginn
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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by any considerations of right and wrong.But his impulses were generous and humane; he saw clearlythe evils of society and government, and possessed an intuitiveperception of the means to check them. With all his kind-ness of heart, he was capable of gross bad faith and wholesaleslaughter, when it served his purposes. His premature deathmakes it impossible for us to judge what his reconstruction ofthe state might have accomplished for society, especially seeingthat his successor, Augustus, adopted a plan of governmentwidely at variance with his. His measures in themselves wereeminently wise, and his organization of the municipal system showsthat he realized the value of local self-government (p. 175). Butthe eagerness with which he pursued the phantom of royalty,which caused his downfall, leads us to question whether, if he hadlived, he would not have made the mistake of so many men ofgenius, and constructed a scheme of government which no onewas capable of administering but himself.
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GLADIATORS. (From an Ancient Mosaic.) 226 OCTA VIAN. CHAPTER XVII. OCTAVIAN. The Young Octavius. — Soon after Caesars assassination, hisgrand-nephew, Oaius Octavius, returned to Rome from the East, where he had been sojourning. Hewas a young man of nineteen, andas Caesar left no legitimate descend-ants, he adopted Octavius by will,and made him his heir. As thelaw required, he took the name ofhis adoptive father. Gains JuliusCaesar, from whom he is usuallydistinguished by the surname Oc-tavian.^ The delicate health of theyoung Caesar had kept him out ofa military life, and, as the nephewof his uncle, he seems to havebeen regarded with some degreeof contempt. He was, however,long-headed and astute, cool andsagacious, devoid of passion oraffection, and proved himself amatch for the most experiencedpoliticians of Rome.Octavian as the Champion of the Senate. — The relations ofOctavian with Antony were not at first friendly. Antony had takenpossession of Caesars property, and when the y

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