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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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loves to 1 Jewish books were numerous in Uonie. Horace, the friend of Virgil, repeatedly mentionsthem. (Sat., I. iy. and I. ix.) Of. the famous passages of Suetonius (Vesp., 4), of Tacitus(Hint., v. 13), confirmed by Joseph us ( Bell. Jud., vi. ■>. 4). Cic, de Ditinat., ii. 54. - This is the idea of Abd-el-Kaders curious book. He admires our wealth and ourcivilization, but reproaches us that we do not believe in messiahs. This work is an exampleof that peculiar condition of Oriental minds which has given rise to so many religions. J If needful, we might discover a Jewish and Persian idea in lines 24-25 of the fourthEclogue, which speak of the serpents death, as in Genesis, and of the revival of the tree of life: Occidet et serpens, etfallax herba veneniOccidet; Assyrium vulgo nascetur amonuum. The amomum was to the Greeks the tree of life, the horn of tin Mazda aus. 182 AUGUSTUS, OB THE FOUNDATION OF THE EMPIRE. regard \ irgil, not only as tho singer of ancient times, but as the
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Tomb, called Virgils, near the Entrance to the Grotto of Posilipo at Naples. poet who had a presentiment of the future, the gentle master, Virgil died at Brundusium, and in accordance with his deaire his remains were brougblback to the region he had most loved, between Naples and Puteoli. To receive them, amonument was built near the entrance to the grotto of Posilipo, but the ruins shown alpresent under the name are not his tomb. L83 whom Dante accepted as a guide, and who lias been regarded asone of the precursors of a great moral revolution.1 Horace and Virgil represent all of Greek that could enterinto the Latin genius. Livy, on the contrary, is purely Roman,and the successor of a long line of men who, after serving thecountry upon fields of battle or in tin1 councils of the State,desired still further to serve her by holding up to future genera-tions the examples of their ancestors. History, like law, was apatrician science at Borne. It is not known that Livy, who appears to have

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