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Title: The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 A. D
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- (from old catalog)
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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urelian (270-275) was an Illyrian peasant, who had risenfrom the ranks to high military commands. The achievementsof his reign of less than five years rival those of the firstCaesar. He reorganized the army and restored the Empire.The barbarians were driven back beyond the Rhine andthe Danube.^ Gaul, which for some years had become vir-tually a separate kingdom, was recovered. Zenobia, the greatQueen who had set up a rival Arabian empire at Palmyra, wasbrought captive to Rome (Davis Readings^ II, No. 73). Pros-perity began to return; but death snatched away the Emperor,just when he was ready to take up the work of civil reform. Once in this reign, the Alemanni, a German people, pene-trated to the Po, and threw all Italy into a panic. When theyhad been repulsed, Aurelian built walls about Rome. Since 1 Dacia was abandoned to them for their home. § 6^^ BARRACK EMPERORS 529 Hannibals day, that proud capital had feared no invader andhad spread out far beyond her earlier ramparts. The new
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1, Coliseum. 10. Temple of Jupiter Capi 2. Arch of Constantine. tolinus. 3. Arch of Titus. 11. Arch. 4. Via Sacra. 12. Column of Trajan. 5. Via Nova. 13. Column of Antoninus. 6. Vicus Tuscus. 14. Baths of Agrippa. 7. Vicus Jugarius. 15. Pantheon. 8. Arch of Septimiw^s Seve- 16. Theater of Pompey. rus. 17. Portico of Pompey. 9. Clivus Capitolinus. 18. Circus Flaminius. 19. Theater of Marcellus. 20. Forum Holitorium. 21. Forum Boarium. 22. Mausoleum of Augustus. 23. Mausoleum of Hadrian. 24. Baths of Constantine. 25. Baths of Diocletian. 26. Baths of Titus. 27. Baths of Caracalla.2S. Amphitheatrum Cas- trense. walls of Aurelian, needful and grand as the work was, werea somber symbol of a new age. 530 THE EMPIRE —THIRD CENTURY (§647 Six reigns ^ fill the next nine years, — three of them thereigns of able and well-meaning men; and then came Diocle-tian to complete Aurelians work. TOPICAL SURVEY OF THE THIRD CENTURY 647. In general, the third century of the Empire, from Mar-cus Aureli

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