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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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Marcus Aurelius. §590) AUGUSTUS TO AURELIUS 479 and temperate. ... He looked to his duty, and not to theopinion of men. . . . There was in his life nothing harsh,nothing excessive, nothing overdone. (Davis Readings, II,No. 69, gives two pages of this noble tribute.) 589. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (i6i-i8o), nephew andadopted son of Antoninus Pius, was the next emperor. He wasa philosopher and student. He belonged to the Stoic school(§ 317), but in him that stern philosophy, without losing itslofty tone, was softened by a gracious gentleness. His Thoughts(§ 628) is one of the worlds noblest books, deeply religious, andcloser to the spirit of Christ than any other writing of thepagan world. The tastes of Marcus Aurelius made him wish to continuein his fathers footsteps, but he had fallen upon harsher times.The barbarians renewed their attacks upon the Danube, theRhine, and the Euphrates. The Emperor and his lieutenantsbeat them back, but at the cost of almost incessant war; andthe ge

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