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Philokalos
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- Envy, then incredulity—Pericles’ Funeral Oration
- His father ran to meet him
- Martial Nobility, Stubborn Commons
- More liberal applause for their destroyers than their benefactors
- Limbo Culture
- “You have some, Papa.”
- Motu Proprio “On the Offering of Life” (translation of Latin version)
- “You notice the great, strange world!”
- Strive as Translator to Convey the Image
- Resting in knowledge “limpid as pure air”…
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Tag Archives: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Martial Nobility, Stubborn Commons
A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against enterprises of an aspiring prince. —— On the reign of Antoninus Pius, Gibbon said: His … Continue reading
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