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Page 16 - Thus having said, the gallant chiefs alight, Their hands they join, their mutual faith they plight ; Brave Glaucus then each narrow thought resign'd, (Jove warm'd his bosom, and enlarged his mind,) For Diomed's brass arms, of mean device, For which nine oxen paid, (a vulgar price,) He gave his own, of gold divinely wrought," A hundred beeves the shining purchase bought.
Page 89 - It was not enough for Julian to have delivered the provinces of Gaul from the Barbarians of Germany. He aspired to emulate the glory of the first and most illustrious of the emperors; after whose example, he composed his own commentaries of the Gallic war.
Page 281 - ... he supplicated the venerable mother to give to his arms the cold and beauteous Daphne : for the spot was ennobled by fiction ; and the fancy of the Syrian poets had transported the amorous tale from the banks of the Peneus to those of the Orontes.
Page iv - Select Works of the Emperor Julian, and some Pieces of the Sophist Libanius, translated from the Greek, with Notes from Petau, La Bleterie, Gibbon, &c. ; to which is added, the History of the Emperor Jovian, from the French of the Abbe de la Bleterie, by John Duncombe, MA Lond.
Page 170 - This last was a magnificent structure, erected by the emperor on the side of the Quirinal hill, and dedicated, soon after the triumph, to that deity whom Aurelian adored as the parent of his life and fortunes. His mother had been an inferior priestess in a chapel of the Sun; a peculiar devotion to the god of Light was a sentiment which the fortunate peasant imbibed in his infancy; and every step of his elevation, every victory of his reign, fortified superstition by gratitude.86 The arms of Aurelian...
Page 281 - God of light, and his coloffal figure almoll filled the capacious fan&uary, which was enriched with gold and gems, and adorned by the fkill of the Grecian artifts. The deity was reprefented in a bending attitude, with a golden cup in his hand, 'pouring out a libation on the earth; as if he fupplicated the venerable mother to give to his arms the cold and beauteous DAPHNE; for the fpot was ennobled by fiction ; and the fancy of the Syrian poets had tranfported the amorous tale from the banks of the...
Page 34 - Not that Nepenthes which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena Is of such power to stir up joy as this, To life so friendly, or so cool to thirst.
Page 243 - Ajax in all the toils of battle bred ? From warlike Salamis I drew my birth, And, born to combats, fear no force on earth: He faid. The troops, with elevated eyes, Implore the God whofe thunder rends the fkies: 140 O Father of mankind, fuperior Lord!
Page 281 - The soldier and the philosopher wisely avoided the temptation of this sensual paradise: where pleasure, assuming the character of religion, imperceptibly dissolved the firmness of manly virtue. But the groves of Daphne continued for many ages to enjoy the veneration of natives and strangers; the privileges of the holy ground were enlarged by the munificence of succeeding emperors; and every generation added new ornaments to the splendor of the temple.
Page 110 - But the devotion of Constantine was more peculiarly directed to the genius of the Sun, the Apollo of Greek and Roman mythology; and he was pleased to be represented with the symbols of the God of Light and Poetry.