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Title: Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
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Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Triumphal Procession from the Arch of Titus. (Showing the Seven-branched Candlestick and other trophies from the Temple atJerusalem. From a photograph.) of Mankind. He was unwearied in acts of benevolenceand in bestowal of favors. Having let a day slip by with-out some act of kindness performed, he is said to haveexclaimed reproachfully, I have lost a day. Titus completed and dedicated the great Flavian amphi-theatre begun by his father, Vespasian. This vast struc-ture, which accommodated more than eighty thousand 35° ROME AS AN EMPIRE. spectators, is better known as the Colosseum — a namegiven it either because of its gigantic proportions, or onaccount of a colossal statue of Nero which happened tostand near it (par. 291). The reign of Titus, though so short, was signalized bytwo great disasters. The first was a conflagration at Rome,which was almost as calamitous as the Great Fire in the
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The Colosseum. (From a photograph.) reign of Nero (par. 220). The second was the destruction,by an eruption of Vesuvius, of the Campanian cities ofPompeii and Herculaneum. T1 a cities were buried beneathshowers of cinders, ashes, and streams of volcanic mud.Pliny the Elder, the great naturalist, venturing too nearthe mountain, to investigate the phenomenon, lost his life.1 1 In the year 1713, sixteen centuries after the destruction of the cities,the ruins were discovered by some persons engaged in digging a well,and since then extensive excavations have been made, which have FROM TIBERIUS TO MARCUS AURELIUS. 3Si 224. Domitian — Last of the Twelve Caesars (a.d. 81-96).—Domitian, the brother of Titus, was the last of the lineof emperors known as the Twelve Caesars. The title,however, was assumed by, and is applied to, all the suc-ceeding emperors; the sole reason that the first twelve

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