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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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through his careful training hadbecome an accomplished scholar and an adept in manly exercises. He was anadmirable soldier, and the task which his father left him, of prosecuting thesiege of Jerusalem, had been carried through with success. His victory causedthe utmost joy in Rome, when the news reached the city. He laid the trophiesof victory at his fathers feet, and the two were given the honor (a.d. 71) of ajoint triumph. Becoming the colleague of his parent in the Empire, Titusmade an unfavorable impression by his immoral and cruel conduct. He causedpersons whom he suspected of enmity to be put to death, and his liaison withBerenice, daughter of Herod Agrippa, gave great offence to the Romans. When, however, Titus became emperor, he agreeably disappointed everyone. He immediately stopped all persecutions for treasonable words and looks;repaired the ancient and venerated structures of Rome; built new ones, amongthem the Colosseum and the baths which bear his name, and delighted the
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VITELLIUS TORN BY THE MOB Rome—Herculaneum and Pompeii 423 populace by games which lasted one hundred days. The splendid beneficenceof his reign was sorely needed, for in 79 occurred the appalling eruption ofVesuvius which destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii and many other townsand villages. Herculaneum stood in the Campagna, close to the Bay of Naples.It is not known when it was founded, but its inhabitants took an active part inthe social and civil wars of Rome. It was completely buried under a showerof ashes, over which a stream of lava flowed and afterward hardened. The con-figuration of the coast was so changed that the city was entirely lost for sixteencenturies, when an accident led to the discovery of its ruins in 1713. Twenty-five years later a systematic course of excavation was begun. The interestingrelics of antiquity, so far as they were capable of removal, were taken to Na-ples, and are now deposited, along with other relics from Pompeii, in a large-museum attached to th

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