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Often appears with: diplomacy and embassies · trade, markets, and merchants · therapeutæ or essenians · the rise and fall of greatness · the position of women · the city and urban life · royal letters · roman magistrates · roman foundations and discipline · revolution and the fall of states · nocturnal rites · mount athos
Usually: detachment (4) · argument (3) · narrative (2) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · indignation (1) · skepticism (1) · wonder (1)
“Then please to allow me too now, O Romans, to maintain my authority by ’sailing back’ to see what I can get from Carthage.” Polybius, The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) · wit
“For no thought of personal safety shall induce me to reveal to the uninitiated the secrets that I have received and sworn to conceal.” Apuleius of Madaura, The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura · precept
Gibbon says Alexandria’s commerce made Christianity spread easily, beginning with Jewish ascetics like the Theraputæ/Essenes, then growing via Greek theology and the rise of Egyptian bishops and churches.
has neglected to notice the first passage, and has drawn by estimate of the population of Antioch from other sources. The 8000 maintained by alms were widows and virgins alone—M.] The extensive commerce of Alexandria, and its proximity to Palestine, gave an easy entrance to the new religion. It was at first embraced by great numbers of the Theraputæ, or Essenians, of the Lake Mareotis, a Jewish sec…
The passage compares Alexander the Great’s proposed city on Mount Athos to his founding of Alexandria, then contrasts Roman origins in freedom and discipline with how Rome’s laws prevented corruption for centuries.
then, that it is a prudent choice to found your city in a fertile region when the effects of that fertility are duly balanced by the restraint of the laws. When Alexander the Great thought to add to his renown by founding a city, Dinocrates the architect came and showed him how he might build it on Mount Athos, which not only offered a strong position, but could be handled that the city built there might present a s…
Royal letters inviting Lycortas and Polybius by name to come to Alexandria were submitted to Roman magistrates rather than being acted upon.
depart without effecting their object. They contented themselves with handing in to the magistrates the Royal letters, in which Lycortas and Polybius were invited by name to come to Alexandria.[24] [Sidenote: B.C. 167.]
After the plot against Hieronymus of Syracuse, he sends ambassadors to Hannibal in Italy (with brothers to Alexandria); Hannibal receives them warmly, returns envoys, and prompts Hieronymus to consider an alliance.
[Sidenote: The Roman praetor sends to remonstrate. A scene with the king.] +3.+ Meanwhile intelligence of this transaction had reached the Roman praetor at Lilybaeum, who immediately despatched legates to Hieronymus, to renew the treaty which had been made with his ancestors. Being thoroughly annoyed with this embassy, Hieronymus said that “He was sorry for the Romans that they had come to such utter and shameful gr…
Apuleius says his testimony cannot be forced out by fear, and attacks Junius Crassus’s claim that he “discovered” nocturnal rites at Crassus’s house while in Alexandria.
what it is I keep thus. For no thought of personal safety shall induce me to reveal to the uninitiated the secrets that I have received and sworn to conceal. 57. I have, I think, Maximus, said enough to satisfy the most prejudiced of men and, as far as the handkerchief is concerned, have cleared myself of every speck of guilt. I shall run no risk in passing from the suspicions of Aemilianus to the evidence of Crassu…