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However, he did not keep even this woman for long, but married a second, and then a third, and still another; after that he went back to Severa. Sardanapalus was conducting games and numerous spectacles, in which Helix, the athlete, won renown.
Venus holding a round object is to be seen upon many coins issued in the names of Soaemias the mother of Elagabalus, his wife Julia Aquilia Severa, Julia Mamma the mother of Alexander Severus, and his wife Orbiana. On another coin of this reign we see a Phoenix instead of a Victory upon the round object held by the Emperor.
Will they fight? They say so. And will the French? I can hardly, Hardly think so; and yet He is come, they say, to Palo, He is passed from Monterone, at Santa Severa He hath laid up his guns. But the Virgin, the Daughter of Roma, She hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn, the Daughter of Tiber She hath shaken her head and built barricades against thee!
Besides the "severa paupertas" of Camillus and Fabricius, he had something of their primitive integrity; and he declined, with scorn, to be an accomplice in the proposed assassination of Arminius: "non fraude neque occultis, sed palam et armatum, Populum Romanum hostes suos ulcisci." He protected magistrates and poor suitors, against the nobles.
Novimus quanta lepore descripserit colloquia illa antemeridiana, symposia illa sobria et severa, sed eadem festiva et faceta, in quibus totiens mutata persona, modo poeta, modo professor, modo princeps et arbiter, loquendi, inter convivas suos regnat."
We are to understand, I make no doubt, that Willie had been too fortunate a lover, and that in his absence the frailty of his lady becoming conspicuous her brother had avenged the family honour according to that old law of Scotland which the courteous Ariosto styles "l' aspra legge di Scozia, empia e severa." Pray let me know, at your leisure, what you think of this trouvaille.
"O Giustizia di Dio, quanto è severa,..." yet Dante's will beggar it.
The result of this Spanish conquest was that the Pax Romana came into Spain, bringing with it severa centuries of high prosperity; the world-currents flowed in there at once and presently the light of Spain, such as it was at that time, shone out over the Roman world. Most of the great names of the first century A.D. are those of Spaniards.
O how it tickled the Divider! when he got his Text into those two excellent branches, Accusatio vera: Comminatio severa: "A Charge full of Verity: A Discharge of Severity." And, I will warrant you! that did not please a little, viz., "there are in the words, duplex miraculum; Miraculum in modo and Miraculum in nodo."
Two of them, Aurelia Severa and Pomponia Rufina, met a similar death, but Cannutia Crescentina threw herself from the top of the house. And in the case of adulterers he did the same. Though displeased at all good men, he affected to honor some few of them after their death. ¶Antoninus censured and rebuked them all because they asked nothing of him.
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