This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ... and skilful in criticising the discourses of others; the pleaders, a judge wiser than Rhadamanthus. O unfortunate peasants who will be the prey of those whose sole object is to despoil you! O power of justice already weakened, and of which soon there will only remain the shadow! O magistrates, how much will the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ... and skilful in criticising the discourses of others; the pleaders, a judge wiser than Rhadamanthus. O unfortunate peasants who will be the prey of those whose sole object is to despoil you! O power of justice already weakened, and of which soon there will only remain the shadow! O magistrates, how much will the dignity of your names be reviled! O battalions of soldiers, you have lost an emperor who in war provided for all your necessities! O laws, with reason believed to have been dictated by Apollo, now trodden under foot! O reason, thou hast almost in the same moment acquired and lost thy sway and vigour! Alas! for the earth's absolute ruin!"1 This explosion of grief is in natural contrast to the recital of the hopes and expectations which Julian had aroused. The Emperor, Libanius says, attributed a supreme importance to education; he believed that the doctrine and the worship of the gods should be united by fraternal bonds (vojil&v aSef)a 070v? re icai de&p Upa). To restore 1 Liban., op. tit., 516, 15. instruction, which was entirely neglected, to its former position of honour, he himself wrote discourses and treatises on philosophy. He also desired that the cities should be governed by men of culture, and as soon as he found a man capable of ruling, he immediately invested him with office. There is indeed a breath of poetic inspiration in the enthusiastic picture that Libanius gives of Julian's journey from Constantinople to Antioch. The Emperor is moved by one dominant thought, the restoration of Hellenism; he enjoys discourses much more than he does gifts; he weeps with emotion, and is consumed by his prodigious activity of mind and of body, and he never neglects a temple, nor leaves unheard a philosopher, rhetorician, or poet. "The...
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