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BRITTAIN
ILLUSTRATED
PHILADELPHIA
GEORGE
EARRIE
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SONS,
PUBLISHERS
1
Hall,
London
preface
gratify-
ing
natural
curiosity
the
ascertaining
how
human
nature
vii
ALFRED BRITTAIN.
Uome
the
very
founding
to
these
sources,
it
is
probable
that
during
the
early
cen-
turies
annals
were
kept
of
the
principal
happenings
in
the
usually
represent
natural
forces
and
historic
evolutions;
though,
centuries?
preeminently
the
ity,
will
be
marked
by
a
uniformity
of
character?
For
our
but
few
advantages
that
could
arouse
the
envy
of
a
modern
village
maiden.
The
woman
and
athletic
games
which
were
flock
prizes
liquor
not the
could
prevent
throne
of
the
exiled
Numitor;
for
the
Vestals
were
most
rigidly
They say
the
leading
citizens,
whom
he
Hence it
of later
should
take
the
inside
of
the
path;
king
and
the
maiden
are
discreetly
ignored
by
the
tradi-
tion.
She
agreed
to
open
the
gate,
on
the
pretence
of
speech
of
course,
drawing
from
his
husbands
debating
with
himself,
and
derived
from
the
legendary
reign
of
Numa
Pompilius.
He
is
described
order,
to
have
assigned
precisely
its
duties,
and
to
have
built
a
house
for
Vesta.
But
there
is
feminine
life
during
this
period,
it
is
difficult
wife
Egeria.
Whether
this
Egeria
is
to
be
regarded
as
a
mortal
woman,
perhaps
to
attribute
excellence
in
statesmanship
on
the
part
of
day.
Here
had
wrought
with
of
her
betrothed.
Possibly
with
her
cries
of
grief
she
joined
cate
in
his
son
won
for
the
latter
absolution;
the race
of
her,
however,
might
seem
valid,
inas-
much
as
they
contributed
in
no
small
degree
to
their
days
of
her
life.
She
seeketh
endeavoring
to
escape.
Upon
this
She
was
adjudged
innocent.
of
the
king.
Ser-
vius
comes
forth
with
the
trabea
and
the
lictors,
and,
without data
type
of
which
Shakespeare
has
given
an
and
contemplative
gave
the
oppor-
tunity
for
a
reassortment;
and
the
nuptials
of
Lucius
and
Tullia
were
quickly
celebrated.
return
home;
and
the
extraordinary
pride,
was
strong
and
tyrannous;
takings
by
transmitted
their
are never
workings
of
dispute
Rome and let the
occupied
on
his
unexpected
arrival.

suffer them
legendary
Rome
may
be
accepted
as
fact,
and
what
must
be
rele-
gated
to
the
Rome.
tfte Eepubltc
undoubtedly
prevailed.
Roman
society
at
the
beginning
of
the
Republic
was
most
distinctly
and
rigidly
classified.
Not
only
were
the
people
divided
by
tury
before
Christ,
when
the
plebeians
had
wrested
many
444
of
letting
of
money
on
usury.
Wealth
was
no
more
a
only
be
retained
by
strict
rectitude
of
life.
and Horatio
of
liberty
than
were
their
husbands
and
the
rural
tribes,
which
were
the
most
honorable
of
all,
and
they
came
to
Rome
only
on
open
and earn for
mechanical
shapes,
it
allowed
themselves
more
liberty.
satisfied his
noble
woman
grati-
tude
for
this,
the
Conscript
Fathers
voted
that
thence-
evidence.
any tendency
State,
and
rarely
rights.
can
understand
and
appreciate;
we
begin
to
recognize
social
features
upon
which
the
imagination
can
lay
hold
Cornelia
providing
riches,
there
had
been
brought
about
a
great
differentiation
in
the
condition
of
the
population.
Polybius
hold and the
men
death.
the
State,
monopolize
the
land
by
seizing
upon
the
public
domain.
Middle-class
independence
was
rapidly
diminishing,
and
the
growing
She
removed
to
her
seaside
reminiscences
of
her
father,
Scipio
that
she
gloried
most
in
the
great
and
good
women
of
all
time.
i&elfgton
people.
Nothing
life.
According
to
Roman
theology,
the
supernatural
Republic,
to
address
the
gods
as
were
the
men;
and,
in
fact,
in
the
many
matters
which
concerned
their
sex
particularly,
and
in
protection
for
those
in
whose
welfare
they
were
interested.
The
practical
Romans
looked
upon
their
relations
reality,
an
inexpensive
substitute
might
well
the
was the
than
did
yEbutius;
rites
by
her
mistress,
though
since
her
emancipation
she
had
been
exceedingly
careful
to
avoid
the
place.
religion.
passing
of
to
Koman
the
spoils
thereof.
recounting
his
exploits
in
battle,
simply
placed
dwelt,
superintending
the
agricultural
and
domestic
activi-
ties,
while
her
home;
this
her
husband's
antipathy
to
expense
sufficiently
guarantees.
The
man
who
amphitheatre,
no
public
life
and
would
no
longer
be
satisfied
to
abide
in
the
shadow
of
domestic
request
to
her
husband
at
the
help
of
all
these
restrictions,
you
can
hardly
keep
them
within
bounds.
If,
then,
you
suffer
them
to
The
Voconian
law,
which
had
been
into
immoderate
expenses
and
luxury,
and
should
subsequently
chance
to
Romans
Gracchi,
belonged
to
she had
the
wealthy,
fashionable,
and
doubtless
beauti-
ful
daughter
of
the
great
patrician
family,
was
well
quali-
fied
to
be
the
high
priestess
of
Aphrodite
for
the
city
of
Rome.
of
one
man,
and,
a
man
a
whole
able
a
general,
re-
fused
his
request,
pur-
chase
a
had
fifty
thousand
ases,
less
than
eight
hundred
dollars
of
our
money.
But
their
daughters.
Even
in
the
most
wealthy
families,
before
the
days
when
Roman
formal
manner,
right
by
law
to
exercise
over
her
that
authority
a
distaff,
a
spindle,
epithalamium,
and
will
also
fairly
With
songs,
with
paeans
greet
the
bride
1
the
atrium,
where
the
to
prevent
the
possibility
of
childbearing,
or
for
deceiving
him
only
person
near
him
against
not
longer
brought
up
with
my
father's
concubine.
untrer
Julius
(tear
times.
The
weakening
of
moral
principle
of
small
portion
of
your
good
fortune.
of
her
to
Glabrio
the
Censor.
The
dictator
man
of
altogether
different
metal.
The
latter
had
married
was
to
bear
one
of
the
three
most
renowned
of
the
Gracchi.
She
was
one
of
the
few
plebeian
sur-
wife
was
Pompeia,
the
granddaughter
to the
really
been
as
blame-
She herself admitted
but a
taken
up
with
further
reflection
and
a
former
husband.
This
Portia,
being
interested
in
philosophy,
a
great
lover
of
her
husband,
you
forming
of
manners;
and
I
op-
pressed
with
the
from his
extent
that
if
it
were
he
who
purposed
assassination,
she
must
deem
it
justi-
fied.
Yet
impatiently
awaited
to
hear
was
done.
Calpurnia's
womanly
instinct
was
quicker
than
the
suspicion
of
Caesar
and
his
friends.
She
was
not
so;
for
under
the
Triumvirate
there
was
inaugurated
a
reign
of
Hortensia
spoke.
Before
presenting
ourselves
before
you,
she
said,
we
have
solicited
the
intervention
of
Fulvia;
her
tribute
to
this
f
raticidal
war
a
citizen
of
whom
nothing
worse
is
known
than
that
he
Evidently,
we
must
regard
Mark
Antony
as
being
the
great
historical
type
of
the
related
of
her
final
parting
from
Brutus
in
the
island
of
Nisida.
She
fixes
her
tearful
eyes
for
the
last
time
upon
her
husband.
Portia
Roman
of
them
all.
SSSoman
in
^clitics
Roman
schemes
through
the
Julian
race,
the
dynasty
called
to
sovereignty.
No
wonder,
cannot
accept
these
images
as
portraits,
though
they
bear
her
name.
Here are
the conclusions
of
her,
no
age
has
produced
a
more
beautiful
character
than
that
of
Octavia.
In
her
this
apartment
were
highly
decorated
with
landscape
paintings,
or
else
lined
title
of
a
real
most
likely
Marcellus.
Grief-
stricken
and
dejected
passage,
she
birth
were
perfecting
themselves
in
more
fashionable
accom-
plishments,
to
assist
her
aunt
and
her
stepmother
in
abruptly:
Julia,
which
would
you
rather
be
gray
or
bald?
Why,
father,
gray,
of
course.
You
little
liar,
replied
Augustus,
see
here,
and
he
held
up
was
was
already
obtained
such
absolute
sway
that
he
had
banished
his
only
surviving
grandson,
Agrippa
Posthumus,
a
person
of
clownish
brutality,
with
great
bodily
strength,
but
convicted
of
no
heinous
offence.
any
real
affection,
death all
principal
argument
and
illicit
love
their
chief
inducement.
early
changes
a
patrician
named
Sulpicius,
while
the
other
was
espoused
to
Stolo,
a
plebeian
tribune.
I well has never
able soldier and
discover
no
trace
in
the
conduct
of
the
former
lady;
the
Augusta
was
strongly
supported
in
her
dislike
by
the
Emperor
Tiberius;
and
Agrippina
was
away
from
Rome
a
great
part
of
the
time.
determine.
Some
historians
claim
that
it
did
the
populace;
back
by
Tiberius
and
Livia,
mourn
in
private.
the
summary
of
the
story
of
the
Roman
woman
in
politics.
figure
of
Agrip-
Agrippina.
The
empress
occupied
a
second
throne
and
received
an
politics
was
personal
preferment.
Sosii
surrendered
the
the
to
which
her
assaulted. Then
but
not
as
than
history.
And
in
order
drawn
by
Roman
crea-
a
Roman.
She
such
as
Dido.
When
and
Terence,
we
learn
a
great
deal
about
women,
but
we
encounter
none
indecent
that
confound.
affected
by
Juvenal
arose
from
In
Terentia,
for
example,
Cicero
was
as there to have been no other
insulce,
or
huge
tenements,
in
which
the
great
mass
of
the
people
sincerity
of
that
affection
meanness,
to
castigate
these
women
in
his
poetry
after
advances:
through
life
I've
roved,
Now
speed
ye
home,
and
with
you
bear
certain allusions
fictitious
glory
which
was
a
mere
accident
of
their
birth,
a
Cynthia
gains
more
somewhat
affection
was
Delia,
whose
real
name,
according
to
Apuleius,
was
Plania.
She
belonged,
says
Milman,
to
that
class
of
females
of
the
middle
order,
not
of
good
family,
but
above
poverty,
which
answered
to
the
Greek
When
sickness
dimmed
of
late
your
radiant
eyes,
My
restless,
fond
petitions
won
the
skies.
her
than
thee?
unrestrained
pen
of
her
successor,
Messalina
would
have
been
known
to
Seneca
and
stage.
Where
was
she
when
I
by
my
by
by
a
curtain,
and
catches
up
with
eager
ears
the
praise
bestowed
on
me.
ffiloman
at
ijer
Worst
continuous
Saturnalia,
a
perpetual
reign
of
terror,
a
par-
oxysm
of
indecency.
What
renders
the
situation
so
ceased
to
admire.
Nor
was
the
extravagant
wickedness
of
the
time
a
revolt
against
law;
on
the
contrary,
everything
was
author.
duction
upon
the
imperial
stage
of
a
company
of
women
upon
whose
it,
a
mother's
side;
thus
in
her
veins
the
He
made
as much her
she
was,
blood,
and,
baring
her
throat,
requested
the
assassin
not
to
be
awkward
in
finishing
the
tragedy.
She
received
the
death
stroke
cheerfully,
and
the
little
daughter,
who
was
by
her
mother's
side,
perished
by
the
same
sword.
To
his
desire
to
do
better
than
lina.
Of
the
former,
he
says:
The
hair
is
arranged
in
whole
structure
of
the
and
of
the
Medical
Studies
from
the
Latin
Poets,
also
gives
it
as
his
opinion
that
Messalina
was
a
victim
of
nymphomania.
He
says:
At
the
Salptriere,
there
are
Messalinas,
cases
suspicions,
we
have
the
assurance
of
eminent
students
of
art
that,
in
their
sculpture,
the
Romans
were
particular
instances;
but
we
know
a
by
their
machinations.
which
history
illustrates
Messalina's
cruelty
and
licentiousness;
and
even
though
warrant
this
great
and
concurrent
alarm
and
acts
to
witness
the
intercourse
of
deities.
On
one
occasion,
in
the
presence
of
Claudius,
he
the
were
some
hopes
of
beguiling
Claudius,
and
great
rewards
being
held
out
to
him,
he
was
content
to
enjoy
the
present
advantages
and
in
repudiation.
Presuming
on
her
Julian
descent,
she
may
have
per-
suaded
herself
that,
once
wedded
to
the
young
patrician
part
of
the
emperor
was
precisely
what
Messalina
and
Silius
did
not
of
the
carts
used
to
convey
the
rubbish
peror,
her
alluring
methods
would
save
her
life,
and
Clau-
dius
would
turn
to
make
common
cause
with
her
against
her
accusers.
Narcissus
therefore
hurried
forth
in
the
gardens
of
Lucullus,
lying
upon
the
ground,
and
by
her
side
her
mother,
Lepida,
who
was
seeking
to
persuade
her
wretched
daughter
not
to
wait
for
the
executioner,
but
to
die
becomingly
by
her
depth
of
moral
depravity.
aim of the
in
A.
D.
40,
leaving
her
with
Nero,
their
only
child.
On
her
return
from
exile
at
the
beginning
of
Claudius's
she
says:
From
domestic
deportment,
unless
it
were
necessary
to
support
her
power;
the son
had been
as the
her
son
proclaimed.
The
fact
of
the
emperor's
death
was
therefore
kept
a
secret
for
some
hours.
The
people
were
the
name
affection
and
again
seemed
willing
to
commit
of
what
had
taken
place,
remained
quiet,
and
swam
until
she
was
picked
up
by
passing
boats
and
conveyed
They
and
medal
portraits
of
Agrippina
that
have
were
several.
She
was
proud;
she
had
an
insatiate
craving
for
power;
above
all,
her
unyielding
will
was
wholly
great
and
her
determination
it
was
impossible
she
should
possess.
corn from
belonging
to
many
other
branches
of
industry,
was
performed
by
slaves,
we
are
necessarily
people
of
Rome
we
have
only
the
most
meagre
information.
We
in these
were
followed
him
was
equal
to
the
dignity
a
fascinating
conversation,
and
was
not
deficient
in
wit.
She
observed
my
beauty
a
wish
by
no
means
unnatural,
rise,
And
time
obscure
of
his
wife
on
the
other;
but
as
the
former
is
certainly
not
a
good
likeness,
it
is
reasonable
to
suppose
that
the
other
is
no
better.
Her
to
the
character
of
this
emperor.
This
sealed
colonnades,
each
a
mile
in
length,
and
an
entrance
portico
somewhat
faces thus
encased,
ridiculous
and
swollen
with
the
great
poultice.
He
very
ancient
times,
a dress
in
keeping
with
their
rights
to
share,
as
closely
as
nature
would
permit,
warmth
to his comfort
the
public
baths,
it
is
impossible
to
productions
to
those
a
strigula.
The
Romans
concluded
the
rich;
that
for the
will
be
many
if
the
company
is
the
lassitude
resulting
olives.
On
the
the
straw
sealed
glass
vessels,
robe
which
interesting
episodes
of
the
feast,
we
are
startled
by
the
banquets
as
those
to
which
of
Poppasa's
time
were
accus-
tomed.
We
have
drawn
our
description
principally
from
sincerity
on
the
part
of
the
worshippers.
The
public
life
of
the
tragic
actor
.dEsopus
amounted
to
two
hundred
obscenity
prevailed
in
the
degenerate
days
the demand.
arena,
would
be
no
better
than
her
husband
in
her
eyes.
conscience.
Nothing
less
than
libidinous
vaudeville,
in
which
matrons
of
noble
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