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The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

CHAPTER II: The Internal Prosperity In The Age Of The Antonines
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Dion Cassius, l.lxxi.p.1195.Juvenal himself, in a morose satire, which in every line betrays his own disappointment and envy, is obliged, however, to say,--"-- O Juvenes, circumspicit et stimulat vos.

Materiamque sibi Ducis indulgentia quaerit."-- Satir.

vii.20.

Note: Vespasian first gave a salary to professors: he assigned to each professor of rhetoric, Greek and Roman, centena sestertia.

(Sueton.


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