Identifier: romeitsrisefallt00myer (find matches)
Title: Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
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Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Octavius as a Youth. (From a bust in the Vatican Museum.) three met on a small island in the Rhenus, a little streamin Northern Etruria, and there formed a league known asthe Second Triumvirate (43 B.C.). The plans of the triumvirs were infamous. They first 306 ROME AS A REPUBLIC. divided the world among themselves : Octavius was tohave the government of the West; Antony, that of theEast; while to Lepidus fell the control of Africa. Ageneral proscription, such as had marked the coming to
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Cicero. (From the bust in the Capitoline Museum.) power of Sulla, was then resolved upon. It was agreedthat each should give up to the assassin such friends ofhis as had incurred the ill-will of either of the other trium-virs. Under this arrangement Octavius gave up his friendCicero, — who had incurred the hatred of Antony by THE PERIOD OF THE REVOLUTION. 307 opposing his schemes, — and allowed his name to be putat the head of the list of the proscribed. The friends of the orator urged him to flee the country.Let me die, said he, in my fatherland, which I have sooften saved ! His attendants were hurrying him, halfunwilling, towards the coast, when his pursuers came upand despatched him in the litter in which he was beingcarried. His head was taken to Rome, and set up in frontof the rostra, from which he had so often addressed thepeople with his eloquent appeals for liberty. It is toldthat Fulvia, the wife of Antony, ran her gold bodkinthrough the tongue, in revenge for the bitter

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