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3 giorni fa · De Clementia Aeris. Ibi siquidem— Emollit animos hominum clementia coeli'; non vt sint in Venerem puters , sed ne feir sint et bestiales, potius benigni et liberales. De Religione. Est ibi, in scclesia Beati Pauli, Episcopalis Sedes.
3 giorni fa · Other essays (56) De Clementia (On Clemency) – written to Nero on the need for clemency as a virtue in an emperor. (63) De Beneficiis (On Benefits) [seven books] (–) De Superstitione (On Superstition) – lost, but quoted from in Saint Augustine's City of God 6.10–6.11.
4 giorni fa · It is an hundred of a very large extent, and takes its name of Grenhoe from the green hills or tumuli lying by the London road to Swaffham, on the heath between Cley and North Pickenham. (fn. 1) It is mostly open and a champain, and famous for the number and sound feed of sheep, and is called South in respect of another hundred of the same name ...
5 giorni fa · (56) De Clementia (On Clemency) – written to Nero on the need for clemency as a virtue in an emperor. (63) De Beneficiis (On Benefits) [seven books] (–) De Superstitione (On Superstition) – lost, but quoted from in Saint Augustine's City of God 6.10–6.11. Letters
I'll talk a little bit about the Roman perspective here. Hopefully others can chime in with examples of other historical societies. On the one hand, the Romans obviously had different norms than (say) modern Americans as to the moral importance of refraining from killing civilians in warfare. Take a glance at ancient histori
3 giorni fa · The slave trade, lightly taxed and regulated, flourished in all reaches of the Roman Empire and across borders. In antiquity, slavery was seen as the political consequence of one group dominating another, and people of any race, ethnicity, or place of origin might become slaves, including freeborn Romans.
1 giorno fa · The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands') is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of the ...
