The student's Gibbon - 1867 Author:Edward Gibbon Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE STUDENT'S GIBBON. Mole of Hadrian restored. CHAPTER I. THE EXTENT, PROSPERITY, AND CONSTITUTION OF THE EMPIRE IN THE AGE OF THE ANTONINES. i 1. I... more »ntroduction § 2. Moderation of Augustus. § 3. Imitated by his successors. § 4. Conquest of Britain was the first exception to it. § 5. Conquest of Dacia, the second exception, A.d. 101-106. § 6. Conquest of Trajan in the East, A.d. 115-117 : resigned by his successor Hadrian, A.d. 117. § 7. Pacific system of Hadrian and the two Antonines. § 8. Number and disposition of the Legions. § 9. View of the provinces of the Roman Empire: Italy. § 10. Western division of the European provinces: Spain, Gaul, Britain. § 11. Eastern division of the European provinces: RhEetia, Noricum and Pannenia, Moesia and Dacia, Thrace, Macedonia, and Achaia. § 12. Asiatic provinces: Asia Miner, Syria, Phoenecia, and Palestine. § 13. Egypt. § 14. Africa. § 15. The Mediterranean, with its islands. § 16. General idea of the Roman Empire. § 17. Italy and the provinces. § 18. Colonies and municipal towns. § 19. Division of the Latin and Greek provinces. § 20. General use of both2 AUGUSTUS AND[ HIS SUCCESSORS. Chap. I. languages. § 21. Populousnesa of the Roman Empire. § 22. Obedience and union. § 23. System of the Imperial government: image of civil liberty for the people, and image of civil government for the armies: § 24. Augustus takes the title of Princeps, but receives the command of the army and the government of the provinces under the names of Imperator and Proconsul: division of the provinces between the Emperor and tho Senate. § 25. Augustus reserves his military command and guards in Rome itself. § 26. Ho receives the Consular and Tribunitian powers: is made Pontifex Maximus and Prafectus Morion. § 27. Imperial prerogatives. § 28. The Mag...« less