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Chapter 26 The fall of Rome The Twilight of Rome 第二十六章 罗马帝国的衰亡 罗马帝国的黄昏 The text-books of ancient History give the date 476 as the year in which Rome fell, because in that year the last emperor was driven off his...
According to my informant he made another attempt to save the life of the kindly prophet. 据约瑟夫讲，彼拉多又作了一次努力，以挽救这位仁慈先知的性命。 He kept putting the execution off. 他一直拖延着，避免对耶稣...
But the old-fashioned leaders of the Jewish faith, according to Joseph, were much upset. 可犹太教的老派领袖们，据约瑟夫说；对这一结果非常不满。 They greatly disliked his popularity with the masses of the poorer Hebrews. 由于...
He said that he remembered it very clearly, 他说他记得非常清楚， because his father had taken him to Golgotha (a hill just outside the city) to see the execution, 因为他父亲曾带他去各各他（耶路撒冷城外的小山）观看死刑...
His personality made a great impression upon me and I was sorry to hear that he was killed on the Ostian Road a few days ago. 可无论如何，他的高尚为人与优雅个性给我留下了极深的印象。听到几天前他在奥斯提亚大道上...
Chapter 25 第二十五章 Joshua of Nazareth 拿撒勒的约书亚 The story of Joshua of Nazareth Whom the Greeks Called Jesus 拿撒勒人约书亚，也就是希腊人所称的耶稣的故事 In the autumn of the year of the city 783 (which would...
It had created a large bureaucracy-petty officials who were underpaid and who were forced to take graft in order to buy bread and clothing for their families. Worst of all, it had accustomed people to violence, to blood-shed, to a barbarous pleasure...
If the truth be told, the average citizen was sick and tired of anarchy and disorder. He did not care who ruled him pro vided the new master gave him a chance to live quietly and without the noise of eternal street riots. Octavian assured his subject...
Octavian remained in Rome, but Antony went to Egypt to be near Cleopatra with whom he too had fallen in love, as seems to have been the habit of Roman generals. 渥大维留在罗马，而安东尼去了埃及。似乎罗马将军都有爱江 山更爱...
He marched at the head of not less than four different victory-parades, having won four different campaigns. 在其辉煌的一生中，恺撒赢得了四次重大战争，四次举行凯旋入城仪式，每次都威风八面地走在游行队伍的最...
He crossed the Rubicon River which separated the province of Cis-alpine Gaul from Italy. Everywhere he was received as the friend of the people. Without difficulty Caesar entered Rome and Pompey fled to Greece Caesar followed him and defeated his fol...
Cicero, a public-spirited lawyer, had discovered the plot, had warned the Senate, and had forced Catiline to flee. But there were other young men with similar ambitions and it was no time for idle talk. 一个颇具公众精神的律师西塞罗察觉了...
As for Sulla, he became Dictator, which meant sole and supreme ruler of all the Roman possessions. He ruled Rome for four years, and he died quietly in his bed, having spent the last year of his life tenderly raising his cabbages, as was the custom o...
He began his campaign for world-domination with the murder of all Roman citizens who happened to be in Asia Minor, men, women and children. Such an act, of course, meant war. The Senate equipped an army to march against the King of Pontus and punish...
There were street riots. A party of thugs was hired to kill the popular Tribune. Tiberius Gracchus was attacked when he entered the assembly and was beaten to death. Ten years later his brother Gaius tried the experiment of reforming a nation against...
