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But the tranquil life of Antoninus Pius was spent in the bosom of Italy, and, during the twenty-three years that he directed the public administration, the longest journeys of that amiable prince extended no farther than from his palace in Rome to the retirement of his Lanuvian villa.","notes":[{"id":"25","text":"Dion, l. lxix. p. 1158. Hist. August. p. 5, 8. If all our historians were lost, medals, inscriptions, and other monuments, would be sufficient to record the travels of Hadrian. Note: The journeys of Hadrian are traced in a note on Solvet’s translation of Hegewisch, Essai sur l’Epoque de Histoire Romaine la plus heureuse pour Genre Humain Paris, 1834, p. 123.—M.","voice":"Gibbon","at":286},{"id":"26","text":"See the Augustan History and the Epitomes.","voice":"Gibbon","at":572}],"authorities":["Dion"],"alt":81,"wps":50}},{"role":"selected","paragraph":14,"humanUrl":"https://gloss.page/read.html?t=gibbon-1#p14","chapter":{"type":"chapter","label":"Chapter I","short":"Chapter I","head":"Chapter I · The Extent Of The Empire In The Age Of The Antonines"},"unit":{"i":13,"v":0,"kind":"p","text":"Notwithstanding this difference in their personal conduct, the general system of Augustus was equally adopted and uniformly pursued by Hadrian and by the two Antonines. They persisted in the design of maintaining the dignity of the empire, without attempting to enlarge its limits. By every honorable expedient they invited the friendship of the barbarians; and endeavored to convince mankind that the Roman power, raised above the temptation of conquest, was actuated only by the love of order and justice. During a long period of forty-three years, their virtuous labors were crowned with success; and if we except a few slight hostilities, that served to exercise the legions of the frontier, the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius offer the fair prospect of universal peace. The Roman name was revered among the most remote nations of the earth. The fiercest barbarians frequently submitted their differences to the arbitration of the emperor; and we are informed by a contemporary historian that he had seen ambassadors who were refused the honor which they came to solicit of being admitted into the rank of subjects.","notes":[{"id":"27","text":"We must, however, remember, that in the time of Hadrian, a rebellion of the Jews raged with religious fury, though only in a single province. Pausanias (l. viii. c. 43) mentions two necessary and successful wars, conducted by the generals of Pius: 1st. Against the wandering Moors, who were driven into the solitudes of Atlas. 2d. Against the Brigantes of Britain, who had invaded the Roman province. Both these wars (with several other hostilities) are mentioned in the Augustan History, p. 19.","voice":"Gibbon","at":780},{"id":"28","text":"Appian of Alexandria, in the preface to his History of the Roman Wars.","voice":"Gibbon","at":1125}],"authorities":["Appian"],"alt":21,"wps":30}},{"role":"after","paragraph":15,"humanUrl":"https://gloss.page/read.html?t=gibbon-1#p15","chapter":{"type":"chapter","label":"Chapter I","short":"Chapter I","head":"Chapter I · The Extent Of The Empire In The Age Of The Antonines"},"unit":{"i":14,"v":0,"kind":"p","text":"The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved peace by a constant preparation for war; and while justice regulated their conduct, they announced to the nations on their confines, that they were as little disposed to endure, as to offer an injury. The military strength, which it had been sufficient for Hadrian and the elder Antoninus to display, was exerted against the Parthians and the Germans by the emperor Marcus. The hostilities of the barbarians provoked the resentment of that philosophic monarch, and, in the prosecution of a just defence, Marcus and his generals obtained many signal victories, both on the Euphrates and on the Danube. The military establishment of the Roman empire, which thus assured either its tranquillity or success, will now become the proper and important object of our attention.","notes":[{"id":"29","text":"Dion, l. lxxi. Hist. August. in Marco. The Parthian victories gave birth to a crowd of contemptible historians, whose memory has been rescued from oblivion and exposed to ridicule, in a very lively piece of criticism of Lucian.","voice":"Gibbon","at":704}],"authorities":["Dion"],"alt":15,"wps":28}}]}