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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt:... seventh day he went up to the Capitol and visited the temples of the city,--without, however, always making rich offerings in them, thinking, with Persius, that the worship loved by the gods is the practice of virtue, and that they have no need of gold,--1 Lamprid., Alex. 57. 2 Lamprid., ibid. 51. Capitolinus, in the life of Gordian HI., also speaks of duces honorati, that is, honorary dukes. 8 Lamprid., ibid. 38. Medals, Moneta restituta, etc., attest also a monetary reform (Eckhel, vii. 279); but the explanations of Lampridius on this subject (39) throw no light on the question. MON. RESTITVTA. Moneta standing, holding a balance and a horn of plenty (Medium bronze of Alexander Severus). 8 Lamprid., ibid. 22 and 33. This defensor was no doubt a different person from the patronus.... In sanctis quid facit auruin? But he was liberal to the poor, to his friends, and to those of his officers who had well fulfilled their duties. The great alimentary institution of Trajan will be remembered; this Alexander continued and extended.3 and founded another; he 1... Vitasprincipum bonorum versibwt scripsit (Lamprid.. Alex. 27). 2 Lampridius, who supplies this information (Alex. 28), adds this detail: "He never entered into his oratory unless si facullas esset, id est, si non cum uxore cubuisset." This was a general rule, of which Ovid had already spoken (Fasti, ii. 329, and iv. 657). The Church inherited this custom. "This kind of abstinence," says Abb£ Greppo, "was practised in the primitive Church prior to participation in the holy mysteries, as is still the case in the churches of the East, whose ministers are not constrained to celibacy " (Trois mem. d'hist. cedes, p. 280). The Russian peasant observes the same rule the day prece...