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1、HISTORYOFROMAN-1ChapterII:TheInternalProsperityInTheAgeOfTheAntonines.PartI.OfTheUnionAndInternalProsperityOfTheRomanEmpire,InTheAgeOfTheAntonines.Itisnotalonebytherapidity,orextentofconquest,thatweshouldestimatethegreatnessofRome.ThesovereignoftheRussiandesertscommandsalargerportion
2、oftheglobe.IntheseventhsummerafterhispassageoftheHellespont,AlexandererectedtheMacedoniantrophiesonthebanksoftheHyphasis.^1Withinlessthanacentury,theirresistibleZingis,andtheMogulprincesofhisrace,spreadtheircrueldevastationsandtransientempirefromtheSeaofChina,totheconfinesofEgyptandG
3、ermany.^2ButthefirmedificeofRomanpowerwasraisedandpreservedbythewisdomofages.TheobedientprovincesofTrajanandtheAntonineswereunitedbylaws,andadornedby95用心爱心专心arts.Theymightoccasionallysufferfromthepartialabuseofdelegatedauthority;butthegeneralprincipleofgovernmentwaswise,simple,andben
4、eficent.Theyenjoyedthereligionoftheirancestors,whilstincivilhonorsandadvantagestheywereexalted,byjustdegrees,toanequalitywiththeirconquerors.[Footnote1:TheywereerectedaboutthemidwaybetweenLahorandDelhi.TheconquestsofAlexanderinHindostanwereconfinedtothePunjab,acountrywateredbythefive
5、greatstreamsoftheIndus.Note:TheHyphasisisoneofthefiveriverswhichjointheIndusortheSind,afterhavingtraversedtheprovinceofthePendj-ab-anamewhichinPersian,signifiesfiverivers.***G.Thefiveriverswere,1.TheHydaspes,nowtheChelum,Behni,orBedusta,(Sanscrit,Vitastha,Arrow-swift.)2.TheAcesines,t
6、heChenab,(Sanscrit,Chandrabhaga,Moon-gift.)3.Hydraotes,theRavey,orIraoty,(Sanscrit,Iravati.)4.Hyphasis,theBeyah,(Sanscrit,Vepasa,Fetterless.)5.TheSatadru,(Sanscrit,theHundredStreamed,)theSutledj,knownfirsttotheGreeksinthetimeofPtolemy.Rennel.Vincent,CommerceofAnc.book2.Lassen,Pentapo
7、tam.Ind.Wilson'sSanscritDict.,andthevaluablememoirofLieut.Burnes,Journal95用心爱心专心ofLondonGeogr.Society,vol.iii.p.2,withthetravelsofthatveryablewriter.CompareGibbon'sownnote,c.lxv.note25.-Msubstit.forG.][Footnote2:SeeM.deGuignes,HistoiredesHuns,l.xv.xvi.andxvii.]I.Thepolicyoftheemperor
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