 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1846 - 610 pages
...emperor inflicted no punishment, but in a letter to Servian, expresses, with the utmost naivete, a wish, 'that this city, by its grandeur and riches the first of all /Egypt, were furnished with better inhabitants.' A Caracalla displayed less forbearance. Deformed and imbecile,... | |
 | Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1858 - 402 pages
...The emperor inflicted no punishment, but in a letter to Servian expresses, with the utmost naivete, a wish, ' that this city, by its grandeur and riches the first of all /Egypt, were furnished with better inhabitants.' A Caracalla displayed less forbearance. Deformed and imbecile,... | |
 | Robert Alfred Vaughan - Christianity - 1858 - 390 pages
...The emperor inflicted no punishment, but in a letter to Servian expresses, with the utmost naivete, a wish, ' that this city, by its grandeur and riches the first of all ./Egypt, were furnished with better inhabitants.' A Caracalla displayed less forbearance. Deformed and imbecile,... | |
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... indefatigable traveller Adrian. He restored them old privileges and conferred new ones. When his back was turned their wit could content itself with no less royal a whetstone than himself and his son Pius. The emperor inflicted no punishment, but... 