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re to which the Continent has attained. To search out the reasons why the old Oriental monarchy holds on so tenaciously in Europe, still threatening the future, would be useless here; certain it is that, when you meet any European other than a Frenchman or a Swiss, you can feel yourselves as superior to him in political institutions as the Roman _civis_ in the times of the Republic felt himself above the Asiatic slave of absolute monarchy. This superiority--never forget it!--you owe to Rome; for its possession, be grateful to the city that has encircled you with such glory, by infusing so tenacious a life into the "_Respublica_." INDEX Acrobats, the great number of, 218 Acte, the beautiful, 114 Actium, the mistakes of Antony at, 60; the peace after, 216 _AEgean_ Islands, the vineyards of the, 200 Agriculture in Gaul, the extent of, 84 Agrippa, the builder of the Pantheon, 103; the successor of, 165 Agrippina, the power of, 103; the love of the Republic of, 114; miraculous escape of, 120; death of, 122 Alaric, the destruction caused by, 258 Alcohol, the distillers of, 26 Alesia, the city of, 91, 94; the battle at, 197 Alexander the Great, mentioned, 48 Alexandria, the position of, 15 Allier, the valley of the, 92 Alps, the peoples beyond the, 20; the fear of crossing the, 73 _Ambitio_ of the ancients, the, 14 America, the discovery of, _Amor_, the kingdom of, 25 _Amores_, the, by Ovid, 151 _Amours_, the, of Antony, 41 _Amphore_, the wine of the, 39 Ancient Rome, corruption in, 3 _ff_ Anglo-Saxons, traits of the, 197 Anicetus, the diabolical plan of, 119 Antony, the history of, 37 _ff_; the love of, 40; meets Cleopatra, 44; the bewilderment of, 57 Antifeminist reaction, the, 111 Antioch, the departure for, 45; the marriage at, 51 Antium, the return to, 119 Antonines, the power of the, 246 Aquileia, son of Julia born at, 155; the trade in, 192 Arabia, part of, annexed, 49 Archaeological discoveries, the effect of, 259 Archaeologists, the discoveries of, 43 Archelaus, the revolt against, 166 Architectural effort at Rome, 134 Argentine Republic, the mention of, 86 Arles, a large market for wines, 192 Armenia, the revolt in, 161 Arras, the district of, 90 Arrianus, the work of, 199 _Ars Armandi_, the, by Ovid, 163 Artists, the nu
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