All South Britain became a Roman province, and the people paid tribute or taxes to the
Roman Emperor. But they did not become Romans.
Still, they were not ignorant of my reading, and I remember how proud I was when a certain boy, who had always whipped me when we fought together, and so outranked me in that little boys' world, once sent to ask me the name of the
Roman emperor who lamented at nightfall, when he had done nothing worthy, that he had lost a day.
They asked Julius Caesar, the valiant
Roman emperor, what was the best death.
Hereafter a very notorious
Roman Emperor will institute this worship in Rome, and thence derive a cognomen, Heliogabalus.
If, then, you properly put these statements together, and reason upon them a bit, you will clearly perceive that, according to all human reasoning, Procopius's sea-monster, that for half a century stove the ships of a
Roman Emperor, must in all probability have been a sperm whale.
No less noteworthy than 'John Inglesant,' and better constructed, this latter is placed in the reign of the
Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, but its atmosphere is only in part historically authentic.
Peering over the railings and through the black trees into the garden of the Square, you see a few miserable governesses with wan- faced pupils wandering round and round it, and round the dreary grass-plot in the centre of which rises the statue of Lord Gaunt, who fought at Minden, in a three-tailed wig, and otherwise habited like a
Roman Emperor. Gaunt House occupies nearly a side of the Square.
Fantastic as it sounds, it would fit the case better to say that people would have been surprised to see hair growing on him; as surprised as if they had found hair growing on the bust of a
Roman emperor. His tall figure was buttoned up in a tight-waisted fashion that rather accentuated his potential bulk, and he wore a red flower in his buttonhole.
It may appear, perhaps, to some who have examined the lives and deaths of the
Roman emperors that many of them would be an example contrary to my opinion, seeing that some of them lived nobly and showed great qualities of soul, nevertheless they have lost their empire or have been killed by subjects who have conspired against them.
I saw most of the first
Roman emperors. I prevailed on the governor to call up Heliogabalus's cooks to dress us a dinner, but they could not show us much of their skill, for want of materials.
But that honor, perhaps were not fit for monarchies; except it be in the person of the monarch himself, or his sons; as it came to pass in the times of the
Roman emperors, who did impropriate the actual triumphs to themselves, and their sons, for such wars as they did achieve in person; and left only, for wars achieved by subjects, some triumphal garments and ensigns to the general.
"You are like a murderer--you are like a slave-driver--you are like the
Roman emperors!"
Roman Emperor - sovereign of the Roman Empire