 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr - 1853 - Страниц: 408
...boundaries of which it occurs. The black death, for example, which raged in Germany in the year 1 348, put a complete stop to our early ( literature; and...at a perfect stand-still. The ancient world never re* covered from the blow inflicted upon it by the plague which Visited it in the reign of M. Aurelius.... | |
 | Charles Merivale - 1862 - Страниц: 696
...token of death." — Bevolkcrung im Alterthum, p. 85. note. a Niebuhr has expressed the opinion that "the ancient world never recovered from the blow inflicted...plague which visited it in the reign of M. Aurelius." (Lectures on Roman Hist. ii. 282.) His comparison of its effects to those of the great plague at Athens... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1869 - Страниц: 610
...of the population." It was the first of a long series of similar visitations. Niebuhr has said that the ancient world never recovered from the blow inflicted...it by the plague which visited it in the reign of Aurelius. We are in danger of attaching too little importance to occurrences of this kind. The historian... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1869 - Страниц: 998
...536 ROMAN IMPERIALISM. 537 the first of a long series of similar visitations. Niebubr has said ?that the ancient world never recovered from the blow inflicted...it by the plague which visited it in the reign of Aurelius. We are in danger of attaching too little importance to occurrences of this kind. The historian... | |
 | 1869 - Страниц: 848
...of the population." It was the first of a long series of similar visitations. Niebuhr has said that the ancient world never recovered from the blow inflicted upon it by the plague which visited it in the reisn of AureJiue. We arc in danger of attaching too little importance to occurrences of this kind.... | |
 | Sir John Robert Seeley - 1870 - Страниц: 340
...of the population."1 It was the first of a long series of similar visitations. Niebuhr has said that the ancient world never recovered from the blow inflicted...it by the plague which visited it in the reign of Aurelius. We are in danger of attaching too little importance to occurrences of this kind. The historian... | |
 | Charles Isidore Hemans - 1874 - Страниц: 842
...occurred the shocks of natural misfortune, tremendous in their force. " The ancient world (says Niebubr) never recovered from the blow inflicted upon it by the plague which visited it in the reign of Marcus Aurelius." A similar pestilence broke out in the time of Commodus, and it is said that 2000... | |
 | 1883 - Страниц: 538
...in the annals of mankind. — LOBD HAILES. The black death, which raged in Germany in the year 1348, put a complete stop to our early literature ; and...the arts were for years at a perfect stand-still. — NIEBUHR. Alas ! how many fine houses remained empty ! how many fortunes without heirs ! how many... | |
 | R. S. Bray - 2004 - Страниц: 276
...lasting until at least ISO, with a recrudescence in 1 89. They quote Niebuhr's famous opinion that: the ancient world never recovered from the blow inflicted...plague which visited it in the reign of M. Aurelius, and they quote the opinion of Seeck that over half of the population of the Empire perished in the... | |
 | Jochen Haas - 2006 - Страниц: 328
...above all in literature and art, I have no doubt that this crisis was brought about by that plague. The ancient world never recovered from the blow inflicted...by the plague which visited it in the reign of M. Aurelius."174 Unter den deutschsprachigen Werken sei HEUSS genannt, für den die Pest „sich zur größten... | |
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Gaul, and, according to the historians, carried off "a majority of the population." It was the first of a long series of similar visitations. Niebuhr has said that the ancient world never recovered from the blow inflicted upon it by the plague which visited... 