 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 528 pages
...council, the impatient soldier was provoked to chastise with a blow the indecent pride of the fa* vourite. This act of violence was represented to the emperor...dignity to resent. The disgrace and exile of Promotus recommends her pupil Rufinus, and excites him to deeds of mischief, &c. But there is as much difference... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Rome - 1856 - 752 pages
...violence was represented to the emperor as an insult, which it was incumbent on hi* dignity to reBent. The disgrace and exile of Promotus were signified...repair, without delay, to a military station on the brinks of the Danube ; and the death of that general (though he was slain in a skirmish with the Barbarians)... | |
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... had saved the empire from the invasion of the Ostrogoths; but he indignantly supported the pre-eminence of a rival,* whose character and profession he despised; and, in the midst of a public council, the impatient soldier was provoked to chastise... 