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The C‘Sars

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ined relation to the sanctities of the next world. Thus, for instance, the Pope, as the father of Catholic Christendom, could not but be viewed with a... ..., and of excellent acting, adapted to selfish ends. 52 The Cæsars CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III CHAPTER III THE THREE NEXT EMPERORS... ...rst wife, had two sons,— Arcadius, who afterwards reigned in the east, and Honorius, whose western reign was so much illustrated by Stilicho. By a sec... ...entinian the First, Theodosius had a daughter, (half-sister, therefore, to Honorius,) whose son was Valentinian the Third. 172 The Cæsars no shelter ...

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