...inconsiderate cruelty, raged in veiy part of Europe, and completed its sufferings. If a man were called to fix upon the period in the history of the world,...was most calamitous and afflicted, he would, without hésitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Theodosfus the Great, to the establishment of...

...words. They might even adapt a passage of Gibbon to declare that if a man [or woman] were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he [or she] would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death...

...period among the epochs to which he allotted the highest possible praise. If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian...

...words. They might even adapt a passage of Gibbon to declare that if a man [or woman] were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he [or she] would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death...

...described in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as follows: "If a man were called upon to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the accession of Nerva...

...died a nasty death. [PANTA] Yet Rome's Indian summer still lay ahead. 'If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous,' wrote Gibbon, 'he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the...

...provincials in his charge. The historian Edward Gibbon remarks of this era: If man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian...

...Gibbon and ponder the Age of the Antonines, of which Gibbon (1981) declared: If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian...

...and originality which he saw as characteristic of imperial Roman society even in its Antonine heyday, 'the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous' (chapter 3). For despite this emphatic assertion of the material blessings of...

...three phases of Roman history: the triumphant second century (famously described by Edward Gibbon as 'the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous'); the so-called 'crisis' of the third century when military, economic, and social...