DOI Kapitel:
Chap. IV: Return of the King to Naples - Rejoicings - Ornamental Buildings - Court - Character of that Monarch - of the Queen - Illuminations - Lazzaroni - Character of the Neapolitans - Return to Rome
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.62268#0158
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CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. IV.
celeriter in maxime noxios animadversum ....
non ssevitum incendiis ruinisque in tecta innoxia
mnrosque queesita lenitatis species in-
columitate urbis nobilissimse, opulentissimseque.”
lie adds a consideration that had no small influ-
ence in the decision of the senate on this occasion,
<£ confessio expressa hosti, quanta vis in Romanis
ad expetendas paenas ab infidelibus sociis, et
quam nihil in Annibale auxilii ad tuendos.” In
truth, Capua was taken, and its magistrates put
to death, almost in the presence and under the
eyes of the indignant Carthaginian.
There are few events recorded in Roman his-
tory, that display the great prominent features of
the character of that mag nanimous people to more
advantage, than the siege and fall of Capua.
Their perseverance, justice, and humanity, here
shine in their full lustre; the reader shares their
well earned triumph, and only laments that
Corinth, a city more renowned and less guilty
than Capua, was not treated with the same in-
dulgence, and like it allowed to stand a monu-
inent of Roman forbearance. Capua therefore
still flourished, not as a corporate body, but as a
delicious residence, surrounded with beauty and
pampered with plenty. It was reserved for a
more ignominious fate, and destined under the
feeble Honorius to fall by the hands of Genseric
CLASSICAL TOUR
Ch. IV.
celeriter in maxime noxios animadversum ....
non ssevitum incendiis ruinisque in tecta innoxia
mnrosque queesita lenitatis species in-
columitate urbis nobilissimse, opulentissimseque.”
lie adds a consideration that had no small influ-
ence in the decision of the senate on this occasion,
<£ confessio expressa hosti, quanta vis in Romanis
ad expetendas paenas ab infidelibus sociis, et
quam nihil in Annibale auxilii ad tuendos.” In
truth, Capua was taken, and its magistrates put
to death, almost in the presence and under the
eyes of the indignant Carthaginian.
There are few events recorded in Roman his-
tory, that display the great prominent features of
the character of that mag nanimous people to more
advantage, than the siege and fall of Capua.
Their perseverance, justice, and humanity, here
shine in their full lustre; the reader shares their
well earned triumph, and only laments that
Corinth, a city more renowned and less guilty
than Capua, was not treated with the same in-
dulgence, and like it allowed to stand a monu-
inent of Roman forbearance. Capua therefore
still flourished, not as a corporate body, but as a
delicious residence, surrounded with beauty and
pampered with plenty. It was reserved for a
more ignominious fate, and destined under the
feeble Honorius to fall by the hands of Genseric