ANCIENT HISTORY. 125 



::arn, in the third place, the revolutions and 

 the events that occurred in that part of the world 

 which belonged to the empire of the Eaft, of 

 which Conilantinople was the feat, and Arcadius 

 the firft emperor: and in the fourth place, we fee 

 all the revolutions and events that occurred in th~ 

 dominions that made part of the Wcftern em- 

 pire, of which Rome was the capital, and Hono- 

 rius the firft emperor. This feries of events con- 

 tinues, as we have laid, till the time that Charle- 

 magne re-eftabli(hed that empire, or rather 

 when he formed a new one out of the ruins of 

 the old. It will be necefiary to give our readers 

 a more circumftandal account of thefe matters, 

 in onicr to ei.able them to form a clear idea of 

 the knowledge they fhould endeavour to acquire 

 of die hiftory of the middle I 



IV. \Vc have therefore to confidcr, in this 

 age of 8co years, firft, the Roman empire, un- 

 ;he follosving fortyleven emperors : 



< S o 



f-M 



j. Auguftti after the birth oi Chrift i> o e 



2. T cd - 22 7 7 



3. Caligula, iun <>K (, , - 3 9 28 



, the Ton of Drufus, - 13 $20 



TO, his adopted ion - - 13 8 o 



067 



7. Otho, thcl - 03* 



i.ily - - 082 



y. \ .vij. b*Linu5 962 



a 2 10 



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