Vivia Perpetua, Or the Martyrs of Carthage (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Vivia Perpetua, Or the Martyrs of Carthage (Classic Reprint) written by R. De Maricourt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Vivia Perpetua, or the Martyrs of Carthage The Roman Empire was at peace; the victorious troops of Severus had returned from an expedition against the Parthians, where they had fought under the guidance of an ambitious and restless chief to put down the rebellion of that savage and warlike na tion. The campaign had ended by the tak ing of Ctesiphon, their capital; and the triumphant soldiers had been granted permis sion to repose for a while among the fertile valleys and in the Opulent cities of Syria, to repair their physical and moral strength, after the privations and toils to which they had been exposed during the expedition. Mean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.