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23. Angnste: Caesar Augustus, the first Roman emperor, lived b.c. 63-A.D. 14.

24. Agrippa: celebrated Roman gênerai and statesman, b.c. 63-12. See note, page 89 line 13.

22, I. Constantin: Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of Rome, lived 272-337.

2. Jnstinien : Justinian I, Emperor of the East, lived 483-565. He revised the Roman law, and pablished hb celebrated << Codes ^ and other works.

7. Milon de Crotone : Milo of Crotona was a famons athlète of antiquity. In his old âge, -while passing through a forest, he attempted to tear asunder a tree-trunk that had been partially split open by wood-cutteis. His hands became fixed in the cleft as in a

vice, and he was devoured by wolves.

Pépin le Bref: warrior and King of the Franks, was the father of Charlemagne. He died 768 A.D.

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