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Chicago Tech Companies That Use Backbone.js
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2, by Edward Gibbon, [1781], at sacred-texts.com
The esteem of an enemy is most sincerely expressed by his fears; and the degree of fear may be accurately measured by the joy with which he celebrates his deliverance. The welcome news of the death of Julian, which a deserter revealed to the camp of Sapor, inspired the desponding monarch with a sudden confidence of victory. He immediately detached the royal cavalry, perhaps the ten thousand Immortals, 104 to second and support the pursuit; and discharged the whole weight of his united forces on the rear- guard of the Romans. The rear-guard was thrown into disorder; the renowned legions, which derived their titles from Diocletian, and his warlike colleague, were broke and trampled down by the elephants; and three tribunes lost their lives in attempting to stop the flight of their soldiers. The battle was at length restored by the persevering valor of the Romans; the Persians were repulsed with a great slaughter of men and elephants; and the army, after marching and fighting a long summer's day, arrived, in the evening, at Samara, on the banks of the Tigris, about one hundred miles above Ctesiphon. 105 On the ensuing day, the Barbarians, instead of harassing the march, attacked the camp, of Jovian; which had been seated in a deep and sequestered valley. From the hills, the archers of Persia insulted and annoyed the wearied legionaries; and a body of cavalry, which had penetrated with desperate courage through the Praetorian gate, was cut in pieces, after a doubtful conflict, near the Imperial tent. In the succeeding night, the camp of Carche was protected by the lofty dikes of the river; and the Roman army, though incessantly exposed to the vexatious pursuit of the Saracens, pitched their tents near the city of Dura, 106 four days after the death of Julian. The Tigris was still on their left; their hopes and provisions were almost consumed; and the impatient soldiers, who had fondly persuaded themselves that the frontiers of the empire were not far distant, requested their new sovereign, that they might be permitted to hazard the passage of the river. With the assistance of his wisest officers, Jovian endeavored to check their rashness; by representing, that if they possessed sufficient skill and vigor to stem the torrent of a deep and rapid stream, they would only deliver themselves naked and defenceless to the Barbarians, who had occupied the opposite banks, Yielding at length to their clamorous importunities, he consented, with reluctance, that five hundred Gauls and Germans, accustomed from their infancy to the waters of the Rhine and Danube, should attempt the bold adventure, which might serve either as an encouragement, or as a warning, for the rest of the army. In the silence of the night, they swam the Tigris, surprised an unguarded post of the enemy, and displayed at the dawn of day the signal of their resolution and fortune. The success of this trial disposed the emperor to listen to the promises of his architects, who propose to construct a floating bridge of the inflated skins of sheep, oxen, and goats, covered with a floor of earth and fascines. 107 Two important days were spent in the ineffectual labor; and the Romans, who already endured the miseries of famine, cast a look of despair on the Tigris, and upon the Barbarians; whose numbers and obstinacy increased with the distress of the Imperial army. 108
In this hopeless condition, the fainting spirits of the Romans were revived by the sound of peace. The transient presumption of Sapor had vanished: he observed, with serious concern, that, in the repetition of doubtful combats, he had lost his most faithful and intrepid nobles, his bravest troops, and the greatest part of his train of elephants: and the experienced monarch feared to provoke the resistance of despair, the vicissitudes of fortune, and the unexhausted powers of the Roman empire; which might soon advance to elieve, or to revenge, the successor of Julian. The Surenas himself, accompanied by another satrap, *_0069 appeared in the camp of Jovian; 109 and declared, that the clemency of his sovereign was not averse to signify the conditions on which he would consent to spare and to dismiss the Caesar with the relics of his captive army. !_0069 The hopes of safety subdued the firmness of the Romans; the emperor was compelled, by the advice of his council, and the cries of his soldiers, to embrace the offer of peace; !!_0069 and the praefect Sallust was immediately sent, with the general Arinthaeus, to understand the pleasure of the Great King. The crafty Persian delayed, under various pretenses, the conclusion of the agreement; started difficulties, required explanations, suggested expedients, receded from his concessions, increased his demands, and wasted four days in the arts of negotiation, till he had consumed the stock of provisions which yet remained in the camp of the Romans. Had Jovian been capable of executing a bold and prudent measure, he would have continued his march, with unremitting diligence; the progress of the treaty would have suspended the attacks of the Barbarians; and, before the expiration of the fourth day, he might have safely reached the fruitful province of Corduene, at the distance only of one hundred miles. 110 The irresolute emperor, instead of breaking through the toils of the enemy, expected his fate with patient resignation; and accepted the humiliating conditions of peace, which it was no longer in his power to refuse. The five provinces beyond the Tigris, which had been ceded by the grandfather of Sapor, were restored to the Persian monarchy. He acquired, by a single article, the impregnable city of Nisibis; which had sustained, in three successive sieges, the effort of his arms. Singara, and the castle of the Moors, one of the strongest places of Mesopotamia, were likewise dismembered from the empire. It was considered as an indulgence, that the inhabitants of those fortresses were permitted to retire with their effects; but the conqueror rigorously insisted, that the Romans should forever abandon the king and kingdom of Armenia. !!!_0069 A peace, or rather a long truce, of thirty years, was stipulated between the hostile nations; the faith of the treaty was ratified by solemn oaths and religious ceremonies; and hostages of distinguished rank were reciprocally delivered to secure the performance of the conditions. 111
The sophist of Antioch, who saw with indignation the sceptre of his hero in the feeble hand of a Christian successor, professes to admire the moderation of Sapor, in contenting himself with so small a portion of the Roman empire. If he had stretched as far as the Euphrates the claims of his ambition, he might have been secure, says Libanius, of not meeting with a refusal. If he had fixed, as the boundary of Persia, the Orontes, the Cydnus, the Sangarius, or even the Thracian Bosphorus, flatterers would not have been wanting in the court of Jovian to convince the timid monarch, that his remaining provinces would still afford the most ample gratifications of power and luxury. 112 Without adopting in its full force this malicious insinuation, we must acknowledge, that the conclusion of so ignominious a treaty was facilitated by the private ambition of Jovian. The obscure domestic, exalted to the throne by fortune, rather than by merit, was impatient to escape from the hands of the Persians, that he might prevent the designs of Procopius, who commanded the army of Mesopotamia, and establish his doubtful reign over the legions and provinces which were still ignorant of the hasty and tumultuous choice of the camp beyond the Tigris. 113 In the neighborhood of the same river, at no very considerable distance from the fatal station of Dura, 114 the ten thousand Greeks, without generals, or guides, or provisions, were abandoned, above twelve hundred miles from their native country, to the resentment of a victorious monarch. The difference of their conduct and success depended much more on their character than on their situation. Instead of tamely resigning themselves to the secret deliberations and private views of a single person, the united councils of the Greeks were inspired by the generous enthusiasm of a popular assembly; where the mind of each citizen is filled with the love of glory, the pride of freedom, and the contempt of death. Conscious of their superiority over the Barbarians in arms and discipline, they disdained to yield, they refused to capitulate: every obstacle was surmounted by their patience, courage, and military skill; and the memorable retreat of the ten thousand exposed and insulted the weakness of the Persian monarchy. 115
As the price of his disgraceful concessions, the emperor might perhaps have stipulated, that the camp of the hungry Romans should be plentifully supplied; 116 and that they should be permitted to pass the Tigris on the bridge which was constructed by the hands of the Persians. But, if Jovian presumed to solicit those equitable terms, they were sternly refused by the haughty tyrant of the East, whose clemency had pardoned the invaders of his country. The Saracens sometimes intercepted the stragglers of the march; but the generals and troops of Sapor respected the cessation of arms; and Jovian was suffered to explore the most convenient place for the passage of the river. The small vessels, which had been saved from the conflagration of the fleet, performed the most essential service. They first conveyed the emperor and his favorites; and afterwards transported, in many successive voyages, a great part of the army. But, as every man was anxious for his personal safety, and apprehensive of being left on the hostile shore, the soldiers, who were too impatient to wait the slow returns of the boats, boldly ventured themselves on light hurdles, or inflated skins; and, drawing after them their horses, attempted, with various success, to swim across the river. Many of these daring adventurers were swallowed by the waves; many others, who were carried along by the violence of the stream, fell an easy prey to the avarice or cruelty of the wild Arabs: and the loss which the army sustained in the passage of the Tigris, was not inferior to the carnage of a day of battle. As soon as the Romans were landed on the western bank, they were delivered from the hostile pursuit of the Barbarians; but, in a laborious march of two hundred miles over the plains of Mesopotamia, they endured the last extremities of thirst and hunger. They were obliged to traverse the sandy desert, which, in the extent of seventy miles, did not afford a single blade of sweet grass, nor a single spring of fresh water; and the rest of the inhospitable waste was untrod by the footsteps either of friends or enemies. Whenever a small measure of flour could be discovered in the camp, twenty pounds weight were greedily purchased with ten pieces of gold: 117 the beasts of burden were slaughtered and devoured; and the desert was strewed with the arms and baggage of the Roman soldiers, whose tattered garments and meagre countenances displayed their past sufferings and actual misery. A small convoy of provisions advanced to meet the army as far as the castle of Ur; and the supply was the more grateful, since it declared the fidelity of Sebastian and Procopius. At Thilsaphata, 118 the emperor most graciously received the generals of Mesopotamia; and the remains of a once flourishing army at length reposed themselves under the walls of Nisibis. The messengers of Jovian had already proclaimed, in the language of flattery, his election, his treaty, and his return; and the new prince had taken the most effectual measures to secure the allegiance of the armies and provinces of Europe, by placing the military command in the hands of those officers, who, from motives of interest, or inclination, would firmly support the cause of their benefactor. 119
The friends of Julian had confidently announced the success of his expedition. They entertained a fond persuasion that the temples of the gods would be enriched with the spoils of the East; that Persia would be reduced to the humble state of a tributary province, governed by the laws and magistrates of Rome; that the Barbarians would adopt the dress, and manners, and language of their conquerors; and that the youth of Ecbatana and Susa would study the art of rhetoric under Grecian masters. 120 The progress of the arms of Julian interrupted his communication with the empire; and, from the moment that he passed the Tigris, his affectionate subjects were ignorant of the fate and fortunes of their prince. Their contemplation of fancied triumphs was disturbed by the melancholy rumor of his death; and they persisted to doubt, after they could no longer deny, the truth of that fatal event. 121 The messengers of Jovian promulgated the specious tale of a prudent and necessary peace; the voice of fame, louder and more sincere, revealed the disgrace of the emperor, and the conditions of the ignominious treaty. The minds of the people were filled with astonishment and grief, with indignation and terror, when they were informed, that the unworthy successor of Julian relinquished the five provinces which had been acquired by the victory of Galerius; and that he shamefully surrendered to the Barbarians the important city of Nisibis, the firmest bulwark of the provinces of the East. 122 The deep and dangerous question, how far the public faith should be observed, when it becomes incompatible with the public safety, was freely agitated in popular conversation; and some hopes were entertained that the emperor would redeem his pusillanimous behavior by a splendid act of patriotic perfidy. The inflexible spirit of the Roman senate had always disclaimed the unequal conditions which were extorted from the distress of their captive armies; and, if it were necessary to satisfy the national honor, by delivering the guilty general into the hands of the Barbarians, the greatest part of the subjects of Jovian would have cheerfully acquiesced in the precedent of ancient times. 123
But the emperor, whatever might be the limits of his constitutional authority, was the absolute master of the laws and arms of the state; and the same motives which had forced him to subscribe, now pressed him to execute, the treaty of peace. He was impatient to secure an empire at the expense of a few provinces; and the respectable names of religion and honor concealed the personal fears and ambition of Jovian. Notwithstanding the dutiful solicitations of the inhabitants, decency, as well as prudence, forbade the emperor to lodge in the palace of Nisibis; but the next morning after his arrival. Bineses, the ambassador of Persia, entered the place, displayed from the citadel the standard of the Great King, and proclaimed, in his name, the cruel alternative of exile or servitude. The principal citizens of Nisibis, who, till that fatal moment, had confided in the protection of their sovereign, threw themselves at his feet. They conjured him not to abandon, or, at least, not to deliver, a faithful colony to the rage of a Barbarian tyrant, exasperated by the three successive defeats which he had experienced under the walls of Nisibis. They still possessed arms and courage to repel the invaders of their country: they requested only the permission of using them in their own defence; and, as soon as they had asserted their independence, they should implore the favor of being again admitted into the ranks of his subjects. Their arguments, their eloquence, their tears, were ineffectual. Jovian alleged, with some confusion, the sanctity of oaths; and, as the reluctance with which he accepted the present of a crown of gold, convinced the citizens of their hopeless condition, the advocate Sylvanus was provoked to exclaim, "O emperor! may you thus be crowned by all the cities of your dominions!" Jovian, who in a few weeks had assumed the habits of a prince, 124 was displeased with freedom, and offended with truth: and as he reasonably supposed, that the discontent of the people might incline them to submit to the Persian government, he published an edict, under pain of death, that they should leave the city within the term of three days. Ammianus has delineated in lively colors the scene of universal despair, which he seems to have viewed with an eye of compassion. 125 The martial youth deserted, with indignant grief, the walls which they had so gloriously defended: the disconsolate mourner dropped a last tear over the tomb of a son or husband, which must soon be profaned by the rude hand of a Barbarian master; and the aged citizen kissed the threshold, and clung to the doors, of the house where he had passed the cheerful and careless hours of infancy. The highways were crowded with a trembling multitude: the distinctions of rank, and sex, and age, were lost in the general calamity. Every one strove to bear away some fragment from the wreck of his fortunes; and as they could not command the immediate service of an adequate number of horses or wagons, they were obliged to leave behind them the greatest part of their valuable effects. The savage insensibility of Jovian appears to have aggravated the hardships of these unhappy fugitives. They were seated, however, in a new-built quarter of Amida; and that rising city, with the reenforcement of a very considerable colony, soon recovered its former splendor, and became the capital of Mesopotamia. 126 Similar orders were despatched by the emperor for the evacuation of Singara and the castle of the Moors; and for the restitution of the five provinces beyond the Tigris. Sapor enjoyed the glory and the fruits of his victory; and this ignominious peace has justly been considered as a memorable aera in the decline and fall of the Roman empire. The predecessors of Jovian had sometimes relinquished the dominion of distant and unprofitable provinces; but, since the foundation of the city, the genius of Rome, the god Terminus, who guarded the boundaries of the republic, had never retired before the sword of a victorious enemy. 127
After Jovian had performed those engagements which the voice of his people might have tempted him to violate, he hastened away from the scene of his disgrace, and proceeded with his whole court to enjoy the luxury of Antioch. 128 Without consulting the dictates of religious zeal, he was prompted, by humanity and gratitude, to bestow the last honors on the remains of his deceased sovereign: 129 and Procopius, who sincerely bewailed the loss of his kinsman, was removed from the command of the army, under the decent pretence of conducting the funeral. The corpse of Julian was transported from Nisibis to Tarsus, in a slow march of fifteen days; and, as it passed through the cities of the East, was saluted by the hostile factions, with mournful lamentations and clamorous insults. The Pagans already placed their beloved hero in the rank of those gods whose worship he had restored; while the invectives of the Christians pursued the soul of the Apostate to hell, and his body to the grave. 130 One party lamented the approaching ruin of their altars; the other celebrated the marvellous deliverance of their church. The Christians applauded, in lofty and ambiguous strains, the stroke of divine vengeance, which had been so long suspended over the guilty head of Julian. They acknowledge, that the death of the tyrant, at the instant he expired beyond the Tigris, was revealed to the saints of Egypt, Syria, and Cappadocia; 131 and instead of suffering him to fall by the Persian darts, their indiscretion ascribed the heroic deed to the obscure hand of some mortal or immortal champion of the faith. 132 Such imprudent declarations were eagerly adopted by the malice, or credulity, of their adversaries; 133 who darkly insinuated, or confidently asserted, that the governors of the church had instigated and directed the fanaticism of a domestic assassin. 134 Above sixteen years after the death of Julian, the charge was solemnly and vehemently urged, in a public oration, addressed by Libanius to the emperor Theodosius. His suspicions are unsupported by fact or argument; and we can only esteem the generous zeal of the sophist of Antioch for the cold and neglected ashes of his friend. 135
It was an ancient custom in the funerals, as well as in the triumphs, of the Romans, that the voice of praise should be corrected by that of satire and ridicule; and that, in the midst of the splendid pageants, which displayed the glory of the living or of the dead, their imperfections should not be concealed from the eyes of the world. 136 This custom was practised in the funeral of Julian. The comedians, who resented his contempt and aversion for the theatre, exhibited, with the applause of a Christian audience, the lively and exaggerated representation of the faults and follies of the deceased emperor. His various character and singular manners afforded an ample scope for pleasantry and ridicule. 137 In the exercise of his uncommon talents, he often descended below the majesty of his rank. Alexander was transformed into Diogenes; the philosopher was degraded into a priest. The purity of his virtue was sullied by excessive vanity; his superstition disturbed the peace, and endangered the safety, of a mighty empire; and his irregular sallies were the less entitled to indulgence, as they appeared to be the laborious efforts of art, or even of affectation. The remains of Julian were interred at Tarsus in Cilicia; but his stately tomb, which arose in that city, on the banks of the cold and limpid Cydnus, 138 was displeasing to the faithful friends, who loved and revered the memory of that extraordinary man. The philosopher expressed a very reasonable wish, that the disciple of Plato might have reposed amidst the groves of the academy; 139 while the soldier exclaimed, in bolder accents, that the ashes of Julian should have been mingled with those of Caesar, in the field of Mars, and among the ancient monuments of Roman virtue. 140 The history of princes does not very frequently renew the examples of a similar competition.
104 Regius equitatus. It appears, from Irocopius, that the Immortals, so famous under Cyrus and his successors, were revived, if we may use that improper word, by the Sassanides. Brisson de Regno Persico, p. 268, &c.
105 The obscure villages of the inland country are irrecoverably lost; nor can we name the field of battle where Julian fell: but M. D'Anville has demonstrated the precise situation of Sumere, Carche, and Dura, along the banks of the Tigris, (Geographie Ancienne, tom. ii. p. 248 L'Euphrate et le Tigre, p. 95, 97.) In the ninth century, Sumere, or Samara, became, with a slight change of name, the royal residence of the khalifs of the house of Abbas.
Note: Sormanray, called by the Arabs Samira, where D'Anville placed Samara, is too much to the south; and is a modern town built by Caliph Morasen. Serra-man-rai means, in Arabic, it rejoices every one who sees it. St. Martin, iii. 133. - M.
106 Dura was a fortified place in the wars of Antiochus against the rebels of Media and Persia, (Polybius, l. v. c. 48, 52, p. 548, 552 edit. Casaubon, in 8vo.)
107 A similar expedient was proposed to the leaders of the ten thousand, and wisely rejected. Xenophon, Anabasis, l. iii. p. 255, 256, 257. It appears, from our modern travellers, that rafts floating on bladders perform the trade and navigation of the Tigris.
108 The first military acts of the reign of Jovian are related by Ammianus, (xxv. 6,) Libanius, (Orat. Parent. c. 146, p. 364,) and Zosimus, (l. iii. p. 189, 190, 191.) Though we may distrust the fairness of Libanius, the ocular testimony of Eutropius (uno a Persis atque altero proelio victus, x. 17) must incline us to suspect that Ammianus had been too jealous of the honor of the Roman arms.
109 Sextus Rufus (de Provinciis, c. 29) embraces a poor subterfuge of national vanity. Tanta reverentia nominis Romani fuit, ut a Persis primus de pace sermo haberetur.
*_0069 He is called Junius by John Malala; the same, M. St. Martin conjectures, with a satrap of Gordyene named Jovianus, or Jovinianus; mentioned in Ammianus Marcellinus, xviii. 6. - M.
!_0069 The Persian historians couch the message of Shah-pour in these Oriental terms: "I have reassembled my numerous army. I am resolved to revenge my subjects, who have been plundered, made captives, and slain. It is for this that I have bared my arm, and girded my loins. If you consent to pay the price of the blood which has been shed, to deliver up the booty which has been plundered, and to restore the city of Nisibis, which is in Irak, and belongs to our empire, though now in your possession, I will sheathe the sword of war; but should you refuse these terms, the hoofs of my horse, which are hard as steel, shall efface the name of the Romans from the earth; and my glorious cimeter, that destroys like fire, shall exterminate the people of your empire." These authorities do not mention the death of Julian. Malcolm's Persia, i. 87. - M.
!!_0069 The Paschal chronicle, not, as M. St. Martin says, supported by John Malala, places the mission of this ambassador before the death of Julian. The king of Persia was then in Persarmenia, ignorant of the death of Julian; he only arrived at the army subsequent to that event. St. Martin adopts this view, and finds or extorts support for it, from Libanius and Ammianus, iii. 158. - M.
110 It is presumptuous to controvert the opinion of Ammianus, a soldier and a spectator. Yet it is difficult to understand how the mountains of Corduene could extend over the plains of Assyria, as low as the conflux of the Tigris and the great Zab; or how an army of sixty thousand men could march one hundred miles in four days.
Note: Yet this appears to be the case (in modern maps: ) the march is the difficulty. - M.
!!!_0069 Sapor availed himself, a few years after, of the dissolution of the alliance between the Romans and the Armenians. See St. M. iii. 163. - M.
111 The treaty of Dura is recorded with grief or indignation by Ammianus, (xxv. 7,) Libanius, (Orat. Parent. c. 142, p. 364,) Zosimus, (l. iii. p. 190, 191,) Gregory Nazianzen, (Orat. iv. p. 117, 118, who imputes the distress to Julian, the deliverance to Jovian,) and Eutropius, (x. 17.) The last-mentioned writer, who was present in military station, styles this peace necessarium quidem sed ignoblem.
112 Libanius, Orat. Parent. c. 143, p. 364, 365.
113 Conditionibus . . . . . dispendiosis Romanae reipublicae impositis . . . . quibus cupidior regni quam gloriae Jovianus, imperio rudis, adquievit. Sextus Rufus de Provinciis, c. 29. La Bleterie has expressed, in a long, direct oration, these specious considerations of public and private interest, (Hist. de Jovien, tom. i. p. 39, &c.)
114 The generals were murdered on the bauks of the Zabatus, (Ana basis, l. ii. p. 156, l. iii. p. 226,) or great Zab, a river of Assyria, 400 feet broad, which falls into the Tigris fourteen hours below Mosul. The error of the Greeks bestowed on the greater and lesser Zab the names of the Walf, (Lycus,) and the Goat, (Capros.) They created these animals to attend the Tiger of the East.
115 The Cyropoedia is vague and languid; the Anabasis circumstance and animated. Such is the eternal difference between fiction and truth.
116 According to Rufinus, an immediate supply of provisions was stipulated by the treaty, and Theodoret affirms, that the obligation was faithfully discharged by the Persians. Such a fact is probable but undoubtedly false. See Tillemont, Hist. des Empereurs, tom. iv. p. 702.
117 We may recollect some lines of Lucan, (Pharsal. iv. 95,) who describes a similar distress of Caesar's army in Spain: -
Saeva fames aderat - Miles eget: toto censu non prodigus emit Exiguam Cererem. Proh lucri pallida tabes! Non deest prolato jejunus venditor auro.
See Guichardt (Nouveaux Memoires Militaires, tom. i. p. 370-382.) His analysis of the two campaigns in Spain and Africa is the noblest monument that has ever been raised to the fame of Caesar.
118 M. d'Anville (see his Maps, and l'Euphrate et le Tigre, p. 92, 93) traces their march, and assigns the true position of Hatra, Ur, and Thilsaphata, which Ammianus has mentioned. *_0070 He does not complain of the Samiel, the deadly hot wind, which Thevenot (Voyages, part ii. l. i. p. 192) so much dreaded.
*_0070 Hatra, now Kadhr. Ur, Kasr or Skervidgi. Thilsaphata is unknown - M.
119 The retreat of Jovian is described by Ammianus, (xxv. 9,) Libanius, (Orat. Parent. c. 143, p. 365,) and Zosimus, (l. iii. p. 194.)
120 Libanius, (Orat. Parent. c. 145, p. 366.) Such were the natural hopes and wishes of a rhetorician.
121 The people of Carrhae, a city devoted to Paganism, buried the inauspicious messenger under a pile of stones, (Zosimus, l. iii. p. 196.) Libanius, when he received the fatal intelligence, cast his eye on his sword; but he recollected that Plato had condemned suicide, and that he must live to compose the Panegyric of Julian, (Libanius de Vita sua, tom. ii. p. 45, 46.)
122 Ammianus and Eutropius may be admitted as fair and credible witnesses of the public language and opinions. The people of Antioch reviled an ignominious peace, which exposed them to the Persians, on a naked and defenceless frontier, (Excerpt. Valesiana, p. 845, ex Johanne Antiocheno.)
123 The Abbe de la Bleterie, (Hist. de Jovien, tom. i. p. 212- 227.) though a severe casuist, has pronounced that Jovian was not bound to execute his promise; since he could not dismember the empire, nor alienate, without their consent, the allegiance of his people. I have never found much delight or instruction in such political metaphysics.
124 At Nisibis he performed a royal act. A brave officer, his namesake, who had been thought worthy of the purple, was dragged from supper, thrown into a well, and stoned to death without any form of trial or evidence of guilt. Anomian. xxv. 8.
125 See xxv. 9, and Zosimus, l. iii. p. 194, 195.
126 Chron. Paschal. p. 300. The ecclesiastical Notitie may be consulted.
127 Zosimus, l. iii. p. 192, 193. Sextus Rufus de Provinciis, c. 29. Augustin de Civitat. Dei, l. iv. c. 29. This general position must be applied and interpreted with some caution.
128 Ammianus, xxv. 9. Zosimus, l. iii. p. 196. He might be edax, vino Venerique indulgens. But I agree with La Bleterie (tom. i. p. 148-154) in rejecting the foolish report of a Bacchanalian riot (ap. Suidam) celebrated at Antioch, by the emperor, his wife, and a troop of concubines.
129 The Abbe de la Bleterie (tom. i. p. 156-209) handsomely exposes the brutal bigotry of Baronius, who would have thrown Julian to the dogs, ne cespititia quidem sepultura dignus.
130 Compare the sophist and the saint, (Libanius, Monod. tom. ii. p. 251, and Orat. Parent. c. 145, p. 367, c. 156, p. 377, with Gregory Nazianzen, Orat. iv. p. 125-132.) The Christian orator faintly mutters some exhortations to modesty and forgiveness; but he is well satisfied, that the real sufferings of Julian will far exceed the fabulous torments of Ixion or Tantalus.
131 Tillemont (Hist. des Empereurs, tom. iv. p. 549) has collected these visions. Some saint or angel was observed to be absent in the night, on a secret expedition, &c.
132 Sozomen (l. vi. 2) applauds the Greek doctrine of tyrannicide; but the whole passage, which a Jesuit might have translated, is prudently suppressed by the president Cousin.
133 Immediately after the death of Julian, an uncertain rumor was scattered, telo cecidisse Romano. It was carried, by some deserters to the Persian camp; and the Romans were reproached as the assassins of the emperor by Sapor and his subjects, (Ammian. xxv. 6. Libanius de ulciscenda Juliani nece, c. xiii. p. 162, 163.) It was urged, as a decisive proof, that no Persian had appeared to claim the promised reward, (Liban. Orat. Parent. c. 141, p. 363.) But the flying horseman, who darted the fatal javelin, might be ignorant of its effect; or he might be slain in the same action. Ammianus neither feels nor inspires a suspicion.
134 This dark and ambiguous expression may point to Athanasius, the first, without a rival, of the Christian clergy, (Libanius de ulcis. Jul. nece, c. 5, p. 149. La Bleterie, Hist. de Jovien, tom. i. p. 179.)
135 The orator (Fabricius, Bibliot. Graec. tom. vii. p. 145-179) scatters suspicions, demands an inquiry, and insinuates, that proofs might still be obtained. He ascribes the success of the Huns to the criminal neglect of revenging Julian's death.
136 At the funeral of Vespasian, the comedian who personated that frugal emperor, anxiously inquired how much it cost. Fourscore thousand pounds, (centies.) Give me the tenth part of the sum, and throw my body into the Tiber. Sueton, in Vespasian, c. 19, with the notes of Casaubon and Gronovius.
137 Gregory (Orat. iv. p. 119, 120) compares this supposed ignominy and ridicule to the funeral honors of Constantius, whose body was chanted over Mount Taurus by a choir of angels.
138 Quintus Curtius, l. iii. c. 4. The luxuriancy of his descriptions has been often censured. Yet it was almost the duty of the historian to describe a river, whose waters had nearly proved fatal to Alexander.
139 Libanius, Orat. Parent. c. 156, p. 377. Yet he acknowledges with gratitude the liberality of the two royal brothers in decorating the tomb of Julian, (de ulcis. Jul. nece, c. 7, p. 152.)
140 Cujus suprema et cineres, si qui tunc juste consuleret, non Cydnus videre deberet, quamvis gratissimus amnis et liquidus: sed ad perpetuandam gloriam recte factorum praeterlambere Tiberis, intersecans urbem aeternam, divorumque veterum monumenta praestringens Ammian. xxv. 10.

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BEIJING (AP) — Hundreds of Chinese Internet users are rallying around a Beijing blogger who's been detained by police after posting a joke on Twitter about the pivotal Communist Party congress.
Zhai Xiaojun's Nov. 5 tweet suggested the next movie in the "Final Destination" horror franchise would be about the Great Hall of the People collapsing on party delegates.
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Driving with her family from their home in the Italian province of Agrigento to the city of Palermo in western Sicily, Maria Friscia would admire the tableau of fairy-tale nature that unfolded in front of her: rolling mountains, pristine blue waterways, rambling forests dotted with olive and citrus trees.
But that was years ago, when Friscia was still a little girl and the landscape was untouched by the sheen of civilization.
"The time that I lived (there), it was a simple life, but things are not the same anymore," she said. "Now, I see so much change when I go back; it touches me because I wish things stayed the same."
What Friscia can't preserve in real life, she preserves in her paintings -- colorful impressionist vistas of natural landscapes from Italy to the United States and beyond.
The Greenwich artist is displaying these works in her latest solo exhibition, "Spotlight On Nature," at Les Beaux Arts Gallery in Greenwich. The exhibition features 17 abstracts that depict many of the pristine places that Friscia has visited over the last 25 years, such as Cape Trinity in Quebec, the old-growth forests of Sequoia National Park and the shimmering shores of Lake Placid, N.Y.
"What I like about nature is what it evokes for me, solitude," she said. "It frees me from the strains of life. I tend to concentrate on the self, which is my soul. I tend to understand myself, and I reflect on the whole purpose of being. I feel very close to God."
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Nature also allows her to connect with her past. In "Montagne," Friscia conjures a panoramic view of the mountain ranges that rolled across her line of sight during those family drives from Agrigento to Palermo. The colors and lines are bold and stark, suggesting a vividness of memory.
Emigrating from Italy at 12, Friscia pursued a career in finance in New York City before moving to Greenwich to raise her three children. She didn't start her painting career in earnest until years later, when, in 1997, she earned a master's of fine arts degree from Lehman College in New York City.
Last year, she participated in the Stamford Art Association's annual "Faber Birren National Color Award Show," earning the Joyce and Bob Jones Award. In 2012, Friscia won second prize in SAA's juried exhibition, "Far Away Places."
Friscia wish, she said, is for others to get a glimpse of her experiences and develop their own appreciation for the natural world.
"I want the viewer to enter my landscape and experience and feel the quietude and tranquility that nature gives me," she said.
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Les Beaux Arts Gallery at Round Hill Community Church, 395 Round Hill Road, Greenwich. "Spotlight on Nature" is on view through Thursday, March 20. Sunday, 11 a.m.-noon; Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. 203-869-1091, roundhillcommunitychurch.org.


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Even the greatest writers aren't always the best speakers—many prefer soundless solitude to adoring crowds—so it was a welcome surprise when Ian McEwan smoothly strode to the podium in Mead Chapel on a beautiful September evening and began his talk by thanking everyone for coming when they'd "surely rather be lounging outside in that delicious dusk."
Wooing words.
From that moment, the filled-to-capacity crowd was cued up to relax and savor an ensuing hour of the award-winning Englishman's graceful wit, rolling metaphors, and evocative turns of phrase.
McEwan is often referred to as one of the finest living writers, and he has indeed won nearly every prize an English author can win. Nearly half of his novels have been made into films—most recently the Oscar-nominated and critically acclaimed Atonement—and many remain on college and high school reading lists worldwide. He is well known for his fictional forays into the seamier side of human nature, with novels that reach uncomfortably into lost childhood, deviant sexuality, and disjointed family life. From orphans who hide their mother in a grave of concrete to the deeply perceptive horror of Nazi camps to innocent mishaps with malevolent consequences, McEwan's characters look nothing yet everything like ourselves.
Speaking to a crowd of mostly students with a fair showing of faculty, staff, and community members, McEwan read from his latest novel, Solar. The scene he chose focused on the main character in a way that was both intensely humorous and sadly tragic. The audience laughed uproariously one minute and sat as still as stones the next. The younger faces, especially, were a mixture of awe, tension, relief, and hilarity. McEwan's voice boomed with narrative force and then suddenly shrank to a whisper; he enlivened the space between his words on the page and true human nature unfolding, and no one wanted to miss a moment.
When finished, McEwan smiled and reached for his water, then quickly stepped down from the podium to take questions. After the typically slow start, with a few questions called out from the crowd, students soon hurried from their seats to line up behind the microphone halfway up the center aisle.
Questions ranged from the expected—"How did you first know you were a writer?"—to the more random—"Do you like salt and vinegar potato chips?"—to the technically fundamental—"How do you do your research?"—and McEwan answered each with sincerity. He discussed his diligent approach to detail, his broad experience writing for television and the stage as well as novels, and his obsession with research: he followed a neurosurgeon for an entire year before writing one word of Saturday. Overall he advised young writers to read anything and everything they could get their hands on to learn the art of using detail to make a story. Referring to the passage he had just read in Solar, he said, "You can write that he took a train home after a long day at work, or you can take 23 pages and describe every single important moment of that commute."
Earlier in the evening, as students were filtering in from dining halls and late athletic practices—one young man rushed in still carrying a soccer ball—a brief poll revealed a range of familiarity with the author. Some had read a book or two for a class, nearly all had seen Atonement, and others didn't have any idea at all who the speaker was. "I could tell he was someone important from the way people were talking about this," said one wide-eyed first-year. "I knew I'd be crazy to miss it." From behind, a prudent upperclassman chimed in to say, "We get some pretty interesting speakers here, but this is big, really big."


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Hinchcliffe looking to build on first IndyCar win
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — IndyCar's newest winner is no longer bombarded by people wondering when he'll get his first victory.
The question now for James Hinchcliffe is when will he get win No. 2?
Hinchcliffe picked up his first career victory two weeks ago in the IndyCar season-opener at St. Petersburg, but it did little to quell the pressure on the Andretti Autosport driver.
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"The external pressure has come down a little bit, but now my internal expectations have gone up," Hinchcliffe said Friday at Barber Motorsports Park. "It's easy for people on the outside to say, 'When are you going to win? When are you going to get that first one?' Now that I've won a race, that question isn't being asked externally anymore and I think to myself, 'I've done it. I still know how hard it is and it's just as hard as it was before. But now I know I can do it, I want to do it again.'
"It took me 32 tries to get the first one. Hopefully, it won't take 32 to get the next one."
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It was an emotional win for Hinchcliffe, who scored the victory in front of the friends and family of the late Dan Wheldon in the city Wheldon called home.
ST PETE:Hinchcliffe's win gives IndyCar a boost
It was Wheldon who had signed with Andretti Autosport to drive the GoDaddy car following Danica Patrick's move to NASCAR. The team never even got a chance to announce the signing before Wheldon was killed in a 15-car accident in the 2011 season finale at Las Vegas.
The ride then went to Hinchcliffe, who had found himself suddenly out of work in early December when his Newman-Haas team closed its doors with almost no warning.
Overwhelmed with adrenaline as he closed in on the checkered flag, Hinchcliffe was then overcome with emotion as he crossed the finish line.
"I spent a good chunk of the cool-down lap bawling my eyes out," he said. "It's tough to admit, but it's the truth. It was the culmination of a very long journey that me and my family and the people who supported me have been on for the last 17 years. To do it the way we did it, and where we did it, there were a lot of things that added up to being a very emotional and special day."
Now he's looking for another special day and has good reason to believe he can contend Sunday at Barber, where he was second fastest in testing last month behind Will Power. Problem is, Power and his Penske Racing teammate Helio Castroneves have dominated Barber since IndyCar's first visit three years ago.
Castroneves won IndyCar's 2010 debut, and Power won the last two years.
And although Hinchcliffe got the win with his Andretti Autosport team at St. Pete, he concedes the Penske cars were likely better. Power dominated early but finished 16th after a fluke incident in which JR Hildebrand ran over his car under yellow, and Castroneves led a race-high 42 laps before finishing second to Hinchcliffe.
"If you look at St. Pete, there's no doubt they were the quickest cars and we put together a better Sunday," Hinchcliffe said. "I think we aren't going to lie to ourselves and say we were the best in every category last race."
But his first win has Hinchcliffe believing he can at least hold his own this weekend.
"We need to buckle down, but I think having that win under our belts does give u a little bit more confidence that if we're in position near the end of the race, we know how to seal the deal and bring it home." he said.
He's got work to do, though: Hinchcliffe was 15th in practice Friday.
"Today did not go as planned, but you get these days in racing," Hinchcliffe said.


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President Barack Obama's 2014: "pen and phone" — and politics.
Monday, the White House announced Obama will sign an executive order that would prohibit federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
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This will be a week of the administration trumpeting its gay rights record, with Obama appearing Tuesday night at the Democratic National Committee's annual LGBT Gala in New York. Thursday, the Justice Department is set to release a report detailing all the ways it has broadly interpreted the Supreme Court's United States v. Windsor decision which struck down the Defense of Marriage Act last year.
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The White House will host a meeting Thursday afternoon about the executive order and the report, which will identify Social Security and veterans affairs benefits as the two areas where the federal government has not been able to apply the Windsor decision, according to sources briefed on the plans.
That will come as the anti-gay marriage National Organization for Marriage on Thursday holds its own march from the Capitol to the Supreme Court, followed by a gala dinner at the Willard Hotel.
For LGBT advocates, the executive order is so important that they call it the third leg of the stool of Obama's revolutionary record on gay rights, along with repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell and backing same sex marriage. For Obama and Democrats, it's a fresh way to try to energize the LGBT community and liberals heading into the midterms.
( Also on POLITICO: Hobby Lobby aims for Christian nation)
The White House made the unusual move Monday of announcing that Obama had asked for the order to be drafted, though activists say Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett told them the Justice and Labor departments had vetted a version of the order two years ago. A White House official said the advance notice was due to the "intense interest" in the topic.
"The action would build upon existing protections, which generally prohibit federal contractors and subcontractors from discriminating in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin," the official said. "This is consistent with the president's views that all Americans, LGBT or not, should be treated with dignity and respect."
The order would cover 28 million workers overall, and what advocates estimate is one in five LGBT employees nationally.
"This is a signal to the 'rising electorate' needed to turn out in midterms (LGBT, African American, Latinos and young people) that there's a reason to come out and vote," Winnie Stachelberg, an executive vice president for the Center for American Progress said in an email, "so it's helpful for sure."
( Also on POLITICO: Obama's Bush hangover)
The delay over the final text is seen by some who've been watching developments closely as due to the upcoming Supreme Court's decision on the Hobby Lobby case, on the religious exemption for businesses to claim leeway from Obamacare's contraception mandate. If the court were to issue a broad exemption, LGBT advocates worry it could have implications for their community as well, by potentially enabling employers to justify discrimination by saying their religion does not approve of LGBT people.
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The White House did not comment on what role Hobby Lobby is playing in officials' thinking.
Signing the order would fulfill a promise that dates back to Obama's days as a candidate, but that lingered through the first term and has been tabled since Jarrett told advocates in a 2012 meeting that they'd have to keep waiting until after the re-election campaign.
They've kept waiting since then, watching with a what-about-us frustration as the president announced in his State of the Union in January that he'd lead by example and raise the minimum wage for government workers, then in April that he'd lead by example and sign an executive order on pay equity for government contractors — all while repeatedly calling for Congress to pass the Employee Non-Discrimination Act, which would cover much of the same legal ground.


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Audiobooks Listened: (# of hours): 4.5 hours (Disk 5)
Time Off: 1.5 hours
Charity Total so far: $59.25 (97 comments, 4 Hours listened, 2 books finished, 1 Hour Off)
I am reading for Charity again this time! Last time I made $125 for Richardson Adult Literacy Center. This time I am going to read for the Love on Wheels Transport Program.
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A sickly, emaciated puppy was so excited to receive attention when animal control officers came to rescue him that he collapsed from exertion as he furiously wagged his tail, according to his rescuers in New Jersey.
The officers in Paterson were responding to a report of a starved puppy being kept outside in the heat with no food or water, according to animal rescue group Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge.
The puppy "collapsed from the exertion and excitement of greeting a visitor, having been alone for days," the rescue group said in a fundraising page set up for the pup.
One of the officers took him off his chain and brought him into the home, where he staggered over to the toilet and lapped up all the water before she could stop him, all the time wagging his tail and falling over.
"The puppy's tail never stopped wagging -- he was so excited to finally have human contact and kind touch," the rescue group said.
The owners admitted to animal control officers the pup hadn't eaten in days.
The puppy was taken to Oradell Animal Hospital, where rescue group workers met the animal control officers.
"When they arrived and unwrapped him, he began wiggling again," the rescue group said. "He was so happy, his tail wagging furiously -- all the while, the rescuers were in tears as he tipped over and over again from weakness, his skin flaked to the floor and his little heartbeat seemed to shine right through his paper-thin skin."
The puppy -- named Pax by his rescuers, because he seemed to have finally found his peace -- is receiving IV treatment in the hospital for the next several days until he is stabilized.
"We can't wait to give him all of the attention, love and care that he has so desperately been craving," said the rescue group.
A GoFundMe page set up for the puppy had raised over $5,000 by Thursday afternoon.
It's not clear if the owners of the dog are facing charges. A message was left with Paterson police.


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Here's a recent example of one where I didn't ask, they didn't notice, and I never showed them. They were pretty far away across the restaurant. He was bent over his cellphone and she was talking to him, waving her wrist around in big circles as she made her points. Once in a while he would grunt a syllable in response, but he never looked up from the phone until his scrambled eggs arrived.
What I was thinking about as I was drawing was not just the contrast of poses and shapes and colors. I was also interested in trying to convey the relationship between the people, as it appeared to me from their body language.
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On Saturday night, Pella Police, Pella ambulance, Pella Fire and Marion County Sheriff Deputies responded to a motor vehicle accident at the intersection of Idaho Dr. and Highway T15. The report showed that Shirley Ann Lahvic of Pella entered the intersection and failed to yield to a semi-truck driven by Anthony Langstraat of Pella. Lahvic and one passenger were transported to Pella Regional Health Center for non-life threatening injuries and were treated and released. Langstraat was not injured.
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series of landslide experiments was conducted on a natural slope
of Mt. Kaba-san in Yamato village, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. The
experimental portion of the hillslope was 30 meters long with an
average gradient of 33o (maximum 35o); soil was 1 to 3 meters deep.
The slope was partioned into a 5 m wide segment by driving thin steel
plates about 1 m deep into the soil. Surface material on the slope
consists of fine weathered granite sand. Loamy soil blanketed the
upper portion of the regolith to a depth of about 1 m. Artficial
rainfall at the rate of 78 mm/h was applied to the slope segment
during experiments via a rainfall simulator. The experiment started
from 1200 on November 12, 2003. After the 4 hours and 30 minutes
of artificial rainfall, a saturated zone was observed in the middle
and lower parts of the slope, but no movement occurred in the soil
layer. The second experiment began at 0912 on November 14, 2003.
A fluidized landslide occurred 7 h after sprinkling began. About
40 m3 of debris
flowed onto the opposite bank and made a right-angle turn. The debris
traveled about 30 m down the creek and stopped 17 s after failure.
Extensometers recorded an accelerated displacement prior to and during
failure. During the period of rapid acceleration, pore pressure at
the 0.5 m depth initially declined, apparently as the result of soil
dilation in the shear zone. Afterwards, pore water pressure rose
sharply and began to
In case of emergency,
in order to provide the victims with medical relief and to examine
the victims who had to live in shelters for a long period, Special
Disaster Response Units* are deployed in the affected area.
Containers with
Special Disaster Response Unit's medicines / medical equipments etc.
are transported to the affected area. The Unit functions as relief
bases and temporary clinics.
* Special Disaster
Response Unit is developed from the ERU for domestic use. It has
almost the same material and equipment as the ERU and is deployed
when disaster strikes Japan. Special Disaster Response Unit has a
gross weight of 3 tons and has 1 air tent, 188 medical equipments,
65 medicines (anesthetic, antibiotic, etc), beds, stretchers, water
tanks etc. The Unit can be ready for deployment within an hour. 200
people a day can be treated for 72 hours with its equipments.


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Car dealers, like other businesses, are now a target of overseas hackers looking to make quick money. Why? They're easy prey.
We've already seen how little of an understanding many car dealerships have of the Internet. It's no wonder they're easy targets for European hackers looking for a quick score.
Green Ford of Abilene, Kan., had $23,000 taken from their bank accounts by a "probably Russian or Ukrainian" hacker who tapped into the dealership's business accounts and funneled money out using a fake employee created in their system, according to Automotive News. The hackers then employed an easy keystroke logger called "Zeus" that allowed them to gain access to the dealership controller's user name and password for their bank accounts.
Because dealerships are constantly logged into networks to exchange information with vendors, and because many are protected only by a firewall, it's easy for hackers to walk off with the equivalent of a new Ford Focus.
This issue in Kansas is apparently an isolated one, but the Automotive News article makes it clear dealerships should pay a little more attention to the Internet. Or at least spend more money on insurance and security.


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Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, July 30, 2013 – Asian giants Japan and China as well as Greece (all from Pool B) and Egypt (Pool A) completed the teams who will participate in the second round (Round of 16) of the FIVB Girls' Youth World Championship following the end of the preliminary round matches in the four pools at both Chatchai and Lipatapanlop halls in Nakhon Ratshasima on Tuesday.
Twelve other teams had already confirmed second round qualification early on Monday, as Serbia, Thailand, Puerto Rico (Pool A), Poland (Pool B), USA, Brazil, Slovenia, Dominican Republic (Pool C), Turkey, Peru, Italy and Chinese Taipei (Pool D) made their dreams a reality one day before the end of the first round.
After a rest day for the whole competition teams on Wednesday, the competition will be resumed on Thursday with 8 matches in the round of 16 where the winner of these encounter qualify for the quarterfinal for 1 to 8 positions, while losers compete for the play off 9 to 16 position.
A ground breaking clash between World No. 2 Brazil and No. 3 Italy highlight the quarters' fixture on Thursday, which feature also a classic Asian clash between host Thailand and the World Ranking leaders China.
Other matches are defending Champions Turkey v Dominican Republic, Japan v Egypt, Poland v Puerto Rico, Serbia v Greece, USA v Chinese Taipei, and Peru v Slovenia.
Beside the round of 16, Thursday's programme include also 2 matches for the 17 to 20 positions which will be held in a round robin format between the teams finishing at the last position in their pools as Tunisia meet Mexico and Argentina face Algeria.
Among the whole competition teams, Serbia kept the record of being the only team who achieve the clean sheet in four matches achieving 4-0, beside being the only team who didn't drop a set till now.
Pool A
Serbia make full record with fourth victory against mighty Puerto Rico
World No. 7 Serbia became the only team FIVB Girls' U18 World Championship to capture 4 consecutive victories following their win against fighting Puerto Rico team 3-0 (25-13, 25-16, 25-23) at Chatchi Hall in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand on Tuesday.
Serbia became 4-0 to finish in the first position of Pool A, while Puerto Rico dropped to 2-2.Tijana Boskovi led the Serbian scorers with 20 impressive points making over 3 ace services and 2 blocks. Puerto Rico's Paola Rojas led her team scorers with 9 points.
Home motivated Thai fly past Tunisia
Hosts Thailand were highly motivated by the home crowd to clinch a straight sets victory (25-22, 25-20, 25-12) against Tunisia in their last match of Pool A at FIVB Girls' U18 World Championship held in Chatchi Hall in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand on Tuesday.
The victory put the winners in the second position of the pool with a win- loss ratio of 3-1, following the pool leaders Serbia, while Tunisia dropped to 0-4 to finish at the bottom of the pool and play for 17 to 20 positions.
With their quick attacks and multiple combinations by the net, Thailand players led the match from the start specially that the Tunisian coach didn't field the captain Emna Khalifa during the whole match. Jiraporn Chaymon led Thai scorers with 13 points from her sharp hits. Again Jihen Mohamed was the best scorer from the loser side with 8 points.
Pool B
Fired-up Japan power past Greece with come-from-behind victory to top Pool B
Talented Japan lived up to the crowds' expectation as the Asian champions recovered from the first-set down to brush off gallant Greece in thrilling four sets 22-25, 25-15, 25-16, 25-21 in their final Pool B clash at the Liptapanlop Hall.
Star spikers Olga Strantzali and the 196cm-tall Anthi Vasilantonaki were the Greece's forces to help their team win the opening set 25-22. Greece led initially 12-6, thanks to their scintillating blocks and aggressive attacks by Strantzali. The superb duo of Ioanna Gkountimenko and Lamprini Konstantinidou produced solid blockings to win the last two points for Greece in this match.
Kaori Mabashi led Japan with 17 points, 14 of them from deadly attacks, while Anthi Vasilantonaki topscored Greece with 24 points. She shared 14 points with Olga Strantzali in the spiking skill, but Vasilantonaki led the blocking and serving skills with five points apiece.
With the success, Japan collected eight points from three wins against one loss to be sure of topping Pool B.
China stamp their class by thrashing Argentina in straight sets
World No.1 and former three-time world champions China, proved their class above Argentina to send the world No.13 packing in comfortable three sets 25-21 25-13 25-18 in their last Pool B encounter at the Liptapanlop Hall.
China, silver medalists at the previous world meet in Turkey two years ago, badly needed a crucial win over Argentina to make sure the mission of making the cut for the last 16 teams can still be within their reach.
Pool C
Dominican Republic see off Slovenia in a thrilling game
World No. 8 Dominican Republic came back from set behind to achieve an exciting 3-1 (22-25, 25-20, 25-19, 25-23) win against No 33 Slovenia in Pool C of FIVB Girls' U18 World Championship at Chatchi Hall.
Now Dominican improved their win- loss ratio at the end of the preliminary to 2-2, while Slovenia dropped to the same ratio 2-2 but Slovenia finished third of the pool ahead of Dominican who finished fourth by set quotient rule.
Starting with a little disturbance in defence, Dominican team regained their motivated rhythm to win three successive sets due to the regular marvelous performance of the sisters Elizabeth and Natalia Martinez. The older Elizabeth was as usual the best performing player and coming out as the best scorer with 23 points including 3 stuff blocks, while the younger Natalia was the second scorer with 14 points. From the Slovenian side Sasa Zdovc was the best scorer with 11 points followed by Katja Mihalinec 8.
Happy birthday to Kenzei at USA fast win over Algeria
World No. 5 USA celebrated twice at Chatchi Hall, first after their easy victory against No. 16 Algeria 3-0 (25-12, 25-18, 25-7) in the competition fastest match till now lasting only 58 minutes in Pool C, and second for their Libero Kenzie Maloney's birthday on July 30th in 1997.
The victory improved the win- loss ratio of the winners to 3-1 to lead the pool ahead of Brazil who have the same ratio but with less set quotient, while winless Algeria dropped to 0-4 to finish 5th in the pool.
Hayley Hodson led her team scorers with 12 points including three ace services and 3 blocks equal to Danielle Cuttino, but the latter had impressive 5 dying blocks. From the Algerian side Yasmine Abderrahim led her team scorers with 45 points.
Pool D
European giants Italy prove a cut above Taipei
World No.3 Italy ended their Pool D campaign in the Girls' U18 World Championship on a high note following a scintillating one-sided 25-14 25-10 25-11 victory over underdogs Chinese Taipei at the Liptapanlop Hall on Tuesday.
Powerful Anna Nicoletti led Italy with 17 points. Anastasia Guerra led the 193cm-tall team-mate in the spiking skill with 14 points against Nicoletti's 10, but Nicoletti produced a better form in serving skill to carry out four ace serves.
Mexico strain swansong to stun title-holders Turkey
World No.15 Mexico, the only team which have yet won a set in Pool D, caused a major sensation on their final match at the Liptapanlop Hall by pulling off a stunning straight-set 25-20 25-22 25-21 victory over reigning champions Turkey.
However, despite the remarkable success to collect three points from this match, it's not enough for Mexico. The NORCECA team failed to make the cut for the last 16 teams, as they are assured of a fifth-place finish in Pool D and instead, they will be relegated to compete in the 17th-20th classification round.
In this encounter, Fernanda Baguelos scored a match-high 14 points. She led in the spiking skill with 11 points plus three ace serves. Pelin Aroguz led Turkey with 12 points including nine from devastating attacks.
Turkey, which stunned Asian powerhouses China in the final showdown of the previous edition two years ago to capture the world's crown for the first time in history, fielded many substitutions in this match against Mexico. Among them were Cansu Ozbay, Ayca Aykac, RidaErlalelitepe and Merve Tanyel.
Results Day 5
2013 Girls'U18 World Championship Performances
Top Scoring Performances
36 – Mizuki Yanagita of Japan v China (July 26)
34 – Smarzek Malwina of Poland v Greece (July 26)
29 – Chaymon Jiraporn of Thailand v Egypt (July 26)
28 – Patcharaporn Sittisad of Thailand v Puerto Rico (July 29)
28 – Malwina Smarzek (Poland) v China (July 27)
25 – Anastasia Guerra (Italy) v Peru (July 27)
24 – Yuan Xinyue of China v Japan (July 26)
24 – Anithi Vasilantionaki (Greece) v Japan (July 30)
23 – Nicoletti Anna of Italy v Turkey (July 26)
23 – Elizabeth Martinez (Dominican Rep) v Slovenia (July 30)
Top Blocking Performances
6 – Youanyuan (China) v Poland (July 27)
6 – Arelya Karasoy (Turkey) v Peru (July 29)
5 – Andrea Urrutia (Peru) v Chinese Taipie (July 28)
5 – Ayelen Enrique (Argentina) v Poland (July 28)
5 – Simone Lee (USA) v Slovenia (July 27)
5 – Rosa Vaalente (Peru) v Italy (July 27)
5 – Nicoletti Anna of Turkey v Italy (July 26)
5 – Oliveira Thais of Brazil v Dominican Republic (July 26)
5 – Moskwa Kornelia of Poland v Greece (July 26)
5 – Hu Mingyuan of China v Japan (July 26)
5 – Gkountimenko Ioanna of Greece v Poland (July 26)
Top Serving Performances
8 – Anita Sobocan of Slovenia v USA (July 27)
6 – Elina Rodiguez of Argentina v Poland (July 28)
6 – Patcharaporn Sittisad of Thailand v Puerto Rico (July 29)
5 – Lorenne Geraldo of Brazil v Algeria (July 27)
5 – Sirine Bouraoui of Tunisia v Puerto Rico (July 27)
4 – Mihalinec Katja of Slovenia v Algeria (July 26)
4 – Sittisad Patcharaporn of Thaïland v Egypt. (July 26)
4 – Abdelghany Doaa of Egypt v Thailand (July 26)
4 – Karasoy Arelya of Turkey v Italy (July 26)
4 – Nicoletti Anna of Italy v Turkey (July 26)
Highest Scorers by day
34 – Smarzek Malwina of Poland v Greece (July 26)
28 – Malwina Smarzek (Poland) v China (July 27)
26 – Angela Leyva (Peru) v Chinese Taipei (July 28)
28 – Patcharaporn Sittisad of Thailand v Puerto Rico (July 29)
23 – Elizabeth Martinez (Dominican) v Slovenia (July 30)
Highest Set Score
Pool A: Thailand v Puerto Rico 30-28
Pool B: Argentina v Japan 34-32
Pool C: Brazil v Dominican Republic 33-31
Pool D: Italy v Peru 28-26
2013 Girls' U18 World Championship
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China claim fourth historic gold at Girls' U18 World Championship
Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, August 4, 2013 – China captured their fourth gold medal at the FIVB Girls' U18 World Championship with a straight sets wi... More...
04.08.2013 15:19:50
I congratulate every team who took part in this championship, says Turkey's coach
Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, August 4, 2013 – Turkey's head coach Mehmet Bedestenlioglu expressed his satisfaction over his team's success. Following ... More...
04.08.2013 15:11:19
"Finally we achieved our target," says China coach
Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, August 4, 2013 –China became the world champion after they beat USA in straight sets. While Brazil won the third place in... More...
04.08.2013 15:03:21
Turkey rally past Italy in thrilling tie-breaker to claim ninth place
Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, August 4, 2013 – Devastating Turkey pulled off a hard-fought five-set win (25-22, 25-21, 20-25, 18-25, 15-12 ) over a fir... More...
04.08.2013 13:25:27
China beat USA 3-0 to win gold at Girls' Under-18 World Championship
Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, August 4, 2013 - China won the gold medal at the Girls' Under18 World Championship beating USA in straight sets (25-16, 2... More...
04.08.2013 13:21:52
We gained a lot of experience especially playing taller rivals, says Taipei's coach
Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, August 4, 2013 – Chinese Taipei's head coach Lo Chung-Jen on Sunday expressed his satisfaction with his team's performanc... More...
04.08.2013 13:15:44
In-form Taipei finish in 11th place after beating Greece
Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, August 4, 2013 – Small and agile Chinese Taipei defied the odds to topple much stronger Greece in a dramatic four-set mat... More...
04.08.2013 13:10:59
"We are happy with the bronze," Brazil coach says
Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, August 4, 2013 – Brazil beat Peru 3-0 set (25-19, 25-23, 25-12). Brazil finished their tournament gaining the Bronze m... More...
04.08.2013 12:07:01
Brazil capture bronze with win against Peru
Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, August 3, 2013 - Brazil gained their ninth medal in their 13th participation at the Girls' U18 World Championship with a ... More...
04.08.2013 10:44:48
"We came for a medal, but now we are satisfied," Japan coach
Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, August 4, 2013 - Japan ended their FIVB Girls' Youth World Championship campaign beating Serbia 3-2 (14-25, 23-25, 25-20... More...


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- Elegon yells: Approach! Feel the power of the titans!
- Elegon yells: Conduits offline.
- Elegon yells: Drawing from reserve power.
- Elegon yells: Energy Conduits active, draw stable.
- Elegon yells: Energy Vortex ramping down.
- Elegon yells: Entering defensive mode. Disabling output failsafes.
- Elegon yells: Existence ends... I become nothing...
- Elegon yells: Identification matrix mismatch. Unknown entities detected.
- Elegon yells: Redirecting power.
- Elegon yells: Sensors online. All cores operating at peak efficiency.
Tooltips and dungeon journal reflect ability values for one encounter version. Please refer to "Effect" section on spell pages to see values for all raid sizes and difficulties.
Energy Vortex
An active Energy Vortex transforms any player or creature who stands in it, granting a small taste of the Titan's true power.
In Heroic Difficulty, the Energy Vortex prevents targeting into or out of the Energy Vortex.
- Touch of the Titans – Contact with the Energy Vortex transforms the target into celestial form, increasing all damage done by 50% and healing received by 50%.
- Overcharged – The Energy Vortex periodically inflicts players with Overcharge, causing them to take 5% additional damage. This effect stacks.
Stage One: Entering Defensive Mode
Elegon activates the Energy Vortex, attacking with Celestial Breath and calling for Celestial Protectors to help defend the Engine of Nalak'sha.
Stage One ends at 85% and 50% remaining health.
- Celestial Breath – Elegon's breath inflicts 16 Arcane damage every 0.5 seconds for 1.5 sec to players within a 100 yard long 60 degree cone.
- Materialize Protector – When Elegon has more than 50% remaining health, he summons a Celestial Protector to attack the players.
- Celestial Protector – A construct of pure energy, the Celestial Protector serves as primary defense for the Engine of Nalak'sha.
- Phasing
The Celestial Protector exists in a state of flux, held together by the immense power of the Energy Vortex. When the Protector has over 25% remaining health and exists outside the bounds of the Energy Vortex, players inflict 90% less damage to it.
- Arcing Energy – The Celestial Protector inflicts 26 Arcane damage to two random players and applies Closed Circuit to each target.
In 25 player Difficulty, Arcing Energy targets five random players.
In 10 player Heroic Difficulty, Arcing Energy targets three random players.
In 25 player Heroic Difficulty, Arcing Energy targets seven random players.
In Looking for Raid Difficulty, Arcing Energy targets four random players.
- Closed Circuit – After being hit by the Arcing Energy, the Closed Circuit reduces the healing received by the target by 50% for 10 sec.
- Stability Flux – Upon reaching 25% remaining health, the Celestial Protector begins to pulse energy and periodically inflicts 6 Arcane damage on all players.
- Total Annihilation – Celestial Protectors explode when near death, inflicting 55 Arcane damage to all players.
In Heroic Difficulty, Total Annihilation also applies Destabilizing Energies.
In Heroic Difficulty, Total Annihilation will trigger Catastrophic Anomaly if it hits no targets.
In Heroic Difficulty, Total Annihilation also applies Destabilizing Energies.
In 25 player Heroic Difficulty, Total Annihilation will trigger Catastrophic Anomaly if it hits fewer than three targets.
- Destabilizing Energies – Exposure to Total Annihilation causes lasting negative effects, stuns the enemy and inflicts 12 Arcane damage every 2 seconds until the target is healed to 80% of max health.
- Destabilized – When struck by Total Annihilation, powerful waves of energy course through the victim, rendering them more susceptible to the harmful effects of Total Annihilation. Players instantly die if Total Annihilation inflicts additional damage to them.
- Catastrophic Anomaly – With no targets to absorb the excess energy of Total Annihilation, the Engine of Nalak'sha explodes, inflicting 259 Arcane damage to the entire raid.
- Grasping Energy Tendrils – With no targets in melee range, Elegon grabs and pulls all enemies to him, inflicting 48 Arcane damage.
- Radiating Energies – When Elegon reaches 50% remaining health, he becomes dangerously unstable. Elegon periodically inflicts 5 Arcane damage to all players who are within the Energy Vortex, and 14 Arcane damage to all players who are outside it.
Stage Two: Primary Power Offline
Elegon attempts to reactivate the Engine of Nalak'sha by creating Energy Charges to energize the Empyreal Focuses. If players destroy all Energy Charges in a wave, Elegon will continue to create more Energy Charges. The creation process permanently weakens his physical form.
Stage Two ends once an Energy Charge leaves the Energy Vortex.
- Draw Power – Elegon attempts to restart the Engine of Nalak'sha by constructing six Energy Charges from his own body, permanently increasing all damage taken by 10%. This effect stacks.
- Energy Charge – A small part of Elegon himself, the Energy Charge contains enough Arcane energy to restart The Engine of Nalak'sha.
- High Energy – With each successive cast of Draw Power, the created Energy Charge gains an additional 20% movement speed. This effect stacks.
- Discharge – Upon reaching zero health, the Energy Charge explodes and inflicts 9 Arcane damage to all players.
Stage Three: Power Draw Stable
Elegon has reactivated The Engine of Nalak'sha, disabling the Energy Vortex and activating all Empyreal Focuses. Elegon shields himself from all damage.
Stage Three ends once players destroy all the Empyreal Focuses.
- Empyreal Focus – The Focuses activate whenever the Engine of Nalak'sha begins operation, venting energy into the surrounding platform. Damaging all six Empyreal Focuses temporarily disables the Engine of Nalak'sha.
- Energy Conduit – The Empyreal Focus vents excess energy, inflicting 52 Arcane damage to all players touching the energy conduit every 0.5 sec.
- Overloaded – Upon reaching zero health, the Empyreal Focus deactivates and vents excess energy back to Elegon, increasing his damage inflicted by 20% and casting speed by 5%. This effect stacks.
- Linked Focuses – An Empyreal Focus will not deactivate until both it and the linked focus are brought to zero health.
- Unstable Energy – Elegon periodically inflicts 5 Arcane damage to all players.
- Energy Cascade – Elegon fires a ball of Titan plasma at the location of random player, inflicting 48 Arcane damage on impact to players within 5 yards and creating a Cosmic Spark.
- Cosmic Spark – Small pure energy constructs created by Elegon.
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Jonathan Martin: 'I felt trapped' in Dolphins' locker room
Jonathan Martin probably won't be returning to the Miami Dolphins next season — team owner Stephen Ross said as much on Tuesday. Martin's fate likely was sealed when he left the team in November because he felt he was being been bullied by teammates, most notably offensive linemate Richie Incognito.
In an interview this week with NBC Sports' Tony Dungy (quotes via Hal Habib of The Palm Beach Post), Martin explained his motivation.
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"I'm a grown man. I've been in locker rooms. There's been vulgar languages in locker rooms," Martin told Dungy in a segment of the interview that aired on "NBC Nightly News" on Tuesday. "One instance doesn't bother me. It's the persistence of it. I wish I would have had more tools to solve my situation, but I felt trapped, like I didn't have a way to make it right. It came down to a point where I felt it was best to remove myself from the situation."
A longer version of the interview will air on the network's "Today" show on Wednesday. The interview is the first that Martin has given since his departure.
Incognito was suspended for the final eight games of the regular season. A return to the Dolphins is unlikely, Ross said.
The NFL hired an independent investigator, Ted Wells, to determine what, in fact, happened in the Dolphins' locker room. Ross said Wells' report will be released after Super Bowl XLVIII.