The emperor refused, at the return of each fifth year, the customary donative of five pieces of gold, reduced his veterans to beg their bread, and suffered unpaid armies to melt away in the wars of Italy and Persia.
The royal path to maintain the liberties of Rome was thrice reiterated, at the bridge, the gate, and on the stairs of the Vatican; and the distribution of a customary donative feebly imitated the magnificence of the first Cæsars.
Their discontent died away in idle murmurs, and Caracalla soon convinced them of the justice of his cause, by distributing in one lavish donative the accumulated treasures of his father's reign.
The victorious leader distributed as a donative the money collected for the tribute, and the acclamations of the soldiers proclaimed him emperor on the field of battle.
Gibbon appears to have been mistaken both in confounding this donative on discharge with the annual pay, and in not paying attention to the remark of Valois on the transposition of the numbers in the text.
On the first news of the emperor's death, the troops expressed some suspicion and resentment, till the one was removed, and the other assuaged, by a donative of twenty pieces of gold to each soldier.
They commissioned one of their body to tender a donative of thirty thousand ducats towards defraying the expenses of the Moorish war.
Does not the donative I have announced pacify them?
The Janizary turned pale; but in a moment said, "Your donative has been announced.
Many of the principal colonists, also, from the same wish to show their sense of his important services, sent to him, after he had embarked, a magnificent donative of fifty thousand gold castellanos.
To reward every man who had proved himself loyal, simply for his loyalty, would have frittered away the donative into fractions that would be of little value to any.
After the siege of Perisabor, the firmness of the emperor was exercised by the insolent avarice of the army, who loudly complained, that their services were rewarded by a trifling donative of one hundred pieces of silver.
Retire to your quarters; refresh your minds and bodies; and expect the accustomed donativeon the accession of a new emperor.
It was customary that such of the records on copper as were donative charters should be authenticated.
In a donative advowson, the sovereign, or any subject by special licence from the sovereign, conferred a benefice by a simple letter of gift, without any reference to the bishop, and without presentation and institution.
At his accession the financial straits of the treasury were such that the usual donative could not be given to the janissaries.
The soldiers always expected such a donative on the accession of any new emperor,--but Nero, in order to suppress any latent opposition which might be felt against his claims, made his proposed distribution unusually large.
He was not sufficiently attentive either to his own security or the tranquillity of the state, when he refused to pay the soldiers the donative which he had promised them.
Balboa was moved thus to deliver himself, because of ten thousand pieces of gold in the treasury, remaining undivided, which his enemies declared he intended to seize for himself and send as a donative to the king.
The king hath had his fifths, justly apportioned before we took our shares, and a donative besides.
A donative right by the Father's delegation, by which he hath all power given in heaven and in earth, Mat.
A specification of a royal donative in that day may serve to show the martial spirit of the age.
By death of her, the Marquisate returned To that Orsini House from whence it came: Oriolo having passed as donative To Santa Croce from their ancestors.
His army was rewarded with a large donative from the Persian treasury; and after being allowed to indulge for some time in the luxury of Babylon, was again put in motion, towards the middle of November, for Susa.
Collectively these regiments constitute the cohortes civium Romanorum to the soldiers of which Augustus left by his will a donativeequal to that of the legionaries.
