The Decline of the Roman Republic, Volume 1Bell & Daldy, 1864 |
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... reported in these Spanish wars show that the sensible geographer's remark is true . He adds that those writers who said that the Iberians had more than 1000 towns were guilty of the same falsehood . They gave to large villages the name ...
... reported in these Spanish wars show that the sensible geographer's remark is true . He adds that those writers who said that the Iberians had more than 1000 towns were guilty of the same falsehood . They gave to large villages the name ...
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... reported with perfect accuracy , and that the abundance of evidence is not a guarantee of the truth of particulars . I know only one Greek historian , Thucydides , whose particular narrative I am ready to accept as the nearest thing to ...
... reported with perfect accuracy , and that the abundance of evidence is not a guarantee of the truth of particulars . I know only one Greek historian , Thucydides , whose particular narrative I am ready to accept as the nearest thing to ...
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... reported to have said curtly and truly that neither of the consuls ought to go to Spain , for one of them had nothing , and the other could never have enough ; by which words he alluded to the poverty of Cotta and the danger of his ...
... reported to have said curtly and truly that neither of the consuls ought to go to Spain , for one of them had nothing , and the other could never have enough ; by which words he alluded to the poverty of Cotta and the danger of his ...
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... reported to the Praetor Urbanus that they had found in those sacred writings , that whenever there was war with a Gallic people it was necessary to make a sacrifice in the Gallic territory . Whether they believed the Salassi to be Galli ...
... reported to the Praetor Urbanus that they had found in those sacred writings , that whenever there was war with a Gallic people it was necessary to make a sacrifice in the Gallic territory . Whether they believed the Salassi to be Galli ...
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... reported by various writers , and so we have an example of the member of a powerful family breaking through the usual practice , and of an opposition of the authority of one sacred office to that of another . This Appius Claudius gave ...
... reported by various writers , and so we have an example of the member of a powerful family breaking through the usual practice , and of an opposition of the authority of one sacred office to that of another . This Appius Claudius gave ...
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