The Lives of the Twelve CaesarsG. Bell and sons, 1911 - 557 pages |
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... writing ; he relates everything , but paints nothing . His work is , in some sense , a collection of anecdotes , but it is very curious to read and consult . " Combining as it does amusement and information , Suetonius's " Lives of the ...
... writing ; he relates everything , but paints nothing . His work is , in some sense , a collection of anecdotes , but it is very curious to read and consult . " Combining as it does amusement and information , Suetonius's " Lives of the ...
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... writing , given to Catiline . Cæsar , feeling that this treatment was not to be borne , appealed to Cicero himself , whether he had not voluntarily made a discovery to him of some particulars of the conspiracy ; and so baulked Curius of ...
... writing , given to Catiline . Cæsar , feeling that this treatment was not to be borne , appealed to Cicero himself , whether he had not voluntarily made a discovery to him of some particulars of the conspiracy ; and so baulked Curius of ...
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... writing , and published . He also re- vived an old custom , that an officer should precede him , and his lictors follow him , on the alternate months when the fasces were not carried before him . Upon preferring a bill to the people for ...
... writing , and published . He also re- vived an old custom , that an officer should precede him , and his lictors follow him , on the alternate months when the fasces were not carried before him . Upon preferring a bill to the people for ...
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... writing in some of his letters , that he was conducted by the royal attendants into the king's bed - chamber , lay upon a bed of gold with a covering of purple , and that the youthful bloom of this scion of Venus had been tainted in ...
... writing in some of his letters , that he was conducted by the royal attendants into the king's bed - chamber , lay upon a bed of gold with a covering of purple , and that the youthful bloom of this scion of Venus had been tainted in ...
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... writing upon waxen tables , the leaves or bark of trees , plates of brass , or lead , & c . For writing upon paper or parchment , the Romans employed a reed , sharpened and split in the point like our pens , called calamus , arundo , or ...
... writing upon waxen tables , the leaves or bark of trees , plates of brass , or lead , & c . For writing upon paper or parchment , the Romans employed a reed , sharpened and split in the point like our pens , called calamus , arundo , or ...
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