The Decline of the Roman Republic, Volume 1Bell & Daldy, 1864 |
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... true knowledge of history , and do not draw from it the meaning which it contains . They are pleased with reading of the various events , but they do not think of deriving instruction from them . It seems as if they thought that every ...
... true knowledge of history , and do not draw from it the meaning which it contains . They are pleased with reading of the various events , but they do not think of deriving instruction from them . It seems as if they thought that every ...
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... true that the overthrow of a rival power gave the Roman State external security by terminating a long contest , which at one time threatened the existence of Rome . But Sallust also affirms that before the downfall of Carthage , the ...
... true that the overthrow of a rival power gave the Roman State external security by terminating a long contest , which at one time threatened the existence of Rome . But Sallust also affirms that before the downfall of Carthage , the ...
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... 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 of towns . Lucullus on arriving in Spain found no war , but he made one . He ...
... 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 of towns . Lucullus on arriving in Spain found no war , but he made one . He ...
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... true that the women and children were killed too . If they were sold as slaves , it does not seem likely , as we shall soon see , that either Lucullus or the slave - dealers could have carried them off to the south . The neighbouring ...
... true that the women and children were killed too . If they were sold as slaves , it does not seem likely , as we shall soon see , that either Lucullus or the slave - dealers could have carried them off to the south . The neighbouring ...
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... true , these routed Lusitani made their way to the great commercial city of Gadeira in the hope of seizing vessels there . The rest fled to a hill where Lucullus hemmed them in and took an immense number of prisoners , whom he would ...
... true , these routed Lusitani made their way to the great commercial city of Gadeira in the hope of seizing vessels there . The rest fled to a hill where Lucullus hemmed them in and took an immense number of prisoners , whom he would ...
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