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... book . Again , the limits of this work forbade the idea of transcribing the Greek writers ( with the necessary Vocabulary ) ; though it is to them almost entirely after the time of Tacitus that we owe what little is known of British ...
... book . Again , the limits of this work forbade the idea of transcribing the Greek writers ( with the necessary Vocabulary ) ; though it is to them almost entirely after the time of Tacitus that we owe what little is known of British ...
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... Book III . Section 115 . Of the extremities of Europe towards the west I cannot speak with certainty nor am I acquainted with the islands Cassiterides , from which tin is brought to us . From ARISTOTLE . De Mundo , Chapter 3rd . Without ...
... Book III . Section 115 . Of the extremities of Europe towards the west I cannot speak with certainty nor am I acquainted with the islands Cassiterides , from which tin is brought to us . From ARISTOTLE . De Mundo , Chapter 3rd . Without ...
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... Book I. In the next twenty - three books we have arranged all the remaining events until the beginning of the war waged by the Romans against the Celti , in which Caius Julius Cæsar , who for his exploits has been addressed as a god ...
... Book I. In the next twenty - three books we have arranged all the remaining events until the beginning of the war waged by the Romans against the Celti , in which Caius Julius Cæsar , who for his exploits has been addressed as a god ...
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... Book III . The Cassiterides are ten in number , and lie near each other in the ocean , towards the north from the haven of the Artabri ; one of them is desert , but the others are inhabited by men in black cloaks , clad in tunics ...
... Book III . The Cassiterides are ten in number , and lie near each other in the ocean , towards the north from the haven of the Artabri ; one of them is desert , but the others are inhabited by men in black cloaks , clad in tunics ...
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... Book IV . Britain lies in front of the Seine and Rhine , so near to the latter , indeed , that Cantium , which is the eastern promontory of the island , may be seen thence ; but a little farther distant from the Seine , where it was ...
... Book IV . Britain lies in front of the Seine and Rhine , so near to the latter , indeed , that Cantium , which is the eastern promontory of the island , may be seen thence ; but a little farther distant from the Seine , where it was ...
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