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... author was familiar with the neighbourhood of North - Eastern Gaul , in- cline us to accept the conjecture , which is further supported by the fact that the circumstances of his career seem to imply an origin which was respectable ...
... author was familiar with the neighbourhood of North - Eastern Gaul , in- cline us to accept the conjecture , which is further supported by the fact that the circumstances of his career seem to imply an origin which was respectable ...
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... author to claim the first place in the interest of his readers . Both the scene and the event appear to have deeply impressed the mind of Tacitus . The critical struggle , as it seemed to him , was fought out on the last confines of the ...
... author to claim the first place in the interest of his readers . Both the scene and the event appear to have deeply impressed the mind of Tacitus . The critical struggle , as it seemed to him , was fought out on the last confines of the ...
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... author of two works which have come down to us , one on mili- tary stratagems , the other , on aqueducts . Pliny ( Ep . IV . 8 , 3 ) , speaks of him in high terms . 4. Eluctatus . ] Comp . Hist . III . 59 , vix quieto agmine nives ...
... author of two works which have come down to us , one on mili- tary stratagems , the other , on aqueducts . Pliny ( Ep . IV . 8 , 3 ) , speaks of him in high terms . 4. Eluctatus . ] Comp . Hist . III . 59 , vix quieto agmine nives ...
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... author of the following speech . CHAPTER XXX . 1. Necessitatem nostram . ] ' Our desperate position . ' 2. Magnus mihi animus est . ] ' I have great confidence . ' Animus ' is here almost equivalent to ' spes ' or ' fiducia . ' There ...
... author of the following speech . CHAPTER XXX . 1. Necessitatem nostram . ] ' Our desperate position . ' 2. Magnus mihi animus est . ] ' I have great confidence . ' Animus ' is here almost equivalent to ' spes ' or ' fiducia . ' There ...
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... the absence of any introductory matter , ( by means of which , he observes , in the case of the Annals , Histories and Life of Agricola , the author's aim and purpose are clearly explained , ) that the Germania ' IV INTRODUCTION.
... the absence of any introductory matter , ( by means of which , he observes , in the case of the Annals , Histories and Life of Agricola , the author's aim and purpose are clearly explained , ) that the Germania ' IV INTRODUCTION.
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