History of Rome: Early history to the burning of Rome by the GaulsT. Fellowes, 1857 - Rome |
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... are themselves citizens of our kingly commonwealth of England . Long before Niebuhr's death I had formed the design of writing the History of Rome ; not , it may well be believed , with the foolish notion of rivalling vi PREFACE .
... are themselves citizens of our kingly commonwealth of England . Long before Niebuhr's death I had formed the design of writing the History of Rome ; not , it may well be believed , with the foolish notion of rivalling vi PREFACE .
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... Niebuhr's History were pub- lished in his lifetime ; and although careful readers might have anticipated his powers ... Niebuhr himself had been obliged to demonstrate step by step . But when Niebuhr died , and there was now no hope of ...
... Niebuhr's History were pub- lished in his lifetime ; and although careful readers might have anticipated his powers ... Niebuhr himself had been obliged to demonstrate step by step . But when Niebuhr died , and there was now no hope of ...
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... Niebuhr's guidance ; I have every where availed myself of his materials as well as of his conclusions . No acknowledgment can be too ample for the benefits which I have derived from him yet I have not followed him blindly , nor compiled ...
... Niebuhr's guidance ; I have every where availed myself of his materials as well as of his conclusions . No acknowledgment can be too ample for the benefits which I have derived from him yet I have not followed him blindly , nor compiled ...
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... Niebuhr , or with the history written by Mr. Maldon , for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , may be surprised to find so little said in this volume upon the antiquities of the different nations of Italy . The omission ...
... Niebuhr , or with the history written by Mr. Maldon , for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , may be surprised to find so little said in this volume upon the antiquities of the different nations of Italy . The omission ...
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... Niebuhr's sagacity for guidance . There are some works which I have not been able to consult ; and there are points connected with the topography of Rome and its neighbourhood , on which no existing work gives a satisfactory explanation ...
... Niebuhr's sagacity for guidance . There are some works which I have not been able to consult ; and there are points connected with the topography of Rome and its neighbourhood , on which no existing work gives a satisfactory explanation ...
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Page 125 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you, Caesar was ambitious; If it were so, it was a grievous fault; And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest (For Brutus is an honourable man ; So are they all; all honourable men), Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
Page 29 - Ferentia, where the Latins held the great civil assemblies of their nation. Further to the north, on the edge of the Alban Hills looking towards Rome, was the town and citadel of Tusculum ; and beyond this, a lower summit crowned with the walls and towers of Labicum seems to connect the Alban hills with the line of the Apennines just at the spot where the citadel of...
Page 28 - The hills of Rome are such as we rarely see in England, low in height, but with steep and rocky sides. In early times the natural wood still remained in patches amidst the buildings, as at this day it grows here and there on the green sides of the Monte Testaceo.
Page 86 - Upon this they all mounted their horses and rode first to Rome ; and there they found the wives of Titus, and of Aruns. and of Sextus, feasting and making merry. Then they rode on to Collatia, and it was late in the night; but they found Lucretia, the wife of Tarquinius of Collatia, neither feasting, nor yet sleeping, but she was sitting with all her handmaids around her, and all were working at the loom. So when they saw this, they all said, ' Lucretia is the worthiest lady.
Page 132 - ... yet it is in human nature that a long undisturbed possession should give a feeling of ownership ; the more so as, while the state's claim lay dormant, the possessor was, in fact, proprietor, and the land would thus be repeatedly passing by regular sale from one occupier to another.
Page 173 - Rome in the year 261, thirteen were now either destroyed, or were in the possession of the Opicans ; that on the Alban hills themselves Tusculum alone remained independent ; and that there was no other friendly city to obstruct the irruptions of the enemy into the territory of Rome. Accordingly, that territory was plundered year after year, and whatever defeats the plunderers may at times have sustained, yet they were never deterred from renewing a contest which they found in the main profitable...
Page 165 - Caius sitting on the general's seat in the midst of the camp, and the Volscian chiefs were standing round him. When he first saw them, he wondered what it could be, but presently he knew his mother, who was walking at the head of the train, and then he could not contain himself, but leapt down from his seat, and ran to meet her, and was going to kiss her, but she stopped him and said, 'Ere thou kiss me, let me know whether I am speaking to an enemy or to my son ; whether I stand in thy camp as thy...
Page 132 - ... state. It is easy, however, to see what motive the patricians, as a body, had to oppose all such measures, since it was their interest, though not their right, to keep the lands unallotted. The enactment of A.
Page 88 - Meanwhile King Tarquinius set out with speed to Rome to put down the tumult. But Lucius turned aside from the road that he might not meet him, and came to the camp; and the soldiers joyfully received him, and they drove out the sons of Tarquinius.
Page 91 - Then the horsemen on both parts fought, and afterward the main battles, and the Veientians were beaten, but the Tarquinians beat the Romans, and the battle was neither won nor lost; but in the night there came a voice out of the wood that was hard by, and it said, "One man more has fallen on the part of the Etruscans than...