Extracts from Livy, with notes by H. Lee-Warner, Part 1

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Page 7 - Persius. The Satires. With a Translation and Commentary. By John Conington, MA, late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. Edited by H. Nettleship, MA Second Edition.
Page 8 - An Elementary Treatise on Quaternions. By PG Tait, MA, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh ; formerly Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. Demy 8vo. cloth, 1 2s.
Page 14 - It is thought that the student, by confining himself, in the first instance, to those authors who are most worthy of his attention, will be saved from the dangers of hasty and indiscriminate reading. By adopting the course thus marked out for him, he will become familiar with the productions of the greatest minds in English Literature ; and should he never be able to pursue the subject beyond the limits here prescribed, he will have laid the foundation of accurate habits of thought and judgment,...
Page 13 - ... quicquam sanciri posse, quod populum teneat. An, si eadem superbia, qua sponsionem istam expresserunt nobis Samnites, co'egissent nos verba legitima dedentium urbes nuncupare, deditum populum Romanum vos, tribuni, diceretis et hanc urbem, templa, delubra, fines, aquas Samnitium esse?
Page 7 - Sed hic patriam video; hic, quidquid Romanarum legionum est : quae, nisi pro se ipsis ad mortem ruere volunt, quid habent quod morte sua servent ? Tecta urbis, dicat aliquis, et moenia «t eam turbam a qua urbs incolitur.
Page 17 - Samnitem civem Postumium, non civem Romanum esse et a Samnite legatum Romanum violatum : eo vobis iustum in nos factum esse bellum.
Page 7 - Itaque non, ut vulgo credunt Claudiusque etiam scribit, foedere pax Caudina, sed per sponsionem facta est. Quid enim aut sponsoribus in foedere opus esset aut obsidibus, ubi precatione res transigitur, per quern populum fiat, quo minus legibus dictis stetur, ut eum ita lupiter feriat, quemadmodum a fetialibus porcus feriatur.
Page 16 - Arvina fetialis ita verba fecit: "Quandoque hisce homines iniussu populi Romani Quiritium foedus ictum iri spoponderunt atque ob eam rem noxam nocuerunt, ob eam rem quo populus Romanus scelere impio sit solutus hosce homines vobis dedo.
Page 22 - ... horae caesus Samnis, Satricanus captus, et omnia in potestate consulis erant. Qui quaestione habita, quorum opera defectio esset facta, quos sontes comperit, virgis caesos securi percussit praesidioque valido imposito arma Satricanis ademit. Inde ad triumphum decessisse Romam Papirium Cursorem scribunt, qui eo duce Luceriam receptam Samnitesque sub iugum missos auctores sunt.

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