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... Roman history with which one of the greatest of Roman historians has dealt . That explanation will , I hope , be found satisfactorily given in the first section of the Introduction . I there attempt to show that we have in these two ...
... Roman history with which one of the greatest of Roman historians has dealt . That explanation will , I hope , be found satisfactorily given in the first section of the Introduction . I there attempt to show that we have in these two ...
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... Roman people ( lines 12-17 ) are similarly described in Tacitus ( i . 55 ) . The mention of Vitellius 25 πατρὸς τιμητοῦ καὶ τρὶς ὑπάτου ( line 27 ) is paralleled in Tac . i . 52 ad fin . The bringing of the news to Vitellius by the ...
... Roman people ( lines 12-17 ) are similarly described in Tacitus ( i . 55 ) . The mention of Vitellius 25 πατρὸς τιμητοῦ καὶ τρὶς ὑπάτου ( line 27 ) is paralleled in Tac . i . 52 ad fin . The bringing of the news to Vitellius by the ...
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... Roman and Greek Lives was complete whole ; the early history an essential find two Lives without Greek parallels , with scarcely a trace of moralising tendencies , full of facts arranged in chronological order , with no symmetry of ...
... Roman and Greek Lives was complete whole ; the early history an essential find two Lives without Greek parallels , with scarcely a trace of moralising tendencies , full of facts arranged in chronological order , with no symmetry of ...
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... , this pro- cedure of closely , even slavishly perhaps , following a previous author will hardly be regarded as a stumbling - block . He was writing about Roman INTRODUCTION . history for Greeks ( Conf . his remarks INTRODUCTION . xliis.
... , this pro- cedure of closely , even slavishly perhaps , following a previous author will hardly be regarded as a stumbling - block . He was writing about Roman INTRODUCTION . history for Greeks ( Conf . his remarks INTRODUCTION . xliis.
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... Roman senator , and the circumstances and previous events in Gaul were all such as to make the attempted assertion of 3 ' Suet . Galb . 9. 2 Dio Cass . 63. 19 . 4 Plutarch , Galb . 4 , puts it at 100,000 men . Tao . Hist . i . 16 . Dio ...
... Roman senator , and the circumstances and previous events in Gaul were all such as to make the attempted assertion of 3 ' Suet . Galb . 9. 2 Dio Cass . 63. 19 . 4 Plutarch , Galb . 4 , puts it at 100,000 men . Tao . Hist . i . 16 . Dio ...
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