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... Strabo Mela Pliny Tacitus Ptolemy Appian Ammianus Marcellinus No statement of Caesar's challenged . Adverse criticism of Pollio Caesar's natural history unreliable His general trustworthiness CONTENTS OF INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I THE ...
... Strabo Mela Pliny Tacitus Ptolemy Appian Ammianus Marcellinus No statement of Caesar's challenged . Adverse criticism of Pollio Caesar's natural history unreliable His general trustworthiness CONTENTS OF INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I THE ...
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... Strabo Mela Pliny Tacitus Ptolemy Appian Ammianus Marcellinus No statement of Caesar's challenged . Adverse criticism of Pollio Caesar's natural history unreliable His general trustworthiness PAGE I I 2 2 3 3 4 6 56 77778 8 8 9 9 10 ΙΟ ...
... Strabo Mela Pliny Tacitus Ptolemy Appian Ammianus Marcellinus No statement of Caesar's challenged . Adverse criticism of Pollio Caesar's natural history unreliable His general trustworthiness PAGE I I 2 2 3 3 4 6 56 77778 8 8 9 9 10 ΙΟ ...
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... Strabo . Ed . Siebenkees - Tzschucke . = Suet . J. C. Suetonius Julius Caesar . Tac . A. = Annals of Tacitus . Ed . Furneaux . - Tac . Agr . Agricola of Tacitus . Tac . H. Tac . G. = Histories of Tacitus . Ed . Spooner . The Germania of ...
... Strabo . Ed . Siebenkees - Tzschucke . = Suet . J. C. Suetonius Julius Caesar . Tac . A. = Annals of Tacitus . Ed . Furneaux . - Tac . Agr . Agricola of Tacitus . Tac . H. Tac . G. = Histories of Tacitus . Ed . Spooner . The Germania of ...
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... Strabo . The author nearest to Caesar's own time is Diodorus Siculus . He is supposed to have written after the year A.D. 8 , but his life overlapped that of Caesar , as he speaks of having been alive himself when Caesar built the ...
... Strabo . The author nearest to Caesar's own time is Diodorus Siculus . He is supposed to have written after the year A.D. 8 , but his life overlapped that of Caesar , as he speaks of having been alive himself when Caesar built the ...
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... Strabo's own illustration - employing the senses of individual observers , had to piece out a notion of the world as a whole . Accordingly Strabo travelled in books even more than in countries . In his account of Transalpine Gaul he ...
... Strabo's own illustration - employing the senses of individual observers , had to piece out a notion of the world as a whole . Accordingly Strabo travelled in books even more than in countries . In his account of Transalpine Gaul he ...
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Page 218 - Alterum genus est equitum. Hi, cum est usus atque aliquod bellum incidit, quod fere ante Caesaris adventum quotannis accidere solebat, uti aut ipsi injurias inferrent aut illatas propulsarent, omnes in bello versantur, atque eorum ut quisque est genere copiisque amplissimus, ita plurimos circum se ambactos clientesque habet.
Page 221 - Deorum numero eos solos ducunt, quos cernunt et quorum aperte opibus iuvantur, Solem et Vulcanum et Lunam, reliquos ne fama quidem acceperunt.
Page 182 - ... cinctamque gerit serpentibus Hydram : Collis Aventini silva quem Rhea sacerdos Furtivum partu sub luminis edidit oras, 660 Mixta deo mulier, postquam Laurentia victor Geryone exstincto Tirynthius attigit arva, Tyrrhenoque boves in flumine lavit Iberas.
Page 217 - In primis hoc volunt persuadere, non interire animas, sed ab aliis post mortem transire ad alios, atque hoc maxime ad virtutem excitari putant metu mortis neglecto.
Page 222 - Agriculturae non student ; majorque pars eorum victus in lacte, caseo, carne consistit ; neque quisquam agri modum certum aut fines habet proprios ; sed magistratus ac principes in annos singulos gentibus cognationibusque hominum qui una coierunt, quantum et quo loco visum est agri attribuunt atque anno post alio transire cogunt.
Page 172 - Omnes vero se Britanni vitro inficiunt, quod caeruleum efficit colorem, atque hoc horridiores sunt in pugna aspectu; capilloque sunt promisso atque omni parte corporis rasa praeter caput et labrum superius.