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... already at his feet . It was by playing upon his ambition that Decimus Brutus lured him to his doom ( Plut . Caes . 64 ) . If we were treating of the Civil War , we should have much 1 Eur . Phoen . 524 , 5 ; Cic . Off . iii . § 82 ...
... already at his feet . It was by playing upon his ambition that Decimus Brutus lured him to his doom ( Plut . Caes . 64 ) . If we were treating of the Civil War , we should have much 1 Eur . Phoen . 524 , 5 ; Cic . Off . iii . § 82 ...
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... already full to overflowing , like England at the present moment , and seeking opportunities of expansion . The time of which we are speaking was somewhere about six centuries before Christ , when Tarquinius Priscus ( 616-578 ) was ...
... already full to overflowing , like England at the present moment , and seeking opportunities of expansion . The time of which we are speaking was somewhere about six centuries before Christ , when Tarquinius Priscus ( 616-578 ) was ...
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... already mentioned , who established them- selves on the banks of the Ticinus , near the Laevi , another tribe of Ligurian origin . These were followed , but at what interval of time we do not know , by the Boii and Lingones , who struck ...
... already mentioned , who established them- selves on the banks of the Ticinus , near the Laevi , another tribe of Ligurian origin . These were followed , but at what interval of time we do not know , by the Boii and Lingones , who struck ...
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... already fully occupied , they crossed the Padus in boats , and expelled not only the Etruscans but also the Umbrians from their homes . They did not , however , come south of the Apen- nines . Last of all the Senones arrived and ...
... already fully occupied , they crossed the Padus in boats , and expelled not only the Etruscans but also the Umbrians from their homes . They did not , however , come south of the Apen- nines . Last of all the Senones arrived and ...
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... already been decimated by disease contracted during their long stay under the burning sun of Rome amid the stifling ashes of a ruined city . They had got tired of burying their dead singly , and had come at last to heaping them together ...
... already been decimated by disease contracted during their long stay under the burning sun of Rome amid the stifling ashes of a ruined city . They had got tired of burying their dead singly , and had come at last to heaping them together ...
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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.