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... shews ignorance of military matters , and so cannot have been the man who was proconsul of Africa . Is this inference so very certain ? It might further be asked , would so mean - born a man as the proconsul have had the rhetorical ...
... shews ignorance of military matters , and so cannot have been the man who was proconsul of Africa . Is this inference so very certain ? It might further be asked , would so mean - born a man as the proconsul have had the rhetorical ...
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... shews well what a strong hold Curtius once had as a historian . But he had other claims on the readers and teachers of the age of revival . Before the rise of historical criticism , when wisdom was sought directly from ' the ancients ...
... shews well what a strong hold Curtius once had as a historian . But he had other claims on the readers and teachers of the age of revival . Before the rise of historical criticism , when wisdom was sought directly from ' the ancients ...
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... shews that he must have had in him something to distinguish him from the ordinary run of kings and conquerors . He became the fa- vourite theme of the rhetoricians . Imagination revelled in the fancy of all he might have thought or said ...
... shews that he must have had in him something to distinguish him from the ordinary run of kings and conquerors . He became the fa- vourite theme of the rhetoricians . Imagination revelled in the fancy of all he might have thought or said ...
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... shews the marked prominence of the lower part of the forehead which we often notice in men of an eager and pushing temperament . He was blessed with a good digestion , and , in spite of all the trials to which he subjected his ...
... shews the marked prominence of the lower part of the forehead which we often notice in men of an eager and pushing temperament . He was blessed with a good digestion , and , in spite of all the trials to which he subjected his ...
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... shews that 50 years after Alexander's visit it was very wealthy , and that it remained great down to comparatively recent times . He finds its site near Kalaka Serai . fuerat auctor ] ' had urged ' . phasizes patri . See on 10 § 18 ...
... shews that 50 years after Alexander's visit it was very wealthy , and that it remained great down to comparatively recent times . He finds its site near Kalaka Serai . fuerat auctor ] ' had urged ' . phasizes patri . See on 10 § 18 ...
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Alexander in India: A Portion of the History Quintus Curtius W. E. Heitland,T. E. Raven No preview available - 2019 |
Alexander in Indi: A Portion of the History of Quintus Curtius (1879) W. E. Heitland,T. E. Raven No preview available - 2008 |
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