The Germania of Tacitus: With a Revised Text, English Notes, and MapMacmillan and Company, 1881 - 92 pages |
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... natural and straightforward writer than most of his contemporaries . It has been usual to regard Cicero as the repre- sentative of the most perfect Latinity , and Tacitus as a man of genius belonging to a declining age and in- fected by ...
... natural and straightforward writer than most of his contemporaries . It has been usual to regard Cicero as the repre- sentative of the most perfect Latinity , and Tacitus as a man of genius belonging to a declining age and in- fected by ...
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... naturally falls from time to time into the errors incident to imperfect information ; his description of the localities of the various tribes is often obscure and } inaccurate , and he now and then seems to attribute п INTRODUCTION.
... naturally falls from time to time into the errors incident to imperfect information ; his description of the localities of the various tribes is often obscure and } inaccurate , and he now and then seems to attribute п INTRODUCTION.
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... natural meaning for the word than that which Kritz gives it , ' free from rocks and with a fruitful soil . ' 12 . Abnobae jugo . ] The reading Abnobae for Arnobae or Arbonae is conclusively established by inscriptions found in the Black ...
... natural meaning for the word than that which Kritz gives it , ' free from rocks and with a fruitful soil . ' 12 . Abnobae jugo . ] The reading Abnobae for Arnobae or Arbonae is conclusively established by inscriptions found in the Black ...
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... natural cunning ; the second , that which is acquired by experience of the world . Hence , Agr . 9 , we find the expression calliditas fori . ' Callidus ' has not necessarily a bad sense , nor indeed is the bad sense uppermost in the ...
... natural cunning ; the second , that which is acquired by experience of the world . Hence , Agr . 9 , we find the expression calliditas fori . ' Callidus ' has not necessarily a bad sense , nor indeed is the bad sense uppermost in the ...
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... natural productions , and attempt no- thing like scientific agriculture . Or it may be rendered , ' nor does their industry vie with the richness and extent of the soil . ' 8. Sola ... imperatur . ] Corn alone is required from the earth ...
... natural productions , and attempt no- thing like scientific agriculture . Or it may be rendered , ' nor does their industry vie with the richness and extent of the soil . ' 8. Sola ... imperatur . ] Corn alone is required from the earth ...
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