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... glory for himself by a " contrast of extreme wickedness . " For , in fact , Augustus , a few years before , when he was a second time asking from the Senate the tribunitian power for Tiberius , though his speech was compli- mentary ...
... glory for himself by a " contrast of extreme wickedness . " For , in fact , Augustus , a few years before , when he was a second time asking from the Senate the tribunitian power for Tiberius , though his speech was compli- mentary ...
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... glory of ancient dis- cipline , whither they had driven their tribunes and centurions , they all bared their bodies and taunted him with the scars of their wounds and the marks of the lash . And then with confused exclamations they ...
... glory of ancient dis- cipline , whither they had driven their tribunes and centurions , they all bared their bodies and taunted him with the scars of their wounds and the marks of the lash . And then with confused exclamations they ...
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... glory as a mother of children , her noble purity . And there was her little child too , born in the camp , brought up amid the tents of the legions , whom they used to call in soldiers ' fashion , Caligula , because he often wore the ...
... glory as a mother of children , her noble purity . And there was her little child too , born in the camp , brought up amid the tents of the legions , whom they used to call in soldiers ' fashion , Caligula , because he often wore the ...
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... glory and honour of having rescued the name " of Rome and quelled the tribes of Germany . It is thy spirit , " Divine Augustus , now received into heaven , thine image , father " Drusus , and the remembrance of thee , which , with these ...
... glory and honour of having rescued the name " of Rome and quelled the tribes of Germany . It is thy spirit , " Divine Augustus , now received into heaven , thine image , father " Drusus , and the remembrance of thee , which , with these ...
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... glory . " This fired their courage , and at a single dash they broke through the enemy , and drove him back with great slaughter into the open country . At the same moment the troops of the van emerged from the woods and entrenched a ...
... glory . " This fired their courage , and at a single dash they broke through the enemy , and drove him back with great slaughter into the open country . At the same moment the troops of the van emerged from the woods and entrenched a ...
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