The Rubicon; Or, Historical Allusions Familiarized,: In Sketches of Early Roman HistoryJ. Souter, School Library, 73, St. Paul's Churchyard., 1830 - 171 من الصفحات |
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... defeated them , killed their king , and presented his spoils , that is , his arms , & c . , to Jupiter , in a temple he had built , and dedicated to that god , on the Saturnine hill , which he took into the city . This is said to be the ...
... defeated them , killed their king , and presented his spoils , that is , his arms , & c . , to Jupiter , in a temple he had built , and dedicated to that god , on the Saturnine hill , which he took into the city . This is said to be the ...
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... defeated them , killed their king , and presented his spoils , that is , his arms , & c . , to Jupiter , in a temple he had built , and dedicated to that god , on the Saturnine hill , which he took into the city . This is said to be the ...
... defeated them , killed their king , and presented his spoils , that is , his arms , & c . , to Jupiter , in a temple he had built , and dedicated to that god , on the Saturnine hill , which he took into the city . This is said to be the ...
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... defeated the Volscians , to ingratiate himself with the poorer classes of the people , by proposing to divide amongst them those lands , formerly taken from the enemy , and which had long been in the possession of the rich . This was ...
... defeated the Volscians , to ingratiate himself with the poorer classes of the people , by proposing to divide amongst them those lands , formerly taken from the enemy , and which had long been in the possession of the rich . This was ...
الصفحة 71
... the senate , who enabled them to raise and command an army , but such was the general detestation excited by their present rulers , that the soldiers suf- ferred themselves to be defeated , and the news of THE RUBICON . 71.
... the senate , who enabled them to raise and command an army , but such was the general detestation excited by their present rulers , that the soldiers suf- ferred themselves to be defeated , and the news of THE RUBICON . 71.
الصفحة 72
In Sketches of Early Roman History. ferred themselves to be defeated , and the news of the defeat was received with joy at Rome . Instances of oppression occurred daily , but two in particular roused the indignation of the peo- ple , and ...
In Sketches of Early Roman History. ferred themselves to be defeated , and the news of the defeat was received with joy at Rome . Instances of oppression occurred daily , but two in particular roused the indignation of the peo- ple , and ...
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الصفحة 114 - ... the efficient ally of the Romans in the last campaign of the war, all the territory which she had wrested from him. Carthage also gave up her fleet and her elephants to the Romans, and agreed to pay to Rome a yearly tribute of two hundred talents, and bound herself to enter upon no war in the future without the consent of the Romans. Thus ended the Second Punic War, after a continuance of seventeen years (BC 218201), in the humiliation of Carthage, which now virtually lost her national independence...
الصفحة 12 - How happy is the blameless vestal's lot ? The world forgetting, by the world forgot...
الصفحة 41 - Thus resolved, they all for some time showed their spirit, and kept their word ; but soon they found, that instead of mortifying the belly by these means, they only undid themselves ; they languished for a while, and perceived, when too late, that it was owing to the belly that they had strength to work, or courage to mutiny.
الصفحة 90 - Fabricius, it would be as easy to turn the sun from his course as thee from the path of honor ! " In gratitude for the noble conduct of Fabricius and the Roman Senate, Pyrrhus immediately sent Cineas to Rome with his thanks, and at once released all the Romans whom he had taken prisoners, and sent them home rich with presents. The Romans, nevertheless, still firmly...
الصفحة 82 - The last good kins; whom willing Rome obey'd Was the poor offspring of a captive maid ; Yet he those robes of empire justly bore, Which Romulus, our sacred founder, wore: Nicely he gain'd, and well possest the throne, Not for his father's merit, but his own, And reign'd, himself a family alone. When...
الصفحة 47 - ... dream, he flew to take up his mother, who had fallen at his feet, crying out, " Oh ! my mother, thou hast saved Rome, but lost thy son." He accordingly gave orders to draw off the army, pretending to the officers, that the city was too strong to be taken. Tullus, who had long envied Coriolanus, was not remiss in aggravating the lenity of his conduct to his countrymen.