The History of Rome, Volume 1Harper & Bros., 1879 - 1654 pagine |
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Pagina 34 - Numa, who added the two months of January and February, divided the year into twelve months, according to the course of the moon. This was the lunar Greek year, and consisted of 354 days. Numa, however, adopted 355 days for his year, from his partiality to odd numbers. The lunar year of 354 days fell short of the solar year by 11-1/4 days; this in 8 years amounted to (11-1/4 x 8) 90 days.
Pagina 547 - Quirites ; and that ye may affect the enemies of the Roman people, the Quirites, with terror, dismay, and death. In such manner as I have expressed in words, so do I devote the legions and auxiliaries of the enemy, together with myself, to the dii Manes and to Earth for the republic of the Quirites, for the army, legions, auxiliaries of the Roman people, the Quirites.
Pagina 80 - ... at Gabii. To this courier no answer by word of mouth was given, because, I suppose, he appeared of questionable fidelity. The king...
Pagina 637 - Tibur to endeavour that these men might be sent back to Rome. The Tiburtines readily promised compliance, and first, calling them into the senate-house, warmly recommended to them to return to Rome; and then, when they could not be prevailed on, practised on them an artifice not ill adapted to the dispositions of that description of people: on a festival day, they invited them separately to their several houses, apparently with the intention of heightening the pleasure of their feasts with music,...
Pagina 139 - Before I receive your embrace, let me know whether I have come to an enemy or to a son ; whether I am in your camp a captive or a mother ? Has length of life and a hapless old age reserved me for this — to behold you an exile, then an enemy...
Pagina 86 - They all pledge their honor ; they attempt to console her, distracted as she was in mind, by turning away the guilt from her, constrained by force, on the perpetrator of the crime ; that it is the mind sins, not the body ; and that where intention was wanting guilt could not be. " It is for you to see," says she,
Pagina 8 - ... my reputation should remain in obscurity, I may console myself with the celebrity and lustre of those who shall stand in the way of my fame. Moreover, the subject is both of immense labour, as being one which must be traced back for more than seven hundred years, and which, having set out from small beginnings, has increased to such a degree that it is now distressed by its own magnitude. And, to most readers, I doubt not but that the first origin and the events immediately succeeding, will afford...
Pagina 15 - They principally alleged it as a charge against them, that they had made incursions upon Numitor's lands, and plundered them in a hostile manner, having assembled a band of young men for the purpose. Upon this Remus was delivered to Numitor to be punished. Now, from the very first, Faustulus had entertained hopes that the boys whom he was bringing up were of the blood royal; for he both knew that the children had been exposed by the king's orders, and that the time at which he had taken them up agreed...
Pagina 102 - ... appealing to the faith of gods and men, he declared, "That their flight would avail them nothing if they deserted their post ; if they passed the bridge and left it behind them, there would soon be more of the enemy in the Palatium and Capitol than in the Janiculum ; for that reason he advised and charged them to demolish the bridge, by their sword, by fire, or by any means whatever ; that he would stand the shock of the enemy as far as could be done by one man.
Pagina 405 - ... of Carmentis : on a moonlight night, therefore, having first sent forward a person unarmed to make trial of the way, handing their arms to those before them ; when any difficulty occurred, supporting and supported in turns, and drawing each other up according as the ground required, they climbed to the summit in such silence, that they not only escaped the notice of the guards, but did not even alarm the dogs, animals particularly watchful with regard to any noise at night. They were not unperceived...