The History of Rome, Volume 2Samuel F. Bradford, J. Maxwell, printer, 1823 |
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Pagina 117
... Italy . To what nation or what state that fleet belonged , there is no certain account . I am most inclined to believe , that it was sent by the tyrants of Sicily ; for the farther Greece , at that time , besides being weakened by ...
... Italy . To what nation or what state that fleet belonged , there is no certain account . I am most inclined to believe , that it was sent by the tyrants of Sicily ; for the farther Greece , at that time , besides being weakened by ...
Pagina 124
... Italy ; and their land , the most fertile , and situated near the sea , would serve the Roman people as a granary , from whence they might be supplied with all the various kinds of provisions , yet they paid greater regard to the faith ...
... Italy ; and their land , the most fertile , and situated near the sea , would serve the Roman people as a granary , from whence they might be supplied with all the various kinds of provisions , yet they paid greater regard to the faith ...
Pagina 138
... Italy : the Carthaginians also sent ambassadors to Rome with congratu- lations , and with a present of a golden crown , weighing twenty - five pounds , to be placed in Jupiter's shrine in the Capitol . Both the consuls triumphed over ...
... Italy : the Carthaginians also sent ambassadors to Rome with congratu- lations , and with a present of a golden crown , weighing twenty - five pounds , to be placed in Jupiter's shrine in the Capitol . Both the consuls triumphed over ...
Pagina 139
... Italy , and a city proportioned to the goodness of those lands , rather than the victorious army , who , at the ex- pence of their sweat and blood , had driven the Samnites out of it ? was it reasonable that these should have the full ...
... Italy , and a city proportioned to the goodness of those lands , rather than the victorious army , who , at the ex- pence of their sweat and blood , had driven the Samnites out of it ? was it reasonable that these should have the full ...
Pagina 152
... Italy , in which expedition , had his first attempts been crown- ed with success , he would , without doubt , have carried his arms against the Romans . This period was also distinguished by the exploits of Alexander the Great , son to ...
... Italy , in which expedition , had his first attempts been crown- ed with success , he would , without doubt , have carried his arms against the Romans . This period was also distinguished by the exploits of Alexander the Great , son to ...
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Pagina 448 - Saguntum is on our side of the Iberus ; you must not stir a foot. Is it not enough that you take Sicily and Sardinia, provinces which have been mine from the earliest times ? Will you take Spain also ? when I shall have retired thence, you will pass over into Africa. Will pass, did I say! of the two consuls of the present year they have sent one to Africa, the other to Spain. There is nothing left to us any where, unless we make good our claim by arms. They may be timid and dastardly, who can look...
Pagina 444 - We yielded to their prayers for pardon ; we released them from the blockade ; we made peace with them when conquered ; and we afterwards held them under our protection, when they were borne down by the African war. In return for these benefits...
Pagina 269 - Another transaction of this year I should pass over as trifling, did it not seem to bear some relation to religion. The flute-players, taking offence because they had been prohibited by the last censors from holding their repasts in the temple of Jupiter, which had been customary from very early times, went off in a body to Tibur; so that there was not one left in the city to play at the sacrifices. The religious tendency of this affair gave uneasiness to the senate ; and they sent envoys to Tibur...
Pagina 247 - ... the soldiers, the abilities of the commanders, and fortune, which exerts a powerful sway over all human concerns, and especially over those of war. Now these particulars, considered both separately and collectively, must clearly convince an observer that not only other kings and nations, but that even Alexander himself, would have found the Roman empire invincible. And first, to begin with comparing the commanders, I do not, indeed, deny that Alexander was a captain of consummate merit; but still...
Pagina 392 - E not unknown to the other ; for they had already gained experience of them in the first Punic war ; and so various was the fortune of this war, so great its vicissitudes, that the party, which proved in the end victorious, was, at times, brought the nearest to the brink of ruin. Besides, they exerted, in the dispute, almost a greater degree of...
Pagina 219 - ... men's property ; whose inhuman rage is not satiated by the death of the guilty, by the surrender of their lifeless bodies, and by their goods accompanying the surrender of the owner ; who cannot be appeased otherwise than by giving them our blood to drink, and our entrails to be torn.
Pagina 410 - Ticinus, and both some time after at the Trebia. Either all these events took place in a somewhat shorter period, or Saguntum was not begun to be besieged, but taken at the beginning of the year in which Publius Cornelius and Tiberius Sempronius were consuls. For the battle at Trebia could not have...
Pagina 252 - Claudium, whom Cannae, did not crush, what line of battle could crush ? In truth, even should events have been favourable to him at first, he would have often wished for the Persians, the Indians, and the effeminate tribes of Asia, as opponents ; and would have acknowledged, that his wars had been waged with women, as we are told was said by Alexander, king of Epirus, after receiving his mortal wound, when comparing the wars waged in Asia by this very youth, with those in which himself had been engaged....
Pagina 250 - Alexander's name, who, however, in my opinion, was not known to them even by common fame ; and while, in Athens, a state reduced to weakness by the Macedonian arms, which at the very time saw the ruins of Thebes smoking in its neighbourhood, men had spirit enough to declaim with freedom against him, as is manifest from the copies of their speeches, which have been preserved...
Pagina 432 - And now, notwithstanding that the men had already conceived ' notions of the scene from report, which, in cases capable of misrepresentation, generally goes beyond the truth, yet the present view exhibited such objects as renewed all their terrors ; the height of the mountains, the snows almost touching the sky, the wretched huts standing on the cliffs, the cattle and beasts shivering with the cold, the people squalid and in uncouth dress, all things, in short, animate and inanimate, stiffened with...