The History of Rome, Volume 2Samuel F. Bradford, J. Maxwell, printer, 1823 |
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Pagina 4
... camp at a place called Admar- cium , near Lanuvium . Their inducement to begin this war was , a belief that almost ... camp , than they had met in making their way across the fence , after it was consumed by the flames . The enemy being ...
... camp at a place called Admar- cium , near Lanuvium . Their inducement to begin this war was , a belief that almost ... camp , than they had met in making their way across the fence , after it was consumed by the flames . The enemy being ...
Pagina 5
... camp , but their city also , carried both at the first onset . III . While such fortune attended the operations , on that side where Camillus , the life of the Roman affairs , was em- ployed , a violent alarm had fallen on another ...
... camp , but their city also , carried both at the first onset . III . While such fortune attended the operations , on that side where Camillus , the life of the Roman affairs , was em- ployed , a violent alarm had fallen on another ...
Pagina 12
... camp with re- “ luctance , and after several halts ; nay , that some had been " heard to say , that each of them would have to fight against " an hundred enemies ; that so great a multitude , even if unarmed , could hardly be withstood ...
... camp with re- “ luctance , and after several halts ; nay , that some had been " heard to say , that each of them would have to fight against " an hundred enemies ; that so great a multitude , even if unarmed , could hardly be withstood ...
Pagina 21
... camp of the Volscians was also taken the same day , and plundered , and the whole booty , except the persons of free condition , bestowed on the soldiers . The greatest number of the prisoners were Latines and Hernicians , and these not ...
... camp of the Volscians was also taken the same day , and plundered , and the whole booty , except the persons of free condition , bestowed on the soldiers . The greatest number of the prisoners were Latines and Hernicians , and these not ...
Pagina 33
... camp crown , corona vallaris , or castrensis , was of gold , and given to the man who first mounted the rampart of an enemy's camp . The obsidional crown , corona obsidionalis , was composed of grass , and presented by the troops ...
... camp crown , corona vallaris , or castrensis , was of gold , and given to the man who first mounted the rampart of an enemy's camp . The obsidional crown , corona obsidionalis , was composed of grass , and presented by the troops ...
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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...