The History of RomeRoutledge, 1854 - 497 pagine |
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Pagina 587
... Cannæ , 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 ...
... Cannæ , 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 ...
Pagina 765
... Cannæ , and forty thousand men slain , among whom were Paulus the consul , eighty senators , and thirty who had served the office of consul , prætor , or edile . A design projected by some noble youths of quitting Italy in despair after ...
... Cannæ , and forty thousand men slain , among whom were Paulus the consul , eighty senators , and thirty who had served the office of consul , prætor , or edile . A design projected by some noble youths of quitting Italy in despair after ...
Pagina 813
... Cannæ celebrated by a Roman disaster . Hannibal nad pitched his camp near that village , with his back to the wind Vulturnus , which , in those plains which are parched with drought , carries with it clouds of dust . This circumstance ...
... Cannæ celebrated by a Roman disaster . Hannibal nad pitched his camp near that village , with his back to the wind Vulturnus , which , in those plains which are parched with drought , carries with it clouds of dust . This circumstance ...
Pagina 814
... Cannæ , where they had the enemy in the sight of them , having divided their forces , they fortify two camps with nearly the same interval as before , at Geronium . The river Aufidus , which flowed by both the camps , afforded approach ...
... Cannæ , where they had the enemy in the sight of them , having divided their forces , they fortify two camps with nearly the same interval as before , at Geronium . The river Aufidus , which flowed by both the camps , afforded approach ...
Pagina 818
... fly precipitately . Seven thousand escaped to the lesser camp , ten to the greater , about two thousand to the village itself of Cannæ , who were immediately surrounded by Carthalo and the 818 THE HISTORY OF ROME . [ B. XXII . CHAP . 49 .
... fly precipitately . Seven thousand escaped to the lesser camp , ten to the greater , about two thousand to the village itself of Cannæ , who were immediately surrounded by Carthalo and the 818 THE HISTORY OF ROME . [ B. XXII . CHAP . 49 .
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