The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26Good Press, 20 nov 2019 - 528 pagine Livy was a historian and the world is fortunate to still have his contemporary history of Rome. The period covered in his history extends to a few years short of his death. They begin before the official founding of Rome in 753 B.C. with descriptions of legendary Rome. |
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... mountains ranging on both sides from one to the other; between these lies a plain of considerable extent, enclosed in the middle, abounding in grass and water, and through the middle of which the passage runs: but before you can arrive ...
... mountains ranging on both sides from one to the other; between these lies a plain of considerable extent, enclosed in the middle, abounding in grass and water, and through the middle of which the passage runs: but before you can arrive ...
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... mountains from their foundations? While these cliffs hang over us, by what road will you reach the enemy? Whether armed or unarmed, brave or dastardly, we are all, without distinction, captured and vanquished. The enemy will not even ...
... mountains from their foundations? While these cliffs hang over us, by what road will you reach the enemy? Whether armed or unarmed, brave or dastardly, we are all, without distinction, captured and vanquished. The enemy will not even ...
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... mountains in separate villages, used to ravage the low lands, and the places on the coast; and being mountaineers, and savage themselves, despised the husbandmen who were of a gentler kind, and, as generally happens, resembled the ...
... mountains in separate villages, used to ravage the low lands, and the places on the coast; and being mountaineers, and savage themselves, despised the husbandmen who were of a gentler kind, and, as generally happens, resembled the ...
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... mountains ; but the coming of Publilius contracted all their resources ; for , committing the siege to the care of his colleague , and keeping himself disengaged , he threw every difficulty in the way of the enemy's convoys . There ...
... mountains ; but the coming of Publilius contracted all their resources ; for , committing the siege to the care of his colleague , and keeping himself disengaged , he threw every difficulty in the way of the enemy's convoys . There ...
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... mountains of Lucania, with the vestiges of the disasters of his house, and where his uncle Alexander, king of Epirus, had been lately cut off. 18 We are now speaking of Alexander not yet intoxicated by prosperity, the seductions of ...
... mountains of Lucania, with the vestiges of the disasters of his house, and where his uncle Alexander, king of Epirus, had been lately cut off. 18 We are now speaking of Alexander not yet intoxicated by prosperity, the seductions of ...
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