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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... persons would be subject to the whim of the enemy: figured to themselves the hostile yoke, the scoffs of the conquerors, their haughty looks, and finally, thus disarmed, their march through the midst of an armed foe. In a word, they saw ...
... persons would be subject to the whim of the enemy: figured to themselves the hostile yoke, the scoffs of the conquerors, their haughty looks, and finally, thus disarmed, their march through the midst of an armed foe. In a word, they saw ...
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... person answerable as well for an unsuccessful war as for a disgraceful peace. However, since the question propounded by ... persons. Let us then be delivered up to them by the heralds, naked, and in chains. Let us free the people of the ...
... person answerable as well for an unsuccessful war as for a disgraceful peace. However, since the question propounded by ... persons. Let us then be delivered up to them by the heralds, naked, and in chains. Let us free the people of the ...
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... persons, which ye may do, without offence to religion; those sacred and inviolable personages, the tribunes, ye will afterwards deliver up as soon as they go out of office: but, if ye listen to me, they will be first scourged with rods ...
... persons, which ye may do, without offence to religion; those sacred and inviolable personages, the tribunes, ye will afterwards deliver up as soon as they go out of office: but, if ye listen to me, they will be first scourged with rods ...
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... person beside the surety. For what part had ye, conscript fathers; what part had the people, in this affair? Who can ... persons, as atonements for the breaking our engagements, and, by our sufferings liberate the Roman armies." 10 Both ...
... person beside the surety. For what part had ye, conscript fathers; what part had the people, in this affair? Who can ... persons, as atonements for the breaking our engagements, and, by our sufferings liberate the Roman armies." 10 Both ...
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... persons unfit for war. The soldiers he would send under the yoke with single garments, retaliating the disgrace formerly inflicted, not inflicting a new one." The terms were not rejected. Seven thousand soldiers were sent under the yoke ...
... persons unfit for war. The soldiers he would send under the yoke with single garments, retaliating the disgrace formerly inflicted, not inflicting a new one." The terms were not rejected. Seven thousand soldiers were sent under the yoke ...
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