Livy, Volume 3A. J. Valpy, 1833 |
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Æmilius affairs afterwards allies Alps ambassadors Appius Claudius Apulia arms army arrived assembly attack auspices battle body brought Caius camp Campanians carried Carthage Carthaginians Caudium cavalry censor colleague command consul consulship Cornelius death decree defeated dictator election enemy enemy's engagement Etruria father fell fight force fought garrison gates Gauls gods greater ground Hannibal Hasdrubal honor horse horsemen hundred Iberus infantry intirely Italy Latines Latium legions lictors Lilybæum Lucanians Luceria Lucius Papirius Lucius Papirius Cursor Manlius marched master nation night nites party passed patricians peace person plebeian possession Postumius pretor prisoners proceeded province Publilius Publius Decius Quintus Fabius Quintus Publilius Philo rampart received rest returned river Roman Rome Saguntines Saguntum Samnites Samnium Scipio Sempronius senate sent ships side siege slain soldiers spoil strength taken temple territory thence tion took town treaty tribunes triumph troops Umbrians victory Volscians Volumnius walls whole
Brani popolari
Pagina 158 - ... in peace and war. The supreme command has hitherto been, and will continue to be, equally prosperous in plebeian hands,, as in patrician. Have ye never heard it said, that the first created patricians, were not men sent down from heaven, but such as could cite their fathers, that is, nothing more than Free born. I can now cite my father, a consul ; and my son will be able to cite a grandfather.
Pagina 281 - ... same spirit which you usually show against other foes, but with a degree of resentment and indignation, as if you saw your own slaves suddenly taking arms against you. We might have kept them shut up at Eryx, until they perished with hunger, the severest suffering that man can undergo; we might have carried over our victorious fleet to Africa ; and, in the space of a few days, without opposition, have demolished Carthage. At their supplications, we granted pardon : we gave them liberty to depart...
Pagina 307 - During this winter, at Rome, and in its vicinity, many prodigies either happened, or, as is not unusual when people's minds have once taken a turn towards superstition, many were reported and credulously admitted. Among others, it was said, that an infant of a reputable family, and only six months old, had, in the herb-market, called out, " lo, Triumphe ;" that, in the cattle-market, an ox had, of his own accord, mounted up to the third story of a house, whence, being affrighted by the noise and...
Pagina 232 - Hannibal, then about nine years of age, solicited him with boyish fondness to take him with him, whereon he brought him up to the altars, and compelled him to lay his hand on the consecrated victims, and swear that, as soon as it should be in his power, he would show himself an enemy to the Roman people.
Pagina 249 - 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 274 - Hannibal, wondering what obstructed the march, that the rock was impassable. Having then gone himself to view the place, it seemed clear to him that he must lead his army round it, by however great a circuit, through the pathless and untrodden regions around. But this route also proved impracticable; for while the new snow of a moderate depth remained on the old, which had not been removed, their footsteps were planted with ease as they walked upon the new snow, which...
Pagina 283 - ... renowned States and kings have been conquered by a very slight effort. For, setting aside only the splendor of the Roman name, what remains in which they can be compared to you? To pass over in silence your service for twenty years, distinguished by such valor and success, you have made your way to this place from the pillars of Hercules, from the ocean and the remotest limits of the world, advancing victorious through so many of the fiercest nations of Gaul and Spain; you will fight with a raw...
Pagina 231 - ... 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 116 - 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...
Pagina 274 - The army then began to advance, the enemy now making no attempts beyond petty thefts, as opportunity offered. But the journey proved much more difficult than it had been in the ascent, as the declivity of the Alps being generally shorter...