 Though history, however, rejects the incident as demonstrably false, it is well suited to the legend: and every legend which was current among the people long before the rise of literature among them, is itself a living memorial of ancient times, —...  Niebuhr's History of Rome - Pagina 288di Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Sir Travers Twiss - 1845 - 270 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr - 1844 - 626 pagine
...impassable mountains, and among still more savage barbarians. Though history, however, rejects the incident as demonstrably false, it is well suited...deserves a place in a history of Rome written with a due love of the subject THE WAR WITH THE GAULS, AND THE TAKING ROME. THAT legend related that Aruns, a... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 702 pagine
...Aruns of Clusium brought in the Gauls." NIEBUHR ON THE CONDUCT OF THE ROMANS Though history rejects the incident as demonstrably false, it is well suited...deserves a place in a history of Rome written with a due love for the subject. The determination to sacrifice the old men certainly cannot be called inconceivable... | |
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