The History of Rome, Volume 3P. A. Mesier, 1823 |
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Achradina ædiles affairs afterwards allies ambassadors Appius Apulia arms army arrived assembly attack battle body brought Bruttians Bruttium Caius camp Campanians Cannæ Canusium Capua Carthage Carthaginians Casilinum cavalry citadel Claudius command conduct consul Cornelius countrymen decree deserters dictator election enemy enemy's engagement Epicydes Etolians favour fear fell fight Flaccus fleet forces garrison gates Gauls gave Gracchus ground guard Hannibal Hannibal's Hasdrubal Hiero Himilco Hippocrates honour hope horse horsemen hundred infantry Italy kind king land legions lest Lucania Luceria Lucius Mago manner Marcellus Marcus Valerius night Nola Numidians party passed person plebeian possession prætor prisoners province Quintus Fabius Quintus Fulvius Quintus Fulvius Flaccus rampart received rest returned revolt river Roman Rome Samnium Scipio Sempronius senate sent ships Sicily side siege slain soldiers soon Spain Spaniards Syracuse taken Tarentines Tarentum temple thence thousand tion town tribunes troops Venusia victory walls wished
Brani popolari
Pagina 125 - Papus, who had been consul and censor, Marcus Atilius Regulus, who had been twice consul, and Lucius Scribonius Libo, who was then plebeian tribune. Two Atilii, Marcus and Caius, being appointed commissioners for the purpose, dedicated the temple of Concord, which Lucius Manlius had vowed in his praetorship. Three pontiffs were also elected, Quintus
Pagina 100 - and other writers having, not without reason, omitted the mention of it, I cannot take upon me to affirm the truth of the account. VII. The ambassadors came to Hannibal, and concluded with him an alliance, on conditions, that " no general, or magistrate of the Carthaginians, should have any authority over a
Pagina 366 - Judging that Philip was now sufficiently embroiled in war with his neighbours to prevent his thinking of Italy, the Carthaginians, and his compact with Hannibal, he retired to Corcyra, XXV. Philip received the account of the defection of the ^Etolians at Pella, where he had fixed
Pagina 66 - inclosed by these, the confederate infantry stretched to the centre, so as to unite with the Roman legions. The archers, and other light-armed auxiliaries formed the van. The consuls commanded the wings, Terentius the left, ^Emilius the right; the charge of
Pagina 426 - Tubulus, Caius Arunculeius. As soon as the appointment of magistrates for the year was finished, Quintus Fulvius resigned the dictatorship. Towards the end of this summer, a Carthaginian fleet of forty ships, under the command of Hamilcar, sailed over to Sardinia, and committed great depredations in the district of Olbia. Afterwards, on the
Pagina 61 - circumstances of the enemy were as well known to him as his own; that the commanders were of dissimilar characters, and disunited in opinion; and that almost two-thirds of their army were raw recruits. Thinking, therefore, that he had now found both time and place convenient for a stratagem,
Pagina 272 - and, accordingly, Fulvius, to whose lot that province had fallen, setting out by night, marched into the town of Beneventum. Here, the distance being short, he quickly learned, that Hanno had gone out with a division of his army to forage; that the business of delivering the corn to the Capuans was managed by a
Pagina 74 - stretched under a dead Roman; and who, when his hands had / been rendered unable to hold a weapon, being exasperated to madness, had expired in the act of tearing his antagonist with his teeth. LII. After
Pagina 262 - who were kept in the court of the Temple of Liberty, and guarded with the less care, because it was not the interest either of themselves or of their state to impose upon the Romans. Having, .after frequent conversations, procured their concurrence in his scheme, and bribed two of their keepers, he brought
Pagina 73 - On the day following, as soon as light appeared, his troops applied themselves to the collecting of the spoils, and in viewing the carnage made, which was such as shocked even enemies; so many thousand Romans, horsemen and footmen,