The History of Rome from 753 B.C. to A.D. 410Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1941 - 456 pagine |
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Pagina 31
... Rome required a breathing - space in which to re - equip her army , and she used it to excellent purpose . For one most important lesson had been taken well to heart . In mountain warfare the phalanx or massed formation ( first taught to ...
... Rome required a breathing - space in which to re - equip her army , and she used it to excellent purpose . For one most important lesson had been taken well to heart . In mountain warfare the phalanx or massed formation ( first taught to ...
Pagina 84
... Rome now undertook on her own responsibility to redefine the frontiers of the distracted Greek world . It was a thankless task ; for the mutual jealousies of these petty States and leagues were as violent as ever . For the moment , it ...
... Rome now undertook on her own responsibility to redefine the frontiers of the distracted Greek world . It was a thankless task ; for the mutual jealousies of these petty States and leagues were as violent as ever . For the moment , it ...
Pagina 91
... Rome's imperial policy and she tended henceforward to treat her foreign satellites more as her vassals than her friends . The fact is that her forbearance with the Greeks was now exhausted ; and as though to prove that she was tired of ...
... Rome's imperial policy and she tended henceforward to treat her foreign satellites more as her vassals than her friends . The fact is that her forbearance with the Greeks was now exhausted ; and as though to prove that she was tired of ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I LAND AND PEOPLE I | 1 |
THE ETRUSCANS AND ROME | 5 |
THE REPUBLIC AND ITS ORDEAL | 14 |
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