The History of Rome from 753 B.C. to A.D. 410Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1941 - 456 pagine |
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Pagina 384
... barbarian hordes of Central Europe were renewing their attack . While within the Empire the birth - rate was de- clining , these virile tribes bred rapidly , and behind them the inexorable pressure of yet more adventurous warriors ...
... barbarian hordes of Central Europe were renewing their attack . While within the Empire the birth - rate was de- clining , these virile tribes bred rapidly , and behind them the inexorable pressure of yet more adventurous warriors ...
Pagina 386
... barbarian hordes had been to some extent lightened by the adoption of a policy , not indeed originated by Aurelius , but by him carried much farther than by any of his predecessors . Since the reign of Augustus barbarian border - tribes ...
... barbarian hordes had been to some extent lightened by the adoption of a policy , not indeed originated by Aurelius , but by him carried much farther than by any of his predecessors . Since the reign of Augustus barbarian border - tribes ...
Pagina 387
... barbarians to keep barbarians out , a precedent , as it proved , which later Emperors followed and which merely served in the long run to facilitate the task of the invaders.1 For all this it would be unfair to blame Marcus overmuch ...
... barbarians to keep barbarians out , a precedent , as it proved , which later Emperors followed and which merely served in the long run to facilitate the task of the invaders.1 For all this it would be unfair to blame Marcus overmuch ...
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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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