The History of Rome from 753 B.C. to A.D. 410Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1941 - 456 pagine |
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Pagina 218
... seems certain is that Caesar's eyes were closely fixed on the East . The problem of the frontiers was evidently much in his mind ; and we know that at the beginning of 44 he was mobilizing an unprecedented force of sixteen legions for a ...
... seems certain is that Caesar's eyes were closely fixed on the East . The problem of the frontiers was evidently much in his mind ; and we know that at the beginning of 44 he was mobilizing an unprecedented force of sixteen legions for a ...
Pagina 327
... seems to have been the inauguration of public competitions to which poets , singers , and orators were invited in imitation of the famous festivals of Greece . In building , too , he seems to have been indulging a personal taste for ...
... seems to have been the inauguration of public competitions to which poets , singers , and orators were invited in imitation of the famous festivals of Greece . In building , too , he seems to have been indulging a personal taste for ...
Pagina 388
... seems to have been a worthless sort of fellow . Emperor at nineteen , he thought more of his favourite pleasures , horse - racing and the arena , than of the serious task ahead of him . He relied on a short - sighted policy of pampering ...
... seems to have been a worthless sort of fellow . Emperor at nineteen , he thought more of his favourite pleasures , horse - racing and the arena , than of the serious task ahead of him . He relied on a short - sighted policy of pampering ...
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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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