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Pagina 148
Some fifty years previously a despot of Syracuse named Agathocles had
defended himself against the Carthaginians by invading Africa, and had all but
succeeded in reducing Carthage itself (310-306). With this object-lesson before
them, the ...
Some fifty years previously a despot of Syracuse named Agathocles had
defended himself against the Carthaginians by invading Africa, and had all but
succeeded in reducing Carthage itself (310-306). With this object-lesson before
them, the ...
Pagina 192
The siege operations made no appreciable progress until 147, when the Senate
and Comitia expressed their impatience by conferring a consulship and the high
command in Africa to a junior officer who had returned to Rome to stand for an ...
The siege operations made no appreciable progress until 147, when the Senate
and Comitia expressed their impatience by conferring a consulship and the high
command in Africa to a junior officer who had returned to Rome to stand for an ...
Pagina 564
In North Africa wheat-growing along the river valleys of Tunisia and in the
Algerian coast-lands was intensified, so that these districts became one of the
chief sources of supply for Rome. The principal products of the western
Mediterranean ...
In North Africa wheat-growing along the river valleys of Tunisia and in the
Algerian coast-lands was intensified, so that these districts became one of the
chief sources of supply for Rome. The principal products of the western
Mediterranean ...
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