A History of Rome Down to the Reign of ConstantineMacmillan, 1962 - 820 pagine |
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Pagina 147
... fleet of quinqueremes slightly outnumbering that of Carthage.12 The war - fleet . challenge which they threw out to the more practised Punic navy was not quite so foolhardy as might appear at first sight . In ancient naval warfare the ...
... fleet of quinqueremes slightly outnumbering that of Carthage.12 The war - fleet . challenge which they threw out to the more practised Punic navy was not quite so foolhardy as might appear at first sight . In ancient naval warfare the ...
Pagina 351
... fleet of 100 ships , which the consul M. Aurelius Cotta brought to the relief of the city , and destroyed it completely . Thus the whole brunt of the war fell upon Cotta's colleague L. Licinius Lucullus , whom the Senate had appointed ...
... fleet of 100 ships , which the consul M. Aurelius Cotta brought to the relief of the city , and destroyed it completely . Thus the whole brunt of the war fell upon Cotta's colleague L. Licinius Lucullus , whom the Senate had appointed ...
Pagina 445
... fleet reduced to barely two hundred galleys , in the hope of giving his ad- versaries the slip . His plan of escape was not ill founded , for ( contrary to the ordinary practice in ancient naval battles ) he had taken his ships ' canvas ...
... fleet reduced to barely two hundred galleys , in the hope of giving his ad- versaries the slip . His plan of escape was not ill founded , for ( contrary to the ordinary practice in ancient naval battles ) he had taken his ships ' canvas ...
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