| Titus Livius - 1849 - 560 pagine
...a very dense body of the enemy; and first slaying his armour-bearer, who had opposed himself to his attack as he approached, ran the consul through with...first shallows of the lake, plunge in, as far as they could stand above it with their heads and shoulders. Some there were whom inconsiderate fear induced... | |
| Livy - 1872 - 534 pagine
...very dense body of the enemy ; and first slaying his armour-bearer, who had opposed himself to his attack as he approached, ran the consul through with...first shallows of the lake, plunge in, as far as they could stand above it with their heads and shoulders. Some there were whom inconsiderate fear induced... | |
| Livy - 1882 - 738 pagine
...mountains obstructed their hurried retreat; they run through all places, confined and precipitons, as though they were blind ; and arms and men are tumbled...first shallows of the lake, plunge in, as far as they could stand above it with their heads and shoulders. Some there were whom inconsiderate fear induced... | |
| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu, Jehu Baker - 1889 - 540 pagine
...notwithstanding the relatively greater ascendency of the purely military spirit among the ancients : " and now neither the lake nor the mountains obstructed...; and arms and men are tumbled one upon another."* The battle of Cannae took place on the Aufidus, — the modern Ofanto — a small stream flowing northeast... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pagine
...a very dense body of the enemy ; and first slaying his armor bearer, who had opposed himself to his attack as he approached, ran the consul through with...first shallows of the lake, plunge in, as far as they could stand above it with their heads and shoulders. Some there were whom inconsiderate fear induced... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 560 pagine
...a very dense body of the enemy ; and first slaying his armor bearer, who had opposed himself to his attack as he approached, ran the consul through with...first shallows of the lake, plunge in, as far as they could stand above it with their heads and shoulders. Some there were whom inconsiderate fear induced... | |
| Livy - 1909 - 584 pagine
...very dense body of the enemy ; ' and first slaying his armour-bearer, who had opposed himself to his attack as he approached, ran the consul through with...through the first shallows of the lake, plunge in, aS--far as they could stand above it with their heads and shoulders. Some there were whom inconsiderate... | |
| Charles Morris - 1888 - 536 pagine
...a very dense body of the enemy; and first slaying his armor-bearer, who had opposed himself to his attack as he approached, ran the consul through with...; and arms and men are tumbled one upon another. A groat many, when there remained no more space to run, advancing into the water through the first shallows... | |
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