Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... Asia Minor . Their position as inhabitants of northern Italy from sea to sea , and thus commanding the mouths of the Po on the Adriatic and the great free ports on the western sea , as holding the land route from Pisae on the western ...
... Asia Minor . Their position as inhabitants of northern Italy from sea to sea , and thus commanding the mouths of the Po on the Adriatic and the great free ports on the western sea , as holding the land route from Pisae on the western ...
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... Asia Minor , but from Greece itself and the larger islands of the Aegean . These , in their new homes in southern Italy or Magna Graecia , as it was called , and in Sicily , recognizing their community of character and interests ...
... Asia Minor , but from Greece itself and the larger islands of the Aegean . These , in their new homes in southern Italy or Magna Graecia , as it was called , and in Sicily , recognizing their community of character and interests ...
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... Asia Minor the Celtic hordes had settled on the north coast and the eastern interior , and on the west the Greek cities were constantly trying to assert and make good their inde- pendence . Indeed , in Asia Minor the king's authority ...
... Asia Minor the Celtic hordes had settled on the north coast and the eastern interior , and on the west the Greek cities were constantly trying to assert and make good their inde- pendence . Indeed , in Asia Minor the king's authority ...
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... Asia Minor and elsewhere , such as Sinope , Lampsacus , Halicarnassus , Chios , and Smyrna . This league upheld with success the cause of freedom against the attacks of neighboring tyrants , and securely fostered the arts of peace and ...
... Asia Minor and elsewhere , such as Sinope , Lampsacus , Halicarnassus , Chios , and Smyrna . This league upheld with success the cause of freedom against the attacks of neighboring tyrants , and securely fostered the arts of peace and ...
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... Asia . to break up the Egyptian state , now ruled over by Ptolemy Epiphanes , a child five years old , and to divide the spoil . In 201 B.C. Philip had begun his task of plunder , and crossing to Asia had proceeded to make war upon the ...
... Asia . to break up the Egyptian state , now ruled over by Ptolemy Epiphanes , a child five years old , and to divide the spoil . In 201 B.C. Philip had begun his task of plunder , and crossing to Asia had proceeded to make war upon the ...
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