Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... Campania , but , owing to the action of the sea and of volcanoes , the country is varied with hill and valley , harbor and island . Although Italy lacks the island - studded sea which gave the Greeks their seafaring character , and is ...
... Campania , but , owing to the action of the sea and of volcanoes , the country is varied with hill and valley , harbor and island . Although Italy lacks the island - studded sea which gave the Greeks their seafaring character , and is ...
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... Campania , but , owing to the action of the sea and of volcanoes , the country is varied with hill and valley , harbor and island . Although Italy lacks the island - studded sea which gave the Greeks their seafaring character , and is ...
... Campania , but , owing to the action of the sea and of volcanoes , the country is varied with hill and valley , harbor and island . Although Italy lacks the island - studded sea which gave the Greeks their seafaring character , and is ...
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... Campania had leagues of their own , though these were so lax that they allowed , or rather pre- ferred , that separate communities should carry on ordinary wars ; nor did all the towns join , when , in exceptional cases , a war was re ...
... Campania had leagues of their own , though these were so lax that they allowed , or rather pre- ferred , that separate communities should carry on ordinary wars ; nor did all the towns join , when , in exceptional cases , a war was re ...
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... Campania and of the Volscian land , and the island of Corsica , were in their hands . The possession of Latium , which interposed a firm barrier between Etruria proper and the Tuscan settlements in Campania , was naturally of the utmost ...
... Campania and of the Volscian land , and the island of Corsica , were in their hands . The possession of Latium , which interposed a firm barrier between Etruria proper and the Tuscan settlements in Campania , was naturally of the utmost ...
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... Campania ; Capua fell in 424 B.C. , and the Etruscan population was extirpated or expelled . But in north- ern Italy a new nation was knocking at the gates of the Alps . It was the Celts ; and the brunt of their inroad fell first upon ...
... Campania ; Capua fell in 424 B.C. , and the Etruscan population was extirpated or expelled . But in north- ern Italy a new nation was knocking at the gates of the Alps . It was the Celts ; and the brunt of their inroad fell first upon ...
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