Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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Page 7
... Capua , Voltur- nus , Opsci ( laborers ) , show that an Italian and probably Latin stock , the Ausones , were in possession of Campania before the Samnite and Greek immigrations ; but all traces of the Itali , who were the primitive ...
... Capua , Voltur- nus , Opsci ( laborers ) , show that an Italian and probably Latin stock , the Ausones , were in possession of Campania before the Samnite and Greek immigrations ; but all traces of the Itali , who were the primitive ...
Page 24
... Capua and Nola , gave them exceptional advantages , and the luxury thus speedily in- troduced was doubtless no small factor in their rapid decline . The part they played , as allies of the Phoenicians , and especially of the ...
... Capua and Nola , gave them exceptional advantages , and the luxury thus speedily in- troduced was doubtless no small factor in their rapid decline . The part they played , as allies of the Phoenicians , and especially of the ...
Page 57
... 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 the ...
... 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 the ...
Page 65
... Capua was captured by them in 424 B.C .; four years later they dealt a fatal blow to the Campanian Greeks by taking Cumae . It is about this time that another Sam- nite stock , called Lucanians , made its appearance in southern Italy ...
... Capua was captured by them in 424 B.C .; four years later they dealt a fatal blow to the Campanian Greeks by taking Cumae . It is about this time that another Sam- nite stock , called Lucanians , made its appearance in southern Italy ...
Page 66
... Capua , Nola , Nuceria , and Teanum adopted Greek manners , and a Greek form of constitution . Capua became notorious for its wealth and luxury , for its gladiatorial combats , and its warlike , if dissolute , youth whose plundering ...
... Capua , Nola , Nuceria , and Teanum adopted Greek manners , and a Greek form of constitution . Capua became notorious for its wealth and luxury , for its gladiatorial combats , and its warlike , if dissolute , youth whose plundering ...
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