Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... Egypt , Carthage in Africa , Athens in Greece , Rome in Italy . When their work was finished , new peoples arose , a new cycle of civilization was begun , a new center was found in the Atlantic Ocean in place of the Mediterranean . The ...
... Egypt , Carthage in Africa , Athens in Greece , Rome in Italy . When their work was finished , new peoples arose , a new cycle of civilization was begun , a new center was found in the Atlantic Ocean in place of the Mediterranean . The ...
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... Egypt : personal favor- ites , not native Greeks , exercised absolute authority as magistrates and judges in the various cities ; his own troops acted as garri- sons , and his own acts were arbitrary and despotic to the last degree ...
... Egypt : personal favor- ites , not native Greeks , exercised absolute authority as magistrates and judges in the various cities ; his own troops acted as garri- sons , and his own acts were arbitrary and despotic to the last degree ...
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... Egypt was at that time at variance with Carthage touching Cyrene , and with Macedonia touching her predominating influence in Greece ; the complications that were Hist . Nat . III 7 280-268 B.C. eventually to arise between Rome and ...
... Egypt was at that time at variance with Carthage touching Cyrene , and with Macedonia touching her predominating influence in Greece ; the complications that were Hist . Nat . III 7 280-268 B.C. eventually to arise between Rome and ...
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... Egypt . The new strug- gles which were preparing on all sides could not but influence each other ; and Rome , as mistress of Italy , could not fail to be drawn into the wide arena , which the victories and projects of Alexander the ...
... Egypt . The new strug- gles which were preparing on all sides could not but influence each other ; and Rome , as mistress of Italy , could not fail to be drawn into the wide arena , which the victories and projects of Alexander the ...
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... Egypt , Greece , Italy , and the east of Sicily , almost without resistance ; and in the great naval battles at Alalia in 537 B.C. , and at Cumae in 474 B.C. , for the supremacy of the western Mediterranean , the brunt of the struggle ...
... Egypt , Greece , Italy , and the east of Sicily , almost without resistance ; and in the great naval battles at Alalia in 537 B.C. , and at Cumae in 474 B.C. , for the supremacy of the western Mediterranean , the brunt of the struggle ...
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