Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... Etruria , Latium , and 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 ...
... Etruria , Latium , and 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 ...
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... Etruria , Latium , and 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 ...
... Etruria , Latium , and 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 ...
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... Etruria , into which it imperceptibly merges . This plain is dotted with isolated . hills , and the Alban range , free on every side , stands between the Volscian chain and the Tiber . Here were settled the old Latins ( Prisci Latini ) ...
... Etruria , into which it imperceptibly merges . This plain is dotted with isolated . hills , and the Alban range , free on every side , stands between the Volscian chain and the Tiber . Here were settled the old Latins ( Prisci Latini ) ...
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... ETRURIA Laurentia Antiume ofrecepto Volc CAMPA ANCIENT LATIUM stant blazing fire , and thus a dense population existed where now no one can support a healthy life . The conditions of early society among the settlers in Latium must be a ...
... ETRURIA Laurentia Antiume ofrecepto Volc CAMPA ANCIENT LATIUM stant blazing fire , and thus a dense population existed where now no one can support a healthy life . The conditions of early society among the settlers in Latium must be a ...
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... Etruria exercised any essential influence on the language or customs or political development of Rome . The passive attitude of Etruria towards Rome was probably due to two causes , their struggles with the Celtic hordes from the North ...
... Etruria exercised any essential influence on the language or customs or political development of Rome . The passive attitude of Etruria towards Rome was probably due to two causes , their struggles with the Celtic hordes from the North ...
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