Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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Page 65
... Lucanians , made its appearance in southern Italy . The Lucanians proved too powerful for the demoralized Greeks ; and , despite the united efforts of the chief Achaean cities , who reconstructed their league in 393 B.C. , in a very ...
... Lucanians , made its appearance in southern Italy . The Lucanians proved too powerful for the demoralized Greeks ; and , despite the united efforts of the chief Achaean cities , who reconstructed their league in 393 B.C. , in a very ...
Page 66
... Lucanians , Bruttians , and Samnites proper might be closely united , proved a source of weakness rather than strength . The space they occupied was out of proportion to their numbers , and the hold they exercised over their possessions ...
... Lucanians , Bruttians , and Samnites proper might be closely united , proved a source of weakness rather than strength . The space they occupied was out of proportion to their numbers , and the hold they exercised over their possessions ...
Page 68
... Lucanians and Bruttians had been engaged in constant struggles with the Italian Greeks in the south , and espe- cially with Tarentum . So hard pressed was the latter city that she called in the aid of the Spartan king , Archidamus , who ...
... Lucanians and Bruttians had been engaged in constant struggles with the Italian Greeks in the south , and espe- cially with Tarentum . So hard pressed was the latter city that she called in the aid of the Spartan king , Archidamus , who ...
Page 70
... Lucanians , and the Spartan prince Cleonynus succeeded in compelling the latter to make peace with Tarentum ; but he did not dare to enter on the more perilous course of actively siding with the Samnites against Rome . But in the north ...
... Lucanians , and the Spartan prince Cleonynus succeeded in compelling the latter to make peace with Tarentum ; but he did not dare to enter on the more perilous course of actively siding with the Samnites against Rome . But in the north ...
Page 69
... Lucanians and Bruttians , as well as of the smaller cantons , such as the Vestini , Frentani and Marrucini- had they , further , been able to persuade the Greeks of Campania and of southern Italy to sink minor differences in the face of ...
... Lucanians and Bruttians , as well as of the smaller cantons , such as the Vestini , Frentani and Marrucini- had they , further , been able to persuade the Greeks of Campania and of southern Italy to sink minor differences in the face of ...
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