Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... PYRRHUS - UNION WITH ITALY . 280-268 B. C. 7 . II • 20 : 29 • · 37 • 47 56 62 • 74 PART II CONQUEST OF THE MEDITERRANEAN STATES 264-133 B. C. XII . THE FIRST PUNIC WAR . 264-241 B. C. XI . CARTHAGE . 500-264 B. C. 89 XIII . THE SECOND ...
... PYRRHUS - UNION WITH ITALY . 280-268 B. C. 7 . II • 20 : 29 • · 37 • 47 56 62 • 74 PART II CONQUEST OF THE MEDITERRANEAN STATES 264-133 B. C. XII . THE FIRST PUNIC WAR . 264-241 B. C. XI . CARTHAGE . 500-264 B. C. 89 XIII . THE SECOND ...
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... Pyrrhus , the farmers played a more important part than the old patriciate ; the exploits of a plebeian , like Decius , and of a poor farmer , like Manius Curius , now began to take equal rank with , and even eclipse , those of the ...
... Pyrrhus , the farmers played a more important part than the old patriciate ; the exploits of a plebeian , like Decius , and of a poor farmer , like Manius Curius , now began to take equal rank with , and even eclipse , those of the ...
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... Pyrrhus . With regard to the first point , we must for a moment revert to the old position of Rome in Latium , as exercising a hegemony , based upon complete equality between the Roman state on the one hand and the Latin confeder- acy ...
... Pyrrhus . With regard to the first point , we must for a moment revert to the old position of Rome in Latium , as exercising a hegemony , based upon complete equality between the Roman state on the one hand and the Latin confeder- acy ...
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... second and more serious struggle , so on the larger arena of the nations , Carthage , Macedonia , and Rome now prepared for the final and decisive contest . Chapter X WAR WITH PYRRHUS - UNION WITH ITALY T CONQUEST OF ITALY 73.
... second and more serious struggle , so on the larger arena of the nations , Carthage , Macedonia , and Rome now prepared for the final and decisive contest . Chapter X WAR WITH PYRRHUS - UNION WITH ITALY T CONQUEST OF ITALY 73.
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... Pyrrhus . The personal qualities and adventurous enterprises of Pyrrhus him- self cannot but excite our imagination and kindle our sympathies . Of still greater moment is the fact that this was the first occasion on which Roman and ...
... Pyrrhus . The personal qualities and adventurous enterprises of Pyrrhus him- self cannot but excite our imagination and kindle our sympathies . Of still greater moment is the fact that this was the first occasion on which Roman and ...
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