Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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Page 50
... Quintus Hor- tensius , in 287 B.C. This law declared that the decrees of the plebs , passed in their tribal assembly , should have equal force with the decrees of the whole populus , or community . Thus it was brought about that those ...
... Quintus Hor- tensius , in 287 B.C. This law declared that the decrees of the plebs , passed in their tribal assembly , should have equal force with the decrees of the whole populus , or community . Thus it was brought about that those ...
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... Quintus Fabius Rullianus penetrated for the first time Etruria proper , marching through the Ciminian forest , and at the Vadimonian Lake crushed the roused Etruscans . The three most powerful towns , Perusia , Cortona , and Arretium ...
... Quintus Fabius Rullianus penetrated for the first time Etruria proper , marching through the Ciminian forest , and at the Vadimonian Lake crushed the roused Etruscans . The three most powerful towns , Perusia , Cortona , and Arretium ...
Page 72
... Quintus Fabius Rullianus encountered the confederate army ; and it was here that the heroic death of Publius Decius rallied the Roman legions when wavering before the Gallic hordes , and at the cost of nine thousand Roman lives gained a ...
... Quintus Fabius Rullianus encountered the confederate army ; and it was here that the heroic death of Publius Decius rallied the Roman legions when wavering before the Gallic hordes , and at the cost of nine thousand Roman lives gained a ...
Page 118
... , fell in with the enemy and was cut to pieces . All Etruria was lost ; and the Romans broke down the bridges over the Tiber , and nominated Quintus Fabius Maximus dictator , to 217 B.C. make all preparations for the defense of the 118 ...
... , fell in with the enemy and was cut to pieces . All Etruria was lost ; and the Romans broke down the bridges over the Tiber , and nominated Quintus Fabius Maximus dictator , to 217 B.C. make all preparations for the defense of the 118 ...
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... Quintus Fabius . Elected to counteract the demagogic spirit which had given the consulship to Flaminius , he was as opposed in strategy as in policy to his pred- ecessor . Determined to avoid a pitched battle and to wear out Hannibal by ...
... Quintus Fabius . Elected to counteract the demagogic spirit which had given the consulship to Flaminius , he was as opposed in strategy as in policy to his pred- ecessor . Determined to avoid a pitched battle and to wear out Hannibal by ...
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