Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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Page 66
... Samnium proper alone retained its old character , and was free from all the debasing effects of a superior but immoral civilization . The Hel- lenized Samnites of Campania soon learned to fear their hardier and purer kinsmen in Samnium ...
... Samnium proper alone retained its old character , and was free from all the debasing effects of a superior but immoral civilization . The Hel- lenized Samnites of Campania soon learned to fear their hardier and purer kinsmen in Samnium ...
Page 70
... Samnium , Interamna , and Suessa Aurunca on the road from Rome to Capua . Appius Claudius , the censor , completed in 313 B.C. the great military road from Rome to Capua , across the Pomptine marshes . Thus by roads and fortresses Samnium ...
... Samnium , Interamna , and Suessa Aurunca on the road from Rome to Capua . Appius Claudius , the censor , completed in 313 B.C. the great military road from Rome to Capua , across the Pomptine marshes . Thus by roads and fortresses Samnium ...
Page 69
... Samnium , by detaching the Sabellian towns to the south of the Volturnus- Nola , Nuceria , Herculaneum , and Pompeii - through the influence of the aristocratic party in those cities . By the same means Rome secured an alliance with the ...
... Samnium , by detaching the Sabellian towns to the south of the Volturnus- Nola , Nuceria , Herculaneum , and Pompeii - through the influence of the aristocratic party in those cities . By the same means Rome secured an alliance with the ...
Page 70
... Samnium , In- teramna , and Suessa Aurunca on the road from Rome to Capua . Appius Claudius , the censor , completed in 313 B.C. the great military road from Rome to Capua , across the Pomptine marshes . Thus by roads and fortresses Samnium ...
... Samnium , In- teramna , and Suessa Aurunca on the road from Rome to Capua . Appius Claudius , the censor , completed in 313 B.C. the great military road from Rome to Capua , across the Pomptine marshes . Thus by roads and fortresses Samnium ...
Page 71
... Samnium , and took the Samnian capital , Bovianum , by storm in 305 B.C. A brief peace , on moderate terms , ensued , not only with Samnium , but with all the Sabellian tribes ; and about the same time , owing to the withdrawal of the ...
... Samnium , and took the Samnian capital , Bovianum , by storm in 305 B.C. A brief peace , on moderate terms , ensued , not only with Samnium , but with all the Sabellian tribes ; and about the same time , owing to the withdrawal of the ...
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