Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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Page 26
... Tarentum and Heraclea . As to the period at which these several settlements took place , we rely on the fact that , while in Homer's time Sicily and Italy were practically unknown , in Hesiod's poems the outlines of these two lands are ...
... Tarentum and Heraclea . As to the period at which these several settlements took place , we rely on the fact that , while in Homer's time Sicily and Italy were practically unknown , in Hesiod's poems the outlines of these two lands are ...
Page 27
... Tarentum to have no small share in the Adriatic commerce , carried on by Corinth and Corcyra ; and , as Ancona and Brundisium rose at a far later period , the ports at the mouths of the Po were the only rivals of Tarentum along the ...
... Tarentum to have no small share in the Adriatic commerce , carried on by Corinth and Corcyra ; and , as Ancona and Brundisium rose at a far later period , the ports at the mouths of the Po were the only rivals of Tarentum along the ...
Page 57
... Tarentum to the leading position in the south of Italy , put an end to the mari- time supremacy of both Etruscans and Carthaginians . Syracuse in 453 B.C. ravaged the island of Corsica and the Etrurian coast , and occupied Elba ; and ...
... Tarentum to the leading position in the south of Italy , put an end to the mari- time supremacy of both Etruscans and Carthaginians . Syracuse in 453 B.C. ravaged the island of Corsica and the Etrurian coast , and occupied Elba ; and ...
Page 65
... Tarentum , powerful and warlike as she was , was forced to turn for aid to her mother country . Thus , at the period when Roman power began to advance southward , the Samnites and their kins folk the Lucanians and Bruttians had ...
... Tarentum , powerful and warlike as she was , was forced to turn for aid to her mother country . Thus , at the period when Roman power began to advance southward , the Samnites and their kins folk the Lucanians and Bruttians had ...
Page 66
... Teanum under Sam- nite sway , and the upper Liris was left in Volscian hands . Both sides were glad to lay down arms - the Samnites , because Tarentum 384-332 B.C. was threatening her Sebellian neighbors ; the Romans 66 ROME.
... Teanum under Sam- nite sway , and the upper Liris was left in Volscian hands . Both sides were glad to lay down arms - the Samnites , because Tarentum 384-332 B.C. was threatening her Sebellian neighbors ; the Romans 66 ROME.
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