Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... carried by the Romans , and the merciless rigor with which a slave was treated by them . The meager and meaningless character of individual names among the Romans , when contrasted with the luxuriant and poetic fullness of those among ...
... carried by the Romans , and the merciless rigor with which a slave was treated by them . The meager and meaningless character of individual names among the Romans , when contrasted with the luxuriant and poetic fullness of those among ...
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... carried out more consistently and perse- veringly by the Roman than by any other Italian canton ; and the success of Rome , as of Athens , is doubtless due to the thorough application of this system of centralization . Thirdly ...
... carried out more consistently and perse- veringly by the Roman than by any other Italian canton ; and the success of Rome , as of Athens , is doubtless due to the thorough application of this system of centralization . Thirdly ...
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... carry on ordinary wars ; nor did all the towns join , when , in exceptional cases , a war was re- solved on by the confederacy . The Etruscan confederations appear to have been from the first deficient in a firm and paramount central ...
... carry on ordinary wars ; nor did all the towns join , when , in exceptional cases , a war was re- solved on by the confederacy . The Etruscan confederations appear to have been from the first deficient in a firm and paramount central ...
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... 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 whole east coast . Her intercourse by land with Apulia sowed ...
... 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 whole east coast . Her intercourse by land with Apulia sowed ...
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... carry out the Roman policy of colonization . A sharp line divided arable from pasture land . The latter belonged to the state and not to the clan , and was consequently not subjected to the distribution , which has been described above ...
... carry out the Roman policy of colonization . A sharp line divided arable from pasture land . The latter belonged to the state and not to the clan , and was consequently not subjected to the distribution , which has been described above ...
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