Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... coast , yet it resembles Greece in its temperate climate and wholesome mountain air , while it excels it in rich alluvial plains and grassy mountain slopes . All Italian interests center in the west ; the reverse is the case with Greece ...
... coast , yet it resembles Greece in its temperate climate and wholesome mountain air , while it excels it in rich alluvial plains and grassy mountain slopes . All Italian interests center in the west ; the reverse is the case with Greece ...
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... coast districts . On the east coast ROME stretches the plain of Apulia , on the south CHAPTER ITALY CHAPTER.
... coast districts . On the east coast ROME stretches the plain of Apulia , on the south CHAPTER ITALY CHAPTER.
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... coast , yet it resembles Greece in its temperate climate and wholesome mountain air , while it excels it in rich alluvial plains and grassy mountain slopes . All Italian interests center in the west ; the reverse is the case with Greece ...
... coast , yet it resembles Greece in its temperate climate and wholesome mountain air , while it excels it in rich alluvial plains and grassy mountain slopes . All Italian interests center in the west ; the reverse is the case with Greece ...
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... coast are few and poor ; on the north , by the broad highlands of Etruria , into which it imperceptibly merges . This plain is dotted with isolated . hills , and the Alban range , free on every side , stands between the Volscian chain ...
... coast are few and poor ; on the north , by the broad highlands of Etruria , into which it imperceptibly merges . This plain is dotted with isolated . hills , and the Alban range , free on every side , stands between the Volscian chain ...
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... coast , proved a deadly foe to the Greek intruders ; they dislodged them from Aethalia ( Elba ) and Populonia . The depredations of Etruscan privateers were the dread of all Greek merchants , and caused the Greeks to call the western ...
... coast , proved a deadly foe to the Greek intruders ; they dislodged them from Aethalia ( Elba ) and Populonia . The depredations of Etruscan privateers were the dread of all Greek merchants , and caused the Greeks to call the western ...
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