Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... command of the rest of the Latin cantons . But , vague as the outlines of this early canton life must necessarily be , they show us the one great fact of a common center , which , while it did not destroy the individual independence of ...
... command of the rest of the Latin cantons . But , vague as the outlines of this early canton life must necessarily be , they show us the one great fact of a common center , which , while it did not destroy the individual independence of ...
Page 10
... command it had of both banks of the Tiber down to the mouth of the river . The fact that the clan of the Romilii was settled on the right bank from time immemorial , and that there lay the grove of the creative goddess , Dea Dia , and ...
... command it had of both banks of the Tiber down to the mouth of the river . The fact that the clan of the Romilii was settled on the right bank from time immemorial , and that there lay the grove of the creative goddess , Dea Dia , and ...
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... command " ( imperium ) was all - powerful in peace and war , and he was preceded by lictors , or " summoners , " armed with axes and rods on all public occasions . He nominated priests and priestesses , and acted as the nation's ...
... command " ( imperium ) was all - powerful in peace and war , and he was preceded by lictors , or " summoners , " armed with axes and rods on all public occasions . He nominated priests and priestesses , and acted as the nation's ...
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... people returned answer ; and the lex , or law , which was the outcome of this process , was not in its origin a command of a king , but a contract proposed by the king and 1 accepted or refused by his hearers . The citizens alone 14 ROME.
... people returned answer ; and the lex , or law , which was the outcome of this process , was not in its origin a command of a king , but a contract proposed by the king and 1 accepted or refused by his hearers . The citizens alone 14 ROME.
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... command being held by Rome and Latium alternately . In accordance with this principle , all land and other property acquired in war by the league was divided equally between Rome and Latium . Each Latin community retained its own ...
... command being held by Rome and Latium alternately . In accordance with this principle , all land and other property acquired in war by the league was divided equally between Rome and Latium . Each Latin community retained its own ...
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