Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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Page 7
... completely Hellenized , or so weakened that they fell an easy prey to Sabine hordes . The Latins , however , who settled just north of Campania , in Latium , where no Greek colony was founded , succeeded in maintaining their ground ...
... completely Hellenized , or so weakened that they fell an easy prey to Sabine hordes . The Latins , however , who settled just north of Campania , in Latium , where no Greek colony was founded , succeeded in maintaining their ground ...
Page 23
... completely effaced all traces of Ligurian or Umbrian predecessors in that country , and maintained its position with great tenacity down to the time of the empire . Etruria proper was bounded on the east by the Apennines , on the north ...
... completely effaced all traces of Ligurian or Umbrian predecessors in that country , and maintained its position with great tenacity down to the time of the empire . Etruria proper was bounded on the east by the Apennines , on the north ...
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... completely broke down . Thus the Achaeans exercised but little influence on the civilization of Italy ; and the bilingual mongrel people , that arose out of the remains of the native Italians and Achaeans and the more recent immigrants ...
... completely broke down . Thus the Achaeans exercised but little influence on the civilization of Italy ; and the bilingual mongrel people , that arose out of the remains of the native Italians and Achaeans and the more recent immigrants ...
Page 30
... completely as the king had done . In consequence of this each consul could forbid what the other enjoined , and thus the consular commands , being both absolute , would , if they clashed , neutralize one another . It is hard to parallel ...
... completely as the king had done . In consequence of this each consul could forbid what the other enjoined , and thus the consular commands , being both absolute , would , if they clashed , neutralize one another . It is hard to parallel ...
Page 39
... completely on a parallel with the speculators on the stock - exchange of the present day . The mismanagement of the public land brought out these evils most clearly . The patricians now claimed the sole right of the use of the public ...
... completely on a parallel with the speculators on the stock - exchange of the present day . The mismanagement of the public land brought out these evils most clearly . The patricians now claimed the sole right of the use of the public ...
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