Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... League , it was but natural that Alba should be the center of that league , and therefore president of the thirty cantons which composed it . We have no certain knowledge as to the powers or legal rights this confederacy exercised over ...
... League , it was but natural that Alba should be the center of that league , and therefore president of the thirty cantons which composed it . We have no certain knowledge as to the powers or legal rights this confederacy exercised over ...
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... league for offense and defense . Equality of rights was established between the members of this federation , alike as to commerce and intermarriage . No member of the league could exist as a slave within the league's territory , and ...
... league for offense and defense . Equality of rights was established between the members of this federation , alike as to commerce and intermarriage . No member of the league could exist as a slave within the league's territory , and ...
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... league naturally brought the two into more complete harmony with one another . The difference between the position occupied by Rome and that formerly held by Alba , was that the honorary presidency of the latter was replaced by the real ...
... league naturally brought the two into more complete harmony with one another . The difference between the position occupied by Rome and that formerly held by Alba , was that the honorary presidency of the latter was replaced by the real ...
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... league . The whole nation was not embraced in one confederation , as the Etruscans in the north and those in Campania had leagues of their own , though these were so lax that they allowed , or rather pre- ferred , that separate ...
... league . The whole nation was not embraced in one confederation , as the Etruscans in the north and those in Campania had leagues of their own , though these were so lax that they allowed , or rather pre- ferred , that separate ...
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... league of the Achaean cities , comprising Siris , Pandosia , Metapon- tum , Sybaris with its offshoots Posidonia and Laus , Croton , Cau- lonia , Temesa , Terina , and Pyxus ; which , like the Achaean league in the Peloponnese ...
... league of the Achaean cities , comprising Siris , Pandosia , Metapon- tum , Sybaris with its offshoots Posidonia and Laus , Croton , Cau- lonia , Temesa , Terina , and Pyxus ; which , like the Achaean league in the Peloponnese ...
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