Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... occupied by the first comers . Here , among other ancient canton - centers , stood preƫminent Alba , the mother - city of all the old Latin settlements . Therefore , when the various cantons , though each independent and governed by its ...
... occupied by the first comers . Here , among other ancient canton - centers , stood preƫminent Alba , the mother - city of all the old Latin settlements . Therefore , when the various cantons , though each independent and governed by its ...
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... occupied by Rome and that formerly held by Alba , was that the honorary presidency of the latter was replaced by the real supremacy of the former . Rome was not , as Alba , a mere member of the league , and included within it , but ...
... occupied by Rome and that formerly held by Alba , was that the honorary presidency of the latter was replaced by the real supremacy of the former . Rome was not , as Alba , a mere member of the league , and included within it , but ...
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... occupied at a later date , possibly in the second century of Rome , and the Italian population there held its ground , though in a state of dependence . When the Tiber became the boundary , the relations between Rome and the Etruscan ...
... occupied at a later date , possibly in the second century of Rome , and the Italian population there held its ground , though in a state of dependence . When the Tiber became the boundary , the relations between Rome and the Etruscan ...
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... occupied was small , and they contented themselves with spreading Greek civilization by peaceful commercial intercourse rather than by a policy of conquest and oppression . There is no doubt that in very early times the western coast ...
... occupied was small , and they contented themselves with spreading Greek civilization by peaceful commercial intercourse rather than by a policy of conquest and oppression . There is no doubt that in very early times the western coast ...
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... occupied very differ- ent relations towards their masters from those held by Syrians and Celts in later days . It was from these large landowners , and the system above described , that there sprang up in Rome a landed , and not an ...
... occupied very differ- ent relations towards their masters from those held by Syrians and Celts in later days . It was from these large landowners , and the system above described , that there sprang up in Rome a landed , and not an ...
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