Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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Page 12
... 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 intercessor with the gods . He held the keys of the ...
... 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 intercessor with the gods . He held the keys of the ...
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... peace throughout Latium , and a per- petual 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 ...
... peace throughout Latium , and a per- petual 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 ...
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... peaceful and friendly , especially with the town of Caere . But where an Etruscan town threatened Rome's commercial position on the Tiber , as was the case with Veii , constant war naturally resulted . Any trace of Etruscans to the ...
... peaceful and friendly , especially with the town of Caere . But where an Etruscan town threatened Rome's commercial position on the Tiber , as was the case with Veii , constant war naturally resulted . Any trace of Etruscans to the ...
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... peaceful and intimate relations with Greece proper and Asia Minor . Their position as inhabitants of northern Italy from sea to sea , and thus commanding the mouths of the Po on the Adriatic and the great free ports on the western sea ...
... peaceful and intimate relations with Greece proper and Asia Minor . Their position as inhabitants of northern Italy from sea to sea , and thus commanding the mouths of the Po on the Adriatic and the great free ports on the western sea ...
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... peaceful commercial intercourse rather than by a policy of conquest and oppression . There is no doubt that in very early times the western coast north of Vesuvius was visited by Greek voyagers , but the Latins and Etruscans ...
... peaceful commercial intercourse rather than by a policy of conquest and oppression . There is no doubt that in very early times the western coast north of Vesuvius was visited by Greek voyagers , but the Latins and Etruscans ...
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