Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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Page 71
... thousand men in Sora on the upper Liris , by making Arpinum subject , and taking away a third of its territory from Frusino . Two military roads ran through the country separating Samnium from Etruria ; the northern one which was ...
... thousand men in Sora on the upper Liris , by making Arpinum subject , and taking away a third of its territory from Frusino . Two military roads ran through the country separating Samnium from Etruria ; the northern one which was ...
Page 72
... thousand Roman lives gained a victory , which broke the coalition and made Etruria sue for peace . The Samnites , however , met their fate with a spirit unbroken by disaster , and in the following year gained some successes over the ...
... thousand Roman lives gained a victory , which broke the coalition and made Etruria sue for peace . The Samnites , however , met their fate with a spirit unbroken by disaster , and in the following year gained some successes over the ...
Page 73
... thousand colonists in 291 B.C. , which , standing on the great road between Tarentum and Samnium , at the borders of Samnium , Apulia , and Lucania , kept in check the neighboring tribes , and interrupted the communications between ...
... thousand colonists in 291 B.C. , which , standing on the great road between Tarentum and Samnium , at the borders of Samnium , Apulia , and Lucania , kept in check the neighboring tribes , and interrupted the communications between ...
Page 77
... thousand Epirots , put an end to all further vacillation . Pyrrhus himself landed early in the fol- lowing year , with a mixed force of various Greek tribes , amounting in all to about twenty thousand infantry , two thousand archers ...
... thousand Epirots , put an end to all further vacillation . Pyrrhus himself landed early in the fol- lowing year , with a mixed force of various Greek tribes , amounting in all to about twenty thousand infantry , two thousand archers ...
Page 78
... thousand infantry , eight thou- sand cavalry , and nineteen elephants . The Romans with their con- federates were not inferior in number ; and as a protection against the elephants they had invented a sort of war - chariot , armed with ...
... thousand infantry , eight thou- sand cavalry , and nineteen elephants . The Romans with their con- federates were not inferior in number ; and as a protection against the elephants they had invented a sort of war - chariot , armed with ...
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