Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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Page 78
... troops as long as they were on Italian soil . This answer , then heard for the first time , passed thenceforth into a maxim of state . Pyrrhus now marched upon Rome , hoping by this step to shake the allegiance of her allies and to ...
... troops as long as they were on Italian soil . This answer , then heard for the first time , passed thenceforth into a maxim of state . Pyrrhus now marched upon Rome , hoping by this step to shake the allegiance of her allies and to ...
Page 79
... troops for Syracuse in the spring of 278 B.C. During his absence from Italy the Romans , exhausted by their previous struggles , allowed the war to drag on , without being able to com- pletely expel the troops left behind by Pyrrhus ...
... troops for Syracuse in the spring of 278 B.C. During his absence from Italy the Romans , exhausted by their previous struggles , allowed the war to drag on , without being able to com- pletely expel the troops left behind by Pyrrhus ...
Page 80
... troops acted as garri- sons , and his own acts were arbitrary and despotic to the last degree . His reign thus became more detested than even the threatened Carthaginian yoke had been , and negotiations were entered into by the ...
... troops acted as garri- sons , and his own acts were arbitrary and despotic to the last degree . His reign thus became more detested than even the threatened Carthaginian yoke had been , and negotiations were entered into by the ...
Page 81
... troops a free departure . The Carthaginians , thus frustrated in their attempt to gain a foothold in Italy , pretended that their presence was merely due to their wish to help the Romans . The gain to Rome from the act of Milo can ...
... troops a free departure . The Carthaginians , thus frustrated in their attempt to gain a foothold in Italy , pretended that their presence was merely due to their wish to help the Romans . The gain to Rome from the act of Milo can ...
Page 97
... troops were marked by a callous indifference on the one hand and a dangerous and mutinous dissatisfaction on the other . Officers broke their word to the troops , and even betrayed them , -wrongs which were bitterly avenged by Libyan ...
... troops were marked by a callous indifference on the one hand and a dangerous and mutinous dissatisfaction on the other . Officers broke their word to the troops , and even betrayed them , -wrongs which were bitterly avenged by Libyan ...
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