Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... whole field from the foundation of the city to the German invasions , in five volumes . Of these , the first three , bringing the story down to the battle of Thapsus , appeared in rapid succession , but the fourth , covering the ...
... whole field from the foundation of the city to the German invasions , in five volumes . Of these , the first three , bringing the story down to the battle of Thapsus , appeared in rapid succession , but the fourth , covering the ...
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... whole Italian stock — a stock of which the Romans were the most powerful branch , but still only a branch . Our attention must now be fixed on the first of the two sections on the settlement of the Italian stock : on its external ...
... whole Italian stock — a stock of which the Romans were the most powerful branch , but still only a branch . Our attention must now be fixed on the first of the two sections on the settlement of the Italian stock : on its external ...
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... whole was sac- rificed to its parts , the nation to the township , the township to the citizen . Thus , solemn awe of the gods was lessened and at last extinguished by that freedom of thought which invested them with human attributes ...
... whole was sac- rificed to its parts , the nation to the township , the township to the citizen . Thus , solemn awe of the gods was lessened and at last extinguished by that freedom of thought which invested them with human attributes ...
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... based on self - government— a national unity which at last placed in his hands the mastery , not only over the divided Hellenic stock , but over the whole known world . Chapter II LATIN SETTLEMENTS AND ORIGIN OF ROME W 753 6 ROME.
... based on self - government— a national unity which at last placed in his hands the mastery , not only over the divided Hellenic stock , but over the whole known world . Chapter II LATIN SETTLEMENTS AND ORIGIN OF ROME W 753 6 ROME.
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... whole community . Originally each household had its own portion of land , but when households combined into a gens , each clan had its lands , and this system naturally extended to curies and communities , whether single or combined ...
... whole community . Originally each household had its own portion of land , but when households combined into a gens , each clan had its lands , and this system naturally extended to curies and communities , whether single or combined ...
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