Rome: From the Earliest Times to 44 B.C.P. F. Collier & son, 1913 - 418 pages |
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... Greece in its temperate climate and wholesome mountain air , while it excels it in rich alluvial plains and grassy mountain slopes . All Italian interests center in the west ; the reverse is the case with Greece . Thus , the Apulian and ...
... Greece in its temperate climate and wholesome mountain air , while it excels it in rich alluvial plains and grassy mountain slopes . All Italian interests center in the west ; the reverse is the case with Greece . Thus , the Apulian and ...
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... Greece , Rome in Italy . When their work was finished , new peoples arose , a new cycle of civilization was begun , a new center was found in the Atlantic Ocean in place of the Mediterranean . The province of the Roman historian is to ...
... Greece , Rome in Italy . When their work was finished , new peoples arose , a new cycle of civilization was begun , a new center was found in the Atlantic Ocean in place of the Mediterranean . The province of the Roman historian is to ...
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... Greece in its temperate climate and wholesome mountain air , while it excels it in rich alluvial plains and grassy mountain slopes . All Italian interests center in the west ; the reverse is the case with Greece . Thus , the Apulian and ...
... Greece in its temperate climate and wholesome mountain air , while it excels it in rich alluvial plains and grassy mountain slopes . All Italian interests center in the west ; the reverse is the case with Greece . Thus , the Apulian and ...
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... Greece and the caste of India were unknown to them . The most important duty of the burgesses was military service , as they alone had the right of bearing arms . Hence the name populus ( " body of warriors , ' connected with populari ...
... Greece and the caste of India were unknown to them . The most important duty of the burgesses was military service , as they alone had the right of bearing arms . Hence the name populus ( " body of warriors , ' connected with populari ...
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... 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 , as holding the land route from Pisae ...
... 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 , as holding the land route from Pisae ...
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