Decline of the Roman Republic, Volume 5Bell, 1874 |
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... Appian in the Introduction to his Civil Wars , " the Roman State was restored to tranquillity , and the Government became a mon- archy . " He adds , " and how this came about I have explained and have brought together the events , which ...
... Appian in the Introduction to his Civil Wars , " the Roman State was restored to tranquillity , and the Government became a mon- archy . " He adds , " and how this came about I have explained and have brought together the events , which ...
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... Appian , B. C. ii . 32 , & c .; Suetonius , Caesar ; Cicero's Letters . Caesar's history of the Civil War - His letter to the new consuls deli- vered on the 1st of January , B.C. 49 - The Senate deliberate on the state of the ...
... Appian , B. C. ii . 32 , & c .; Suetonius , Caesar ; Cicero's Letters . Caesar's history of the Civil War - His letter to the new consuls deli- vered on the 1st of January , B.C. 49 - The Senate deliberate on the state of the ...
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... Appian , B. C. ii . 32 , & c .; Cicero's Letters ; Swinburne's Travels in the Two Sicilies , i . 389 . Caesar advances south from Corfinium to Brundisium - The consuls had sailed to Dyrrhachium , and left Pompeius in Brundisium , who is ...
... Appian , B. C. ii . 32 , & c .; Cicero's Letters ; Swinburne's Travels in the Two Sicilies , i . 389 . Caesar advances south from Corfinium to Brundisium - The consuls had sailed to Dyrrhachium , and left Pompeius in Brundisium , who is ...
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... Appian , B. C. ii . 44 , & c .; Pellissier , La Régence de Tunis ; Shaw's Travels in Barbary , second edition . Curio lands at Aquilaria , in the province Africa , and marches towards Utica - The Castra Cornelia , or Corneliana , and ...
... Appian , B. C. ii . 44 , & c .; Pellissier , La Régence de Tunis ; Shaw's Travels in Barbary , second edition . Curio lands at Aquilaria , in the province Africa , and marches towards Utica - The Castra Cornelia , or Corneliana , and ...
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... Appian , B. C. ii . 47 , & c .; Savigny , Vermischte Schriften , iii . 307-313 . A mutiny of Caesar's soldiers at Placentia suppressed by him -- The behaviour of M. Antonius while Caesar was absent from Rome - The letter of M. Antonius ...
... Appian , B. C. ii . 47 , & c .; Savigny , Vermischte Schriften , iii . 307-313 . A mutiny of Caesar's soldiers at Placentia suppressed by him -- The behaviour of M. Antonius while Caesar was absent from Rome - The letter of M. Antonius ...
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Page iv - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?