Decline of the Roman Republic, Volume 5Bell, 1874 |
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Page xiii
... attack the enemy by night and kill many of them - Curio leaves the Castra and confidently advances against the enemy -Juba sends forward Spanish and Gallic horsemen to support Saburra , and follows with the rest of his troops - Saburra ...
... attack the enemy by night and kill many of them - Curio leaves the Castra and confidently advances against the enemy -Juba sends forward Spanish and Gallic horsemen to support Saburra , and follows with the rest of his troops - Saburra ...
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... attack Pompeius CHAPTER XII . SCIPIO AND DOMITIUS . B.C. 48 . Livy , Epit . 111 ; Caesar , B. C. iii . 31 , & c .; Dion Cassius , 41 , c . 51 , & c .; Strabo , p . 326 . The rapacity of the pro - consul Q. Scipio in Syria - He leads his ...
... attack Pompeius CHAPTER XII . SCIPIO AND DOMITIUS . B.C. 48 . Livy , Epit . 111 ; Caesar , B. C. iii . 31 , & c .; Dion Cassius , 41 , c . 51 , & c .; Strabo , p . 326 . The rapacity of the pro - consul Q. Scipio in Syria - He leads his ...
Page xvi
... attack on Caesar's ninth legion - Caesar's remarks on the new kind of war , as he calls it - Want of food in Caesar's army : his men make bread of a root named chara - The corn begins to ripen - The horses and beasts of Pompeius suffer ...
... attack on Caesar's ninth legion - Caesar's remarks on the new kind of war , as he calls it - Want of food in Caesar's army : his men make bread of a root named chara - The corn begins to ripen - The horses and beasts of Pompeius suffer ...
Page xvii
... attacking the part of Caesar's lines which were nearest to the sea and farthest distant from Caesar's largest camp - The weak part of Caesar's lines- Description of the lines of the two armies south of Dyrrhachium - The attack of ...
... attacking the part of Caesar's lines which were nearest to the sea and farthest distant from Caesar's largest camp - The weak part of Caesar's lines- Description of the lines of the two armies south of Dyrrhachium - The attack of ...
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... attack — Caesar's just judgment on this mistake of Pompeius - When the legionary forces meet , the cavalry spring forward from Pompeius ' left wing , but are put to flight by Caesar's reserve - Caesar orders his third line to support ...
... attack — Caesar's just judgment on this mistake of Pompeius - When the legionary forces meet , the cavalry spring forward from Pompeius ' left wing , but are put to flight by Caesar's reserve - Caesar orders his third line to support ...
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Achillas Adrumetum Afranius Africa Alexandrine Antonius Apidanus Appian Appian B. C. arms army arrived attack Attic battle of Pharsalia brought Brundisium Caesar camp Cassius Cato cavalry centurions Cicero coast cohorts command consul Corduba Corfinium crossed Curio defeat defences Deiotarus Dion Dion Cassius distance Domitius Dyrrhachium Egypt enemy enemy's Enipeus escape fight fleet followed forage force friends Gallia gave Goeler ground Guischardt hill horsemen hundred Ilerda island Italy join Juba killed king Labienus land legatus legions Lentulus Leptis letter Marcellus Massilia Massiliots miles military missiles Mithridates named narrative ninth legion occupied Octavius ordered peius Petreius Pharnaces Pharsalus Plutarch Pompeius port possession praetor protect province rampart received rest retreat river Rome Ruspina sailed says Scipio seized Senate ships Sicily side soldiers soon Spain Strabo Suetonius supplies supposed Thapsus Thessaly took town tribunes troops Utica Varus Vatinius vessels victory
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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?