Decline of the Roman Republic, Volume 5Bell, 1874 |
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Page vi
... attempted to do . The Index to the five volumes has been made by a young friend , Mr. Ernest Bell , to save an old man a tiresome task . If the Index had been larger , it might have contained references to more of the varied matter ...
... attempted to do . The Index to the five volumes has been made by a young friend , Mr. Ernest Bell , to save an old man a tiresome task . If the Index had been larger , it might have contained references to more of the varied matter ...
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... attempts to gain the support of Cicero . PAGE 14 CHAPTER III . THE FLIGHT OF POMPEIUS . B.C. 49 . Livy , Epit . 109 ; Caesar , B. C. i . 21-31 ; Dion Cassius , 41 , c . 1-17 ; Appian , B. C. ii . 32 , & c .; Cicero's Letters ...
... attempts to gain the support of Cicero . PAGE 14 CHAPTER III . THE FLIGHT OF POMPEIUS . B.C. 49 . Livy , Epit . 109 ; Caesar , B. C. i . 21-31 ; Dion Cassius , 41 , c . 1-17 ; Appian , B. C. ii . 32 , & c .; Cicero's Letters ...
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... attempts un- successfully to seize a hill near the town - A great storm of rain and snow swells the Sicoris , inundates the country , and Caesar's men suffer from want of food - Caesar is reduced to great straits , and exaggerated ...
... attempts un- successfully to seize a hill near the town - A great storm of rain and snow swells the Sicoris , inundates the country , and Caesar's men suffer from want of food - Caesar is reduced to great straits , and exaggerated ...
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... attempts to seduce some of Curio's men - Alarm in Curio's camp Curio summons a council of war , and explains why he cannot accept either of two plans which were proposed to him - He calls his troops together , and encourages them by the ...
... attempts to seduce some of Curio's men - Alarm in Curio's camp Curio summons a council of war , and explains why he cannot accept either of two plans which were proposed to him - He calls his troops together , and encourages them by the ...
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... attempts to blockade Brundisium , but is driven away by M. Anto- nius - Antonius and Calenus sail from Brundisium with the rest of Caesar's men , and land at Nymphaeum , north of Lissus - The treacherous massacre by Otacilius Crassus of ...
... attempts to blockade Brundisium , but is driven away by M. Anto- nius - Antonius and Calenus sail from Brundisium with the rest of Caesar's men , and land at Nymphaeum , north of Lissus - The treacherous massacre by Otacilius Crassus of ...
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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?