Decline of the Roman Republic, Volume 5Bell, 1874 |
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... fact , but not in name . In this way , says 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 ...
... fact , but not in name . In this way , says 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 ...
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... 419 CHAPTER XXXV . CAESAR . Summary of the principal facts which show what Caesar was- Caesar's family and first marriage - Caesar's features and form - His style of speaking , voice , and gesture - Skilful in athletic xxxiv CONTENTS .
... 419 CHAPTER XXXV . CAESAR . Summary of the principal facts which show what Caesar was- Caesar's family and first marriage - Caesar's features and form - His style of speaking , voice , and gesture - Skilful in athletic xxxiv CONTENTS .
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... facts which Cicero reports . The compilers Dion Cassius and Appian , and the biographer Plutarch are still less trustworthy . It would be impossible to construct a history of the civil war from them . Where they agree with Caesar , we ...
... facts which Cicero reports . The compilers Dion Cassius and Appian , and the biographer Plutarch are still less trustworthy . It would be impossible to construct a history of the civil war from them . Where they agree with Caesar , we ...
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... fact in later times became a favourite topic for rhetoricians and has been embellished by Lucan ( Pharsalia , i ... facts which are possible and credible . Nor can we accept the statements of later writers that Caesar hesitated to cross ...
... fact in later times became a favourite topic for rhetoricians and has been embellished by Lucan ( Pharsalia , i ... facts which are possible and credible . Nor can we accept the statements of later writers that Caesar hesitated to cross ...
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... fact Cicero never got rid of his fear of Caesar , though he told him , in a letter of B.C. 49 , already referred to , that it was many years since he had selected Caesar and Pompeius as the two men to whom he should devote himself ...
... fact Cicero never got rid of his fear of Caesar , though he told him , in a letter of B.C. 49 , already referred to , that it was many years since he had selected Caesar and Pompeius as the two men to whom he should devote himself ...
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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?