Decline of the Roman Republic, Volume 5Bell, 1874 |
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... gave a ground and specious reason for the war to a man who had been long wanting a pretext . He was led to war against the whole world , as Alexander before him and Cyrus of old had been , by an insati- able love of power and a frantic ...
... gave a ground and specious reason for the war to a man who had been long wanting a pretext . He was led to war against the whole world , as Alexander before him and Cyrus of old had been , by an insati- able love of power and a frantic ...
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... gave him comfort by his report of the small amount of Caesar's force . If Cicero then tells the truth , Caesar seized the four towns before the 18th of January and before he received the final answer of the consuls , which showed that ...
... gave him comfort by his report of the small amount of Caesar's force . If Cicero then tells the truth , Caesar seized the four towns before the 18th of January and before he received the final answer of the consuls , which showed that ...
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... gave them hopes of manumission , mounted them on horses and ordered them to follow him ; but Pompeius got rid of the gladiators by assigning two to every head of a family in the conventus of Campania to look after . Caesar wrote a ...
... gave them hopes of manumission , mounted them on horses and ordered them to follow him ; but Pompeius got rid of the gladiators by assigning two to every head of a family in the conventus of Campania to look after . Caesar wrote a ...
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... gave orders for raising new troops . He stayed only one day at Asculum to get supplies for his men and marched on Corfinium . Domitius had sent forward five cohorts to break down a bridge over the Pescara , which was about three miles ...
... gave orders for raising new troops . He stayed only one day at Asculum to get supplies for his men and marched on Corfinium . Domitius had sent forward five cohorts to break down a bridge over the Pescara , which was about three miles ...
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... gave them horses , from which it appears that he was ill supplied with cavalry ( B. C. i . 24 ) . L. Manlius , the praetor of Alba Fucentia , who made his escape with six cohorts , and Rutilius Lupus praetor of Ter- racina with three ...
... gave them horses , from which it appears that he was ill supplied with cavalry ( B. C. i . 24 ) . L. Manlius , the praetor of Alba Fucentia , who made his escape with six cohorts , and Rutilius Lupus praetor of Ter- racina with three ...
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