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... killed at his Own Request - Character and Career of Mithridates He is buried at Sinope . ― PAGE • 400 CHAPTER XVII Pompey's Exploits in the East - Cities founded by him- Pom- pey's Triumph - Captives led in his Procession - Inscription ...
... killed at his Own Request - Character and Career of Mithridates He is buried at Sinope . ― PAGE • 400 CHAPTER XVII Pompey's Exploits in the East - Cities founded by him- Pom- pey's Triumph - Captives led in his Procession - Inscription ...
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... killed by the Rutuli , a Tuscan tribe , in a war begun on account of his wife Lavinia , who had been previously betrothed to their king . He was succeeded in the government by Euryleon , otherwise called Ascanius , the son of Æneas and ...
... killed by the Rutuli , a Tuscan tribe , in a war begun on account of his wife Lavinia , who had been previously betrothed to their king . He was succeeded in the government by Euryleon , otherwise called Ascanius , the son of Æneas and ...
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... killed Egestus , his brother's son , and he made Rhea Silvia , his brother's daughter , a vestal , so that she might remain childless . Notwithstanding a conspiracy against his life , Numitor himself was saved because of the gentleness ...
... killed Egestus , his brother's son , and he made Rhea Silvia , his brother's daughter , a vestal , so that she might remain childless . Notwithstanding a conspiracy against his life , Numitor himself was saved because of the gentleness ...
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... kill them to the last man , not sparing one to carry the news . I advise as my choice the former , other- wise the latter is a necessity . The Romans will avenge themselves inevitably for any shame you put upon them . In that case you ...
... kill them to the last man , not sparing one to carry the news . I advise as my choice the former , other- wise the latter is a necessity . The Romans will avenge themselves inevitably for any shame you put upon them . In that case you ...
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... killed all the adult youth except a son of Brito- maris , whom he reserved for awful torture , and led in his triumph . 2. When the Senones who were in Etruria heard of this calamity , they joined with the Etruscans and marched against ...
... killed all the adult youth except a son of Brito- maris , whom he reserved for awful torture , and led in his triumph . 2. When the Senones who were in Etruria heard of this calamity , they joined with the Etruscans and marched against ...
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