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... father , Cneius Pompeius , lost his life . The remainder of this History , which is lost , carried the narration down to tho quarrels of Octavianus and Marcus Antonius , which ended in the defeat of Antonius in the battle of Actium ...
... father , Cneius Pompeius , lost his life . The remainder of this History , which is lost , carried the narration down to tho quarrels of Octavianus and Marcus Antonius , which ended in the defeat of Antonius in the battle of Actium ...
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... father rose in the public assembly and enjoined mo not to say I went , but we went , nor to say that I said , but we said , throughout my story , giving my colleague his share . " Se's a bad there , 2. CORSO The most important event in ...
... father rose in the public assembly and enjoined mo not to say I went , but we went , nor to say that I said , but we said , throughout my story , giving my colleague his share . " Se's a bad there , 2. CORSO The most important event in ...
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... father has not been preserved , but it was probably Nikarchus , from the common habit of Greek families to repeat a name in alternate generations . His brothers Timon and Lamprias are frequently mentioned in his essays and the most ...
... father has not been preserved , but it was probably Nikarchus , from the common habit of Greek families to repeat a name in alternate generations . His brothers Timon and Lamprias are frequently mentioned in his essays and the most ...
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... father of unconquered glorious Rome . Putting aside , then , the mythological clement , let us examine his story , and wherever it obstinately defies probability , and cannot be explained by natural agency , let us beg the in- dulgence ...
... father of unconquered glorious Rome . Putting aside , then , the mythological clement , let us examine his story , and wherever it obstinately defies probability , and cannot be explained by natural agency , let us beg the in- dulgence ...
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... father's side from mother's side he was descended from Pelops . For Pelops surpassed all the other princes of the Peloponnesus in the number of his children as well as in wealth ; and of these rulers in various cities . One of these ...
... father's side from mother's side he was descended from Pelops . For Pelops surpassed all the other princes of the Peloponnesus in the number of his children as well as in wealth ; and of these rulers in various cities . One of these ...
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