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... hundred years , tho Roman Stato was convulsed by revolutions which grow out of tho contest between tho Peoplo and tho Nobility , or rather , out of tho contests between the leaders of theso two bodies . This period is the subject of ...
... hundred years , tho Roman Stato was convulsed by revolutions which grow out of tho contest between tho Peoplo and tho Nobility , or rather , out of tho contests between the leaders of theso two bodies . This period is the subject of ...
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... hundred and fifty writers , a great part of whose works are now entirely lost . " ( Penny Cyclopædia , art . " Plutarch , " by the writer of this Prefaco . ) The lively portraitures of men draw in Plutarch's Lives have made them ...
... hundred and fifty writers , a great part of whose works are now entirely lost . " ( Penny Cyclopædia , art . " Plutarch , " by the writer of this Prefaco . ) The lively portraitures of men draw in Plutarch's Lives have made them ...
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... hundred oxen . " Ho permanently annexed Megara to Attica , and set up the famous pillar on the Isthmus , on which he wrote the distinction between the countries in two trimotor lines , of which the one looking cast says , " This is not ...
... hundred oxen . " Ho permanently annexed Megara to Attica , and set up the famous pillar on the Isthmus , on which he wrote the distinction between the countries in two trimotor lines , of which the one looking cast says , " This is not ...
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... hundred each . Each of theso was led by a man who carried a bundle of sticks and straw upon a pole . Latins called these manipla ; and from this these com- panies are even at the present day called maniples in the Roman army . Now as ...
... hundred each . Each of theso was led by a man who carried a bundle of sticks and straw upon a pole . Latins called these manipla ; and from this these com- panies are even at the present day called maniples in the Roman army . Now as ...
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... hundred cavalry . These were named legions , because they consisted of men of military age selected from the population . The rest of the people were now organised . They were called Populus , and a hundred of the noblest were chosen ...
... hundred cavalry . These were named legions , because they consisted of men of military age selected from the population . The rest of the people were now organised . They were called Populus , and a hundred of the noblest were chosen ...
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