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... thousands , and the greatest arrays of armies and sieges of cities . Now , as painters produce a likeness by a representation of the countenance and the expression of the eyes , with- out troubling themselves about the other parts of ...
... thousands , and the greatest arrays of armies and sieges of cities . Now , as painters produce a likeness by a representation of the countenance and the expression of the eyes , with- out troubling themselves about the other parts of ...
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... thousand hearths . Of this moro hereafter . When they woro proceeding to found the city , they at onco quarrelled about its sito . Romulus fixed upon what is How called Roma Quadrata , a square pieco of ground , and wished the city to ...
... thousand hearths . Of this moro hereafter . When they woro proceeding to found the city , they at onco quarrelled about its sito . Romulus fixed upon what is How called Roma Quadrata , a square pieco of ground , and wished the city to ...
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... thousand infantry and three 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 ...
... thousand infantry and three 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 ...
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... thousand three tribes , of which they named one Rhamnenses , from Romulus , another Titienses from Tatius , and the third Lucerenses , after the name of a grove to which many had and six hundred cavalry . They also established infantry ...
... thousand three tribes , of which they named one Rhamnenses , from Romulus , another Titienses from Tatius , and the third Lucerenses , after the name of a grove to which many had and six hundred cavalry . They also established infantry ...
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... After this a pestilence fell upon Rome , which but slow Tade it a Roman colony , and sent two thousand five men suddenly without previous sickness , and afflicted the crops and cattle with barrenness . A shower of 54.
... After this a pestilence fell upon Rome , which but slow Tade it a Roman colony , and sent two thousand five men suddenly without previous sickness , and afflicted the crops and cattle with barrenness . A shower of 54.
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