Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1J.M. Dent, 1961 |
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Page 390
... horse chariots of war , and then ten thousand footmen bearing white shields , whom they guessed to be all Carthaginians , from the splendour of their arms , and the slowness and order of their march . And when now the troops of various ...
... horse chariots of war , and then ten thousand footmen bearing white shields , whom they guessed to be all Carthaginians , from the splendour of their arms , and the slowness and order of their march . And when now the troops of various ...
Page 464
... horse , and carrying with him the rest of the horse and six hundred light - armed foot , marching night and day without remission , he stayed not till he came up to these ten thousand near a Gaulish village called Clastidium , which not ...
... horse , and carrying with him the rest of the horse and six hundred light - armed foot , marching night and day without remission , he stayed not till he came up to these ten thousand near a Gaulish village called Clastidium , which not ...
Page 465
... horse joining battle not only with the enemy's horse , but also with the foot who attacked them , obtained a singular and unheard - of victory . For never before or since have so few horse defeated such numerous forces of horse and foot ...
... horse joining battle not only with the enemy's horse , but also with the foot who attacked them , obtained a singular and unheard - of victory . For never before or since have so few horse defeated such numerous forces of horse and foot ...
Contents
THE COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS | 56 |
NUMA POMPILIUS | 91 |
THE COMPARISON OF NUMA WITH LYCURGUS | 114 |
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