Decline of the Roman Republic, Volume 5Bell, 1874 |
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... carrying off with them what first came to hand . Appian ( B. C. ii . 35 ) supposed that as soon as Caesar took Ariminum he advanced farther south and seized other places , and these events being known at Rome caused the greatest alarm ...
... carrying off with them what first came to hand . Appian ( B. C. ii . 35 ) supposed that as soon as Caesar took Ariminum he advanced farther south and seized other places , and these events being known at Rome caused the greatest alarm ...
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... carry off his troops , but the greater part deserted him . This happened before the 7th of February ( Cic . ad Attic . vii . 21. 2 ) . Lentulus on the road fell in with Vibullius Rufus , whom Pompeius had sent into Picenum to strengthen ...
... carry off his troops , but the greater part deserted him . This happened before the 7th of February ( Cic . ad Attic . vii . 21. 2 ) . Lentulus on the road fell in with Vibullius Rufus , whom Pompeius had sent into Picenum to strengthen ...
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... carry letters to Pompeius who was then at Luceria in Apulia with fourteen . cohorts : the purport of the message of Domitius was to entreat Pompeius to come to his relief ; that Caesar might be easily prevented from retreating or ...
... carry letters to Pompeius who was then at Luceria in Apulia with fourteen . cohorts : the purport of the message of Domitius was to entreat Pompeius to come to his relief ; that Caesar might be easily prevented from retreating or ...
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... carried over to Dyrrhachium the consuls and part of the army . Pompeius being either alarmed at the progress of Caesar's works , or having from the first resolved to leave Italy , now began to prepare for flight , and , in order to ...
... carried over to Dyrrhachium the consuls and part of the army . Pompeius being either alarmed at the progress of Caesar's works , or having from the first resolved to leave Italy , now began to prepare for flight , and , in order to ...
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... carried off so much gold and silver from Rome ( vol . ii . p . 368 ) . It has been conjectured that Caesar wished to take the money in a regular way , and that a proposal to this effect was made in the Senate and opposed by the tribune ...
... carried off so much gold and silver from Rome ( vol . ii . p . 368 ) . It has been conjectured that Caesar wished to take the money in a regular way , and that a proposal to this effect was made in the Senate and opposed by the tribune ...
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