The Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth ...C. J. G. and F. Rivington, 1830 |
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Page 539 - That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head.
Page 16 - Are we, because we are commoners, to be worse treated than strangers ? And when we demand that the people may be free to bestow their offices and dignities on whom they please, Do...
Page 500 - Have you resolved to dishonour me?" he said. "I am not ignorant that death and the extremest tortures are preparing for me; but what are these to the shame of an infamous action, or the wounds of a guilty mind? Slave as I am to Carthage, I have still the spirit of a Roman. I have sworn to return. It is my duty to go; let the gods take care of the rest.
Page 18 - ... our demand have any motive to do it, but the love of domineering. I would fain know of you, consuls and Patricians, is the...
Page 219 - But if the principes and the hastati thus joined were too weak to sustain the fury of the battle, they all fell back into the wider intervals of the triarii ; and then all together being united into a firm mass, they made another...
Page 403 - Erat enim historia nihil aliud, nisi annalium confectio : cujus rei, memoriaeque publica e retinendae causa, ab initio rerum romanarum usque ad P. Mucium, pontificem maximum, res omnes singulorum annorum mandabat litteris pontifex maximus, efferebatque in album, et proponebat tabulam domi, potestas ut esset populo cognoscendi ; ii, qui etiam nunc annales maximi nominantur.
Page 9 - Though I am not conscious; O Romans, of any crime by me committed, it is yet with the utmost shame and confusion, that I appear in your assembly.
Page 17 - They might as well pretend that these things make confusion in families, as that intermarriages will do it. Does not every one know that the children will be ranked according to the quality of...
Page 449 - Dionysius had concluded the late peace with the Carthaginians, with no other view than to get time to establish his new authority, and make the necessary preparations for the war which...