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... Dionysius 1. 6 , though Cicero De Or . 2. 12 , 53 seems to speak of him as a Latin writer . The other leading Roman historians , e . g . Sisenna , Caelius Antipater , & c . , occupied themselves only with the later history ; so , too ...
... Dionysius 1. 6 , though Cicero De Or . 2. 12 , 53 seems to speak of him as a Latin writer . The other leading Roman historians , e . g . Sisenna , Caelius Antipater , & c . , occupied themselves only with the later history ; so , too ...
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... Dionysius ( 1. 72 ) collects still earlier testimonies : ( 1 ) A writer of uncertain age , Cephalon of Gergithes ... Dionysius must have quoted from a later redaction of the book . Yet it is remarkable that Damastes of Sigeum , who was ...
... Dionysius ( 1. 72 ) collects still earlier testimonies : ( 1 ) A writer of uncertain age , Cephalon of Gergithes ... Dionysius must have quoted from a later redaction of the book . Yet it is remarkable that Damastes of Sigeum , who was ...
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Livy Sir John Robert Seeley. Dionysius to have confirmed the statement . The question is , whether his account contained the name Roma . Schwegler thinks Dionysius does not mean to assert this . I confess I rather think he does . ( 3 ) ...
Livy Sir John Robert Seeley. Dionysius to have confirmed the statement . The question is , whether his account contained the name Roma . Schwegler thinks Dionysius does not mean to assert this . I confess I rather think he does . ( 3 ) ...
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... Dionysius asserts that they actually did So ( I. 49 . Tibullus 2. 19 , does not seem to prove anything ) . When , therefore , the Romans in later times , on consulting these oracles , found passages referring to the sons of Aeneas ...
... Dionysius asserts that they actually did So ( I. 49 . Tibullus 2. 19 , does not seem to prove anything ) . When , therefore , the Romans in later times , on consulting these oracles , found passages referring to the sons of Aeneas ...
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... Dionysius that Alba had been the capital city of the Latin league . But the further statement of those writers ( Dion . 3. 31 , 34 ; 6. 20 ; Livy 1. 52 ) that the other Latin cities were colonies of Alba , is contradicted by Dionysius ...
... Dionysius that Alba had been the capital city of the Latin league . But the further statement of those writers ( Dion . 3. 31 , 34 ; 6. 20 ; Livy 1. 52 ) that the other Latin cities were colonies of Alba , is contradicted by Dionysius ...
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Page 102 - ... ego contra hoc quoque laboris praemium petam, ut me a conspectu malorum, quae nostra tot per annos vidit aetas, tantisper certe, dum prisca illa tota mente repeto, avertam omnis expers curae, quae scribentis animum etsi non flectere a vero, sollicitum tarnen efficere posset.
Page 102 - Datur haec venia antiquitati, ut miscendo humana divinis primordia urbium augustiora faciat; et si cui populo licere oportet consecrare origines suas et ad deos referre auctores, ea belli gloria est populo Romano ut cum suum conditorisque sui parentem Martem potissimum ferat tam et hoc gentes humanae patiantur aequo animo quam imperium patiuntur.
Page 180 - Sabini cives additi consederunt, qui a bono omine " id appellarunt ; nam cyprum Sabine bonum.
Page 66 - Nam si ita esset, quod patres apud majores nostros tenere non potuerunt, ut reprehensores essent comitiorum, id haberent judices, vel quod multo etiam minus esset ferendum.
Page 133 - Numae imposita precatus ita 10 9 est : ' luppiter pater, si est fas hunc Numam Pompilium, cuius ego caput teneo, regem Romae esse, uti tu signa nobis certa adclarassis inter eos fines, quos fed.
Page 173 - ... solam intuentes postmoerium interpretantur esse ; est autem magis circamoerium, locus quem in condendis urbibus quondam Etrusci qua murum ducturi erant certis circa terminis inaugurato consecrabant, ut neque interiore parte aedificia moenibus continuarentur, quae nunc uolgo etiam coniungunt, et extrinsecus puri aliquid ab humano cultu pateret soli.
Page 144 - Lex horrendi carminis erat: duumviri perduellionem iudicent. Si a duumviris provocarit, provocatione certato. Si vincent, caput obnubito, infelici arbori reste suspendito, verberato vel intra pomerium vel extra pomerium.
Page 164 - Deditisne vos populumque Conlatinum, urbem, agros, aquam, terminos, delubra, utensilia, divina humanaque omnia in meam populique Romani dicionem ? ' 'Dedimus.'
Page 5 - Quotiens magni alicuius viri mors ab historicis narrata est, totiens fere consummatio totius vitae et quasi funebris laudatio redditur. hoc, semel aut iterum a Thucydide factum, item in paucissimis personis usurpatum a Sallustio, T. Livius 35 benignus omnibus magnis viris praestitit ; sequentes historici multo id effusius fecerunt.
Page 125 - Eodem tempore et centuriae tres equitum conscriptae sunt : Ramnenses ab Romulo, ab T. Tatio Titienses appellati ; Lucerum nominis et originis causa incerta est.