Livy, Books I-X.Clarendon Press, 1871 - 198 pages |
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... believed to be true by those who recorded it . There remain sources which are corrupt . VII . Funeral Orations . These are described by Polybius , 6. 54 . They are said to have been delivered from the foundation of the republic , or ...
... believed to be true by those who recorded it . There remain sources which are corrupt . VII . Funeral Orations . These are described by Polybius , 6. 54 . They are said to have been delivered from the foundation of the republic , or ...
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... believed itself to be a Trojan colony in the fifth century before Christ , as we know from Thucydides 6. 2 , and there exists a statement which carries the belief not only in a Trojan colony , but a Trojan colony headed by Aeneas , back ...
... believed itself to be a Trojan colony in the fifth century before Christ , as we know from Thucydides 6. 2 , and there exists a statement which carries the belief not only in a Trojan colony , but a Trojan colony headed by Aeneas , back ...
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... believed themselves to be Aeneadae , why did they not believe that Aeneas founded Rome itself instead of Lavinium ? This difficulty might indeed be surmounted , but only by conjectures supported by no evidence . Again , the oracles ...
... believed themselves to be Aeneadae , why did they not believe that Aeneas founded Rome itself instead of Lavinium ? This difficulty might indeed be surmounted , but only by conjectures supported by no evidence . Again , the oracles ...
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... believed by Virgil ( Aen . 6 . 773 ) , and stories of the settling of one city from another are among those in which tradition is most trustworthy . Niebuhr had a theory that Alba had thirty colonies , and that the cities of the Latin ...
... believed by Virgil ( Aen . 6 . 773 ) , and stories of the settling of one city from another are among those in which tradition is most trustworthy . Niebuhr had a theory that Alba had thirty colonies , and that the cities of the Latin ...
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... believed by those who , as Naevius and Ennius , described Romulus as the grandson of Aeneas ; nor is it likely that if the Romans had regarded Alba as their metropolis , they would have razed it to the ground , as they are said to have ...
... believed by those who , as Naevius and Ennius , described Romulus as the grandson of Aeneas ; nor is it likely that if the Romans had regarded Alba as their metropolis , they would have razed it to the ground , as they are said to have ...
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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.