Livy, Books I-X.Clarendon Press, 1871 - 198 pages |
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... called by editors M and P. P is considered somewhat inferior to M. A complete knowledge of these two fundamental MSS . we owe to Alschefski , whose edition of Livy appeared in 1841 . Closely resembling M was another MS . now lost , but ...
... called by editors M and P. P is considered somewhat inferior to M. A complete knowledge of these two fundamental MSS . we owe to Alschefski , whose edition of Livy appeared in 1841 . Closely resembling M was another MS . now lost , but ...
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... called Capitolini , because they are preserved in the Capitol , are a similar collection , made , perhaps , about the time of Augustus . VI . Libri Lintei ; preserved in the temple of Juno Moneta . Men- tioned in Livy 4. 7 , 20 , 23 ...
... called Capitolini , because they are preserved in the Capitol , are a similar collection , made , perhaps , about the time of Augustus . VI . Libri Lintei ; preserved in the temple of Juno Moneta . Men- tioned in Livy 4. 7 , 20 , 23 ...
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... called a witness , for he describes what , though beyond his personal observation , might be ascer- tained by him easily and from abundant evidence . Therefore , when Sallust does not give his authority , he still , within certain ...
... called a witness , for he describes what , though beyond his personal observation , might be ascer- tained by him easily and from abundant evidence . Therefore , when Sallust does not give his authority , he still , within certain ...
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... called the institutor of the Vestal Virgins , and yet we are told that the mother of Romulus was a Vestal . Plutarch ( Numa 12 ) makes him founder of the College of Fetiales , but Cicero ( Rep . 2. 17 , 31 ) gives the honour to Tullus ...
... called the institutor of the Vestal Virgins , and yet we are told that the mother of Romulus was a Vestal . Plutarch ( Numa 12 ) makes him founder of the College of Fetiales , but Cicero ( Rep . 2. 17 , 31 ) gives the honour to Tullus ...
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... called the aetiological influence . It is the desire to account for or explain anything that seemed singular in manners or usages , to find an origin for every remarkable institution , and to find a founder for every conspicuous ...
... called the aetiological influence . It is the desire to account for or explain anything that seemed singular in manners or usages , to find an origin for every remarkable institution , and to find a founder for every conspicuous ...
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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.