Livy, Books I-X.Clarendon Press, 1871 - 198 pages |
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... religious ceremonial , but incidentally also historical statements , as appears from Cic . de Rep . 2. 31 . IV . Laws ; engraved on brass and stone . Of these the principal were the Twelve Tables . Laws are often referred to the kings ...
... religious ceremonial , but incidentally also historical statements , as appears from Cic . de Rep . 2. 31 . IV . Laws ; engraved on brass and stone . Of these the principal were the Twelve Tables . Laws are often referred to the kings ...
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... religion had not been so thoroughly studied as it has been since the publication of Hartung's Religion der Römer . It may be alled Euhemerism . Though the Romans preserved longer than the Greeks , as Polybius testifies , a feeling of ...
... religion had not been so thoroughly studied as it has been since the publication of Hartung's Religion der Römer . It may be alled Euhemerism . Though the Romans preserved longer than the Greeks , as Polybius testifies , a feeling of ...
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... religious guilds or societies , which existed for the purpose of performing special sacrifices to special deities . Among these sodalicia or collegia , one of the most noted was that of the Fratres Arvales . It consisted of twelve ...
... religious guilds or societies , which existed for the purpose of performing special sacrifices to special deities . Among these sodalicia or collegia , one of the most noted was that of the Fratres Arvales . It consisted of twelve ...
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... religious brotherhood , but we have exceedingly little infor- mation about it . All that we know is that it lasted into the imperial times ( Becker , Röm . Alt . 4. 147 ) , that its object was the maintenance of Sabine rites , and that ...
... religious brotherhood , but we have exceedingly little infor- mation about it . All that we know is that it lasted into the imperial times ( Becker , Röm . Alt . 4. 147 ) , that its object was the maintenance of Sabine rites , and that ...
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... religious belief had died out among cultivated Greeks . On the other hand , Faunus and Carmenta , and Acca Larentia and the rest , appear ori- ginally as deities , but a later generation converted them into men and women , and that with ...
... religious belief had died out among cultivated Greeks . On the other hand , Faunus and Carmenta , and Acca Larentia and the rest , appear ori- ginally as deities , but a later generation converted them into men and women , and that with ...
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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.