Livy, Books I-X.Clarendon Press, 1871 - 198 pages |
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... traditional history which Ennius found current . On the other hand , Niebuhr greatly exaggerates their im- portance ; and , particularly in supposing them to have composed a great romantic history like the Niebelungenlied , he goes not ...
... traditional history which Ennius found current . On the other hand , Niebuhr greatly exaggerates their im- portance ; and , particularly in supposing them to have composed a great romantic history like the Niebelungenlied , he goes not ...
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... tradition . Having ascertained that oral tradition is the main source of the earliest Roman history , we are able at once to form a judgment upon certain parts of it . For example , Livy gives a description of the harrow- ing scenes ...
... tradition . Having ascertained that oral tradition is the main source of the earliest Roman history , we are able at once to form a judgment upon certain parts of it . For example , Livy gives a description of the harrow- ing scenes ...
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... traditional histories entirely inconsistent with each other . For example , the famous story of the twins and of the ... traditional accounts , and the firmness with which it abstains from perplexing the question with speculation . The ...
... traditional histories entirely inconsistent with each other . For example , the famous story of the twins and of the ... traditional accounts , and the firmness with which it abstains from perplexing the question with speculation . The ...
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... TRADITIONAL HISTORY MAY HAVE GROWN . It must be admitted that a certain substratum of truth , indistinguish- able to us , probably exists , particularly in the latter part - that it is exceedingly probable that a house of Tarquins ...
... TRADITIONAL HISTORY MAY HAVE GROWN . It must be admitted that a certain substratum of truth , indistinguish- able to us , probably exists , particularly in the latter part - that it is exceedingly probable that a house of Tarquins ...
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... special influences may be sed . The 1 I am disposed , with Forbiger and Jahn , to prefer this reading to Martiaque . earliest legends are evidently connected with the Iliad , and C 2 HOW TRADITIONAL HISTORY HAS GROWN . 19.
... special influences may be sed . The 1 I am disposed , with Forbiger and Jahn , to prefer this reading to Martiaque . earliest legends are evidently connected with the Iliad , and C 2 HOW TRADITIONAL HISTORY HAS GROWN . 19.
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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.