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... Latin League mark the most obvious beginnings of an Empire which should be wider than any which Alexander knew , and yet persist . Progress towards it was slow and toilsome . Often it was increased by the operation of the most selfish ...
... Latin League mark the most obvious beginnings of an Empire which should be wider than any which Alexander knew , and yet persist . Progress towards it was slow and toilsome . Often it was increased by the operation of the most selfish ...
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... Latin race had its origin . Here , at Alba Longa , it built for its needs its earliest city , the hearthstone and most sacred sanctuary of the people and their tutelary God , Jupiter of Latium . In the traditions of the Romans it was ...
... Latin race had its origin . Here , at Alba Longa , it built for its needs its earliest city , the hearthstone and most sacred sanctuary of the people and their tutelary God , Jupiter of Latium . In the traditions of the Romans it was ...
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... Latin League , Rome continued to celebrate these rites in the shrine and after the manner consecrated by religion , sentiment , and tradition . Deity is conservative in His likes and clings faithfully to His most ancient seat . The ...
... Latin League , Rome continued to celebrate these rites in the shrine and after the manner consecrated by religion , sentiment , and tradition . Deity is conservative in His likes and clings faithfully to His most ancient seat . The ...
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... Latin citizen that he sought to obscure it . For the fifth king is a Tarquin , i.e. an Etruscan Tarchon or Prince . That the weird uncanny warrior folk over the Tiber were 66 reedy mere : Trajan's " Porto " memories of Virgil and his ...
... Latin citizen that he sought to obscure it . For the fifth king is a Tarquin , i.e. an Etruscan Tarchon or Prince . That the weird uncanny warrior folk over the Tiber were 66 reedy mere : Trajan's " Porto " memories of Virgil and his ...
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... Latin city in their stride . Thereafter princes of Etruscan blood ruled it , to its own great advantage , until at last the native element rose in rebellion against their alien overlords , overthrew the foreign dynasty , and declared ...
... Latin city in their stride . Thereafter princes of Etruscan blood ruled it , to its own great advantage , until at last the native element rose in rebellion against their alien overlords , overthrew the foreign dynasty , and declared ...
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