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... letter S. In the upper part of this it encloses a level parade ground . This from the earliest days of the city which sprang up upon the river's eastern bank was consecrated to the service of the God of War and known as the Campus ...
... letter S. In the upper part of this it encloses a level parade ground . This from the earliest days of the city which sprang up upon the river's eastern bank was consecrated to the service of the God of War and known as the Campus ...
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... letters of gold . Its creation dates back to the fourth century B.C. , when first Rome conceived this idea of incorporating the citizens of a conquered town into her own franchise instead of destroying , enslaving , or removing them ...
... letters of gold . Its creation dates back to the fourth century B.C. , when first Rome conceived this idea of incorporating the citizens of a conquered town into her own franchise instead of destroying , enslaving , or removing them ...
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... Letters the very life - blood of the period . The " Second Period " of Roman History ( " From the end of the Third Punic War to the accession of Vespasian " ) shares with the First this exciting story of the end of the Republic . Its ...
... Letters the very life - blood of the period . The " Second Period " of Roman History ( " From the end of the Third Punic War to the accession of Vespasian " ) shares with the First this exciting story of the end of the Republic . Its ...
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... Letters ( a very painful contrast to Cicero's ) 2 hardly cover the ground , even with the incomparable Agricola " of Tacitus added . In fact there is no good authority for the outstanding figure of the second section of the period , the ...
... Letters ( a very painful contrast to Cicero's ) 2 hardly cover the ground , even with the incomparable Agricola " of Tacitus added . In fact there is no good authority for the outstanding figure of the second section of the period , the ...
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... Letters of Cicero or of Pliny is suggested for his study , and two biographies from Suetonius . No one of the historians is read entire . Polybius is read in " selections " only . The fragmentary state in which his vast work has come ...
... Letters of Cicero or of Pliny is suggested for his study , and two biographies from Suetonius . No one of the historians is read entire . Polybius is read in " selections " only . The fragmentary state in which his vast work has come ...
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