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... towns shine brightly on the lower slopes of the Alban Hills , old pleasure resorts in times of peace for the noble families and Popes of Rome , but in sterner days refuges for them from peril or from plague . In these hills ' bosom the ...
... towns shine brightly on the lower slopes of the Alban Hills , old pleasure resorts in times of peace for the noble families and Popes of Rome , but in sterner days refuges for them from peril or from plague . In these hills ' bosom the ...
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... town the overthrow of a reigning " tyrant " dynasty cost the city the loss of much of its power and prestige ( nor was such loss always made good ) , so it befell at Rome . On the fall of the Tarquins the city soon found that her ...
... town the overthrow of a reigning " tyrant " dynasty cost the city the loss of much of its power and prestige ( nor was such loss always made good ) , so it befell at Rome . On the fall of the Tarquins the city soon found that her ...
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... towns of " Latin rights , " partly of the newer Latin colonial foundations , thirty - five in number . But the bulk of these colonies have nothing Latin about 1 Such an ingenious map is given by Beloch in his indispens- able book Der ...
... towns of " Latin rights , " partly of the newer Latin colonial foundations , thirty - five in number . But the bulk of these colonies have nothing Latin about 1 Such an ingenious map is given by Beloch in his indispens- able book Der ...
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... town . Two main principles , however , governed Roman statesmanship in the matter . Military service on behalf of Rome in some shape or other was demanded of all " peregrini " whenever Rome had need of it . And in return Rome was ...
... town . Two main principles , however , governed Roman statesmanship in the matter . Military service on behalf of Rome in some shape or other was demanded of all " peregrini " whenever Rome had need of it . And in return Rome was ...
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... town into her own franchise instead of destroying , enslaving , or removing them wholesale . The first certain example of such incorporation is the famous instance of the town of Caere in South Etruria in 353 B.C.1 " Caerite Rights ...
... town into her own franchise instead of destroying , enslaving , or removing them wholesale . The first certain example of such incorporation is the famous instance of the town of Caere in South Etruria in 353 B.C.1 " Caerite Rights ...
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Page 75 - ... tum vos, o Tyrii, stirpem et genus omne futurum exercete odiis, cinerique haec mittite nostro munera. nullus amor populis, nec foedera sunto. exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor, qui face Dardanios ferroque sequare colonos, nunc, olim, quocumque dabunt se tempore vires. litora litoribus contraria, fluctibus undas inprecor, arma armis ; pugnent ipsique nepotesque.
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Page 75 - Ah me, when the mallows wither in the garden, and the green parsley, and the curled tendrils of the anise, on a later day they live again, and spring in another year ; but we men, we, the great and mighty, or wise, when once we have died, in hollow earth we sleep, gone down into silence ; a right long, and endless, and unawakening sleep.
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Page 131 - And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labour fall From their tired hands, and rest Never yet comes more near, Gloom settles slowly down over their breast. And while they try to stem The waves of mournful thought by which they are prest, Death in their prison reaches them, Unfreed, having seen nothing, still unblest.