The Decline of Roman Republic, Volume 1Bell and Daldy, 1864 |
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... PERGAMUM AND THE PROVINCE ASIA . B.C. 133-129 . Livy , Epit . 59 ; Justinus , lib . 36 ; Orosius , v . 8 , 10 ; Clinton , Kings of Pergamum . The will of King Attalus III . — Aristonicus seizes the Kingdom of Per- gamum - The consul P ...
... PERGAMUM AND THE PROVINCE ASIA . B.C. 133-129 . Livy , Epit . 59 ; Justinus , lib . 36 ; Orosius , v . 8 , 10 ; Clinton , Kings of Pergamum . The will of King Attalus III . — Aristonicus seizes the Kingdom of Per- gamum - The consul P ...
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... Pergamum , who was a collector , bid at the sale of the booty of Corinth , and he had offered six thou- sand denarii for the Dionysus of Aristides ; but Mummius being surprised , as Pliny says , and suspecting that there was some merit ...
... Pergamum , who was a collector , bid at the sale of the booty of Corinth , and he had offered six thou- sand denarii for the Dionysus of Aristides ; but Mummius being surprised , as Pliny says , and suspecting that there was some merit ...
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... Pergamum who sent these pre- sents , but Cicero may have made a mistake , as he often did . Eutropius records the triumphs of Brutus and Scipio in the same passage , mentioning that of Brutus first . We cannot conclude from this that ...
... Pergamum who sent these pre- sents , but Cicero may have made a mistake , as he often did . Eutropius records the triumphs of Brutus and Scipio in the same passage , mentioning that of Brutus first . We cannot conclude from this that ...
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... Pergamum . He had no children , and he bequeathed his kingdom to the Romans . Attalus was rich , and his bequest was a favourable opportunity for Gracchus to ingra- tiate himself still more with the poor . He promulgated , that is in ...
... Pergamum . He had no children , and he bequeathed his kingdom to the Romans . Attalus was rich , and his bequest was a favourable opportunity for Gracchus to ingra- tiate himself still more with the poor . He promulgated , that is in ...
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... Pergamum , who had brought the will of Attalus to Rome , had given Gracchus a diadem and a purple robe out of the king's household stuff ; a suffi- cient proof that Gracchus designed to make himself king . This kind of insinuation was a ...
... Pergamum , who had brought the will of Attalus to Rome , had given Gracchus a diadem and a purple robe out of the king's household stuff ; a suffi- cient proof that Gracchus designed to make himself king . This kind of insinuation was a ...
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