An Inquiry Into the Credibility of the Early Roman History, Volume 2J. W. Parker and son, 1855 - Rome |
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... narrative of the early years of the Republic , and that of the last years of the kings . In external evidence they stand on the same ground ; and the internal features of the accounts are similar . § 2 The change of government which ...
... narrative of the early years of the Republic , and that of the last years of the kings . In external evidence they stand on the same ground ; and the internal features of the accounts are similar . § 2 The change of government which ...
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... narrative of Dionysius . ( 108 ) Livy says nothing of the Latin embassy ; and he separates the death of Tarquin from the battle of Regillus by four years , ( 109 ) according to the account which he follows , and by one year according to ...
... narrative of Dionysius . ( 108 ) Livy says nothing of the Latin embassy ; and he separates the death of Tarquin from the battle of Regillus by four years , ( 109 ) according to the account which he follows , and by one year according to ...
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... narrative was constructed , we have no means of determining ; but it probably stood on as firm a basis as the other accounts of the early period of the Re- public . It seems unlikely that Tacitus ( who cannot be supposed to have made ...
... narrative was constructed , we have no means of determining ; but it probably stood on as firm a basis as the other accounts of the early period of the Re- public . It seems unlikely that Tacitus ( who cannot be supposed to have made ...
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... narrative of true facts . ( 150 ) See vii . 5-7 . Dionysius says that the siege of Aricia took place twenty years after the archonship of Miltiades , in the 64th Olympiad : that is to say , twenty years after 524 B.C. , which gives 504 ...
... narrative of true facts . ( 150 ) See vii . 5-7 . Dionysius says that the siege of Aricia took place twenty years after the archonship of Miltiades , in the 64th Olympiad : that is to say , twenty years after 524 B.C. , which gives 504 ...
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... narrative of Dionysius is plainly a political drama , invented to explain the very peculiar institu- tion of the Roman dictatorship : the officer being supreme and absolute , though for a limited time , the Senate being judges of the ...
... narrative of Dionysius is plainly a political drama , invented to explain the very peculiar institu- tion of the Roman dictatorship : the officer being supreme and absolute , though for a limited time , the Senate being judges of the ...
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