An Inquiry Into the Credibility of the Early Roman History, Volume 2J. W. Parker and son, 1855 - Rome |
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... period 356 CHAPTER XIII . History of Rome , from the Rebuilding of the City to the Landing of Pyrrhus in Italy . PART I. - FROM THE REBUILDING OF THE CITY TO THE BEGINNING OF THE SAMNITE WARS . ( 391-343 B.C. ) • § 1 General character ...
... period 356 CHAPTER XIII . History of Rome , from the Rebuilding of the City to the Landing of Pyrrhus in Italy . PART I. - FROM THE REBUILDING OF THE CITY TO THE BEGINNING OF THE SAMNITE WARS . ( 391-343 B.C. ) • § 1 General character ...
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... Period of Greek History . I The results of the preceding inquiry tend to disprove the cre- dibility of the Roman history for the first 473 years of the city 2 General principles respecting historical evidence founded on oral tradition ...
... Period of Greek History . I The results of the preceding inquiry tend to disprove the cre- dibility of the Roman history for the first 473 years of the city 2 General principles respecting historical evidence founded on oral tradition ...
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... period of one hundred and twenty years , which resembles the previous period of two hundred and forty - four years in being prior to all regular con- temporary history , but differs from it in approaching more closely to the time when ...
... period of one hundred and twenty years , which resembles the previous period of two hundred and forty - four years in being prior to all regular con- temporary history , but differs from it in approaching more closely to the time when ...
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... period . ( 2 ) An ar- rangement about the division of the fasces is variously repre- sented one historian says that Brutus alone had the twelve fasces formerly borne before the king : the other that each consul had twelve fasces , but ...
... period . ( 2 ) An ar- rangement about the division of the fasces is variously repre- sented one historian says that Brutus alone had the twelve fasces formerly borne before the king : the other that each consul had twelve fasces , but ...
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... period . It is first mentioned by Livy about a century later , with the remark that its original name was Anxur . ( 10 ) Substantially however the list of towns in the Carthaginian treaty agrees with the received accounts of the extent ...
... period . It is first mentioned by Livy about a century later , with the remark that its original name was Anxur . ( 10 ) Substantially however the list of towns in the Carthaginian treaty agrees with the received accounts of the extent ...
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