An Inquiry Into the Credibility of the Early Roman History, Volume 2J. W. Parker and Son, 1855 - Historiography |
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... seems to consider Tusculum as the last asylum of Tarquin : Tertio anno post reges exactos Tarquinius , cum suscipi non posset in regnum , neque ei Porsena , qui pacem cum Romanis fecerat , auxilium præstaret , Tusculum se contulit , quæ ...
... seems to consider Tusculum as the last asylum of Tarquin : Tertio anno post reges exactos Tarquinius , cum suscipi non posset in regnum , neque ei Porsena , qui pacem cum Romanis fecerat , auxilium præstaret , Tusculum se contulit , quæ ...
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... seems however extremely improbable that any of the events which Dionysius relates were invented by him . In assigning causes , reasons , motives , and connexion , in dramatizing facts , and in fabricating speeches , he doubtless ...
... seems however extremely improbable that any of the events which Dionysius relates were invented by him . In assigning causes , reasons , motives , and connexion , in dramatizing facts , and in fabricating speeches , he doubtless ...
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... seems absurd ; particularly as the outrage upon his wife and its tragic ending , which were the apparent motives of his election to the consulate , were sufficient to prevent him from inclining to the Tarquinian cause . reason assigned ...
... seems absurd ; particularly as the outrage upon his wife and its tragic ending , which were the apparent motives of his election to the consulate , were sufficient to prevent him from inclining to the Tarquinian cause . reason assigned ...
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... seems unlikely that Tacitus ( who cannot be supposed to have made any special researches into the primitive history ) should have had access to information respecting the war of Por- sena , which was unknown to Dionysius and Livy ...
... seems unlikely that Tacitus ( who cannot be supposed to have made any special researches into the primitive history ) should have had access to information respecting the war of Por- sena , which was unknown to Dionysius and Livy ...
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... seems to be fluctuating . See above , vol . i . p . 92-4 . The tomb of Porsena described by Varro , in Plin . N. H. xxxvi . 19 , ap- pears to have been a real structure , the dimensions of which are greatly exaggerated in Varro's ...
... seems to be fluctuating . See above , vol . i . p . 92-4 . The tomb of Porsena described by Varro , in Plin . N. H. xxxvi . 19 , ap- pears to have been a real structure , the dimensions of which are greatly exaggerated in Varro's ...
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