History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age ...E. Littell, 1827 - Latin literature |
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... remain in Asia , and the other to emigrate under the conduct of his son Tyrrhenus . The inhabitants who composed the latter division leaving their country , repaired to Smyrna , where they built vessels , and removed in search of new ...
... remain in Asia , and the other to emigrate under the conduct of his son Tyrrhenus . The inhabitants who composed the latter division leaving their country , repaired to Smyrna , where they built vessels , and removed in search of new ...
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... remains of oriental antiquity than those of the Etruscans . This descent Mazzochi attempts to confirm by the most fanciful derivations of words and proper names of the Etruscan nation from the eastern languages , especially from the ...
... remains of oriental antiquity than those of the Etruscans . This descent Mazzochi attempts to confirm by the most fanciful derivations of words and proper names of the Etruscan nation from the eastern languages , especially from the ...
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... remains of their arts with the monuments of the ancient Egyptianst . Maffei brings them directly from Canaan , and supposes them to have been the race expelled from that region by the Moabites , or children of Lot . The river Arnon ...
... remains of their arts with the monuments of the ancient Egyptianst . Maffei brings them directly from Canaan , and supposes them to have been the race expelled from that region by the Moabites , or children of Lot . The river Arnon ...
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... remains of the nation received the imperious conditions of peace , dictated by the victors , which left them nothing but the shadow of a great name , —the glory of attending the Ro- man march to the conquest of the world , and the ...
... remains of the nation received the imperious conditions of peace , dictated by the victors , which left them nothing but the shadow of a great name , —the glory of attending the Ro- man march to the conquest of the world , and the ...
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... remain , is the root of some equivalent Latin term . Thus Akeru produced acerra - Anter , inter - Phaisnam , fanum- Tesaur , Thesaurus - Famel , famulus - Multa , mulcta — Solum , ( totus , ) solus - Facul , Facultas - Cael , cœlum ...
... remain , is the root of some equivalent Latin term . Thus Akeru produced acerra - Anter , inter - Phaisnam , fanum- Tesaur , Thesaurus - Famel , famulus - Multa , mulcta — Solum , ( totus , ) solus - Facul , Facultas - Cael , cœlum ...
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