The Rubicon; Or, Historical Allusions Familiarized,: In Sketches of Early Roman HistoryJ. Souter, School Library, 73, St. Paul's Churchyard., 1830 - 171 pagina's |
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Pagina 111
... which would be so useful to them . A pretence was soon found for interfering in its affairs . The Carthaginians , at that time , possessed the greatest part of the Island of Sicily , and only wanted a pretence to THE RUBICON . 111.
... which would be so useful to them . A pretence was soon found for interfering in its affairs . The Carthaginians , at that time , possessed the greatest part of the Island of Sicily , and only wanted a pretence to THE RUBICON . 111.
Pagina 112
... Carthaginians , it is said by the Roman his- torians , were so remarkable for being faithless to their engagements , that the word Punicus , or Carthaginian , became synonimous with false or treacherous , in which sense it is used by ...
... Carthaginians , it is said by the Roman his- torians , were so remarkable for being faithless to their engagements , that the word Punicus , or Carthaginian , became synonimous with false or treacherous , in which sense it is used by ...
Pagina 113
... Carthaginian vessel being thrown upon their coast by a storm , they set to work to imitate it , and built one hundred ... Carthaginians . Dullius , their admiral , was allowed a triumph , and Regulus , the consul , took the islands of ...
... Carthaginian vessel being thrown upon their coast by a storm , they set to work to imitate it , and built one hundred ... Carthaginians . Dullius , their admiral , was allowed a triumph , and Regulus , the consul , took the islands of ...
Pagina 114
... Carthaginians at home , and a fleet of three hundred sail was -put under the com- mand of Regulus and Manlius . Regulus was one of the greatest men that Rome had pro- duced ; he was frugal to an excess , and more severe upon his own ...
... Carthaginians at home , and a fleet of three hundred sail was -put under the com- mand of Regulus and Manlius . Regulus was one of the greatest men that Rome had pro- duced ; he was frugal to an excess , and more severe upon his own ...
Pagina 115
... Carthaginian towns submitted to them . The Carthaginians , in de- spair , sent to Lacedæmon , to offer the command of their armies to Xantippus , a very celebrated general , and , at the same time , solicited Regulus for peace . This ...
... Carthaginian towns submitted to them . The Carthaginians , in de- spair , sent to Lacedæmon , to offer the command of their armies to Xantippus , a very celebrated general , and , at the same time , solicited Regulus for peace . This ...
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Pagina 114 - ... the efficient ally of the Romans in the last campaign of the war, all the territory which she had wrested from him. Carthage also gave up her fleet and her elephants to the Romans, and agreed to pay to Rome a yearly tribute of two hundred talents, and bound herself to enter upon no war in the future without the consent of the Romans. Thus ended the Second Punic War, after a continuance of seventeen years (BC 218201), in the humiliation of Carthage, which now virtually lost her national independence...
Pagina 12 - How happy is the blameless vestal's lot ? The world forgetting, by the world forgot...
Pagina 41 - Thus resolved, they all for some time showed their spirit, and kept their word ; but soon they found, that instead of mortifying the belly by these means, they only undid themselves ; they languished for a while, and perceived, when too late, that it was owing to the belly that they had strength to work, or courage to mutiny.
Pagina 90 - Fabricius, it would be as easy to turn the sun from his course as thee from the path of honor ! " In gratitude for the noble conduct of Fabricius and the Roman Senate, Pyrrhus immediately sent Cineas to Rome with his thanks, and at once released all the Romans whom he had taken prisoners, and sent them home rich with presents. The Romans, nevertheless, still firmly...
Pagina 82 - The last good kins; whom willing Rome obey'd Was the poor offspring of a captive maid ; Yet he those robes of empire justly bore, Which Romulus, our sacred founder, wore: Nicely he gain'd, and well possest the throne, Not for his father's merit, but his own, And reign'd, himself a family alone. When...
Pagina 47 - ... dream, he flew to take up his mother, who had fallen at his feet, crying out, " Oh ! my mother, thou hast saved Rome, but lost thy son." He accordingly gave orders to draw off the army, pretending to the officers, that the city was too strong to be taken. Tullus, who had long envied Coriolanus, was not remiss in aggravating the lenity of his conduct to his countrymen.