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 66
... consul whose character should be such as to call for respect and affection . The choice fell upon Cincinnatus . He had a short time before sold his estates , to pay a sum of money in which his son had been fined , for increasing the ...
... consul whose character should be such as to call for respect and affection . The choice fell upon Cincinnatus . He had a short time before sold his estates , to pay a sum of money in which his son had been fined , for increasing the ...
Pagina 67
... consul suf- fered himself to be enclosed with his army , in a narrow pass between two mountains , without a hope of escape being left . The news reaching Rome , the senators , in their distress , recollected Cincinnatus , and created ...
... consul suf- fered himself to be enclosed with his army , in a narrow pass between two mountains , without a hope of escape being left . The news reaching Rome , the senators , in their distress , recollected Cincinnatus , and created ...
Pagina 68
... consul's army that relief was at hand : the imprisoned Romans were , of course , as much delighted as the Equi ; the enemy , with whom they were contending , were surprised at finding themselves enclosed in a worse trap than that in ...
... consul's army that relief was at hand : the imprisoned Romans were , of course , as much delighted as the Equi ; the enemy , with whom they were contending , were surprised at finding themselves enclosed in a worse trap than that in ...
Pagina 91
... consul , advised the Senate to com- ply with their wishes , and a plebeian consul was chosen . Camillus then resigned the dicta- torship , which he had held five times , built a temple to Concord , which he had vowed to do when peace ...
... consul , advised the Senate to com- ply with their wishes , and a plebeian consul was chosen . Camillus then resigned the dicta- torship , which he had held five times , built a temple to Concord , which he had vowed to do when peace ...
Pagina 95
... consul with Manlius , whose his- tory I must first tell you . In his youth he was not a clever boy , and he stammered when he spoke ; these defects made his father dislike him , and he kept him in the country , where he is said to have ...
... consul with Manlius , whose his- tory I must first tell you . In his youth he was not a clever boy , and he stammered when he spoke ; these defects made his father dislike him , and he kept him in the country , where he is said to have ...
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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.