The Rubicon; Or, Historical Allusions Familiarized,: In Sketches of Early Roman HistoryJ. Souter, School Library, 73, St. Paul's Churchyard., 1830 - 171 ページ |
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... sent a messenger to fetch her husband , and some friends , related the par- ticulars of Sextus ' conduct , declared she would not live to be a disgrace to her family , and , before any one was aware of her intention , plunged into her ...
... sent a messenger to fetch her husband , and some friends , related the par- ticulars of Sextus ' conduct , declared she would not live to be a disgrace to her family , and , before any one was aware of her intention , plunged into her ...
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... sent to them . - A long conference took place , which was ended by a wise old man , named Menenius Agrippa , addressing the peo- ple in the following fable . " " A fable , mamma ! and would angry people listen to a fable ? " " A person ...
... sent to them . - A long conference took place , which was ended by a wise old man , named Menenius Agrippa , addressing the peo- ple in the following fable . " " A fable , mamma ! and would angry people listen to a fable ? " " A person ...
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... sent by Gelon , and partly purchased with the public money . Its arrival caused fresh dis- turbances . While it filled them with joy , a diffi- culty arose as to the manner in which it should be distributed . Some wished it to be given ...
... sent by Gelon , and partly purchased with the public money . Its arrival caused fresh dis- turbances . While it filled them with joy , a diffi- culty arose as to the manner in which it should be distributed . Some wished it to be given ...
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... sent , offering to restore Coriolanus to his country , if he would draw off his army ; he received them as general of the Volscians , informing them that if they wished for peace , they must restore the towns formerly taken from that ...
... sent , offering to restore Coriolanus to his country , if he would draw off his army ; he received them as general of the Volscians , informing them that if they wished for peace , they must restore the towns formerly taken from that ...
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... sent to inform him that he was the choice of the senate , found him in his field , holding his plough ; far from being delighted at the honour conferred upon him , that of ruling the Roman people , he grieved that his assistance should ...
... sent to inform him that he was the choice of the senate , found him in his field , holding his plough ; far from being delighted at the honour conferred upon him , that of ruling the Roman people , he grieved that his assistance should ...
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114 ページ - ... 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...
12 ページ - How happy is the blameless vestal's lot ? The world forgetting, by the world forgot...
41 ページ - 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.
90 ページ - 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...
82 ページ - 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...
47 ページ - ... 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.