The History of Rome, 第 1 巻

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A. Strahan, and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1797
 

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3 ページ - ... rather of poetic fictions than of authentic records of history — these I have no intention either to maintain or refute. Antiquity is always indulged with the privilege of rendering the origin of cities more venerable by intermixing divine with human agency; and if any nation may claim the privilege of being allowed to consider its...
53 ページ - Romans and Albans. May others dare to commit like crimes, if I do not now make him a conspicuous example to all mankind." On this, the centurions in arms gathered round Mettius, and the king proceeded in his discourse : " Albans, be the measure prosperous, fortunate, and happy to the Roman people, to me, and to you ; it is my intention to remove the entire people of Alba to Rome, to give to the commons the privileges of citizens, and to enrol the principal inhabitants among the fathers, to form of...
519 ページ - ... up according as the ground required, they climbed to the summit in such silence, that they not only escaped the notice of the guards, but did not even alarm the dogs, animals particularly watchful with regard to any noise at night. They were not unperceived...
263 ページ - ... forward, when the deputies congratulated him, and saluted him Dictator ; requested his presence in the city, and informed him of the alarming situation of the army. A vessel had been prepared for Quintius by order of government, and on his landing on the other side, he was received by his three sons, who came out to meet him ; then by his other relations and friends, and afterwards by the greater part of the patricians. Surrounded by this numerous attendance, and the lictors marching before him,...
508 ページ - ... of the city, the view which it exhibited was sufficient to call forth the liveliest feelings, the women at the same time running up and down in distraction, now following one party, then the other, asking their husbands and their sons to what fate they would consign them. All together formed such a picture of human woe as could admit of no aggravation. A great part, however, of the women followed their relations into the citadel, no one either hindering or inviting them; because, though the measure...
70 ページ - ... he had made in war : so that the people enjoyed little more rest at home than they had during the campaigns : for he set about surrounding with a wall of stone those parts of the city which he had not already fortified ; which work had been interrupted, at the beginning, by the war of the Sabines. The lower parts of the city about the forum, and the other hollows that lay between the hills, from whence it was difficult to discharge the water, by reason of their situation, he drained, by means...
289 ページ - Lucrctia, had occasioned the expulsion of the Tarquinii from the throne and the city ; so that the government of the decemvirs not only ended in the same manner as that of the kings, but was lost through the same cause. Appius Claudius was inflamed with a criminal passion towards a young woman of plebeian rank. The father of this young woman, Lucius Virginius, held an honourable rank among the centurions, in the camp near Algidum...
297 ページ - Were these the rewards of chastity?" with other mournful reflections, such as «re suggested by grief to women, and which, from the greater sensibility of their tender minds, are always the most affecting. The discourse of the men, and particularly of Icilius, turned entirely on their being deprived of the protection of tribunes, and consequently of appeals to the people, and on the mdignities thrown on all.
i ページ - The History of Rome by Titus Livius. Translated from the Original, with Notes and Illustrations by George Baker. 6 vols.
xii ページ - But that disregard of the gods, which prevails in the present age, had not then taken place ; nor did every one, by his own interpretations, accommodate oaths and the laws to his particular views, but rather adapted his practice to them.

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