The Rubicon; Or, Historical Allusions Familiarized,: In Sketches of Early Roman HistoryJ. Souter, School Library, 73, St. Paul's Churchyard., 1830 - 171 pages |
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... army to- wards Rome . The Roman history abounds in expressions , applied , in the present day , to pass- ing events , and understood by all persons who have studied ancient history . I do not , however , think Philip was quite correct ...
... army to- wards Rome . The Roman history abounds in expressions , applied , in the present day , to pass- ing events , and understood by all persons who have studied ancient history . I do not , however , think Philip was quite correct ...
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... army , which remarkable circumstance caused the choice to be decided directly . These brothers were celebrated for strength and cou- rage , and to them was committed the fate of their countries . Both armies were arranged on E the field ...
... army , which remarkable circumstance caused the choice to be decided directly . These brothers were celebrated for strength and cou- rage , and to them was committed the fate of their countries . Both armies were arranged on E the field ...
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... army , when , before the attack , the six warriors , who were intimate friends , embraced each other tenderly , and then forgetting every thing but that the safety of their country depended upon them , rushed to the combat . Solemn was ...
... army , when , before the attack , the six warriors , who were intimate friends , embraced each other tenderly , and then forgetting every thing but that the safety of their country depended upon them , rushed to the combat . Solemn was ...
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... army with Tullus , he marched into the Roman territory , laying waste all before him . Every town submitted to him , and at last he marched against Rome , and encamped five miles distant from that city . " " Dreadful , mamma ! a Roman ...
... army with Tullus , he marched into the Roman territory , laying waste all before him . Every town submitted to him , and at last he marched against Rome , and encamped five miles distant from that city . " " Dreadful , mamma ! a Roman ...
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... army , and , at the request of the women , erected a temple to Female Fortune , in the place where their tears had saved their country . The next remarkable circumstance was an attempt made by Spurius Cassius Viscellinus , who had ...
... army , and , at the request of the women , erected a temple to Female Fortune , in the place where their tears had saved their country . The next remarkable circumstance was an attempt made by Spurius Cassius Viscellinus , who had ...
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Page 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...
Page 12 - How happy is the blameless vestal's lot ? The world forgetting, by the world forgot...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.