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... forces in two bodies to the promontories , which , by their heads projecting into the deep , formed the harbour ; under ... force through the narrow entrance of the port , and push out into the open sea ; and after that he saw his men ...
... forces in two bodies to the promontories , which , by their heads projecting into the deep , formed the harbour ; under ... force through the narrow entrance of the port , and push out into the open sea ; and after that he saw his men ...
Page 1671
... force ? For , if they should withdraw , who could doubt that the enemy would weigh up the masses that were sunk , and open the port with less labour than it had cost to shut it ? But if , after all , they were to remain there , what ...
... force ? For , if they should withdraw , who could doubt that the enemy would weigh up the masses that were sunk , and open the port with less labour than it had cost to shut it ? But if , after all , they were to remain there , what ...
Page 1673
... force . Having sailed past Miletus , and the rest of the coast of the allies , he made a descent in the bay of Bargyllæ , with the design of reducing Jassus . A garrison of the king's troops held the city , and the Romans made hostile ...
... force . Having sailed past Miletus , and the rest of the coast of the allies , he made a descent in the bay of Bargyllæ , with the design of reducing Jassus . A garrison of the king's troops held the city , and the Romans made hostile ...
Page 1674
... force was a body of four thousand Gauls , procured for hire : these , with a few others intermixed , he detached , with orders to waste utterly the country about Per- gamus . When news of these transactions arrived at Samos , Eumenes ...
... force was a body of four thousand Gauls , procured for hire : these , with a few others intermixed , he detached , with orders to waste utterly the country about Per- gamus . When news of these transactions arrived at Samos , Eumenes ...
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... forces , to make any stand against the Roman army and its commanders , the two Scipios , than that his naval force by itself had ever been tried by him successfully , or afforded at this juncture any great or well - grounded confidence ...
... forces , to make any stand against the Roman army and its commanders , the two Scipios , than that his naval force by itself had ever been tried by him successfully , or afforded at this juncture any great or well - grounded confidence ...
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