The Rubicon; Or, Historical Allusions Familiarized,: In Sketches of Early Roman History |
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... forming one , but I think it an excellent plan , " answered Mrs. Stratton ; " but let us return to our history . Servius had a long reign , of forty - four years , and seems to have been of great service to his people I grieve to tell ...
... forming one , but I think it an excellent plan , " answered Mrs. Stratton ; " but let us return to our history . Servius had a long reign , of forty - four years , and seems to have been of great service to his people I grieve to tell ...
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... formed three orders , —senators , knights , and commons . All the senators wore a gold ring ; but those chosen from the com- mons had not a horse kept for them . The knights , or equestrian order , wore gold rings , and had each a horse ...
... formed three orders , —senators , knights , and commons . All the senators wore a gold ring ; but those chosen from the com- mons had not a horse kept for them . The knights , or equestrian order , wore gold rings , and had each a horse ...
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... formed amongst some of the young men of high rank in Rome , who wished to restore the Tarquins . This occurrence repre- sents the Roman character in so marked a man- ner , that I shall dwell upon it rather longer than my short account ...
... formed amongst some of the young men of high rank in Rome , who wished to restore the Tarquins . This occurrence repre- sents the Roman character in so marked a man- ner , that I shall dwell upon it rather longer than my short account ...
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... formed the ten tables , and , with the addi- tion of two more , made the famous code called the laws of the twelve tables , of which there are some remains even to this day . When the ambassadors returned , ten of the principal se ...
... formed the ten tables , and , with the addi- tion of two more , made the famous code called the laws of the twelve tables , of which there are some remains even to this day . When the ambassadors returned , ten of the principal se ...
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... formed by Appius , with the assistance of his colleagues , to retain their power for ever , without the consent of either senate or people . Sad , indeed , was the condi- tion of the Romans , under these harsh masters . Many of the best ...
... formed by Appius , with the assistance of his colleagues , to retain their power for ever , without the consent of either senate or people . Sad , indeed , was the condi- tion of the Romans , under these harsh masters . Many of the best ...
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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.