The Rubicon; Or, Historical Allusions Familiarized,: In Sketches of Early Roman History |
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... over his children , even permitting him to take away their lives . If they were born with any deformity , he was not even obliged to rear them , but might expose them in the public road , to be destroyed 14 THE RUBICON .
... over his children , even permitting him to take away their lives . If they were born with any deformity , he was not even obliged to rear them , but might expose them in the public road , to be destroyed 14 THE RUBICON .
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... over his children , even permitting him to take away their lives . If they were born with any deformity , he was not even obliged to rear them , but might ❤ expose them in the public road , to be destroyed 14 THE RUBICON .
... over his children , even permitting him to take away their lives . If they were born with any deformity , he was not even obliged to rear them , but might ❤ expose them in the public road , to be destroyed 14 THE RUBICON .
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... obliged to sacrifice all his affections to his country . I hope your next anecdote will be more agreeable , brother . Mamma , will you go on ? " " In the reign of Tullus , the hills , called Cælius , Quirinalis , and Esquilinus , were ...
... obliged to sacrifice all his affections to his country . I hope your next anecdote will be more agreeable , brother . Mamma , will you go on ? " " In the reign of Tullus , the hills , called Cælius , Quirinalis , and Esquilinus , were ...
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... obliged to borrow money to support their families . The laws of Rome allowed a creditor to seize his debtor , and employ him as his slave , until his debts should be paid . You know the mean- ing of those words , I think . " 66 ' Oh ...
... obliged to borrow money to support their families . The laws of Rome allowed a creditor to seize his debtor , and employ him as his slave , until his debts should be paid . You know the mean- ing of those words , I think . " 66 ' Oh ...
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... obliged them to pass under the yoke . " " The yoke , -what was that ? " " Oh , I had forgotten you did not know . Two spears were set upright in the ground , and a third laid across them ; passing under these 68 THE RUBICON .
... obliged them to pass under the yoke . " " The yoke , -what was that ? " " Oh , I had forgotten you did not know . Two spears were set upright in the ground , and a third laid across them ; passing under these 68 THE RUBICON .
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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.