The Rubicon; Or, Historical Allusions Familiarized,: In Sketches of Early Roman History |
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... refused it , saying he was unfit to rule so warlike a people ; but the persuasions of the ambassadors , and the en- treaties of his father , who set before him the service he might perform to his countrymen , by promoting religion ...
... refused it , saying he was unfit to rule so warlike a people ; but the persuasions of the ambassadors , and the en- treaties of his father , who set before him the service he might perform to his countrymen , by promoting religion ...
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... with Lucretia , that he again visited her , and tried to persuade her to forget her duties as a woman and a wife , and to commit actions which would have disgraced her for ever . Lucretia indignantly refused , de- siring 46 THE RUBICON .
... with Lucretia , that he again visited her , and tried to persuade her to forget her duties as a woman and a wife , and to commit actions which would have disgraced her for ever . Lucretia indignantly refused , de- siring 46 THE RUBICON .
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In Sketches of Early Roman History. her for ever . Lucretia indignantly refused , de- siring him to leave her house , upon which Tarquin threatened to kill her , and to declare that he had found her committing a crime which deserved ...
In Sketches of Early Roman History. her for ever . Lucretia indignantly refused , de- siring him to leave her house , upon which Tarquin threatened to kill her , and to declare that he had found her committing a crime which deserved ...
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... refused to enlist until their debts should be paid , declaring that those who enjoyed the comforts of peace might undergo the fatigues of war . " " Mamma , that seemed only just ; the soldiers were very badly off . ” 66 ' They were ...
... refused to enlist until their debts should be paid , declaring that those who enjoyed the comforts of peace might undergo the fatigues of war . " " Mamma , that seemed only just ; the soldiers were very badly off . ” 66 ' They were ...
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... refusing to make good their promises when the danger was past . One Appius Claudius , a patrician , ren- dered himself particularly disagreeable to the people , by his constant opposition to the Agra- rian law . Being appointed to lead ...
... refusing to make good their promises when the danger was past . One Appius Claudius , a patrician , ren- dered himself particularly disagreeable to the people , by his constant opposition to the Agra- rian law . Being appointed to lead ...
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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.