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... passage in the Periplus . The second enterprise under Himilco was directed along the coast of Portugal and Gaul , and thence across to the Cassiterides or Scilly Isles , at which Phoenician adventure in olden times had stopped in its ...
... passage in the Periplus . The second enterprise under Himilco was directed along the coast of Portugal and Gaul , and thence across to the Cassiterides or Scilly Isles , at which Phoenician adventure in olden times had stopped in its ...
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... besides in league with Hiero the avenger , could not turn her back on the temptation of gaining a footing on the soil of Sicily , with a safe passage in the straits . She enrolled the Mamertines as INTRODUCTION . I. xvii.
... besides in league with Hiero the avenger , could not turn her back on the temptation of gaining a footing on the soil of Sicily , with a safe passage in the straits . She enrolled the Mamertines as INTRODUCTION . I. xvii.
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Titus Livius (Patavinus.) William Wolfe Capes. passage in the straits . She enrolled the Mamertines as her allies , and sent a general to the rescue , who by dexterous use of wiles and force ousted the Cartha- ginians from Messana . So ...
Titus Livius (Patavinus.) William Wolfe Capes. passage in the straits . She enrolled the Mamertines as her allies , and sent a general to the rescue , who by dexterous use of wiles and force ousted the Cartha- ginians from Messana . So ...
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... passages of Dion Cassius , preserved or summarized by Zonaras , and also of a long and tedious poem by Silius Italicus . Of these the history of Polybius is much the earliest in date . Its author , though a Greek , lived long at Rome in ...
... passages of Dion Cassius , preserved or summarized by Zonaras , and also of a long and tedious poem by Silius Italicus . Of these the history of Polybius is much the earliest in date . Its author , though a Greek , lived long at Rome in ...
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... passages of the two writers there is very close resemblance in the language used , more especially in dealing with the first part of the war . The agree- ment is too minute and circumstantial to be ascribed to chance , or to faithful ...
... passages of the two writers there is very close resemblance in the language used , more especially in dealing with the first part of the war . The agree- ment is too minute and circumstantial to be ascribed to chance , or to faithful ...
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