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... seem to sweep away all before them , and many of the old cities were ruined in the course of the long struggle , but Syracuse , weakened as she was , was able to the last to make head against her ancient enemy , driving her back ...
... seem to sweep away all before them , and many of the old cities were ruined in the course of the long struggle , but Syracuse , weakened as she was , was able to the last to make head against her ancient enemy , driving her back ...
Page xxv
... seem to have given a bias to the infant State which lasted on in the stable aristocracy of later ages . A few ruling families held the chief power in their hands , not by established right of an hereditary peerage , but by the wealth ...
... seem to have given a bias to the infant State which lasted on in the stable aristocracy of later ages . A few ruling families held the chief power in their hands , not by established right of an hereditary peerage , but by the wealth ...
Page xxvii
... seem to have dis- charged many of the executive functions of the state . It is probable that they corresponded to the chief departments of the Civil Service , and their long tenure of their office commonly secured a stable and coherent ...
... seem to have dis- charged many of the executive functions of the state . It is probable that they corresponded to the chief departments of the Civil Service , and their long tenure of their office commonly secured a stable and coherent ...
Page xxxiii
... seems at first sight to copy Polybius most closely , we may find commonly some incidents , some names of persons or of things , some notices of causes or effects , which form distinct additions to the story of the earlier writer , and ...
... seems at first sight to copy Polybius most closely , we may find commonly some incidents , some names of persons or of things , some notices of causes or effects , which form distinct additions to the story of the earlier writer , and ...
Page xxxiv
... seem natural to urge that Livy might have had several authorities before him , and have seen reasons for preferring ... seems to show that in all these he uses Polybius without acknowledgment , translating and abridging lengthy passages ...
... seem natural to urge that Livy might have had several authorities before him , and have seen reasons for preferring ... seems to show that in all these he uses Polybius without acknowledgment , translating and abridging lengthy passages ...
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