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... tion of the oracles of the Sibyl of Erythrae , who seems to be identical with that of Gergis . Now as these oracles came to Cumae and thence to Rome from the Teucrian country , and as in this Teucrian country there had for some ages ...
... tion of the oracles of the Sibyl of Erythrae , who seems to be identical with that of Gergis . Now as these oracles came to Cumae and thence to Rome from the Teucrian country , and as in this Teucrian country there had for some ages ...
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... tion of Alba ; or else as if we ought , with Ihne , to regard Alba as a Sabine settlement . No explanation seems to have been suggested of the strange death of Mettius . Something similar is related of Romulus , Livy 1. 16 , 4. Mettius ...
... tion of Alba ; or else as if we ought , with Ihne , to regard Alba as a Sabine settlement . No explanation seems to have been suggested of the strange death of Mettius . Something similar is related of Romulus , Livy 1. 16 , 4. Mettius ...
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Livy Sir John Robert Seeley. tion of which was imposed upon the gens Horatia , though the expense was borne by the treasury . Close to the altar , in the same street , was a beam fixed in two opposite walls , just where you approached ...
Livy Sir John Robert Seeley. tion of which was imposed upon the gens Horatia , though the expense was borne by the treasury . Close to the altar , in the same street , was a beam fixed in two opposite walls , just where you approached ...
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... tion , seems to be Gaia Caecilia ( Festus s . v . Praedia ) ; but when he was imagined to be an Etruscan , an Etruscan wife was given to him , Tanaquil . As an Etruscan she has the power of divination , and hence an opportunity is ...
... tion , seems to be Gaia Caecilia ( Festus s . v . Praedia ) ; but when he was imagined to be an Etruscan , an Etruscan wife was given to him , Tanaquil . As an Etruscan she has the power of divination , and hence an opportunity is ...
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... tion , the development of its political , religious , and legal ideas , we may gather sufficient information to form an outline history . The principal sources of this information are these : - - 1. The physical geography and topography ...
... tion , the development of its political , religious , and legal ideas , we may gather sufficient information to form an outline history . The principal sources of this information are these : - - 1. The physical geography and topography ...
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Page 152 - ... quod populi Priscorum Latinorum hominesque Prisci Latini adversus populum Romanum Quiritium fecerunt deliquerunt, quod populus Romanus Quiritium bellum cum Priscis Latinis iussit esse senatusque populi Romani Quiritium censuit, consensit, conscivit, ut bellum cum Priscis Latinis fieret, ob eam rem ego populusque Romanus populis Priscorum Latinorum hominibusque Priscis Latinis bellum indico facioque.
Page 64 - Tarquinii se ius dicerc probavisset, non commisit se patribus, sed Tarquinio sepulto populum de se ipse consuluit, iussusque regnare legem de imperio suo curiatam tulit.
Page 145 - si ipse discere posses fidem ac foedera servare, vivo tibi ea disciplina a me adhibita esset; nunc, quoniam tuum insanabile ingenium est, at tu tuo supplicio doce humanum genus ea sancta credere, quae a te violata sunt. Ut igitur paulo ante animum inter Fidenatem Romanamque rem ancipitem gessisti, ita iam corpus passim distrahendum dabis.
Page 159 - Auguriis certe sacerdotioque augurum tantus honos accessit, ut nihil belli domique postea nisi auspicato gereretur, concilia populi, exercitus vocati, summa rerum, ubi aves non admisissent, dirimerentur.
Page 98 - Sed haec et his similia utcunque animadversa aut existimata 9 erunt, haud in magno equidem ponam discrimine; ad illa mihi pro se quisque acriter intendat animum, quae vita, qui mores fuerint, per quos viros quibusque artibus domi militiaeque et partum et auctum imperium sit...
Page 159 - te novacula cotem discissurum ; cape haec et perage, quod aves tuae fieri posse portendunt'. tum 5 illum baud cunctanter discidisse cotem ferunt. statua Atti capite velato, quo in loco res acta est, in comitio in gradibus ipsis ad laevam curiae fuit; cotem quoque eodem loco sitam fuisse memorant. ut esset ad posteros miraculi eius monumentum.
Page 98 - Datur haec venia antiquitati, ut miscendo humana divinis primordia urbium augustiora faciat; et si cui populo licere oportet consecrare origines suas et ad deos referre auctores, ea belli gloria est populo Romano ut cum suum conditorisque sui parentem Martem potissimum ferat tam et hoc gentes humanae patiantur aequo animo quam imperium patiuntur.
Page 177 - Sabini cives additi consederunt, qui a bono omine " id appellarunt ; nam cyprum Sabine bonum.
Page 98 - ... ego contra hoc quoque laboris praemium petam, ut me a conspectu malorum, quae nostra tot per annos vidit aetas, tantisper certe, dum prisca ilia tota mente repeto, avertam, omnis expers curae, quae scribentis animum, etsi non flectere a vero, sollicitum tamen efficere possit.