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Page xxvii
... writers kings . These were appointed by election from the chief families of state , and were probably two in number , as Polybius compares them with the Roman consuls , though Cicero ( de Republica 11. 23 ) specially contrasts them with ...
... writers kings . These were appointed by election from the chief families of state , and were probably two in number , as Polybius compares them with the Roman consuls , though Cicero ( de Republica 11. 23 ) specially contrasts them with ...
Page xxxiii
... 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 rendering only of the ...
... 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 rendering only of the ...
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... fuller form , while the edition which Polybius gives is a summary and corrected one . It remains then to ascertain , if possible , the nature of these common sources . 6. The passages of the two writers in which the INTRODUCTION . II .
... fuller form , while the edition which Polybius gives is a summary and corrected one . It remains then to ascertain , if possible , the nature of these common sources . 6. The passages of the two writers in which the INTRODUCTION . II .
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... writers of two centuries later , could hardly fail to be consulted by a painstaking author like Polybius , and his silence on the subject goes for little , as it was not the practice of those times to mention earlier authorities except ...
... writers of two centuries later , could hardly fail to be consulted by a painstaking author like Polybius , and his silence on the subject goes for little , as it was not the practice of those times to mention earlier authorities except ...
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... writers in their history of the past freely used the outlines which were thus ready to their hand , and adopted a like order in the narrative of their own times . Here and there indeed com- plaints were made of such meagre chronicles of ...
... writers in their history of the past freely used the outlines which were thus ready to their hand , and adopted a like order in the narrative of their own times . Here and there indeed com- plaints were made of such meagre chronicles of ...
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acie agmen agrum alii Alps animi animos apud arma army atque belli bellum Carthage castra causa ceterum circa clades constr consul Corssen decemviri deinde eius enim equites equitum erant erat esset etiam exercitus extemplo Fabius Fabri compares fuit Gallis Gauls hæc Hannibal Hannibalem Hannibali Hasdrubal haud Hiberum hostem hostis hostium inde Insubres inter ipse ipsi Isère Italiam Italy Itaque legati legions Lilybæum Livy Livy's Madvig magis magister equitum magistratus maior milites militum millia modo neque nihil nunc omnes omnia omnium patres peditum pleonasm Polyb Polybius populi postquam præ prælium prætor primo primum probably prope pugna Punic quæ quam quia quibus quid quidem quod quoque quum Romam Roman Rome Saguntum satis Scipio Sempronius senate sese Sicily socii sociorum Strabo sunt tamen tantum Taurini tempus tium Trebia urbem Varro velut XXII
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Page 85 - audivi, milites, eum primum esse " virum, qui ipse consulat, quid in rem sit, secundum eum, " qui bene monenti obediat ; qui nee ipse consulere nee 60 " alteri parere sciat, eum extremi ingenii esse.
Page 190 - Now the present point as to these superstitions is their military inexpediency. A nation which was moved by these superstitions as to luck would be at the mercy of a nation, in other respects equal, which was not subject to them. In historical times, as we know, the panic terror at eclipses has been the ruin of the armies which have felt it ; or has made them delay to do something necessary, or rush to do something destructive. The necessity of consulting the auspices, while it was sincerely practised...
Page xlii - Nunquam ingenium idem ad res diversissimas, parendum atque imperandum, habilius fuit. Itaque haud facile discerneres utrum imperatori an exercitui carior esset ; neque Hasdrubal alium quemquam praeficere malle, ubi quid fortiter ac strenue agendum esset, neque milites alio duce plus confidere aut audere.
Page xlii - ... inter custodias stationesque militum conspexerunt. Vestitus nihil inter aequales excellens: arma atque equi conspiciebantur. Equitum peditumque idem longe primus erat; princeps in proelium ibat, ultimus conserto proelio excedebat. Has tantas viri virtutes ingentia vitia aequabant, inhumana crudelitas, perfidia plus quam Punica, nihil veri, nihil sancti, nullus deum metus, nullum ius iurandum, nulla religio.
Page xlii - Deum metus, nullum jus jurandum, nulla religio. Cum hac indole virtutum atque vitiorum triennio sub Hasdrubale imperatore meruit, nulla re, quae agenda videndaque magno futuro duci esset, praetermissa.
Page 150 - B. , and severed from each other by distinct ties of relationship to the central city. Note the contracted form of the gen. plur. which is frequently used in this word as in deum, medium, jugerum, denarium. Cf. Cic. Orat. 157, alias ita loquor ut concessum est, ut hoc vel
Page 18 - ... detruncatisque struem ingentem lignorum faciunt, eamque, cum et vis venti apta faciendo igni coorta esset, succendunt, ardentiaque saxa infuso aceto putrefaciunt. ita torridam incendio rupem ferro pandunt molliuntque anfractibus modicis clivos, ut non iumenta solum sed elephanti etiam deduci possent.
Page 65 - Numidae 11 fecerunt; nee tamen is terror, cum omnia bello flagrarent, fide socios dimovit, videlicet quia iusto et moderato regebantur imperio nee abnuebant, quod unum vinculum fidei est, melioribus parere.
Page 13 - Poeni oppugnabantur; plusque inter ipsos, sibi quoque tendente, ut periculo prius evaderet, quam cum hostibus, certaminis erat. Equi maxime infestum agmen faciebant, qui et clamoribus dissonis, quos nemora etiam repercussaeque valles augebant, territi trepidabant, et icti forte aut vulnerati adeo consternabantur, ut stragem ingentem simul hominum ac sarcinarum omnis generis facerent.
Page xl - Ceterum nihilo ei pax tutior fuit: barbarus eum quidam palam ob iram interfecti ab eo domini obtruncat; comprensusque ab circumstantibus haud alio, quam si evasisset, vultu, tormentis quoque quum laceraretur, eo fuit habitu oris, ut superante laetitia dolores ridentis etiam speciem praebuerit.