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Livy James Bradstreet Greenough, Tracy Peck. 07-29-41 25 gut 347454 PREFACE . THE SCOPE and method of this volume of ... Livy's mind and his conception of his country's history and destiny . The text is based upon the recension by August ...
Livy James Bradstreet Greenough, Tracy Peck. 07-29-41 25 gut 347454 PREFACE . THE SCOPE and method of this volume of ... Livy's mind and his conception of his country's history and destiny . The text is based upon the recension by August ...
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Livy James Bradstreet Greenough, Tracy Peck. lated blunders and whims of many scribes ; their spelling can- not ... Livy's life and writings , and an estimate of his strength and weakness as a historian , the reader is referred to ...
Livy James Bradstreet Greenough, Tracy Peck. lated blunders and whims of many scribes ; their spelling can- not ... Livy's life and writings , and an estimate of his strength and weakness as a historian , the reader is referred to ...
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... Livy's work .十 DEFECTIVE ACCOUNTS OF THE SECOND PUNIC WAR . 8. The events contained in this Decade ought naturally ... LIVY'S HISTORY OF THE WAR . 9. The sources from which Livy could draw for his history were thus tainted from the ...
... Livy's work .十 DEFECTIVE ACCOUNTS OF THE SECOND PUNIC WAR . 8. The events contained in this Decade ought naturally ... LIVY'S HISTORY OF THE WAR . 9. The sources from which Livy could draw for his history were thus tainted from the ...
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... LIVY'S AUTHORITIES . 10. The most important source of Livy's Third Decade was unquestionably the great universal history of Polybius . This author was a native of Greece , but he came to Rome in his maturity , in B.C. 167. He was an ...
... LIVY'S AUTHORITIES . 10. The most important source of Livy's Third Decade was unquestionably the great universal history of Polybius . This author was a native of Greece , but he came to Rome in his maturity , in B.C. 167. He was an ...
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... Livy used it in his Third Decade . It does not appear that Livy made use of the Roman History of his contemporary , Dionysius of Halicarnassus , nor of the great historical epic of Ennius , the Annales . LIVY'S TREATMENT OF HISTORICAL ...
... Livy used it in his Third Decade . It does not appear that Livy made use of the Roman History of his contemporary , Dionysius of Halicarnassus , nor of the great historical epic of Ennius , the Annales . LIVY'S TREATMENT OF HISTORICAL ...
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Page 9 - ... 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 130 - ... et animus suus cuique ante aut post pugnandi ordinem dabat; tantusque fuit ardor animorum, adeo intentus pugnae animus ut eum motum terrae, qui multarum urbium Italiae magnas partes prostravit avertitque cursu rapidos amnis, mare fluminibus invexit, montes lapsu ingenti proruit, nemo pugnantium senserit.
Page 115 - Flaminio tulerat, ne quis Senator cuive Senator pater fuisset maritimam navem, quae plus quam trecentarum amphorarum esset, haberet. Id satis habitum ad fructus ex agris vectandos; quaestus omnis patribus indecorus visus.
Page 9 - Plurimum audaciae ad pericula capessenda, plurimum consilii inter ipsa pericula erat. Nullo labore aut corpus fatigari aut animus vinci poterat. Caloris ac frigoris patientia par ; cibi potionisque desiderio 10 natural!, non voluptate modus finitus ; vigiliarum somnique nee die nee nocte discriminata tempora; id quod gerendis rebus superesset quieti datum...
Page 124 - Hannibal, seger oculis ex verna primum intemperie variante calores frigoraque, elephanto, qui unus superfuerat, quo altius ab aqua exstaret, vectus, vigiliis tarnen et nocturno humore palustrique coelo gra- 30 vante caput, et quia medendi nee locus nee tempus erat, altero oculo capitur.
Page 174 - audivi, milites, eum primum esse virum qui ipse consulat quid in rem sit, secundum eum qui bene monenti oboediat; qui nee ipse consulere nee 9 alteri parere sciat, eum extremi ingenii esse.
Page 18 - Phalarica erat Saguntinis missile telum hastili abiegno et cetera tereti praeterquam ad extremum, unde ferrum exstabat...
Page 120 - Antii metentibus 15 11 cruentas in corbem spicas cecidisse, et Faleriis caelum findi velut magno hiatu visum, quaque patuerit, ingens lumen effulsisse ; sortes sua sponte adtenuatas, unamque excidisse 12 ita scriptam 'Mavors telum suum concutit...