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... year 1773 there was discovered in the Vatican Library at Rome a fragment of the ninety - first book , containing an account of the events of the war in Spain during the year 76 B.C .; and little more than a year ago there was found in ...
... year 1773 there was discovered in the Vatican Library at Rome a fragment of the ninety - first book , containing an account of the events of the war in Spain during the year 76 B.C .; and little more than a year ago there was found in ...
Page vii
... year of the 180th Olympiad - that is , 59 B. C. , the same year in which the orator Messalla Corvinus was born ; and died Olymp . 199,1 - that is , A.D. 17 , in which year also the poet Ovid died . Livy's native city was Patavium ( now ...
... year of the 180th Olympiad - that is , 59 B. C. , the same year in which the orator Messalla Corvinus was born ; and died Olymp . 199,1 - that is , A.D. 17 , in which year also the poet Ovid died . Livy's native city was Patavium ( now ...
Page viii
... year 9 B. C. , in which year Claudius Drusus - the stepson of Augustus - after making a successful campaign against the Germans , and pene- trating further into their country than any other Roman general had done , died on his march ...
... year 9 B. C. , in which year Claudius Drusus - the stepson of Augustus - after making a successful campaign against the Germans , and pene- trating further into their country than any other Roman general had done , died on his march ...
Page ix
... years of age . We can , moreover , fix the writing of this book before 25 B. C. , because in that year the temple was again shut for the second time in the reign of Augustus ; and yet Livy , in the passage already mentioned , speaks of ...
... years of age . We can , moreover , fix the writing of this book before 25 B. C. , because in that year the temple was again shut for the second time in the reign of Augustus ; and yet Livy , in the passage already mentioned , speaks of ...
Page x
... year of the prodigies which had been reported and set down in the annals of the pontifex maxi- mus . Implicit belief in these was a characteristic feature of the earlier ages , but a sensible and active - minded historian would ...
... year of the prodigies which had been reported and set down in the annals of the pontifex maxi- mus . Implicit belief in these was a characteristic feature of the earlier ages , but a sensible and active - minded historian would ...
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Page 196 - 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; ea neque molli strato neque silentio accersita ; multi saepe militari sagulo opertum humi iacentem inter custodias stationesque militum conspexerunt.
Page 16 - ... 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.
Page 192 - Nam neque validiores opibus ullae inter se civitates gentesque contulerunt arma, neque his ipsis tantum unquam virium aut roboris fuit, et baud ignotas belli...
Page 17 - Hoc illud est praecipue in cognitione rerum salubre ac frugiferum, omnis te exempli documenta in inlustri posita monumento intueri; inde tibi tuaeque rei publicae, quod imitere, capias, inde foedum inceptu, foedum exitu, quod vites.
Page 16 - Quae ante conditam condendamve urbem poeticis magis decora fabulis quam incorruptis rerum gestarum monumentis traduntur, ea nec adfirmare nec refellere in animo est. Datur haec venia antiquitati, ut miscendo humana divinis primordia urbium augustiora faciat...
Page 280 - C. 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 55 - Romani ovantes ac gratulantes Horatium accipiunt : eo majore cum gaudio, quo prope metum res fuerat. Ad sepulturam inde suorum nequaquam paribus animis vertuntur : quippe imperio alteri aucti, alteri ditionis alienae facti.
Page 149 - ... tempore quo in homine non ut nunc omnia in unum consentiant, sed singulis membris suum cuique consilium, suus sermo fuerit, indignatas reliquas partes sua cura, suo labore ac ministerio ventri omnia quaeri, ventrem in medio quietum nihil aliud quam datis voluptatibus frui; conspirasse inde ne manus ad os cibum ferrent, nee os acciperet datum, nee denies quae acciperent conficerent.
Page 67 - ... 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 289 - ... enim inde votis aut imploratione deum, sed vi ac virtute evadendum esse; per medias acies ferro viam fieri et, quo timoris minus sit, eo minus ferme periculi esse.