Plutarch's Lives,: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch, Volume 2Edward and Charles Dilly, 1770 |
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... conful , and gained fe- veral important victories over the Samnites , Tufcans , aud other nations . It was not , however , from these great actions that he obtained the furname of Maximus , but from his behaviour in the cenforfhip ...
... conful , and gained fe- veral important victories over the Samnites , Tufcans , aud other nations . It was not , however , from these great actions that he obtained the furname of Maximus , but from his behaviour in the cenforfhip ...
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... conful . Fabius Maximus was + five times conful ; and in his first confulfhip was honoured with a triumph for the victory he gained over the Ligurians ; who being defeated by him in a fet battle , with the lofs of a great number of men ...
... conful . Fabius Maximus was + five times conful ; and in his first confulfhip was honoured with a triumph for the victory he gained over the Ligurians ; who being defeated by him in a fet battle , with the lofs of a great number of men ...
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... conful , was not difcouraged by any of these things . He was indeed naturally a man of much fire and ambition , and befides was elated by former fucceffes which he had met with contrary to all probability ; for against the sense of the ...
... conful , was not difcouraged by any of these things . He was indeed naturally a man of much fire and ambition , and befides was elated by former fucceffes which he had met with contrary to all probability ; for against the sense of the ...
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... conful is flain ; think " therefore , what is to be done for your fafety . " The fame commotion which a furious wind caufes in the ocean , did , these words of the prætor produce in fo vaft a multitude . In the firft confternation they ...
... conful is flain ; think " therefore , what is to be done for your fafety . " The fame commotion which a furious wind caufes in the ocean , did , these words of the prætor produce in fo vaft a multitude . In the firft confternation they ...
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... conful met him , he fent one of his officers to order him to difmifs his litors and the other enfigns of his employment , and to join him as a private man . Then beginning with an act of religion , which is the best of all beginnings ...
... conful met him , he fent one of his officers to order him to difmifs his litors and the other enfigns of his employment , and to join him as a private man . Then beginning with an act of religion , which is the best of all beginnings ...
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