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... Macedonians , and they * This fecond Macedonian war with Perfeus began in the year ** of Rome five hundred and eightytwo , a hundred and fixtynine- years before the Chriftian era . imputed it either to the incapacity or cowardice of ...
... Macedonians , and they * This fecond Macedonian war with Perfeus began in the year ** of Rome five hundred and eightytwo , a hundred and fixtynine- years before the Chriftian era . imputed it either to the incapacity or cowardice of ...
Page 160
... Macedonian yoke ; in short , they who had fubdued Hannibal , to whom no king could . be compared either for valor or power , thought it an in- tolerable thing to be obliged to contend with Perfeus upon equal terms , as if he could be an ...
... Macedonian yoke ; in short , they who had fubdued Hannibal , to whom no king could . be compared either for valor or power , thought it an in- tolerable thing to be obliged to contend with Perfeus upon equal terms , as if he could be an ...
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... Macedonia , and him he defeated : in an engagement of the cavalry , * killed two thousand five hundred of his best men , and took fix hundred prifoners . He furprised the Roman fleet which lay at anchor at Or- meum , took twenty of ...
... Macedonia , and him he defeated : in an engagement of the cavalry , * killed two thousand five hundred of his best men , and took fix hundred prifoners . He furprised the Roman fleet which lay at anchor at Or- meum , took twenty of ...
Page 163
... Macedonia . It is faid , that after the people had appointed him commander in chief against Perseus , and conducted him home in a very fplendid manner , he found his daughter Tertia , who was yet but a child , in tears . Upon this he ...
... Macedonia . It is faid , that after the people had appointed him commander in chief against Perseus , and conducted him home in a very fplendid manner , he found his daughter Tertia , who was yet but a child , in tears . Upon this he ...
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... Macedonians , by a mean regard to money . For the Ba- ftarnæ came , at his requeft , with a body of ten thousand horfe , each of which had a foot foldier by his fide , and they all fought for hire ; men they were that knew not how to ...
... Macedonians , by a mean regard to money . For the Ba- ftarnæ came , at his requeft , with a body of ten thousand horfe , each of which had a foot foldier by his fide , and they all fought for hire ; men they were that knew not how to ...
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Page 239 - Yet Archimedes had such a depth of understanding, such a dignity of sentiment, and so copious a fund of mathematical knowledge, that, though in the invention of these machines he gained the reputation of a man" endowed with divine rather than human knowledge, yet he did not vouchsafe to leave any account of them in writing.
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Page 238 - And, in truth, all the rest of the Syracusans were no more than the body in the batteries of Archimedes, while he himself was the informing soul.