Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2I. Thomas, 1804 |
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... Romans were denominated from other branches of husbandry . Indeed , their first heroes tilled the ground with their own hands . This Fabius Rullus was five times conful , and gained feveral important victories over the Samnites ...
... Romans were denominated from other branches of husbandry . Indeed , their first heroes tilled the ground with their own hands . This Fabius Rullus was five times conful , and gained feveral important victories over the Samnites ...
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... Romans at great advantage , having drawn them into an ambufcade between the hills of Cortona and the lake Thrafymenus . Livy and Valerius Maximus make the number of prisoners only fix thoufand ; but Polybius fays , they were much more ...
... Romans at great advantage , having drawn them into an ambufcade between the hills of Cortona and the lake Thrafymenus . Livy and Valerius Maximus make the number of prisoners only fix thoufand ; but Polybius fays , they were much more ...
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... Romans , we have loft a great battle , our army is cut to " pieces , and Flaminius the consul is flain ; think , there- " fore , what is to be done for your fafety . " The fame commotion which a furious wind caufes in the ocean , did ...
... Romans , we have loft a great battle , our army is cut to " pieces , and Flaminius the consul is flain ; think , there- " fore , what is to be done for your fafety . " The fame commotion which a furious wind caufes in the ocean , did ...
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... Romans who guarded the pass were astonished ; for they appeared to them like a great number of men run- ning up and down with torches , which fcattered fire on every fide . In their fears , of course , they concluded , that they should ...
... Romans who guarded the pass were astonished ; for they appeared to them like a great number of men run- ning up and down with torches , which fcattered fire on every fide . In their fears , of course , they concluded , that they should ...
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... Romans still more against him , when he came to his lands , ordered them to be fpared , and fet a guard upon them to prevent the committing of the least injury there , while he was ravaging all the country around them , and laying it ...
... Romans still more against him , when he came to his lands , ordered them to be fpared , and fet a guard upon them to prevent the committing of the least injury there , while he was ravaging all the country around them , and laying it ...
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