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... conful , and gained feveral important victories over the Samnites , Tufcans , and other nations . It was not , however , from thefe great actions that he obtained the furname of Maximus , but from his behavior in the cenforship ; dur ...
... conful , and gained feveral important victories over the Samnites , Tufcans , and other nations . It was not , however , from thefe great actions that he obtained the furname of Maximus , but from his behavior in the cenforship ; dur ...
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... conful . Fabius Maximus was five times conful ; and in his first confulfhip was honored 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 honored 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 . Пle was indeed nat . urally 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 fenfe of ...
... conful , was not difcouraged by any of these things . Пle was indeed nat . urally 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 fenfe of ...
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... conful met him , he fent one of his * A dictator could not be regularly named but by the surviving conful , and Servilius being with the army , the people appointed Fa- bius by their own authority with the title of prodictator . How ...
... conful met him , he fent one of his * A dictator could not be regularly named but by the surviving conful , and Servilius being with the army , the people appointed Fa- bius by their own authority with the title of prodictator . How ...
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... conful , Paulus Æmilius , a man of great experience in war , but difagreeable to the people , and at the fame time afraid of them , for they had formerly fet a confiderable fine upon him . Fabius , however , encouraged him to withstand ...
... conful , Paulus Æmilius , a man of great experience in war , but difagreeable to the people , and at the fame time afraid of them , for they had formerly fet a confiderable fine upon him . Fabius , however , encouraged him to withstand ...
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