Plutarch's Lives: Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a New Life of Plutarch, Volume 2C. Bathurst, 1794 |
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... alfo to involve the principal men in Rome in the fame crime , alleging , " That they had originally brought the war upon Italy , for " the deftruction of the common people , and had put the commonwealth under the abfolute direction of ...
... alfo to involve the principal men in Rome in the fame crime , alleging , " That they had originally brought the war upon Italy , for " the deftruction of the common people , and had put the commonwealth under the abfolute direction of ...
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... enclosed . It * Five hundred Numidians pretended to defert to the Romans ; but in the heat of the battle turned against them , and attacked them in the rear . It is alfo faid , that a ftrange and fatal 18 PLUTARCH's LIVES .
... enclosed . It * Five hundred Numidians pretended to defert to the Romans ; but in the heat of the battle turned against them , and attacked them in the rear . It is alfo faid , that a ftrange and fatal 18 PLUTARCH's LIVES .
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... alfo faid , that a ftrange and fatal accident happened to the Roman cavalry . For the horse which Æmilius rode having received fome hurt , threw him and thofe about him alighting to affift and defend the conful on foot , the reft of the ...
... alfo faid , that a ftrange and fatal accident happened to the Roman cavalry . For the horse which Æmilius rode having received fome hurt , threw him and thofe about him alighting to affift and defend the conful on foot , the reft of the ...
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... alfo were killed ; thirty thousand of them were fold for flaves ; the army had the plunder of the town , and three thoufand talents were brought into the public treasury . Whilft every thing was ranfacked , and the spoils were heaped ...
... alfo were killed ; thirty thousand of them were fold for flaves ; the army had the plunder of the town , and three thoufand talents were brought into the public treasury . Whilft every thing was ranfacked , and the spoils were heaped ...
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... alfo to form the beft judg ment of things to come , it must be allowed that Pericles both forefaw and foretold what fuccefs the Athenians would have in the war , namely , that they would ruin themselves , by grafping at too much . But ...
... alfo to form the beft judg ment of things to come , it must be allowed that Pericles both forefaw and foretold what fuccefs the Athenians would have in the war , namely , that they would ruin themselves , by grafping at too much . But ...
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