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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... first Fabius was the fon of Hercules by one of the nymphs , according to fome authors , or , as others fay , by a woman of the country , near the river Tyber . From him came the family of the Fabii , one of the + moft numerous and ...
... first Fabius was the fon of Hercules by one of the nymphs , according to fome authors , or , as others fay , by a woman of the country , near the river Tyber . From him came the family of the Fabii , one of the + moft numerous and ...
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... 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 , were driven behind the Alps , and kept from fuch inroads ...
... 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 , were driven behind the Alps , and kept from fuch inroads ...
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... first confternation , they could not fix upon any thing : but at length all agreed that affairs required the direction of an abfolute power , which they called the dictatorship , and that a man fhould be pitched upon for it , who would ...
... first confternation , they could not fix upon any thing : but at length all agreed that affairs required the direction of an abfolute power , which they called the dictatorship , and that a man fhould be pitched upon for it , who would ...
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... first of odd num- bers , the first of plurals , and containing in itself the first differences , and the first elements of all numbers . Fabius having taught the people to repofe themselves on acts of religion , made them more eafy as ...
... first of odd num- bers , the first of plurals , and containing in itself the first differences , and the first elements of all numbers . Fabius having taught the people to repofe themselves on acts of religion , made them more eafy as ...
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... command of a part , than the direction of the whole by turns . He , therefore , took the first and fourth legions himself , leaving the fecond and third to Minucius ; and the confederate forces were like- thir 12 PLUTARCH's LIVES .
... command of a part , than the direction of the whole by turns . He , therefore , took the first and fourth legions himself , leaving the fecond and third to Minucius ; and the confederate forces were like- thir 12 PLUTARCH's LIVES .
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