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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... moft numerous and illuflrious in Rome . Yet fome authors write , that the first founders of this family were called ‡ Fodii , on account of their catching wild beasts by means of pits ; for a pit is ftill in Latin called fovea , and the ...
... moft numerous and illuflrious in Rome . Yet fome authors write , that the first founders of this family were called ‡ Fodii , on account of their catching wild beasts by means of pits ; for a pit is ftill in Latin called fovea , and the ...
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... moft arbitrary office in the ftate " was controuled and reduced for his fake . But Fabius put him in mind , " That it was not Fabius whom he had to contend with , but Hannibal ; that if he would , notwith- ftanding , confider his ...
... moft arbitrary office in the ftate " was controuled and reduced for his fake . But Fabius put him in mind , " That it was not Fabius whom he had to contend with , but Hannibal ; that if he would , notwith- ftanding , confider his ...
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... moft turbulent of their tribunes , he obtained the confulate . It was ufual with the Romans to mufter every year four legions , which confifting in difficult times each of five thoufand Roman foot and three hundred horfe , and a ...
... moft turbulent of their tribunes , he obtained the confulate . It was ufual with the Romans to mufter every year four legions , which confifting in difficult times each of five thoufand Roman foot and three hundred horfe , and a ...
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... moft eminent of these were Fabius Maximus and Claudius Marcellus , men diftinguished by characters almost entirely oppofite . Marcellus ( as we have mentioned in his life ) was a man of a buoyant and animated valour remarkably well ...
... moft eminent of these were Fabius Maximus and Claudius Marcellus , men diftinguished by characters almost entirely oppofite . Marcellus ( as we have mentioned in his life ) was a man of a buoyant and animated valour remarkably well ...
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... moft worthless of that + infamous band brought by Marcellus out of Sicily , and therefore the loss of them would not be great , nor much lamented by the Romans . Thefe men he threw out as a bait for Hannibal ; and , by facrificing them ...
... moft worthless of that + infamous band brought by Marcellus out of Sicily , and therefore the loss of them would not be great , nor much lamented by the Romans . Thefe men he threw out as a bait for Hannibal ; and , by facrificing them ...
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