A Smaller History of Rome, from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire: With a Continuation to A.D.476

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Harper & Brothers, 1874 - 365 páginas
 

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Página 286 - Augustus was accustomed to say that he found Rome a city of brick, and left it a city of marble.
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Página 196 - Sulla himself, who feared that his enemies might insult his remains, as he had done those of Marius, which had been taken out of the grave and thrown into the Anio at his command. It had been previously the custom of the Cornelia gens to bury and not burn their dead. A monument was erected to Sulla in the Campus Martins, the inscription on which he is said to have composed himself.
Página iv - This work has been drawn up chiefly for the lower forms in schools, at the request of several teachers who require for their pupils a more elementary work than the 'Student's Manual of Ancient Geography.
Página 283 - CommentarH, which are his only works that have come down to us. They relate the history of the first seven years of the Gallic War in seven books, and the history of the civil war, down to the commencement of the Alexandrine, in three books.
Página 10 - Sabines that if they would give her what they wore on their left arms she would let them into the citadel.
Página 94 - The booty found in the captured city was immense: besides the money in the royal treasury, which was set apart for the coffers of the state, Marcellus carried off many of the works of art with which the city had been adorned, to grace his own triumph and the temples at Rome.
Página 152 - He then rushed out of the senate-house, followed by many of the Senators. The people made way for them ; and they, breaking up the benches, armed themselves with sticks, and rushed upon Tiberius and his friends. The Tribune fled to the temple of Jupiter, but the door had been barred by the priests, and in his flight he fell over a prostrate body. As he was rising he received the first blow from one of his colleagues, and was quickly despatched.

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