The Third Book of History: Containing Ancient History in Connection with Ancient Geography. Designed as a Sequel to the First and Second Books of HistoryC.J. Hendee and G.W. Palmer, 1838 - 189 páginas |
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Página 27 - But hu was stopped in the midst of his warlike preparations, being stabbed by Pausanias as he entered the theatre at the celebration of the nuptials of his daughter Cleopatra. This murder has given...
Página 85 - Nones, and Ides. The first day of every month was called the Kalends ; the fifth day was called the Nones ; and the thirteenth day was called the Ides ; except in the months of March, May, July, and October, in which the Nones fell upon the seventh day, and the Ides on the fifteenth. In reckoning the days of their months, they counted backwards. Thus, the first day of January was marked Kalendis Januariis or Januarii, or by contraction, Kal.
Página 59 - ... Camillus, Dictator, and pressed the siege of Veii more closely than ever. Camillus ordered a mine to be dug under the wall, into the very citadel of Veii. When these operations were completed, but before the farther end of the mine had been broken through, Camillus sent to Rome, directing all who desired to share in the plunder of Veii to repair to the army. When all was ready, and the besieged were wholly unaware of what was in progress underground, Camillus ordered a general assault upon the...
Página 69 - Among the slain were 5,000 or 6,000 Roman knights, the greater part of the whole body; and Hannibal is said to have sent to Carthage three bushels of gold rings, which they wore on their fingers. 9. Hannibal has been censured for not making the best use of this great victory by immediately attacking Rome, and, instead of doing this, for leading his troops into winter-quarters, at Cap'ua, where they were corrupted and enervated by dissipation in that luxurious...
Página 88 - The republican army consisted of eighty thousand foot and twenty thousand horse; that of the triumvirs amounted to a hundred thousand foot and thirteen thousand horse.
Página 104 - He constructed a bridge of more than twenty-two arches, an hundred and fifty feet high, and...
Página 59 - The novelty of such baseness surprised them, and they so much abhorred it, that they immediatelyordered the arms of the traitor to be tied, and giving each of the scholars a whip, bade them whip their master back to the city, and then return to their parents. The boys executed their task...
Página 172 - And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, "Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn...
Página 175 - Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
Página 103 - AD 96, in the forty-eighth year of his age, and the fifteenth of his reign. 14. Apollonius Tyaneus, an impostor pro bably, was lecturing in Asia Minor on the day of Domitian's death. Stopping suddenly, he cried out, ' Courage, Stephanus, strike the tyrant.