Latin Lessons: Adapted to Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar : with Parallel References to the Latin Grammars of Harkness, Gildersleeve, and Andrews and Stoddard : Also, a Course of Elementary Latin Reading

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Ginn and Heath, 1881 - 357 páginas
 

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Página 174 - I. Caesar checks the attempt of the Helvetians to colonize in Western Gaul, and forces them, after a bloody defeat, to return to their own territory. He then engages with a powerful tribe of Germans, who had made a military settlement in Eastern Gaul, and drives them, with their chief, Ariovistus, beyond the Rhine. II. A formidable...
Página 176 - That there is a bridge connecting the past glory of Hellas and Rome with the prouder fabric of modern history ; that Western Europe is Romanic, and Germanic Europe classic; that the names of Themistocles and Scipio have to us a very different sound from those of Asoka and Salmanassar ; that Homer and Sophocles are not merely like the Vedas and Kalidasa attractive to the literary botanist, but bloom for us in our own garden — all this is the work of Caesar...
Página 145 - Germanos, incredibili virtute atque exercitatione in armis esse praedicabant, saepenumero sese cum eis congresses ne vultum quidem atque aciem oculorum ferre potuisse, tantus subito timor omnem exercitum occupavit, ut non mediocriter omnium mentes animosque perturbaret. Hie...
Página 174 - Caesar makes a brief expedition across the Rhine, against the Germans. Some general disturbances are quelled, and northern Gaul is reduced to peace. VII. Vercingetorix, a brave and high-spirited chief of southern Gaul, effects a confederacy of the whole country, which is at length subdued. Vercingetorix, in brilliant equipment, surrenders himself, to secure the quiet of the country, and is taken in chains to Rome, where he is afterwards put to death in Caesar's triumph.
Página 176 - ... bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean and on the east by the Indian Ocean and its dependencies, including the islands adjacent to the mainland within 100 nautical miles from the coast.
Página 133 - Augustus non amplius quam septem horas28 dormiebat, ac ne eas quidem continuas, sed ita ut in illo temporis spatio ter aut quater expergisceretur. Si interruptum somnum recuperare non posset, lectores arcessebat, donee resumeret.
Página 174 - Alps, who attacked the Roman armies on their march, the chief operations are the conquest of the coast tribes of Brittany (Veneti, etc.), in a warfare of curious naval engineering in the shallow tide-water inlets and among the rocky shores. During the season, the tribes of the south-west (Aquitani), a mining population, allied to the Iberians or Basques, are reduced by one of Caesar's officers. IV. An attack from the Germans on northern Gaul is repulsed ; and Caesar follows them, by a bridge of timber...
Página 137 - Ita Helvetios a majoribus suis institutes esse, uti obsides accipere, non dare consueverint : ejus rei populum Romanum esse testem.

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