Livy: Book XXXIX-XLV. Contents of lost booksHarper & brothers, 1836 |
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Achæans Æmilius afterward allies ambassadors Antiochus Antonius Appius arms army arrived attack Attalus Aulus Bastarnians battle BOOK brother brought Caius Claudius camp carried Carthaginians cavalry Celtiberians censors Cesar Chalcis Cneius command conduct consul Cornelius death decemvirs decree defeats Demetrius election embassy enemy Etolians Eumenes father favour fight Flaccus fleet force garrison Gauls gave Gentius gods Gracchus Greece honour hostages Illyria Istria Italy killed kind king king's kingdom lands Latine legions Licinius Ligurians Lucius Lucretius Macedonia magistrates Manlius Marcus Masinissa military tribunes party passed Paulus peace Perseus person Philip plebeian tribunes Pompeius Popilius Postumius pretor proceeded proconsul province Publius Quintus Fulvius Quintus Fulvius Flaccus received Rhodians Romans Rome Sardinia Scipio Sempronius senate sent ships siege soldiers Spain subdued Sulpicius Sylla temple Thessaly thither thousand foot Thrace Thracians three hundred horse Tiberius tion Titus town treaty triumph troops Valerius victory voted
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Seite 285 - In every circle, and, truly, at every table, there are people who lead armies into Macedonia; who know where the camp ought to be placed; what posts ought to be occupied by troops; when and through what pass Macedonia should be entered; where magazines should be formed; how provisions should be conveyed by land and sea; and when it is proper to engage the enemy, when to lie quiet.
Seite 21 - Herennius, both surnamed Cerrinius; changed the time of celebration, from day to night; and, instead of three days in the year, appointed five days of initiation, in each month.
Seite 25 - Each of you, therefore, ought to pray that his kindred may have behaved with wisdom and prudence ; and if lust, if madness, has dragged any of them into that abyss, to consider such a person as the relation of those with whom he has conspired for every disgraceful and reckless act, and not as one of your own.
Seite 201 - I went with him to his province. Four times within a few years was I first centurion of my corps ; thirty-four times I was honoured by my commanders with presents for bravery. I have received six civic crowns, I have fulfilled twenty-two years of service in the army, and I am upwards of fifty years of age. But, if I had neither served out all my campaigns, nor was entitled to exemption on account of my age, yet Publius...
Seite 19 - ... she had gone into that place of worship, as an attendant on her mistress ; but that, since she had obtained her liberty, she had never once gone near it : that she knew it to be the receptacle of all kinds of debaucheries ; that it was well known that, for two years past, no one older than twenty had been initiated there. When any person was introduced he was delivered as a victim to the priests, who led him away to a place resounding with shouts, the sound of music, and the beating of cymbals...
Seite 119 - Not only quarrels, but wars, are accommodated, and, from bitter foes, men frequently become faithful allies, nay, sometimes, countrymen. The Albans, after the demolition of Alba, were transplanted to Rome; the Latines, the Sabines, were admitted into the number of citizens. It is a common saying, and, because founded in truth, has become a proverb, that friendships ought to be immortal, but enmities mortal.
Seite 200 - I am of the Crustuminian tribe, and of a family originally Sabine. My father left me one acre of land, and a small cottage, in which I was born and educated, and where I now dwell. As soon as I came to man's estate, my father married me to his brother's daughter, who brought nothing...
Seite 25 - How often, in the ages of our fathers, was it given in charge to the magistrates, to prohibit the performance of any foreign religious rites; to banish strolling sacrificers and soothsayers from the forum, the circu«, and the city; to search for, and burn, books of divination; and to abolish every mode of sacrificing that was not conformable to the Roman practice?
Seite 28 - and ordering that, fi in case any person should believe some such kind of worship incumbent on him, and necessary ; and that he could not, without offence to religion, and incurring guilt, omit it, he should represent this to the city praetor, and the praetor should lay the business before the senate.
Seite 286 - That commanders should be counselled, chiefly, by persons of known talent; by those who have made the art of war their particular study, and whose knowledge is...