Caius Julius Caesar's British Expeditions from Boulogne to the Bay of Apuldore, and the Subsequent Formation Geologically of Romney MarshJ. R. Smith, 1868 - 143 Seiten |
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Seite 131 - Te vero {лговеcгм scribendi egregiam habere video. Q.uos tu situs, quas naturas rerum et locorum, quos mores, quas gentes, quas pugnas, quem vero ipsum imperatorem habes ! Ego te libenter, ut rogas, quibus rebus vis, adiuvabo et tibi versus, quos rogas, у\айK els 'Авqvas mittam.
Seite 136 - And we shall not be far wrong, if we determine its date as about the end of the fourth, or the beginning of the fifth century before Christ. 3. In the critical work on the Four Books, called ' Record of Remarks in the village of Yung1,' it is observed, ' The Analects, in my opinion, were made by the disciples, just like this record of remarks.
Seite 30 - In taking two stations having the same value, the one to the north and the other to the south of...
Seite 120 - Cassivellauni exercitum duxit ; quod flumen uno omnino loco pedibus, atque hoc aegre, transiri potest. Eo quum venisset, animadvertit, ad alteram fluminis ripam magnas esse copias hostium instructas. ripa autem erat acutis sudibus praefixis munita ; ejusdemque generis sub aqua defixae sudes flumine tegebantur.
Seite 43 - Lyme, was sumtyme a famose haven, and good for shyppes that myght cum to the foote of the hille. The place is yet cawled Shypwey and old haven. Farther at this day the lord of the v portes kepeth his principal cowrt a lytle by est fro Lymmehil. Ther remayneth at this day the ruines of a stronge fortresse of the Britons hangging on the nil, and cummyng down to the very fote.
Seite 101 - Tum rursus, œstus commutationem secutus, remis contendit, ut eam partem insulse caperet, qua optimum esse egressum superiore sestate cognoverat.
Seite 117 - ... suffectura pila, una dextra, hostium corporibus adegisti : ad ultimum destricto gladio, audacissimum quemque, modo umbonis impulsu, modo mucronis ictu depellens, hinc Romanis, illinc Britannicis oculis incredibili, nisi cernereris, spectaculo fuisti. Postquam deinde ira...
Seite 59 - His constitutis rebus, nactus idoneam ad navigandum tempestatem, tertia fere vigilia solvit, equitesque in ulteriorem portum progredi, et naves conscendere, ac se sequi jussit : ab quibus cum paullo tardius esset administratum, ipse hora diei circiter iv.
Seite 56 - Tune facto prœlio remiserunt, et in petenda pace, ejus rei culpam in multitudinem contulerunt, et propter imprudentiam, ut ignosceretur, petiverunt. Caesar questus, quod quum ultro in continentem legatis missis pacem a se petissent, bellum sine...
Seite 122 - When he had received the hostages, he leads back the army to the sea, and finds the ships repaired. After launching these, because he had a large number of prisoners, and some of the ships had been lost in the storm, he determines to convey back his army at two embarkations. And it so happened, that out of so large a number of ships, in so many voyages, neither in this nor in the previous year was any ship missing which conveyed soldiers; but very few out of those which were sent back to him...