The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus: And the Dialogue on OratoryMacmillan, 1877 - 205 Seiten |
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... arms a mere pastime , and without indolence , he never availed himself of his tribune's rank or his inex- perience to procure enjoyment or to escape from duty . He sought to make himself acquainted with the province and known to the ...
... arms a mere pastime , and without indolence , he never availed himself of his tribune's rank or his inex- perience to procure enjoyment or to escape from duty . He sought to make himself acquainted with the province and known to the ...
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... arms of our leaders were turned against their country , and even when there was peace , there was a long neg- lect of Britain . This Augustus spoke of as policy , Tiberius as an inherited maxim . That Caius Cæsar meditated an invasion ...
... arms of our leaders were turned against their country , and even when there was peace , there was a long neg- lect of Britain . This Augustus spoke of as policy , Tiberius as an inherited maxim . That Caius Cæsar meditated an invasion ...
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... arms . They fell upon our troops , which were scattered on garrison duty , stormed the forts , and burst into the colony itself , the head - quarters , as they thought , of tyranny . In their rage and their triumph , they spared no ...
... arms . They fell upon our troops , which were scattered on garrison duty , stormed the forts , and burst into the colony itself , the head - quarters , as they thought , of tyranny . In their rage and their triumph , they spared no ...
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... arms the powerful and warlike tribe of the Silures , surmounting the difficulties of the country as well as the valour of the enemy . C CHAP . XVI . CHAP . XVII . CHAP XVIII . A.D. 78. ÆT . 39. Splendid successes CNÆUS JULIUS AGRICOLA . 17.
... arms the powerful and warlike tribe of the Silures , surmounting the difficulties of the country as well as the valour of the enemy . C CHAP . XVI . CHAP . XVII . CHAP XVIII . A.D. 78. ÆT . 39. Splendid successes CNÆUS JULIUS AGRICOLA . 17.
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... arms , and that in proportion to his first success would be the terror of the other tribes , he formed the design of subjugating the island of Mona , from the occupation of which Paullinus had been recalled , as I have already related ...
... arms , and that in proportion to his first success would be the terror of the other tribes , he formed the design of subjugating the island of Mona , from the occupation of which Paullinus had been recalled , as I have already related ...
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