The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus: And the Dialogue on OratoryMacmillan, 1877 - 205 Seiten |
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... compared with theirs , but because the country was then for the first time thoroughly subdued . And so matters , which as being still not accurately known my predecessors embellished with their eloquence , shall now be related on the ...
... compared with theirs , but because the country was then for the first time thoroughly subdued . And so matters , which as being still not accurately known my predecessors embellished with their eloquence , shall now be related on the ...
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... compared by Livy and Fabius . Rusticus , the most graphic among ancient and modern historians , to an oblong shield or battle - axe . And this no doubt is its shape without Caledonia , so that it has become the popular description of ...
... compared by Livy and Fabius . Rusticus , the most graphic among ancient and modern historians , to an oblong shield or battle - axe . And this no doubt is its shape without Caledonia , so that it has become the popular description of ...
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... attack . Preparations of the Britains for revolt . Relieved from apprehension by the legate's absence , the Britons dwelt much among themselves on the miseries of subjection , compared their wrongs , and exaggerated 14 THE LIFE OF.
... attack . Preparations of the Britains for revolt . Relieved from apprehension by the legate's absence , the Britons dwelt much among themselves on the miseries of subjection , compared their wrongs , and exaggerated 14 THE LIFE OF.
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... compared their wrongs , and exaggerated them in the discussion . " All we get by patience , " they said , " is that heavier demands are exacted from us , as from men who will readily submit . A single king once ruled us ; now two are ...
... compared their wrongs , and exaggerated them in the discussion . " All we get by patience , " they said , " is that heavier demands are exacted from us , as from men who will readily submit . A single king once ruled us ; now two are ...
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... comparing , with a soldier's boastfulness , at one time the deep re- cesses of the forest and the mountain with the dangers of waves and storms , or , at another , battles by land with victories over the ocean . The Britons too , as we ...
... comparing , with a soldier's boastfulness , at one time the deep re- cesses of the forest and the mountain with the dangers of waves and storms , or , at another , battles by land with victories over the ocean . The Britons too , as we ...
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