The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus: And the Dialogue on OratoryMacmillan, 1877 - 205 Seiten |
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... passage of the history of our island and in the description of the primitive life of a kindred people , even when these are presented in the uninviting form of a translation . THE present edition , which we have revised with ...
... passage of the history of our island and in the description of the primitive life of a kindred people , even when these are presented in the uninviting form of a translation . THE present edition , which we have revised with ...
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... passage . With some picked men of the auxiliaries , disencumbered of all baggage , who knew the shallows and had that national experience in swimming which enables the Britons to take care not only of themselves but of their arms and ...
... passage . With some picked men of the auxiliaries , disencumbered of all baggage , who knew the shallows and had that national experience in swimming which enables the Britons to take care not only of themselves but of their arms and ...
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... passage may bear ; it is this : - " Under any other circumstances I should not have apologized for this biography , since in writing it I am necessarily about to censure a bad age . " Ritter reads " incursaturus " for " incusaturus ...
... passage may bear ; it is this : - " Under any other circumstances I should not have apologized for this biography , since in writing it I am necessarily about to censure a bad age . " Ritter reads " incursaturus " for " incusaturus ...
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... passage . He was one of Pliny's intimate friends , who says of him ( iv . 22 ) , " Quo viro nihil firmius , nihil verius . " This character of him is well illustrated in the Hist . iv . 40 , where we are told that on the first day on ...
... passage . He was one of Pliny's intimate friends , who says of him ( iv . 22 ) , " Quo viro nihil firmius , nihil verius . " This character of him is well illustrated in the Hist . iv . 40 , where we are told that on the first day on ...
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... passage is sufficiently obvious , but we cannot believe that we have exactly what Tacitus wrote . Whatever reading be adopted , there is extreme difficulty about the word " duxit , " to which it seems hardly possible to give any ...
... passage is sufficiently obvious , but we cannot believe that we have exactly what Tacitus wrote . Whatever reading be adopted , there is extreme difficulty about the word " duxit , " to which it seems hardly possible to give any ...
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