The History of Rome

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Leavitt, 1849 - 480 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 110 - ... Then, at the appointed hour, the passage was filled with cohorts : Camillus himself led the way. Meanwhile the horns blew the signal for the assault ; and the countless host brought scaling ladders, as if they meant to mount the walls from every side. Here the citizens stood expecting the enemy, while their king was sacrificing in the temple of Juno. The aruspex, when he saw the victim, declared that whoever brought the goddess her share of the slaughtered animal would conquer. This was heard...
Σελίδα 401 - Seleucia; but an Arab emir named Agbar (Akbar, ie Great), who had been on friendly terms with the Romans when Pompeius was there, now came and joined Crassus, and assuring him that the Parthians were collecting their most valuable property with the intention of flying to Hyrcania and Scythia, urged him to push on without delay. But all he said was false; he was come to lead the Romans to their ruin : the Parthian king Orodes had himself invaded Armenia, and his general Surfena was at hand with a...
Σελίδα 153 - ... Umbria and got between Scipio and Rome ; and as they rode up to the consular army, the heads of the slain Romans which they carried on spears and hung at their horses' breasts, made the Romans believe that Scipio's whole army had been destroyed. A junction however was formed with him, and the proconsul L. Volumnius, who commanded in Samnium, was directed to lead his legions to reinforce those of the consuls. The three united armies then crossed the Apennines, and took a position in the Sentine...
Σελίδα 135 - Mus *. were made consuls for 415 with a view to it. But the Latins would first try the path of peace and accommodation ; and at the call, it is said, of the Roman senate, their two praetors, and ten principal senators, repaired to Rome. Audience was given them on the Capitol, and nothing could be more reasonable than their demands.
Σελίδα 255 - Acilius Glabrio time to land his army and enter Thessaly. Antiochus hastened from Euboea to defend the pass of Thermopylae against him; but he was totally defeated, and forced to fly to Asia (561). Antiochus flattered himself at first that the Romans would not follow him into Asia; but Hannibal soon proved to him that such an expectation was a vain one, and that he must prepare for war. At Rome the invasion of Asia was at once resolved on.
Σελίδα 266 - Roman camp, accompanied by the priests, the senators, and the chief persons of the city. Censorinus then, having praised their diligence and ready obedience, announced to them the further will of the senate, which was that they should quit Carthage, which the Romans intended to level, and build another town in any part of their territory they pleased, but not within less than ten miles of the sea*. The moment they heard this ruthless command they abandoned themselves to every extravagance of grief...
Σελίδα 401 - ... they had afforded the Romans no just cause for war. Crassus boastfully told the Parthian ambassadors that he would give his answer in Seleucia, a city on the west side of the Tigris, opposite Ctesiphon, the capital of the Parthian Empire. One of the ambassadors laughed, and, showing the palm of his hand, said: "Crassus, hairs will grow there before you see Seleucia.
Σελίδα 271 - ... from sea to sea across the isthmus, and strongly fortified on all sides. By this means he cut them off from the land; and as the only way in which provisions could now be brought into the city was by sea, when vessels, taking advantage of winds that drove off the Roman ships, ran into the harbour, he resolved to stop up its mouth by a mole. He commenced from the belt, forming the mole of great breadth and with huge stones. The besieged at first mocked at the efforts of the Romans ; but when they...
Σελίδα 141 - ... followed him from the camp with the utmost rapidity, entered, and ordered his lictors to seize him. The senate implored ; but he was inexorable : the elder Fabius then appealed to the people, before whom he enlarged on the cruelty of the dictator. Every heart beat in unison with that of the time-honoured father ; but when Papirius showed the rigorous necessity of upholding military discipline, by which the state was maintained, all were silent, from conviction. At length the people and their...
Σελίδα 403 - Crassus put no faith in him; at length when his men, having urged and pressed, began to abuse and threaten him, he took his officers to witness of the force that was put on him, and went down accompanied by Octavius and some of his other officers. The Parthians at first affected to receive him with respect, and a horse was brought for him to mount; but they soon contrived to pick a quarrel, and killed him and all who were with him. The head and right hand of Crassus were cut off; quarter was then...

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