History of the Roman RepublicMiller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856 - 404 pagina's |
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Pagina 126 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious...
Pagina 126 - Belial came last, than whom a spirit more lewd Fell not from heaven, or more gross to love Vice for itself...
Pagina 126 - In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage : and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Pagina 135 - Neither the Romans nor their allies are to sail beyond the Fair Promontory, unless driven by stress of weather or the fear of enemies. If any one of them be driven ashore he shall not buy or take...
Pagina 275 - With this view, he sent a corps of six thousand men before to seize an eminence which he thought would be of service to him, but ordered them to conduct their enterprise with all imaginable secrecy. They observed his directions ; and, to conceal their march the better, covered their helmets and the rest of their arms.
Pagina 18 - ... and stood, and the outline of its form; that the knowledge he had of it was altogether abstract and contemplative, no image of it remaining to satisfy the senses; that those who said that the ruins of Rome at least remained, said more than they were warranted in saying ; for the ruins of so stupendous and awful a fabric would enforce more honor and reverence for its memory ; nothing, he said, remained of Rome but its sepulchre.
Pagina 280 - The power of the pirates, as Plutarch remarks, ( Vit. Pomp. c. 24) had its foundation in Cilicia. Their progress was the more dangerous, because at first it was little noticed. In the Mithridatic war they assumed new confidence and courage, on account of some services which they had rendered the king.
Pagina 168 - Annibal the general, and those that are with him; the governors in every place in which the laws of Carthage are observed ; the people of Utica, and all the cities and nations that are subject to the Carthaginian sway, together with their armies and their allies; the cities likewise, and all the people with whom we are allied, in Italy, in Gaul, and in Liguria; and all those that shall hereafter enter into an alliance with us in those countries.
Pagina 388 - Let there be no exception of law in favor of the individuals. Let there be the same law to the obligor and the obligee, to the constant ally and to him who has been restored to an alliance formerly violated. If a judge or arbitrator lawfully appointed take a bribe for his decision, let it be a capital offence. Let no capital punishment be pronounced against a Roman Citizen except in the great assembly of the people. Let inquisitors of murder be created by the people to inquire into capital crimes....
Pagina 327 - Men' men' servasse ut essent qui me perderent,' every eye was filled with tears, and a storm of sobs and cries...