A General History of Rome: From the Foundation of the City to the Fall of Augustulus, B.C. 753-A.D. 476Harper and Brothers, 1886 - 701 páginas |
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... suffered ..... CHAPTER VIII . . Page 69 Efforts of the plebeians to obtain equal laws with the patricians . - Com- mission obtained with this view by Terentilius Harsa . - Dissensions in the city . The Capitol siezed by Appius Herdonius ...
... suffered ..... CHAPTER VIII . . Page 69 Efforts of the plebeians to obtain equal laws with the patricians . - Com- mission obtained with this view by Terentilius Harsa . - Dissensions in the city . The Capitol siezed by Appius Herdonius ...
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... suffered easy defeat , the Sabines , biding their time and coming with greater force , actually penetrated into the Roman fastness . Tarpeia , daughter of the warder of the citadel , was tempted by the glitter of the Sabines ' bracelets ...
... suffered easy defeat , the Sabines , biding their time and coming with greater force , actually penetrated into the Roman fastness . Tarpeia , daughter of the warder of the citadel , was tempted by the glitter of the Sabines ' bracelets ...
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... suffered . THE elder Brutus had gained the admiration of the whole Ro- man people by the stand he had made against a tyranny which affected the whole ; but he had earned the title of a popular champion more particularly by the ...
... suffered . THE elder Brutus had gained the admiration of the whole Ro- man people by the stand he had made against a tyranny which affected the whole ; but he had earned the title of a popular champion more particularly by the ...
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... . Like many other popular champions who descend from their own class to take the lead of those .c . 269 . below it , he was eventually abandoned by the very men B.C. 485 . whose cause he had asserted , and suffered the last.
... . Like many other popular champions who descend from their own class to take the lead of those .c . 269 . below it , he was eventually abandoned by the very men B.C. 485 . whose cause he had asserted , and suffered the last.
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... suffered the last penalty of pub- lic scourging and beheading at the hands of the consular lictors . It was easier , however , for the patricians to rid themselves of a single champion who had renounced the interests of his own or- der ...
... suffered the last penalty of pub- lic scourging and beheading at the hands of the consular lictors . It was easier , however , for the patricians to rid themselves of a single champion who had renounced the interests of his own or- der ...
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