A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From the accession of Philip of Macedon to the Roman conquest of Carthage and AsiaWalton and Maberly, 1864 |
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A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From ... Philip Smith Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time: From ... Philip Smith Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
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Achæan Africa Agathocles Alexander alliance allies Alps ancient Antigonus Antiochus army Asia Athenians Athens attack battle called camp campaign Campania Cannæ Carthage Carthaginians Cassander cavalry chief Cisalpine Gaul citizens coast colonies Comitia command conquest consul Darius death defeat Demetrius Demosthenes Egypt empire enemy envoys Etolians Etruria Etruscans Fabius fleet force formed gained garrison Gauls Greece Greek Hamilcar Hannibal Hasdrubal Hellenic hill Iberians infantry island Italian Italy king land Latin Latium latter league legend legions Libyan Lilybæum Lysimachus Macedonian marched Masinissa Meanwhile mercenaries military Mommsen nations Numidian party patricians peace peninsula Perseus Persian Philip Phocion Phoenician plebeians political Polybius possession prætor province Ptolemy Punic Pyrrhus race republic river Roman Rome Sabine Samnites Scipio seems Senate sent ships shores Sicily siege soldiers Spain Sparta success surrender Syracuse Tarentum Tarquin temple territory Thessaly Tiber tion treaty tribes tribunes Tyre victory whole
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Seite 30 - And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
Seite 148 - The Niobe of nations! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her wither'd hands, Whose holy dust was scatter'd long ago ; The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; *• The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers: dost thou flow, Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness ? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress!
Seite 414 - Each cast at the other, as when two black clouds, With Heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian ; then stand front to front Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air...
Seite 80 - Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.
Seite 379 - First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol.
Seite 478 - After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.
Seite 220 - And trims his helmet's plume; When the goodwife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom ; With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
Seite 220 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Seite 530 - Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates! (How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!) The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend, And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.
Seite 363 - Short flame succeeds a bed of wither'd leaves, The dying sparkles in their fall receives: Caught into life, in fiery fumes they rise, And, fed with stronger food, invade the skies.