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... conful with Portius Cato , A. U. 640. It is faid , that during his confulship , milk and blood fell from heaven . Plin . 2 , c . 56. — Glabrio , a tribune of the people , who with a legion quelled the infurgent flaves in Etruria . Be ...
... conful with Portius Cato , A. U. 640. It is faid , that during his confulship , milk and blood fell from heaven . Plin . 2 , c . 56. — Glabrio , a tribune of the people , who with a legion quelled the infurgent flaves in Etruria . Be ...
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... conful by the em peror , who was foon convinced of his inca- pacity in the discharge of public duty . He killed himfelf by drinking an antidote ; and Antoninus furnamed Pius , was adopted in his place . Alius was father to Antoninus ...
... conful by the em peror , who was foon convinced of his inca- pacity in the discharge of public duty . He killed himfelf by drinking an antidote ; and Antoninus furnamed Pius , was adopted in his place . Alius was father to Antoninus ...
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... conful , by the flattery of the Roman people , at the age of 14 or 15. This promifing youth went to Armenia , on an expedition against the Perfians , where he received a fatal blow from the treacherous hand of Lollius , the governor of ...
... conful , by the flattery of the Roman people , at the age of 14 or 15. This promifing youth went to Armenia , on an expedition against the Perfians , where he received a fatal blow from the treacherous hand of Lollius , the governor of ...
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... conful with Corn . Cethegus , A. U. C. 594.- -Pro- bus , a Roman conful in the fourth century , famous for his humanity . ANIGRUS , a river of Theffaly , where the Centaurs washed the wounds which they had received from Hercules , and ...
... conful with Corn . Cethegus , A. U. C. 594.- -Pro- bus , a Roman conful in the fourth century , famous for his humanity . ANIGRUS , a river of Theffaly , where the Centaurs washed the wounds which they had received from Hercules , and ...
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... conful Flaminius near the lake ANNALES , a chronological history which Trafimenus , and foon after met the two con- gives an account of all the important events fuls C. Terentius and L. Æmilius at Cannæ . of every year in a ftate ...
... conful Flaminius near the lake ANNALES , a chronological history which Trafimenus , and foon after met the two con- gives an account of all the important events fuls C. Terentius and L. Æmilius at Cannæ . of every year in a ftate ...
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Page 59 - This disgrace might proceed from the resentment of the senators, whom he had exposed to terror as well as to ridicule. He once assembled that august body to know in what vessel a turbot might be most conveniently dressed. At another time they received a formal invitation to a feast, and when they arrived at the palace, they were introduced into a large gloomy hall hung with black, and lighted with a few glimmering tapers. In the middle were...
Page 2 - His conquests were easy, and without bloodshed : the people easily submitted, and gratefully elevated to the rank of a god the hero who taught them the use of the vine, the cultivation of the earth, and the manner of making honey.
Page 59 - Dardanus. He was taken up to heaven by Jupiter as he was hunting, or rather tending his father's flocks on mount Ida, and he became the cup-bearer of the gods_ in the place of Hebe.
Page 59 - Two black doves, as he relates, took their flight from the city of Thebes, in Egypt, one of which flew to the temple of Jupiter Ammon, and the other to Dodona, where with a human voice they acquainted the inhabitants of the country that Jupiter had consecrated the ground, which in future would give oracles. The extensive grove which surrounded...
Page 59 - Hero], and for the bridge of boats which Xerxes built over it when he invaded Greece. The folly of this great prince is well known in beating and fettering the waves of the sea, whose impetuosity destroyed his ships, and rendered all his labours ineffectual.
Page 15 - Ogygia, whose situation and even existence is doubted. When Ulysses was shipwrecked on her coasts, she received him with great hospitality, and offered him immortality if he would remain with her as a husband. The hero refused, and after seven years' delay, he was permitted to depart from the island by order of Mercury the messenger of Jupiter.