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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 61 61 Browse Search
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Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 9 (ed. Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D.), chapter 18 (search)
—with those of a people that was now in its four hundredth year of warfare. should it occasion us surprise if, seeing that upon the one side are counted more generations than are years upon the other,If we reckon the saeculum or generation at thirtythree years, the Rome of Alexander's time would have endured a little over thirteen saecula. Livy says that people are really comparing these thirteen generations with the thirteen years of Alexander's (effective) life, i.e. his reign (336-323 B.C.). fortune should have varied moreB.C. 319 in that long time than in a life of thirteen years? why not compare a man's fortune with a man's, and a general's with a general's? How many Roman generals could I name who never suffered a reverse in battle! in our annals and lists of magistrates you may run through pages of consuls and dictators of whom it never on any day repented the Roman People, whether of their generalship or fortune. and what makes them more wonderful than Alexan