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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 6 6 Browse Search
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Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 26 (ed. Frank Gardner Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University), chapter 24 (search)
the customary good treatment of allies as handed down to the Romans by their ancestors. some of the allies, he said, they had admitted to citizenship and to the same rights as themselves, others they kept in so favoured a situation that they preferred to be allies rather than citizens; the Aetolians would be held in all the higher honour inasmuch as they had been the first of the peoples across the sea to enter their friendship;Ptolemy Philadelphus sent an embassy to Rome about 273 B.C., but friendly relations were not followed by any formal alliance, as stated in periocha 14. Philip and the Macedonians were their oppressive neighbours, whose might and over —confidence he had already broken and would further reduce to such a pass thatB.C. 211 they would not only retire from the cities which they had forcibly taken from the Aetolians, but also would find Macedonia itself continually endangered. and as for the Acarnanians, whose forcible separation from their fed
Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 26 (ed. Frank Gardner Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University), chapter 39 (search)
a fleet of about twenty ships lay at anchor at Regium. commanding the fleet and in charge of supplies was Decimus Quinctius, a man of unknown family, but made famous as a soldier by many brave deeds. at first only five ships, of which the largest were two triremes, had been assigned to him by Marcellus. later, as he repeatedly showed energy, three quinqueremes were added. finally by personally demanding from the allies and from Regium and Velia and PaestumA Latin colony of 273 B.C., but a great part of its population were Greeks; still famous for its Doric temples. the ships due under the treaty, he formed a fleet of twenty ships, as has been said above. this fleet had sailed from Regium when Democrates with an equal number of Tarentine ships met it off Sapriportis,Its site has not been discovered. about fifteen miles from the city. at that time the Roman, as it happened, was approaching under sail, not foreseeing an impending battle. but in the neighbourh