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P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. Theodore C. Williams) | 138 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 134 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, The fourteen orations against Marcus Antonius (Philippics) (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 102 | 0 | Browse | Search |
John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 2 | 92 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 90 | 0 | Browse | Search |
C. Julius Caesar, Commentaries on the Civil War (ed. William Duncan) | 86 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb) | 70 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Roman Dominion in Italy
It was in the nineteenth year after the sea-fight at
B. C. 387-386. The rise of the Roman dominion may be traced fro the Gauls from the city. From that time one nation after another in Italy fell into their hands.
Aegospotami, and the sixteenth before the ba y battles—attempted for the first time the
reduction of the rest of Italy. Southern Italy. The nations
for whose possessions they were about Italy. The nations
for whose possessions they were about to fight
they affected to regard, not in the light of foreigners, but as
already for the most part belonging and pertaining to themselves. Th rved as a genuine training in
the art of war. Pyrrhus finally quits Italy, B. C. 274. Accordingly, they entered upon the war with
spirit, drove Pyrrhus from Italy, and then undertook to fight with and subdue those who had
taken part with him. They succeeded everywhere
to a marvel, and reduced to obedience all the tribes
inhabiting Italy except the Celts; after which they undertook
to besiege some of their own citizens,
Roman Victory at Panormus
Meanwhile Hasdrubal noticed the terror displayed by
B. C. 251.
the Romans whenever they had lately found
themselves in the presence of the enemy. He
learnt also that one of the Consuls had departed and gone
to Italy, and that Caecilius was lingering in Panormus with
the other half of the army, with the view of
protecting the corn-crops of the allies just
then ripe for the harvest. Skirmishing at Panormus. He therefore got
his troops in motion, marched out, and encamped on the
frontier of the territory of Panormus. Caecilius saw well
enough that the enemy had become supremely confident, and
he was anxious to draw him on; he therefore kept his men
within the walls. Hasdrubal imagined that Caecilius dared
not come out to give him battle. Elated with this idea, he
pushed boldly forward with his whole army and marched over
the pass into the territory of Panormus. But though he was
destroying all the standing crops up to the very walls of the
town, Caecilius was n