Terminalia Or Notes on the Subjects of the Litterae Humaniores and Modernation Schools, Issues 1-2Francis Macpherson., 1851 |
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... origin , when it is recognized by the state ; by a state , too , so proud and so contemptuous towards everything foreign as Rome . " But they accepted the foreign origin ; why not the foreign legend ? And the lettered aristocracy of ...
... origin , when it is recognized by the state ; by a state , too , so proud and so contemptuous towards everything foreign as Rome . " But they accepted the foreign origin ; why not the foreign legend ? And the lettered aristocracy of ...
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... origin , is the place where the Founder made a stand . The Lacus Curtius ap- pears to have been a drained swamp , the ground of which had sunk ( Dict . Biogr . Curtius ) . Mettus Curtius dashes with his horse and armour ( v Tols Oλоs ...
... origin , is the place where the Founder made a stand . The Lacus Curtius ap- pears to have been a drained swamp , the ground of which had sunk ( Dict . Biogr . Curtius ) . Mettus Curtius dashes with his horse and armour ( v Tols Oλоs ...
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... origin of the name Luceres cannot be more in the dark than that of the Rhamnes and Titienses ; for the one is derived by a bad etymology from Romulus , the other by a clearly mythical etymology from Titus Tatius , which is probably one ...
... origin of the name Luceres cannot be more in the dark than that of the Rhamnes and Titienses ; for the one is derived by a bad etymology from Romulus , the other by a clearly mythical etymology from Titus Tatius , which is probably one ...
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... origin . Lucius Tarquinius Superbus is the brother of Aruns , and there is an Egerius in his history also . Both usurp the kingdom ; both are supported by the gentes minores , and both are connected with Etruria . Priscus lays the foun ...
... origin . Lucius Tarquinius Superbus is the brother of Aruns , and there is an Egerius in his history also . Both usurp the kingdom ; both are supported by the gentes minores , and both are connected with Etruria . Priscus lays the foun ...
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... origin of the word is not obvious to us . The old form appears to have been Thybris , which is probably from ßpis , the aspirate being represented by 0 , as in exw for έλω ( cupio and capio , ) θάλασσα for ἅλασσα . * The ißρioτns ...
... origin of the word is not obvious to us . The old form appears to have been Thybris , which is probably from ßpis , the aspirate being represented by 0 , as in exw for έλω ( cupio and capio , ) θάλασσα for ἅλασσα . * The ißρioτns ...
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