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Side 17
... thousand heads , subject to the real and personal capitation ( 40 ) . Yet even this indulgence affords the most unquestionable proof of the public misery . This tax was so extremely oppressive , either in itself or in the mode of ...
... thousand heads , subject to the real and personal capitation ( 40 ) . Yet even this indulgence affords the most unquestionable proof of the public misery . This tax was so extremely oppressive , either in itself or in the mode of ...
Side 20
... thousand men . Forty thousand Moors and Carthaginians had been raised since the reduction of Africa . Even Sicily furnished its proportion of troops ; and the armies of Maxentius amounted to one hundred and seventy thousand foot , and ...
... thousand men . Forty thousand Moors and Carthaginians had been raised since the reduction of Africa . Even Sicily furnished its proportion of troops ; and the armies of Maxentius amounted to one hundred and seventy thousand foot , and ...
Side 23
... thousands of the vanquished Italians . Their general , Pompeianus , was found among the slain ; Verona immediately surrendered at discretion , and the garrison was made prisoners of war ( 58 ) . When the officers of the victorious army ...
... thousands of the vanquished Italians . Their general , Pompeianus , was found among the slain ; Verona immediately surrendered at discretion , and the garrison was made prisoners of war ( 58 ) . When the officers of the victorious army ...
Side 26
... thousands into the deep and rapid stream of the Tiber . The emperor himself at- tempted to escape back into the city over the Milvian bridge , but the crowds which pressed together through that narrow passage forced him into the river ...
... thousands into the deep and rapid stream of the Tiber . The emperor himself at- tempted to escape back into the city over the Milvian bridge , but the crowds which pressed together through that narrow passage forced him into the river ...
Side 29
... thousand men ; and Licinius , who had collected about thirty thousand Illyrians , was at first oppressed by the superiority of numbers . His mili- tary skill , and the firmness of his troops , restored the day , and ob- tained a ...
... thousand men ; and Licinius , who had collected about thirty thousand Illyrians , was at first oppressed by the superiority of numbers . His mili- tary skill , and the firmness of his troops , restored the day , and ob- tained a ...
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