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... thousand miles , would render the orders of Conftantius as extravagant as they were unjuft . The troops of Gaul could not have reached Syria till the end of autumn . The memory of Ammianus must have been inac- curate , and his language ...
... thousand miles , would render the orders of Conftantius as extravagant as they were unjuft . The troops of Gaul could not have reached Syria till the end of autumn . The memory of Ammianus must have been inac- curate , and his language ...
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... thousand miles between 氰 justify his hero from a very abfurd charge ; of poisoning his wife and rewarding her physician with his mother's jewels . ( See the feventh of feventeen new orations , published at Venice 1754 , from a MS . in ...
... thousand miles between 氰 justify his hero from a very abfurd charge ; of poisoning his wife and rewarding her physician with his mother's jewels . ( See the feventh of feventeen new orations , published at Venice 1754 , from a MS . in ...
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... thousand quarters of wheat , or rather flour , was a threatening evidence of the strength and numbers of the enemy , who prepared to furround him . But the Imperial legions were still in their distant quarters of Afia ; the Da- nube was ...
... thousand quarters of wheat , or rather flour , was a threatening evidence of the strength and numbers of the enemy , who prepared to furround him . But the Imperial legions were still in their distant quarters of Afia ; the Da- nube was ...
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... thousand men , was directed , under the command of Nevitta , general of the cavalry , to advance through the midland parts of Rhætia and Noricum . A fimilar divifion of troops , under the orders of Jovius and Jovinus , prepared to ...
... thousand men , was directed , under the command of Nevitta , general of the cavalry , to advance through the midland parts of Rhætia and Noricum . A fimilar divifion of troops , under the orders of Jovius and Jovinus , prepared to ...
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... thousand brave and active volunteers , refolved , like their leader , to caft behind them every hope of a retreat at the head of this faithful band , he fearlessly plunged into the receffes of the Marcian , or black foreft , which ...
... thousand brave and active volunteers , refolved , like their leader , to caft behind them every hope of a retreat at the head of this faithful band , he fearlessly plunged into the receffes of the Marcian , or black foreft , which ...
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