The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus: During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and ValensG. Bell, 1894 - 646 sider |
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... able number of dissertations and digressions are introduced , many of them highly interesting and valuable . Such are his notices of the institutions and manners of the Saracens ( xiv . 4 ) , of the Scythians and Sarmatians ( xvii . 12 ) ...
... able number of dissertations and digressions are introduced , many of them highly interesting and valuable . Such are his notices of the institutions and manners of the Saracens ( xiv . 4 ) , of the Scythians and Sarmatians ( xvii . 12 ) ...
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... able to hear or to collect ; taking care with an unanimous kind of conspiracy to invent many things , and to exaggerate for the worse all they really knew ; at the same time suppressing any praises of Casar which had come to their ears ...
... able to hear or to collect ; taking care with an unanimous kind of conspiracy to invent many things , and to exaggerate for the worse all they really knew ; at the same time suppressing any praises of Casar which had come to their ears ...
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... able to deploy into battle array , by reason of the narrow and difficult nature of the ground , nor even to stand firm ; while their enemy running round in every direction hurled down upon them fragments of rock from above till they ...
... able to deploy into battle array , by reason of the narrow and difficult nature of the ground , nor even to stand firm ; while their enemy running round in every direction hurled down upon them fragments of rock from above till they ...
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... able to cross without hindrance , and then , in consequence of the sudden- ness of their inroad , to be able to ravage all the country around ; but they had incurred great toil to no purpose . 10. For when the sun rose they were ...
... able to cross without hindrance , and then , in consequence of the sudden- ness of their inroad , to be able to ravage all the country around ; but they had incurred great toil to no purpose . 10. For when the sun rose they were ...
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... able continually to remedy local distresses , order any dis- tribution of food to be made , or any supplies to be brought from the neighbouring countries ; but he pointed out to them a man of consular rank , named Theophilus , the ...
... able continually to remedy local distresses , order any dis- tribution of food to be made , or any supplies to be brought from the neighbouring countries ; but he pointed out to them a man of consular rank , named Theophilus , the ...
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