The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus: During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens, Volumer 1-2H. G. Bohn, 1862 - 646 sider |
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... a secret door into the palace , won over the queen by the present of a costly necklace , and procured a fatal warrant to be sent to Honoratus , at that time count - governor of the East , in compliance with which Clematius was put to death ...
... a secret door into the palace , won over the queen by the present of a costly necklace , and procured a fatal warrant to be sent to Honoratus , at that time count - governor of the East , in compliance with which Clematius was put to death ...
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... a set of ferocious tribes which , being full of fickleness , were continually either attacking him in a hostile manner , or , as often happens , aiding him when he turned his arms against us , a certain noble , by name Nohodares ...
... a set of ferocious tribes which , being full of fickleness , were continually either attacking him in a hostile manner , or , as often happens , aiding him when he turned his arms against us , a certain noble , by name Nohodares ...
Side 11
... a race whom it is never desirable to have either for friends or enemies , ranging up and down the country , if ever they found any- thing , plundered it in a moment , like rapacious hawks who , if from on high they behold any prey ...
... a race whom it is never desirable to have either for friends or enemies , ranging up and down the country , if ever they found any- thing , plundered it in a moment , like rapacious hawks who , if from on high they behold any prey ...
Side 16
... a few , who never recollect where they have been born , but who fall away into error and licentiousness , as if a perfect impunity were granted to vice . For as the lyric poet Simonides teaches us , the man who would live happily in ...
... a few , who never recollect where they have been born , but who fall away into error and licentiousness , as if a perfect impunity were granted to vice . For as the lyric poet Simonides teaches us , the man who would live happily in ...
Side 19
... a violence to nature , and forcing it back from its appointed course , which at the very first beginning and birth of the child , by a kind of secret law revealing the primitive foun- tains of seed , points out the way of propagating ...
... a violence to nature , and forcing it back from its appointed course , which at the very first beginning and birth of the child , by a kind of secret law revealing the primitive foun- tains of seed , points out the way of propagating ...
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