The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus: During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and ValensBell, 1887 - 646 sider |
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... eagerly to the combat their generals recalled them , thinking it inoppor- tune to enter upon a contest of doubtful issue , when their walls were not far distant , under protection of which the safety of the whole army could be placed on ...
... eagerly to the combat their generals recalled them , thinking it inoppor- tune to enter upon a contest of doubtful issue , when their walls were not far distant , under protection of which the safety of the whole army could be placed on ...
Side 15
... eager for an abundant use of that article , were easily excited to frequent and violent disorders . 2. And since I think it likely that foreigners who may read this account ( if , indeed , any such should meet with it ) are likely to ...
... eager for an abundant use of that article , were easily excited to frequent and violent disorders . 2. And since I think it likely that foreigners who may read this account ( if , indeed , any such should meet with it ) are likely to ...
Side 16
... eagerly desirous of them , as if they would obtain a higher reward from brazen figures unendowed with sense than from a consciousness of upright and honourable actions ; and they even are anxious to have them plated over with gold , a ...
... eagerly desirous of them , as if they would obtain a higher reward from brazen figures unendowed with sense than from a consciousness of upright and honourable actions ; and they even are anxious to have them plated over with gold , a ...
Side 21
... eagerly as to quarrel over them ; snuffing up their nostrils and making unseemly noises by drawing back their breath into their noses ; or ( and this is their favourite pursuit of all others ) from sunrise to even- ing they stay gaping ...
... eagerly as to quarrel over them ; snuffing up their nostrils and making unseemly noises by drawing back their breath into their noses ; or ( and this is their favourite pursuit of all others ) from sunrise to even- ing they stay gaping ...
Side 24
... eager to insure his safety by any possible 1 Gibbon here proposes for lenitatem to read levitatem , fickleness ; himself describing Montius as " a statesman whose art and experience were frequently betrayed by the levity of his ...
... eager to insure his safety by any possible 1 Gibbon here proposes for lenitatem to read levitatem , fickleness ; himself describing Montius as " a statesman whose art and experience were frequently betrayed by the levity of his ...
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