A manual of ancient history

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Clarendon Press, 1869 - History, Ancient - 580 pages
 

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Page 547 - Rhaetia, were abandoned: Pannonia, Noricum, and Dalmatia were parted with ; at "last, nothing remained but Italy ; and Italy could not undertake to defend herself. Her rulers had long ceased to put any trust in Italian soldiers, and had drawn their recruits from the outlying provinces rather than from the heart of the empire. Finally, they had thought it excellent strategy to take the barbarians themselves into pay, and to fight Huns with Goths, and Goths with Burgundians or Vandals. But this policy...
Page 204 - Hellenization of Western Asia and North-eastern Africa, which dates from Alexander's successes, is one of the most remarkable facts in the history of the human race, and one of those most pregnant with important consequences.
Page 479 - She took advantage of her position to poison the unhappy Claudius in the sixty-fourth year of his age, and the fourteenth of his reign. Claudius left behind him a son, Britannicus, who was however but thirteen years old at his father's death.
Page 9 - Erdkunde." Berlin, 1832 et seqq. A most copious and learned work, embracing all the results of modern discovery up to the date of the publication of each volume. Smith, Dr. W., " Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography." London, 1854; 2 vols., 8vo. Among useful compendiums are — Laurent, PE, " Introduction to Ancient Geography.
Page 112 - Doris intervened between /Eniania and Western Locris. This was a small and rugged country, inclosed between Mounts Parnassus and Callidromus, on the upper course of the Pindus River, a tributary of the Boeotian Cephissus. Its greatest length was about seventeen and its greatest width about ten miles. It contained the four cities of Pindus, Erineus, Bceum, and Cytinium, whence it was known as the Dorian Tetrapolis.
Page 321 - The only Natural Division of Italy is into Northern and Southern — the former comprising the plain of the Po and the mountains inclosing it, so far as they are Italian ; the latter coextensive with the Peninsula proper. It is usual, however, to divide the peninsula itself artificially into two portions by a line drawn across it from the mouth of the Silarus to that of the Tifernus. In this way a triple division of Italy is produced : and the three parts are then called Northern, Central, and Southern....
Page 454 - The principal tribes were, in the north, the Caletes, Ambiani, Bellovaci, Atrebates, Morini, and Nervii ; in the central region, the Suessiones, the Remi, the Treviri, the Leuci, and the Lingones; towards the south, the Sequani, and the Helvetii. The most important towns were Noviodunum (Soissons), Durocortorum (Reims), Augusta Trevirorum (Treves), Divodurum (Metz), Vesontio (Bcsa^on), and Aventicum (Avenches, in Switzerland).

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