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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Here ten books of the original are lost, making a chasm of seventy-five years. The translator's object being to pub lish the work of Livy only, he has not thought it his duty to attempt to supply this deficiency, either bj a compilation of his own, or by transcribing or translating those of others. The reader, however, who may be desirous of knowing the events which took place during this interval, will find as complete a detail of them- as can now be given in Hooke's- or Rollin's Roman History. The contents of the lost books have been preserved, and lus as follows: ?] BOOK XI. A. U. C. 460k B. C. 292.] Fabius Gurges, consul, having fought;m unsuccessful battle with the Sam- nites, the senate deliberate about dismissing' him from the command of the army; are prevailed on not to inflict that disgrace on him, principally by the intrea- ties of his father, Fabius M.-ixiuuis, and by bis promising to join the army, and serve, in quality of lieutenant-generals under his son: which promise be performs, and the consul, aided by his counsel and cooperation, obtains a victory over the Samnites, and a triumph in consequence. C. Pontius, the general of the Samnites, led in triumph before the victor's carriage, and afterwards beheaded. A plague at Rome. A.U.C. 461. B.C. 29I.] Ambassadors sent to Epi- daurus to bring from thence to Rome the statue of jEsculapius: a serpent, of itself, goes on board their ship; supposing it to be the abode of the deity, they bring it with them; and on its quitting their vessel and swimming to the island in the Tiber, they consecrate there a. temple to jEsculapius. L. Postumius, a man of consular rank, condemned for employing the soldiers under his command in working on his farm. A. U. C. 462. B.C. 290.] Curius Dentatus, consul, having subdued' t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217858625 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217858627 |
| Weight | 0.42 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 120 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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