The Great Events by Famous Historians: A Comprehensive and Readable Account of the World's History, Emphasizing the More Important Events, and Presenting These as Complete Narratives in the Master-words of the Most Eminent Historians ...National Alumni, 1905 - 440 من الصفحات |
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Africa Alexander Alexander's allies ancient Antony appeared Appius Arminius arms army arrived Asia Athenians Athens attack battle Bellovaci besieged body brother Brutus Cæsar camp campaign Carthage Carthaginians Cassius cavalry Chirisophus Cicero Claudius Cleopatra coast command conquered conqueror conquest consul Crito Darius death decemvirs defeated Egypt empire enemy fear fight fleet followed force fought friends Gauls gave Germans Gracchus Greece Greek ground Gylippus Hannibal Hasdrubal honor hope horse hundred infantry invaders Italy Judas Judea Kaotsou King Lacedæmonians land legions Lepidus Livius Macedon Macedonian military nations Nero Octavian Octavius passed patricians peace Pericles Persian plebeians Pompey possession prætor province Ptolemy Punic Pyrrhus returned river Roman Rome Samnites Scipio senate sent ships Sicily siege Simmias Socrates soldiers soon Spain spirit sword Syracusans Syracuse Syria temple thousand tion took tribes tribunes triumph troops Varus victory whole Xenophon
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الصفحة 303 - ... but his fishing must not be forgotten. He went out one day to angle with Cleopatra, and, being so unfortunate as to catch nothing in the presence of his mistress, he gave secret orders to the fishermen to dive under water, and put fishes that had been already taken upon his hooks; and these he drew so fast that the Egyptian perceived it. But, feigning great admiration, she told everybody how dexterous Antony was, and invited them next day to come and see him again. So, when a number of them had...
الصفحة 326 - ... the ides of March, and that when the day was come, as he was going to the senate house, he called to the soothsayer, and said, laughing, " The ides of March are come " ; to which he answered softly,
الصفحة 301 - She herself lay all along under a canopy of cloth of gold, dressed as Venus in a picture, and beautiful young boys, like painted Cupids, stood on each side to fan her. Her maids were dressed like Sea Nymphs and Graces, some steering at the rudder, some working at the ropes. The perfumes diffused themselves from the vessel to the shore, which was covered with multitudes, part following the galley up the river on either bank, part running out of the city to see the sight. The market place was quite...
الصفحة 105 - But those who are found to have lived an eminently holy life, these are they who, being freed and set at large from these regions in the earth, as from a prison, arrive at the pure abode above, and dwell on the upper parts of the earth.
الصفحة 371 - Arminius suffered the Romans to march out from their camp, to form first in line for action, and then in column for marching, without the show of opposition. For some distance Varus was allowed to move on, only harassed by slight skirmishes, but struggling with difficulty through the broken ground, the toil and distress of his men being aggravated by heavy torrents of rain, which burst upon the devoted legions, as if the angry gods of Germany were pouring out the vials of their wrath upon the invaders....
الصفحة 48 - Greece, and not Rome, might have conquered Carthage; Greek instead of Latin might have been at this day the principal element of the language of Spain, of France, and of Italy; and the laws of Athens, rather than of Rome, might be the foundation of the law of the civilized world.
الصفحة 80 - On the fifth day they came to the mountain; and the name of it was Theches. When the men who were in the front had mounted the height, and looked down upon the sea, a great shout proceeded from them; and...
الصفحة 161 - Darius reinforced them by the mass of Bactrian cavalry from his main line, and an obstinate cavalry fight now took place. The Bactrians and Scythians were numerous, and were better armed than the horsemen under Menidas and Ariston; and the loss at first was heaviest on the Macedonian side. But still the European cavalry stood the charge of the Asiatics, and at last, by their superior discipline, and by acting in squadrons that supported each...
الصفحة 219 - This was the only chance that he had of victory or safety, and he seems to have done everything that good generalship could do to secure it. He placed his elephants in advance of his centre and right wing. He had caused the driver of each of them to be provided with a sharp iron spike and a mallet, and had given orders that every beast that became unmanageable, and ran back upon his own ranks, should be instantly killed by driving the spike into the vertebra at the junction of the head and the spine....
الصفحة 303 - These anecdotes, my grandfather told us, Philotas used frequently to relate. To return to Cleopatra ; Plato admits four sorts of flattery, but she had a thousand. Were Antony serious or disposed to mirth, she had at any moment some new delight or charm to meet his wishes ; at every turn she was upon him, and let him escape her neither by day nor by night.