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... army were invited by Cæsar to a banquet ; it was a circumstance expressly noticed in the invitation , that the banquet was not a " cœna , " but a " prandium . " What did that imply ? Why , that all the guests must present themselves in ...
... army were invited by Cæsar to a banquet ; it was a circumstance expressly noticed in the invitation , that the banquet was not a " cœna , " but a " prandium . " What did that imply ? Why , that all the guests must present themselves in ...
Side 30
... army as taking food , the word used is always prandens and pransus , and , when the word used is prandens , then always it is an army that is concerned . Thus Juvenal in a well - known passage : - " Credimus altos Desiccasse amnes ...
... army as taking food , the word used is always prandens and pransus , and , when the word used is prandens , then always it is an army that is concerned . Thus Juvenal in a well - known passage : - " Credimus altos Desiccasse amnes ...
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... Army and the Emperor , is of a nature to impress many readers even more powerfully , and especially by contrast with the spirit of Roman warfare in its Republican period . Always it had been an insolent and haughty warfare ; but , upon ...
... Army and the Emperor , is of a nature to impress many readers even more powerfully , and especially by contrast with the spirit of Roman warfare in its Republican period . Always it had been an insolent and haughty warfare ; but , upon ...
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... army of three hundred and sixty thousand troops , that is , somewhere about seventy - five legions : an establishment beyond what the first Cæsars had found requisite for master- ing the Mediterranean Sea with all the nations that ...
... army of three hundred and sixty thousand troops , that is , somewhere about seventy - five legions : an establishment beyond what the first Cæsars had found requisite for master- ing the Mediterranean Sea with all the nations that ...
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... army of infidels ever attempted . A parhelion— a secondary sun , a mock sun that should shine for centuries with equal arguments for its own authenticity as existed for the original and authentic sun - would not be more shocking to the ...
... army of infidels ever attempted . A parhelion— a secondary sun , a mock sun that should shine for centuries with equal arguments for its own authenticity as existed for the original and authentic sun - would not be more shocking to the ...
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