De Quincey's Writings: The Caesars. 1851Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 |
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... arms of Sylla and of Marius . But , if it were Caius Julius who deflowered Rome , if under him she forfeited her dowery of civic purity , if to him she first unloosed her maiden zone , then be it affirmed boldly - that she reserved her ...
... arms of Sylla and of Marius . But , if it were Caius Julius who deflowered Rome , if under him she forfeited her dowery of civic purity , if to him she first unloosed her maiden zone , then be it affirmed boldly - that she reserved her ...
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... arms were stretched out to arrest some potentate in the heart of Asia , a poor slave is silently and stealthily creeping round the base of the Alps , with the purpose of winning his way as a mur- derer to the imperial bedchamber ; Cæsar ...
... arms were stretched out to arrest some potentate in the heart of Asia , a poor slave is silently and stealthily creeping round the base of the Alps , with the purpose of winning his way as a mur- derer to the imperial bedchamber ; Cæsar ...
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... arms against the state , it happened that his head- quarters were at some distance from the little river Rubicon , which formed the boundary of his province . With his usual caution , that no news of his motions might run before himself ...
... arms against the state , it happened that his head- quarters were at some distance from the little river Rubicon , which formed the boundary of his province . With his usual caution , that no news of his motions might run before himself ...
Side 36
... arms in his hands , since the further bank lay within the terri- tory of the Republic , ipso facto proclaimed any Roman a rebel and a traitor . No man , the firmest or the most obtuse , could be otherwise than deeply agitated , when ...
... arms in his hands , since the further bank lay within the terri- tory of the Republic , ipso facto proclaimed any Roman a rebel and a traitor . No man , the firmest or the most obtuse , could be otherwise than deeply agitated , when ...
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... arms until he had obtained for every man , the very meanest of those who heard him , the rank , privileges and appointments of a Roman knight . Here was a piece of sovereign good luck . Had he really made such a promise , Cæsar might ...
... arms until he had obtained for every man , the very meanest of those who heard him , the rank , privileges and appointments of a Roman knight . Here was a piece of sovereign good luck . Had he really made such a promise , Cæsar might ...
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