epub |eng | | Author:Keaveney, Arthur;

But he prayed to no avail. The god was deaf to all entreaties and Sulla, swept away in the general panic, was forced to take refuge in his camp. The ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Haaren, John H. [Haaren, John H.]

IV SCIPIO now began to march towards the great, rich city of Carthage. He captured a number of towns and a great deal of treasure. In a few weeks, however, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-19 | Author:Anthony Blond [Blond, Anthony]

CLAUDIUS Claudius had more than one reason for keeping out of the way when he heard that his nephew, the Emperor Caligula, had been assassinated, just after one o’clock on ...

epub |eng | 1876-01-15 | Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero [Cicero, Marcus Tullius]

XII TO SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS YOU tell me in your letter that you are extremely alarmed by a dream; apprehending that it forebodes some ill success to you in the case ...

epub |eng | | Author:Strauss, Barry

MARCH 17: RECONCILIATION That same day, March 17, the conspirators invited the Roman people to the Capitoline and a large number accepted. Brutus addressed them, speaking, it seems, either in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:James Romm

Unable to resign even at the price of his huge estate, Seneca had nonetheless withdrawn from court to the degree that was safe. He no longer kept up the routine ...

mobi |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus

Idem tam parcus in aedificando, quam diligens in tuendo. Itaque non, ut ante, immanium transvectione saxorum urbis tecta quatiuntur. Stant securae domus, nec iam templa nutantia. Satis est tibi, nimiumque, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-30 | Author:Alison Plowden [Plowden, Alison]

epub |eng | 2010-10-24 | Author:Seneca

ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE [Our time is so precious we must be sure to make the best use of it] 1 Most human beings, Paulinus,1 complain about the meanness ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Dietrich von Hildebrand,John Henry Crosby [Hildebrand, Dietrich von]

Some years later, in 1938, Italy passed the first of its race laws, which severely restricted the rights of Jews. Even so, von Hildebrand means that racism was not intrinsic ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Adrian Goldsworthy

There was still heavy fighting, and the Romans' line was ragged as the legionaries formed up with the first officer or standard-bearer they met, just as they had done when ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2012-10-14 | Author:Jeremiah McCall [McCall, Jeremiah]

Chapter 4 The Political Battle for Syracuse Late in 211 or early in 210, Marcellus returned from Sicily. He left his troops there under his successor, though apparently unwillingly, since ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Adrienne Mayor

Mithradates and his entourage ascended Buyuk Evliya Dag, to the sanctuary of Zeus the Warrior. Archaeologists have discovered many inscriptions in this important site of native Anatolian and Iranian- influenced ...

epub |eng | | Author:James Palmer

Ungern spoke of the necessity of the ‘discipline of the rod’ which had served his military heroes, Frederick the Great and Nikolas I. Nobody was immune from being seized and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-14 | Author:David Rohrbacher

The bureaucracy With the exception of the army, the Roman empire had always operated with a surprisingly small number of government employees by modern standards. Tax collection and the erection ...