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Page 194 - Neither the Romans nor their allies are to sail beyond the Fair Promontory, unless driven by stress of weather or the fear of enemies. If any one of them be driven ashore he shall not buy or take...
Page 141 - But in these days, their union is so entire and perfect, that they are not only joined together in bonds of friendship and alliance, but even make use of the same laws, the same weights, coins, and measures, the same magistrates, counsellors, and judges: so that the inhabitants of this whole tract of Greece seem in all respects to form but one single city, except only that they are not enclosed within the circuit of the same walls. In every other point, both through the whole republic, and in every...
Page 194 - And in case that they are forced beyond it, they shall not be allowed to take or purchase any thing, except what is barely necessary for refitting their vessels, or for sacrifice; and they shall depart within five days.
Page 116 - ... the ascent, and the perpetual snows with which they are covered, have hitherto remained without inhabitants. From the place where the Apennine mountains first begin, a little above Massilia, and from their junction with the Alps, the country on the side of the Tyrrhenian sea quite down to Pisae, the first town of Tyrrhenia to the west, and that also 'on the side towards the plains, as far as to the confines of the Arretinians, was all inhabited by the Ligurians. Adjoining to these were the Tyrrhenians,...
Page 195 - Tarracinians, or any other people of the Latins, that have submitted to the Roman jurisdiction. Nor shall they possess themselves of any city of the Latins that is not subject to the Romans. If any one of these be taken, it shall be delivered to the Romans in its entire state. The Carthaginians shall not build any fortress in the Latin territory : and if they land there in a hostile manner they shall depart before night.
Page xxiv - If this, indeed, should be the event, I neither shall regret the labour which the one part of the work has cost me, nor grieve for the disappointment in the other ; but shall think my pains well rewarded in having thus been able to bring into the open light a merit which had long languished in obscurity ; and to substitute, in the place, perhaps, of studies either trifling or pernicious, the knowledge of an author, whose writings, though broken and imperfect, not only contain the fullest lessons...
Page 195 - Libya, shall pay no customs, but only the usual fees to the scribe and crier; and the public faith shall be a security to the merchant for whatever he shall sell in the presence of these officers. If...
Page 132 - Gallic forces, and the unusual noise with which they advanced to action, struck them with great amazement. For, besides their horns and trumpets, the number of which was almost infinite, the whole army broke together into such loud and continued cries, that the neighbouring places every where resounded, and seemed to join their voices with the shouts and clamour of the instruments and soldiers.
Page 334 - ... Arcadians in general have been always celebrated for their virtue throughout all Greece; and have obtained the highest fame, as well by their humane and hospitable disposition, as from their piety also towards the gods, and their veneration of all things sacred ; it may perhaps be useful to enquire, from whence it could arise, that the people of this single city, though confessed to be Arcadians, should on the contrary be noted for the savage roughness of their lives and manners, and distinguished...
Page 337 - For as soon as they were departed, they made a solemn purification of the place, and carried victims in procession round the city and through all their territory. This then may be sufficient to exempt the general customs of Arcadia from all censure ; and at the same time to remind the people of that province, that music was at first established in their government, not for the sake of vain pleasure and amusement, but for such solid purposes as should engage them never to desert the practice of it....