 | Thomas Arnold - Rome - 1845 - 526 pages
...Tarentaise ; but the Val d'Aosta puzzles me. According to any ordinary rate of marching, an army could never get in three days from the Little St. Bernard to the plains of Ivrea ; not to mention that the Salassians of that valley were such untameable robbers, that they once even... | |
 | William John Law - 1866 - 388 pages
...; but the val d'Aosta puzzles me. According to " any ordinary rate of marching, an army could never get in " three days from the Little St. Bernard to the plains of " Ivrea." Now Polybius relates no such fact as the army getting in three days from the Little St. Bernard to... | |
 | Robert Ellis - Roads - 1867 - 168 pages
...way of obviating the objection (vol. i. p. 309): "Polybius relates no such fact as the army getting in three days from the Little St. Bernard to the plains of Ivrea." Yet 5-2 = 3. " Tptroto? signifies ' on the third day' of the progress made on liberation of the elephants... | |
 | sir Edward Herbert Bunbury (9th bart.) - Classical geography - 1879 - 786 pages
...observes, no army could, according to any ordinary rate of marching, get in three days from the Little iSt Bernard to the plains of Ivrea. (Arnold's History...way through the country of the Salassians, the most untaineable of robbers, who rendered the passage of the valley insecure for an armed force, even in... | |
 | Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury - Classical geography - 1879 - 802 pages
...Arnold, who first appears to have felt the force of this difficulty, justly observes, no army coultl, according to any ordinary rate of marching, get in...Little St. Bernard to the plains of Ivrea. (Arnold's H'mtory of Rome, vol. iii. p. 481.) The actual distance is not less than 04 English miles. But moreover... | |
 | Edward Herbert Bunbury - Classical geography - 1883 - 804 pages
...observes, no army could, according to any ordinary rate of inarching, get in three days from the Little >t. Bernard to the plains of Ivrea. (Arnold's History...Borne, voL iii. p. 481.) The actual distance is not loss than 64 English miles. But moreover the march would have lain for the whole way through the country... | |
 | Livy - 1885 - 284 pages
...thinks that Hann. marched up the Tarentaise. But the Val d'Aosta is a difficulty, as no army could get in three days from the Little St Bernard to the plains of Ivrea; while the Salaasians were untamable robbers, who afterwards plundered Caesar's baggage. The tribe was... | |
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... have occurred on the upper part of the pass — he descended in three days' march to the plains (iii. 56). But as Dr. Arnold, who first appears to have felt the force of this difficulty, justly observes, no army could, according to any ordinary rate... 