The History of Rome, Том 1Charles Scribner's Sons, 1885 |
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afterwards Alba alphabet already ancient appears Appius aristocracy army assembly became belonged burgesses Caere Campanian canton Capua Carthage Carthaginians Celts century character civil clan Claudius coast colonies confederacy constitution consul consular course curies decemvirs Dionysius doubt earlier earliest early epoch equality especially Etruria Etrus Etruscan fact festival former furnished gods Greece Greek hand Hellenic Hernici important Italian Italy king land language later Latin Latium league legend Livy Lucanians magistracy magistrates ment military nobility nominated oldest original Palatine partly patrician peace perhaps period Phoenicians plebeians plebs political position possession primitive probably Pyrrhus Quirinal regal regarded regions relations remained Roman community Rome Sabellian Sabine Samnites Samnium senate Servian settlement Sicilian Sicily slave Tarentines Tarentum temple territory Tiber tion took towns tradition treaty tribes tribunes Tuscan Twelve Tables Umbrians victory Volsci Volscian whole
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Стр. 11 - Dr. MOMMSEN has long been known and appreciated through his researches into the languages, laws, and institutions of Ancient Rome and Italy, as the most thoroughly versed scholar now living in these departments of historical investigation. To a wonderfully...
Стр. 14 - Mommsen's work," as Dr. Schmitz remarks in the introduction, " though the production of a man of most profound and extensive learning and knowledge of the world, is not as much designed for the professional scholar as for intelligent readers of all classes who take an interest in the history of by-gone ages, and are inclined there to seek information that may guide them safely through the perplexing mazes of modern history.
Стр. 234 - ... to the people the time of new and full moon and the days 'of festivals, and of seeing that every religious and every judicial ' act took place on the right day. As they had thus...
Стр. 367 - His law was buried along with him ; but its spectre thenceforward incessantly haunted the eyes of the rich, and again and again it rose from the tomb against them, till the conflicts to which it led destroyed the commonwealth.
Стр. 326 - Rome ; and above all by the enactment that the "king for sacrifice" (rex sacrarum) — whom they considered it their duty to create that the gods might not miss their accustomed mediator — should be disqualified from holding any further office, so that this official was at once the first in rank and the least in power of all the Roman magistrates.
Стр. 30 - But that goal too will only be temporary : the grandest system of civilization has its orbit, and may complete its course ; but not so the human race, to which, even when it seems to have attained its goal, the old task is ever set anew with . a wider range and with a deeper meaning.
Стр. 250 - ... to a greater or less extent, according to the nature of the occupying substance.
Стр. 227 - As by many savages, who even when living dislike their names to be known, it is forbidden to call a dead man by his real name, especially if distinguished; and as among the early Romans, it was a " deeply cherished belief that the name of the proper tutelary spirit of the community ought to remain for ever unpronounced ; " so was it with the Hebrews in early days: their god was not named.
Стр. 43 - During the period when the Indo-Germanic nations which are now separated still formed one stock speaking the same language, they attained a certain stage of culture, and they had a vocabulary corresponding to it. This vocabulary the several nations carried along with them, in its conventionally established use, as a common dowry and a foundation for further structures of their own. ... In this way we possess evidence of the development of pastoral life at that remote epoch in the unalterably fixed...
Стр. 355 - Claudius, enforced the debtor-laws, and his colleague, to whom his former soldiers appealed for aid, dared not offer opposition. It seemed as if collegiate rule had been introduced not for the protection of the people, but to facilitate breach of faith and despotism ; they endured, however, what could not be changed. But when in the following year the war was renewed, the consul's word availed no longer. It was not till...