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... centuries after their deaths . Those works in which the narrative of great public affairs is mixed up with the more minute private and personal details and descriptions , which pedants and philosophers consider to be below what they call “
... centuries after their deaths . Those works in which the narrative of great public affairs is mixed up with the more minute private and personal details and descriptions , which pedants and philosophers consider to be below what they call “
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... narrative of the revolting cruelties which Boadicea is said to have exercised on her own sex , as , unfortu- nately , the Romans have here the advantage of telling both sides of the story , as they generally have against all their ...
... narrative of the revolting cruelties which Boadicea is said to have exercised on her own sex , as , unfortu- nately , the Romans have here the advantage of telling both sides of the story , as they generally have against all their ...
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... narratives of their historians . Such a man as I have already noticed was Tiberius ; and such a man was also the infamous and hateful Commodus , the undoubted son of the wicked Faustina , and the reputed and legitimate son of the ...
... narratives of their historians . Such a man as I have already noticed was Tiberius ; and such a man was also the infamous and hateful Commodus , the undoubted son of the wicked Faustina , and the reputed and legitimate son of the ...
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... narrative , so far confirms this statement when he says that " sometimes the memory of his father , and then reverence for his friends , restrained this young man , but presently a certain malignant and invidious fortune overthrew the ...
... narrative , so far confirms this statement when he says that " sometimes the memory of his father , and then reverence for his friends , restrained this young man , but presently a certain malignant and invidious fortune overthrew the ...
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... narrative refers to many records which he says were compiled of the private life of Heliogabalus , and especially to a biography of him by Marius Maximus . In the midst of all the horrible details with which he furnishes us , Lampridius ...
... narrative refers to many records which he says were compiled of the private life of Heliogabalus , and especially to a biography of him by Marius Maximus . In the midst of all the horrible details with which he furnishes us , Lampridius ...
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