This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...direc-flows through the pastoral country tion, and joins the Velino just be-of the Cicolano, and falls into the low Rieti. The Salto rises very Velino above Rieti. See Bunsen's ( near to the lake Fucino, and in its Article, "Esame del sito dei A earlier course is called the Imele; antichi stabilimenti Italiei," &c. in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...direc-flows through the pastoral country tion, and joins the Velino just be-of the Cicolano, and falls into the low Rieti. The Salto rises very Velino above Rieti. See Bunsen's ( near to the lake Fucino, and in its Article, "Esame del sito dei A earlier course is called the Imele; antichi stabilimenti Italiei," &c. in but it sinks into a fissure in the the Annals of the Archaeological limestone a little below the famous Society of Rome, Vol. VI. p. 110. her, the JEquians also, probably from similar motives, Chap.. xxxnt were induced to join in the quarrel. Equian sol--- --' diers 3 were found, it was said, together with Hernicans, in that Samnite army which Q. Fabius, when proconsul in the year 447, had defeated at Allifse; "Eble ojuian people joined the Samnites. Thus when the Samnites in the year 450, were obliged to sue for peace, the jEquians were left in a position of no small danger. Rome, it appears, was willing to forgive them on no other terms than those just and after the Hernican war in the year following, the imposed on the Hernicans; namely, that they should become citizens of Ronie without the right of voting in the comitia; in other words, that they should submit to become Roman subjects. Hopeless as their condition was, their old spirit would not yet allow them to yield, and they resolved to abide a contest with the whole undivided power of the Roman commonwealth. Both consuls, P. Sempronius and P. Sulpicius 4, %with two consular armies, marched at once into the ftfm. yjEquian territory. Such a force, amounting to lZr '_?. about 40,000 men, confounded all plans of resistance. Few Equians of that generation had ever seen war; their country had not been exposed to the ravages of an enemy within the memory of any man th...
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