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. 1896 Excerpt: ...fortified town of the Sontiates had been so quickly captured that the Vocates, when Crassus came there,1 sent for help from Spain. 2. The leaders who came from there,1 because they had fought there1 under the leadership2 of the Roman Sertorius had learned the art of war.3 3. But Crassus, because the number of the enemy ...
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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. 1896 Excerpt: ...fortified town of the Sontiates had been so quickly captured that the Vocates, when Crassus came there,1 sent for help from Spain. 2. The leaders who came from there,1 because they had fought there1 under the leadership2 of the Roman Sertorius had learned the art of war.3 3. But Crassus, because the number of the enemy was daily increasing,4 resolved to fight the next day. 1. See ibi, eo, inde. 149; H. 3. war = warfare = res mflitaris. 305; G. 107. 4. Use either cresco or the pas 2. 255, a; H. 431,4; G. 408 sive (why?) of augeo. CHAP. XXIV. 1. Although at daybreak Crassus drew up a double line of battle, the enemy did not fight. 2. For they thought that the Romans were dispirited 1 at2 the want of grain, and so they themselves would gain the victory without a battle. 3. But their delay made the soldiers rush' upon their camp even the 4 more eagerly.5 1. 251; H. 419, II; G. 402. 4. cf. 16: 3. 2. propter. 245, b; H. 416, I, 2). 5. Use the adverb suggested by 3. cf. 21: j. lacripres, CHAP. XXV. 1. The soldiers now attempted to drive 1 the defenders from the wall. 2. The auxiliaries, too, in order to give the appearance of fighting2 men, kept bringing3 material for an agger-3-Meanwhile, the cavalry, by going4 around the camp, discovered that the decuman gate could be more easily demolished.5 1. attempted to drive = one word. 3. 277; H. 469, II; G. 222. 227, c; H. 469, II, 1; G. 224. 4. 301; H. 544,1; G. 432. 2. 188, rem.; H. 441; G. 195, 1. 5. promo. CHAPS. XXVI, XXVII. 1. And so the officers led those1 cohorts which were guarding the camp around to the enemy's rear gate before! they could even be seen by them.3 2. But, when a shout was raised, the Romans, excited by the hope of victory, attacked the enemy with renewed energy. 3. They,4 losing all hope, leaped ...
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Fair. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7 3/4"-9 3/4" Tall. Wear, rubbing and soiling to board, tips and corners, endpapers and title page missing, notes in pencil, some browning and soiling to text). a fair reference copy.