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... legions almost daily made these causeways clang with their iron tread . Grand processions glittered along this vast surface , with magnificent cars bearing captive princes arrayed in royal robes that mocked their misery , or conveying ...
... legions almost daily made these causeways clang with their iron tread . Grand processions glittered along this vast surface , with magnificent cars bearing captive princes arrayed in royal robes that mocked their misery , or conveying ...
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... the city , and the shrine to which the consul , dictator , or imperator , always led his conquering legions in his triumphal chariot , climbing the steep ascent , preceded by the spoils and captives of 6 [ A.D. HISTORY OF THE ROMANS .
... the city , and the shrine to which the consul , dictator , or imperator , always led his conquering legions in his triumphal chariot , climbing the steep ascent , preceded by the spoils and captives of 6 [ A.D. HISTORY OF THE ROMANS .
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... legions , placing them , after the march or the conflict , in a chapel in the heart of the camp , and sacrificing and burning incense to them as ' gods of war ' ; so it was more sinful than shameful to desert these sacred ensigns in the ...
... legions , placing them , after the march or the conflict , in a chapel in the heart of the camp , and sacrificing and burning incense to them as ' gods of war ' ; so it was more sinful than shameful to desert these sacred ensigns in the ...
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... legions within easy distance , to place the veteran troops most attached to him in thirty - two encampments throughout Italy , and to keep in the vicinity of Rome the famous prætorian bands , ten thousand strong , as the imperial body ...
... legions within easy distance , to place the veteran troops most attached to him in thirty - two encampments throughout Italy , and to keep in the vicinity of Rome the famous prætorian bands , ten thousand strong , as the imperial body ...
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... legion , and from dawn to midnight they resounded with the shouts and laughter of successive troops of bathers , who , when emerged from the water , and resigned to the minute manipulations of the barbers - for the fashion of this ...
... legion , and from dawn to midnight they resounded with the shouts and laughter of successive troops of bathers , who , when emerged from the water , and resigned to the minute manipulations of the barbers - for the fashion of this ...
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