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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 90 90 Browse Search
M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to Atticus (ed. L. C. Purser) 12 12 Browse Search
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero 11 11 Browse Search
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero 8 8 Browse Search
C. Julius Caesar, Gallic War 2 2 Browse Search
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome 2 2 Browse Search
Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White) 1 1 Browse Search
Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) 1 1 Browse Search
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller) 1 1 Browse Search
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.), BOOK V., CHAPTER IV. (search)
d according to the distinction of the guests. When, on their voluntary submission to Hannibal, they received his soldiers into winter quarters,B. C. 216. the pleasures [of the place] rendered the men so effeminate, that Hannibal said, although conqueror, that he was in danger of the enemy, since his soldiers were returned to him women, and no longer men. When the Romans obtained the mastery,211 B. C. they inflicted on them numerous ills, and ended by distributing their land by lot.B. C. 59. At the present day they are living in prosperity, and on friendly terms with the [Roman] colonists, and preserve their ancient reputation, both in respect to the size of their city and the numbers of their population. Beyond Campania and the Samnites,We concur with Kramer in considering that the words me/xri Frentanw=n, which occur immediately after Sauni=tin, have been interpolated. and upon the Tyrrhenian Sea, dwells the nation of the Picentini. This is a small off-shoot from the Pice