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Often appears with: conquest, plunder, and captives · supply, logistics, and encampment · religious persecution and toleration · xerxes statue · wasps in thoreau's lodge · utica and carthage raids · tradition · tisidium · the heavens and the stars · sun-warmed pond side · siege engines · siege and fortification
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After Orinx falls, Roman forces withdraw for winter; Lucius Scipio and Hanno are sent to Rome as prizes, while Valerius Laevinus ravages around Utica and Carthage, defeats a Carthaginian fleet, and sends supplies to Rome.
returned to Lilybaeum with immense booty of every kind. The ships of the enemy having thus been driven from the whole sea, large supplies of corn were conveyed to Rome. 5. In the beginning of the summer in which these events occurred, Publius Sulpicius, proconsul, and king Attalus, having passed the winter at Aegina, as before observed, united their fleets, consisting of twenty-three Roman quinqueremes and thirty-fi…
This section interprets ritual and political details in the war narrative: sacrifices to learn omens, handling magistrates and plebs, the Mamilian law, winter-quarters and camp conditions, and mention of Tisidium.
[175] LV. A thanksgiving--*Supplicia.* The same as *supplicatio,* on which the reader may consult Adam's Rom. Ant., or Dr. Smith's Dictionary. [176] LVI. Dared not be guilty of treachery--*Fallere nequibant.* "Through dread of the severest punishments if they should fall into the hands of the Romans. Valerius Maximus, ii. 7, speaks of deserters having been deprived of their hands by Quintus Fabius Maximus; of others…
Alexander enters Persia with a guide matching the Pythia’s childhood prophecy, orders many prisoners killed, finds large stores of money and animals, skips a moment of reverence for Xerxes’ fallen statue, and takes winter quarters in Persia.
hot and fiery earth was improper for it. But such digressions as these the impatient reader will be more willing to pardon, if they are kept within a moderate compass. At the taking of Susa, Alexander found in the palace forty thousand talents in money ready coined, besides an unspeakable quantity of other furniture and treasure; amongst which was five thousand talents' worth of Hermionian purple, that had been laid…
Thoreau observes autumn color across the pond, describes wasps living in his lodge as winter nears, and explains warming himself by sun on Walden’s northeast side before going into winter quarters.
have been the inventor and bestower of it; and when the reign of poetry commences here, its leaves and string of nuts may be represented on our works of art. Already, by the first of September, I had seen two or three small maples turned scarlet across the pond, beneath where the white stems of three aspens diverged, at the point of a promontory, next the water. Ah, many a tale their color told! And gradually from w…
After skirmishes and siege attempts with slings and battering-rams, the captains retreat to winter quarters; Shaddai’s forces introduce new allies—Tradition, Human-Wisdom, and Man’s-Invention—who are captured and repurposed by Diabolus.
several slings, and two or three battering-rams; with their slings, therefore, they battered the houses and people of the town, and with their rams they sought to break Ear-gate open. The camp and the town had several skirmishes and brisk encounters, while the captains with their engines made many brave attempts to break open or beat down the tower that was over Ear-gate, and at the said gate to make their entrance;…