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Letters of Lucius M. Piso, from Palmyra, to His Friend Marcus Curtius, at Rome
Author: Lucius Manlius PisoLetters of Lucius M. Piso, from Palmyra, to His Friend Marcus Curtius at Rome
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Letters of Lucius M. Piso
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Letters from Palmyra, by Lucius Manlius Piso, to His Friend Marcus Curtius, at Rome
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Letters of Lucius M. Piso [pseud.] from Palmyra, to His Friend Marcus Curtius, at Rome
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Palmyra
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Letters of Lucius M. Piso, from Palmyra, to His Friend Marcus Curtius, at Rome
Author: William WarePublisher:
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Letters of Lucius M. Piso
Author: William WarePublisher:
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Category : Tadmur (Syria)
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Pages : 256
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Letters of Lucius M. Piso, from Palmyra, to His Friend Marcus Curtius at Rome
Author: William WareLetters of Lucius M. Piso; from Palmyra, to His Friend Marcus Curtius at Rome
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ISBN: 9781230084541
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Pages : 76
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...these, as from hidden springs, a great deal of all the best felicity you have tasted, has welled up'! Then--still more, in acts of good and just government--in promoting the happiness of your subjects--from private friendship--.from affections resting upon objects worthy to be loved--has no happiness come worth living for'! And beside all this--from an inward consciousness of rectitude! Most of all this may still be yours, though you no longer sat upon a throne, and men held their lives but in your breath.' ' From such sources, ' replied Zenobia, ' some streams have issued it may be, that have added to what I have ' enjoyed--but of themselves, they would have been nothi-g. The lot of earth, being of the low and common herd, is a lot too low and sordid to be taken if proffered. Ithank the Gods mine has been better. lt has been a throne--glory--renown--pomp and power--and I have been happy. Stripped of these, and without the prospect of immortality, and I would not live.' With these words she. rose quickly from her seat, saying that she had a further duty to perform. Fausta entreated to be used as an agent or messenger, but could not prevail. Zenobia darting from our side, was in a moment lost in the surrounding darkness. We returned to the house of Gracchus. In a few days the vast preparations of the Romans being complete, a general assault was made by the whole army upon every part of the walls. Every engine known to our modern methods of attacking walled cities, was brought to bear. Towers constructed in the former manner were wheeled up to the walls. Battering rams of enormous size, those who worked them being protected by sheds of hide, thundered on all'sides at the gates and walls. Language...