By Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Earnest Cary
Dionysius of Halicarnassus used to be born ahead of fifty three BCE and went to Italy prior to 29 BCE. He taught rhetoric in Rome whereas learning the Latin language, amassing fabric for a heritage of Rome, and writing. His Roman Antiquities started to appear in 7 BCE. Dionysius states that his items in writing historical past have been to thrill enthusiasts of noble deeds and to pay off the advantages he had loved in Rome. yet he wrote additionally to reconcile Greeks to Roman rule. Of the 20 books of Roman Antiquities (from the earliest occasions to 264 BCE) we now have the 1st nine whole; so much of 10 and eleven; and later extracts and an epitome of the full. Dionysius studied the easiest to be had literary resources (mainly annalistic and different historians) and doubtless a few public records. His paintings and that of Livy are our merely non-stop and designated self reliant narratives of early Roman history.
Dionysius used to be writer additionally of essays on literature overlaying rhetoric, Greek oratory, Thucydides, and the way to mimic the easiest versions in literature.
The Loeb Classical Library publishes a two-volume variation of the severe essays; the variation of Roman Antiquities is in seven volumes.
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1 Cf. ' The decree was passed 46 viii. late in the year 484 (viii. 76, 2) BOOK IX. 37, 2—38, 1 was endeavouring to force the consuls to carry out the decree of the senate concerning the allotment of But the consuls kept refusing to do so, alleglands. ^ At the same time they pointed out that decrees of the senate were not laws continuing in force forever, but measures designed to meet temporary needs and having validity for one year only. When the consuls put forward these excuses, Genucius, finding himself unable to employ compulsion against them, since they were invested with a superior authority, took a bold course.
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35, 5-8 For many days he plundered their territory which was still untouched, and then, since his baggage train was now heavily laden with booty, he led his troops homeward. While he was yet a long way from the city he was met by the people, who, crowned with garlands, perfumed the route with frankincense as he entered and received the army with bowls of honeyed wine. And the senate decreed Sabines. too, to him the celebration of a triumph. The other consul, Gaius Nautius, to whom the the Latins and the Hernicans had fallen by lot, had delayed taking the field, not because he was swayed by any irresolution or fear of danger, but because he was awaiting the uncertain outcome of the war with the Veientes, to the end that, if any misfortune should befall the army employed against them the commonwealth might have another force assembled in readiness to hinder the enemy from making an irruption into the country, in case this foe, like those who had earlier marched against Rome, should attempt to fortify any places as a threat to the city.