The General History of Polybius, Band 2W. Baxter, 1823 |
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Seite 179 - But among all the useful institutions (says Polybius) that demonstrate the superior excellence of the Roman government, the most considerable, perhaps, is the opinion which people are taught to hold concerning the gods : and that which other men regard as an object of disgrace, appears, in my judgment, to be the very thing by which this republic is chiefly sustained.
Seite 200 - Appius, therefore, was at last constrained to return back again to his camp. And when he had held a consultation with the tribunes, it was with one consent determined by them, that every other method should be tried to obtain possession of Syracuse, but that they would no more attempt to take it by assault. Nor did they afterwards depart from this resolution.
Seite 127 - ... benefactor, endeavours at any time to destroy or hurt him ; it is certain that all men must be shocked by such ingratitude, through sympathy with the resentment of their neighbour; and from an apprehension also, that the case may be their own. And from hence arises, in the mind of every man, a certain notion of the nature and force of duty, in which consists both the beginning and the end of justice.
Seite 247 - The whole circuit of the city is rendered uncommonly strong, both by nature and art ; for the walls are built upon a rock, which, partly by nature, and partly from the labour of art, is very steep and broken. It is surrounded also by rivers on different sides. On the side towards the south, by a river of the same name as the city ; and on the west and south-west, by that which is called the Hypsas* The citadel, which stands upon a hill on...
Seite 199 - And when the vessel was thus raised erect upon its stern, the machine itself was held immovable; but, the chain being suddenly loosened from the beak by the means of pulleys, some of the vessels were thrown upon their sides, others turned with the bottom upwards ; and the greatest part, as the prows were plunged from a considerable height into the sea, were filled with water, and all that were on board thrown into tumult and disorder. "Marcellus was in no small degree embarrassed,'* Polybius continues,...
Seite 473 - Macedonians opposite to him, has also ten spears, which he is forced to encounter. But it is not possible for a single man to cut down these spears with his sword, before they can take effect against him. Nor is it easy, on the other hand, to force his way through them. For the men that are behind add no weight to the pressure, nor any strength to the swords, of those that are in the foremost rank. It will be easy, therefore, to conceive, that, while the phalanx retains its own proper position and...
Seite 133 - ... reason. But, during the course of many contests and disorders in which they were engaged, having been careful always to adopt, upon every change, such improvements as the occasion itself suggested to them, they at last obtained the same end likewise, as that which Lycurgus had proposed ; and completed the most beautiful frame of government, of all that are in our times known.
Seite 311 - Then let those who are to give and to receive the signals, write upon five tablets the five portions of the letters in their proper order ; and concert together the following plan. That he, on one side, who is to make, the signal, shall first raise two lighted torches, and hold them erect, till they are answered by torches from the other side. This only serves to show, that they are on both sides ready and prepared.
Seite 127 - And thus it is that the people begin to discern the nature of things honourable and base, and in what consists the difference between them ; and to perceive that the former, on account of the advantage that attends them, are fit to be admired and imitated, and the latter to be detested and avoided.
Seite 440 - They came to this resolution ; first, that the slaves should be made free, to animate them to defend the city with the utmost vigour: secondly, that all the women should be shut up in the temple of Diana, and all the children, with their nurses, in the Gymnasium : that...