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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

...eserts full of wild beasts, unapproachable bogs, Scythian ice, or a frozen sea, so, in this work of mine, in which I have compared the lives of the gr... ... himself to the stone and lifted it up; but refused to take his journey by sea, though it was much the safer way, and though his mother and grand- fat... ...the cruelty they used to all strangers, tried to persuade Theseus to go by sea. But he, it seems, had long since been secretly fired by the glory of H... ...e endured, that Hercules should go out everywhere, and purge both land and sea from wicked men, and he himself should fly from the like adventures tha... ...t consulship had the honor of a triumph for the victory he gained over the Ligurians, whom he defeated in a set battle, and drove them to take shelter... ... Appius. I do not find that Fabius won any set battle but that against the Ligurians, for which he had his triumph; whereas Pericles erected nine tro-... ...nd improve. T o proceed: Aemilius, being chosen consul, waged war with the Ligurians, or Ligustines, a people near the Alps. They were a bold and warl... ...being the policy of the 438 V olume One Romans not utterly to destroy the Ligurians, because they were a sort of guard and bulwark against the freque... ...nging forage to the camp; that to op- pose these, a party of seven hundred Ligurians were imme- diately detached; and that, relief coming still from b...

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The Aeneid of Virgil

By: Virgil

...ing hate, Expell’d and exil’d, left the Trojan shore. Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore, And in the doubtful war, before he won The Latian re... ...Against the Tiber’s mouth, but far away, An ancient town was seated on the sea; A T yrian colony; the people made Stout for the war, and studious of t... ...f wand’ring slaves, abhorr’d by me, With prosp’rous passage cut the Tuscan sea; T o fruitful Italy their course they steer, And for their vanquish’d g... ..., And dance aloft in air, and skim along the ground; Then, settling on the sea, the surges sweep, Raise liquid mountains, and disclose the deep. South... ...vessel to the storm gave way, And suck’d thro’ loosen’d planks the rushing sea. Ilioneus was her chief: Alethes old, Achates faithful, Abas young and ... ...is eye, He stares, and shakes, and finds it vain to fly; Y et, like a true Ligurian, born to cheat, (At least while fortune favor’d his deceit,) Cries... ... “Caught in the train which thou thyself hast laid! On others practice thy Ligurian arts; Thin stratagems and tricks of little hearts Are lost on me: ...

... Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc?d by fate, And haughty Juno?s unrelenting hate, Expell?d and exil?d, left the Trojan shore. Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore, And in the doubtful war, before he won The Latian realm, and built the destin?d town; His banish?d gods restor?d to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line, From whence the race of Alban f...

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Salammbo

By: Gustave Flaubert

...on from the perspiring crowd heavier still. Men of all nations were there, Ligurians, Lusitanians, Balearians, Negroes, and fugitives from Rome. Besid... ...he battle of Aeginusae, and he thanked the Mercenaries once more in Greek, Ligurian and Punic; he kissed their hands; finally, he congratulated them o... ... build temples on their shores. All the lands laboured about thee, and the sea-plains, ploughed by thine oars, rocked with thy harvests.” Then she beg... ...ppease their anger. T o the Greeks she spoke Greek; then she turned to the Ligurians, the Campanians, the Negroes, and listening to her each one found... ... of white foam rocked around the Carthaginian peninsula, while the emerald sea appeared as if it were curdled in the freshness of the morning. Then as... ... every frenzy. At last, one day, in despair, he had flung himself into the sea from the top of a trireme where he was working at the oar. Some of Hami... ...vy breeze would waft the odours of aromatics blended with the scent of the sea and the exhala- tion from the sun-heated walls. The motionless waves sh... ... fell, Spendius went and roused the Liby- ans, and said to them: “When the Ligurians, Greeks, Balearians, and men of Italy are paid, they will return.... ... at once led and pushed forward by two others. But with his three thousand Ligurians, and the best in Carthage, he could form only a simple phalanx of...

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Hesiod the Homeric Hymns and Homerica

By: Hugh G. Evelyn White

...ving seduced their sister (5), was murdered there. His body, cast into the sea, was brought to shore by dolphins and buried at Oenoe (or, according to... ...want and misery by industry and care both in agriculture and in trading by sea. Neither subject, it should be carefully noted, is treated in any way c... ... countless plagues, wander amongst men; for earth is full of evils and the sea is full. Of them- selves diseases come upon men continually by day and ... ...cks of Oedipus, and some, when it had brought them in ships over the great sea gulf to T roy for rich-haired Helen’s sake: there death’s end enshroude... ...heir wide army, or their walls, or else makes an end of their ships on the sea. 45 Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica (ll. 248-264) You princes,... ...fruitless air...’ Fragment #40 — Strabo, vii. p. 300: ‘The Aethiopians and Ligurians and mare-milking Scythians.’ Fragment #41 — Apollodorus, i. 9.21....

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The Georgics

By: Virgil

...dinous. By this Scarce can the billow spare the curved keels, When swift the sea gulls from the middle main Come winging, and their shrieks are shorew... ... Eurus and of Zephyr, all the fields With brimming dikes are flooded, and at sea No mariner but furls his dripping sails. Never at unawares did shower... ...f dark the air clipped by her crescent dim, For folks afield and on the open sea A mighty rain is brewing; but if her face With maiden blush she mantl... ...ith fury on the ships, how many waves Come rolling shoreward from the Ionian sea. Not that all soils can all things bear alike. Willows by water cou... ...and reared, And rivers undergliding ancient walls. Or should I celebrate the sea that laves Her upper shores and lower? or those broad lakes? Thee, La... ...breed of men, The Marsi and Sabellian youth, and, schooled T o hardship, the Ligurian, and with these The V olscian javelin armed, the Decii too, The ...

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