Italy and Her Invaders: pt. 1-2. The Visigothic invasion

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Clarendon Press, 1892 - Europe
 

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Page 724 - Why is his chariot so long in coming ? why tarry the wheels of his chariots ? Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, have they not sped ? have they not divided the prey ; to every man a damsel or two ; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil...
Page 802 - The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Page 803 - Quis cladem illius noctis, quis funera fando Explicet, aut possit lacrimis aequare labores? Urbs antiqua ruit, multos dominata per annos ; Plurima perque vias sternuntur inertia passim Corpora perque domos et religiosa deorum 365 Limina. Nee soli poenas dant sanguine Teucri; Quondam etiam victis redit in praecordia virtus Victoresque cadunt Danai. Crudelis ubique Luctus, ubique pavor, et plurima mortis imago.
Page 855 - The shrill cicalas, people of the pine, Making their summer lives one ceaseless song, Were the sole echoes, save my steed's and mine, And vesper bell's that rose the boughs along...
Page 880 - The barbarians drive us to the sea ; the sea drives us back to the barbarians : between them we are exposed to two sorts of death ; we are either slain or drowned.
Page 773 - And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
Page 847 - Ravenna — for in that city the usurper was then residing — and there detained the military chief. Now, no one had ever been known to have forded that lake before ; but God then rendered that passable, which had hitherto been impassable. Having therefore crossed the lake, as if going over dry ground, they found the gates of the city open, and overpowered the usurper.
Page 853 - We sullen were In the sweet air, which by the sun is gladdened, Bearing within ourselves the sluggish reek : Now we are sullen in this sable mire.
Page 772 - These swelling words of vanity only provoked the mirth of Alaric, who had served under the eagles, and knew what the Roman populace's " practice in the use of arms " amounted to. With a loud Teutonic laugh he exclaimed, " Thick grass is easier mowed than thin." After much ridicule showered upon the ambassadors who had brought so magnanimous a message, business was resumed, and they contrived again to inquire as to the terms of a " moderate peace." The Goth's announcement of his conditions was, says...
Page 864 - ... in order that there might not be a break in the series, I have composed the life myself, with the help of God and the prayers of the brethren.

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