Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 7. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 696
... Romans . The firft time we find them mentioned by the Roman hiftorians , is about the year 211 B. C. at which time Marcellus fubdued Infubria and Liguria , and defeated the Gæfatæ , a German nation fituated on the banks of the Rhine ...
... Romans . The firft time we find them mentioned by the Roman hiftorians , is about the year 211 B. C. at which time Marcellus fubdued Infubria and Liguria , and defeated the Gæfatæ , a German nation fituated on the banks of the Rhine ...
Page 701
... Romans . Arminius carried on a long and fuc- cefsful war with Maroboduus king of the Marco- manni , whom he at laft expelled , and forced to apply to the Romans for affiftance ; but , excepting Germani . cus , it feems they had at this ...
... Romans . Arminius carried on a long and fuc- cefsful war with Maroboduus king of the Marco- manni , whom he at laft expelled , and forced to apply to the Romans for affiftance ; but , excepting Germani . cus , it feems they had at this ...
Page 709
... Romans . But this election confers at firft a mere title ; for by an exprefs article in his ca- pitulation , the king of the Romans fwears not to in terfere with the government during the life of the emperor ; but on his decease , the ...
... Romans . But this election confers at firft a mere title ; for by an exprefs article in his ca- pitulation , the king of the Romans fwears not to in terfere with the government during the life of the emperor ; but on his decease , the ...
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