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A Literal Translation of the First Three Books of Prendeville's Livy
A Literal Translation of the First Three Books of Prendeville's Livy Author:Livy General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1830 Original Publisher: J. Cumming Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can sele... more »ct from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. LIV. He was then admitted into their public councils, where, when on other matters he declared that he would agree in opinion with the Gabian elders, to whom these matters were better known, he was himself occasionally the adviser of war. On that subject he claimed to himself superior knowledge, because he was acquainted with the resources of both nations, and knew that the king's pride was unquestionably odious to his subjects, which even his children could not endure. When he thus gradually excited the principal men of the Gabians to renew the war, and himself with the most determined of the young men went forth to plunder and to hostile enterprises, and an ill-grounded confidence increased to all his words and actions, which were artfully framed for deception, he is in the end chosen general of the war. There when, the multitude being. ignorant of what was in contemplation, some slight engagements were fought between Rome and Gabii, in which the fortune of Gabii generally prevailed, then the highest and lowest of the Gabians vied with each other, in believing that Sex. Tarquinius was sent them as leader by the favour of the gods. But with the soldiers he was held in such affection, by undergoing dangers and fatigues, and by generously bestowing' the booty in equal shares, that Tarquin the father was not more powerful at Rome, than the son was at Gabii. When therefore he saw that he had acquired sufficient strength for all efforts, he then sends one of his adherents to Rome to his father, to inquire what he would have him do, since the gods had granted that he al...« less