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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...1 1 The four letters inscribed on Roman military standards indicate the important place held by the Senate. They are 5. P. Q. R., standing for Senalus Popalusque Romanus, "The Senate and the People of Rome." B3. Expansion of Rome over Italy, 509 (?)-264 B.C. The first centuries of the republic were filled with constant warfare. The Romans needed all their skill, bravery, and patriotism to keep back the Etruscans on the north „. Rome and the wild tribes of the Apennines. About 390 supreme B.C. the state was brought near to destruction by m.fati"m' 338 B.C an invasion of the Gauls.1 These barbarians, whose huge bulk and enormous weapons struck terror to the hearts of their adversaries, poured through the Alpine passes and ravaged far and wide. At the river Allia, only a few miles from Rome, they annihilated a Roman army and then captured and burned the city itself. But the Gallic tide receded as swiftly as it had come, and Rome rose from her ashes mightier than ever. Half a century after the Gallic invasion she was able to subdue her former allies, the Latins, and to destroy their league. The Latin War, as it is called, ended in 338 B.C., the year of the fateful battle of Chffironea in Greece.2 By this time Rome ruled in Latium and southern Etruria and had begun to extend her sway over Campania. There remained only one Italian people to contest with her the supremacy of the peninsula--the Samnites. The Samnites were the most vigorous and warlike race of central Italy. While the Romans were winning their way in Latium, the Samnites were also entering on a career of con-_.. Rome quest. They coveted the fertile Campanian plain supreme in with its luxurious cities, Cumse and Neapolis, which central Italy, 290 B.C. the Greeks had founded. The ...

Medieval and early modern times by Hutton Webster

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