Kitap 8
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None of the citizens knew what was happening because of the distance; for the town isLivy, 25, 24. a very large one. . . .
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But the Romans were rendered very confidentThe first quarter occupied. Livy. 25, 24. by their conquest of Epipolae. . . .
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He gave orders that the infantry should take the beasts of burden along with the baggage tied upon them from the rear and range them in front of themselves. This produced a defence of greater security than any palisade.This fragment is supposed, by comparison with Livy, 25, 36, to belong to the account of the fall of Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio in Spain, B. C. 212. . . .
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So entirely unable are the majority of mankind to submit to that lightest of all burdens—-silence. . . .
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Anything in the future seems preferable to what exists in the present. . . .
