Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . public. The exanqileof Appius was imitated liy other distinmiishedRomans. The Way, Rome to Ariminum by way of Xarniaand Fauum, was constructed in B. C. 220 bythe censor Caius Flanuuius, from whom itreceived its name. From the termin
Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . public. The exanqileof Appius was imitated liy other distinmiishedRomans. The Way, Rome to Ariminum by way of Xarniaand Fauum, was constructed in B. C. 220 bythe censor Caius Flanuuius, from whom itreceived its name. From the terminus of thisgreat road at Ariminum, the Chilian Way,the work of the Roman general Lucius .Emil-ius Paullus, was constructed (B. C. 1^7) toPlacentia liy way of Bononia, ]\lutina, andParma; while anothi- branch of the sameroad, known as the Cas-iax \Vay, was after-ward countrv of the .Kipiians wasjoined to Rome by the Nalkkian Way; whileanother thoroughfare, called the Latin through the valley of the Liris to the t(jwnof .Fsernia. It was over these broad andstone-paved hiehways that the thunderinglegions of Rome went forth to battle, andreturned in triunq)h, laden with the siioils ofthe nations. LSiyJhSAl. 111ST()1:V. — T11E AyriEST WOULD. CHAPTKR T,x.—The ftixic wvrn Kuiue audiliaiic liir the masterythe Wi^t—a struirde |^SB^Mi™^a^«^S^] , ,, , I f til, important rceiinled in aiu-iciit history. oidril -1 (illc-liiii nil lc~y i t ^vas ,le-h m this • Whnh. r th. Arvan nr thr Sn litic n become precloiuhiaiit in Euroj e—wl ether the sj^eech, language, ;titutionhoi 1,1 ?vail over the star-lore ami mysticism of he CI and the IMiu/niciaii. For more than ahun Ired vears pertinacity rarely equaled—never surpassed—in the auuals of mankind. It was a battle tothe death. The issues involved were of sucha sort as to admit .if a .-olutiou <inly by theite otthe modern Tunis
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