Identifier: historyofromeofr03duru (find matches)
Title: History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894 Ripley, M. M Clarke, W. J Mahaffy, John Pentland, Sir, 1839-1919
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Publisher: Boston : C. F. Jewett
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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THE EOMAN PROVINCES. 733 it easy to invent an illustrious origin for themselves. They couldnot be either Greeks or Romans; they availed themselves of avague tradition, which had come down through the ages, of coloniesfrom the East, and fabulous adventures of the Tyrian Heracles,connecting themselves with what was most illustrious in the worldafter Rome and Greece, namely, Persia. Sallust, wlio obtained atranslation of their books, found therein that the Numidians hadfor their ancestoi-s Persians, compaiuons of Heracles. When theChristian religion in its turn penetrated to these countries, echoesof Biblical traditions made themselves heard, and the Moors becamethe Canaanites whom Joshua had expelled from Palestine.

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