Identifier: republicanromehe1914have (find matches)
Title: Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord), d. 1913
Subjects: Rome -- History Republic, 510-30 B.C
Publisher: London, G. Harrap
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library

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eir naval power.Carthage also, who had for a time been their ally, was at lastexcited by commercial jealousy to turn her arms against them.I^ater still they were thrust out of their possessions in Cam-pania by the Samnites, and when the final struggle for thepossession of Italy begins we find them restricted to the provincewhich bears their name. From Etruria came the sombre and gloomy element whichcast a shadow over the brighter and purer worship of theold Sabine and I^atin religion, and the science of augury,destined to play so important a part in the political hfe ofthe Romans. To the Etruscans also the Romans owed thebeginnings of their art, and the gigantic structures of thelater kings were planned and executed by the skill of Etruscanarchitects and engineers. Etruscan also in origin were thegladiatorial shows, which can be traced back to the practiceof self-immolation at a great mans funeral; and we have * Hymn to Dionysus, 1. 8; Apollodorus, iii. 3, i. * Pindar, Pyth. i. 71. 34
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