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1. It has, I believe, been largely in use at Oxford for the last thirty years; but it has not apparently had the good fortune to have come to the knowledge of the writer of an article on "Roman History" published in the Encyclopedia Brita
1. I have deemed it, in general, sufficient to give the value of the Roman money approximately in round numbers, assuming for that purpose 100 sesterces as equivalent to 1 pound sterling. (Translator)
1. Some of the epitaphs may give us an idea of its sound; as theotoras artahiaihi be
2. The hypothesis has been put forward of an affinity between the Iapygian language and the modern Albanian; based, however, on points of linguistic comparison that are but little satisfactory in any case, and least of all where a fact of such importance is involved. Should this relationship be confirmed, and should the Albanians on the other hand - a race also Indo-Germanic and on a par with the Hellenic and Italian races - be really a remnant of that Hellene-barbaric nationality traces of which occur throughout all Greece and especially in the northern provinces, the nation that preceded the Hellenes would be demonstrated as identical with that which preceded the Italians. Still the inference would not immediately follow that the Iapygian immigration to Italy had taken place across the Adriatic Sea.
3. Barley, wheat, and spelt were found growing together in a wild state on the right bank of the Euphrates, north-west from Anah (Alph. de Candolle, Geographie botanique raiso
4. Scotch -quern-. Mr. Robertson.
5. If the Latin vieo, vimen, belong to the same root as our weave (German weben) and kindred words, the word must still, when the Greeks and Italians separated, have had the general meaning "to plait," and it ca
6. Thus aro, aratrum reappear in the old German aran(to plough, dialectically eren), erida, in Slavonian orati, oradlo, in Lithuanian arti, arimnas, in Celtic ar, aradar. Thus alongside of ligo stands our rake (German rechen), of hortus our garden (German garten), of mola our mill (German muhle, Slavonic mlyn, Lithuanian malunas, Celtic malin). With all these facts before us, we ca
7. Nothing is more significant in this respect than the close co
8. Among the oldest names of weapons on both sides scarcely any can be shown to be certainly related; lancea, although doubtless co
9. Even in details this agreement appears; e.g., in the designation of lawful wedlock as "marriage concluded for the obtaining of lawful children" (gauos epi paidon gneision aroto, matrimonium liberorum quaerendorum causa).
10. Only we must, of course, not forget that like pre-existing conditions lead everywhere to like institutions. For instance, nothing is more certain than that the Roman plebeians were a growth originating within the Roman commonwealth, and yet they everywhere find their counterpart where a body of metoeci has arisen alongside of a body of burgesses. As a matter of course, chance also plays in such cases its provoking game.
1. I. II. Italians
2. Like latus (side) and platus (flat); it denotes therefore the flat country in contrast to the Sabine mountain-land, just as Campania, the "plain," forms the contrast to Samnium. Latus, formerly stlatus, has no co