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If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.

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The Dalmatian tribes and the Pannonians, at least of the region of the Save, for a short time obeyed the Roman governors; but they bore the new rule with an ever increasing grudge, above all on account of the taxes, to which they were unaccustomed, and which were relentlessly exacted.

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The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.

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The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.

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If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted.

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Marcus Crassus cannot, any more than Pompeius, be reckoned among the unconditional adherents of the oligarchy.

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Sertorius was far from being strong enough to renew the gigantic enterprise of Hannibal. He was lost if he left Spain, where all his successes were bound up with the peculiarities of the country and the people; and even there, he was more and more compelled to renounce the offensive.

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In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained.

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About the time of the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome, the Etruscan power had reached its height.

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To acquire possession of Latium was of the most decisive importance to Etruria, which was separated by the Latins alone from the Volscian towns that were dependent on it and from its possessions in Campania.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Historian

Born: November 30th, 1817

Died: November 1st, 1903

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