The History of Rome, Volumes 1-3 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr | PDF Free Download

Title: The History of Rome, Volumes 1-3
The History of Rome, Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Author: Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Translated by: Julius Charles Hare, Connop Thirlwall, Sir William Smith, Leonhard Schmitz
Publisher: Lea & Blanchard, 1844
Original from: Harvard University
Digitized: 28 Jan 2008

once to exert themselves no longer against what they call fate, as if thereby they could avenge themselves upon fate ; others grow desponding and hopeless ; but a third class of men will rouse themselves just at such moments, and say to themselves, " The more difficult it is to attain my ends, the more honourable it will be;" and this is a maxim which every one should impress upon himself as a law.‎

When he spoke," says one of them, " it always appeared as if the rapidity with which the thoughts occurred to him, obstructed his power of communicating them in regular order or succession. Nearly all his sentences, therefore, were anacoluths ; for, before having finished one, he began another, perpetually mixing up one thought with another, without producing any one in its complete form. This peculiarity was more particularly striking when he was laboring...‎

Caesar that he did not, like Sulla, think an improvement in the state of public affairs so near at hand or a matter of so little difficulty. The cure of the disease lay yet at a very great distance, and the first condition on which it could be undertaken was the sovereignty of...‎

Martyrum. Such also is the case with the story of Regulus. It surely cannot have been known previously to the time of Polybius ; for had he been acquainted with it, as told by later writers, he would not have passed it over in silence. The common account of the death of Regulus may be effaced from the pages of history without any scruple. It may be, that it was taken from Naevius, for Diodorus was not acquainted with it, as is clear from his fragments. He knew the history of Rome but very imperfectly,...‎

Jwnorum, to the sons of those who had been proscribed in the time of Sulla. He had obtained for himself the title of imperator and the dictatorship for life and the consulship for ten years. Half of the offices of the republic to which persons had before been elected by the centuries were in his gift, and for the other half he usually recommended candidates ; so that the elections were merely nominal. The...‎