 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr - 1844 - 598 lapas
...Flue in Switzerland. Numa was supposed to have been inspired by the goddess Egeria, to whom he was J See Hist. Rom. vol. ii. p. 179, 220, etc. married...reception of the Albans at Rome The conquests of Ancus Martins are quite credible, and they appear like an oasis of real history in the midst of fables. A... | |
 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr - 1852 - 482 lapas
...have had nothing except poetry; but with Tullus Hostilius a kind of history begins that is, events arc related which must be taken in general as historical,...all probability is the reception of the Albans at Koine. The conquests of Ancus Martius are quite credible; and they appear like an oasis of real history... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1855 - 572 lapas
...' The death of Numa forms the conclusion of the first sseculum, and an entirely new period follows Up to this point we have had nothing except poetry...reception of the Albans at Rome. The conquests of Ancus Marcius are quite credible ; and they appear like an oasis of real history in the midst of fables;'... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1855 - 578 lapas
...' The death of Numa forms the conclusion of the first sreculum. and an entirely new period follows Up to this point we have had nothing except poetry...destruction of Alba is historical, and so in all probability ia the reception of the Albans at Rome. The conquests of Ancus Marcius are quite credible ; and they... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1856 - 524 lapas
..."The death of Numa forms the conclusion of the first sceculutn, and an entirely new period follows Up to this point we have had nothing except poetry...historical, and so in all probability is the reception of tbe Albans at Rome. The conquests of Ancus Martius are quite credible; and they appear like an oasis... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1856 - 522 lapas
..." The death of Numa forms the conclusion of the first saeculum, and an entirely new period follows Up to this point we have had nothing except poetry...general as historical, though in the light in which they arc presented to us they are not historical. Thus, for example, the destruction of Alba is historical,... | |
 | J. G. Mandley - 1880 - 180 lapas
...first and second kings of Rome. After the death of Numa came Tullus Hostilius, when, says Niebuhr, " a kind of history begins, that is, events are related...they are presented to us they are not historical." Five other kings are named after Tullus; the whole, from the commencement of the kingly form of government,... | |
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Up to this point we have had nothing except poetry, but with Tullus Hostilius a kind of history begins, that is, events are related which must be taken in general as historical, though in the light in which they are presented to us they are not historical.... 