 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr - 1848 - 582 lapas
...which arose out of her tears. Such a peace of forty years, during which no nation rose against Eome because Numa's piety was communicated to the surrounding...supposed to have ruled, seven being a number which appears in many relations, especially in important astronomical ones. Hence the chronological statements... | |
 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr - 1848 - 616 lapas
...very minute account of one / ' I particular event, in which we recognise a piece of contem; poraneous history, though we meet with nothing historical either...supposed to have ruled, seven being a number which appears in many relations, especially in important astronomical ones. Hence the chronological statements... | |
 | Barthold Georg Niebuhr - 1852 - 482 lapas
...historical, and so in all probability is the reception of the Albans at Koine. The conquests of Ancus Martius are quite credible; and they appear like an oasis...supposed to have ruled, seven being a number which appears in many relations, especially in important astronomical ones. Hence the chronological statements... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1855 - 578 lapas
...mythico-historical, yet does not believe their names to be ascertained. ' T he names of the kings (he says) are perfectly fictitious ; no man can tell how long...kings reigned, as we do not know how many there were ;' Lect. vol. ip 41. ' Ancus and Tullus seem to me to be historical personages ; but we can scarcely... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1868 - 588 lapas
...brought against it by some modern critics and historians : as, for instance, when Niebuhr asserts that " the names of the kings are perfectly fictitious ;...Roman kings reigned, as we do not know how many there were;"8 or when Dr. Arnold says, even of the latter part of the regal period, "the general picture... | |
 | Thomas Henry Dyer - 1868 - 584 lapas
...difficult to see what Niebuhr's view exactly was : for if, as he says, " the names of the kings are purely fictitious ; no man can tell how long the Roman kings reigned, as we do not know how many there were," a it is difficult to see how any of the reigns can deserve the epithet even of mythico-historical,... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - 1905 - 444 lapas
...find in the thirteenth century a very minute account of one particular event, in which we recognize a piece of contemporaneous history, though we meet...supposed to have ruled, seven being a number which appears in many relations, especially in important astronomical ones. Hence the chronological statements... | |
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Martius are quite credible; and they appear like an oasis of real history in the midst of fables. A similar case occurs once in the chronicle of Cologne. In the Abyssinian annals, we find in the thirteenth century a very minute account of one particular... 