![]() P33 families of their descendants, or, as we should call them, genearchai or prôtogonoi. 26 2 Others claim that certain vagabonds without house or home, coming together out of many places, met one another there by chance and took up their abode in the fastnesses, living by robbery and grazing their herds. And in the course of time they contrived to raise themselves from the smallest nation to the greatest and from the most obscure to the most illustrious, not only by their humane reception of those who sought a home among them, but also by sharing the rights of citizenship with all who had been conquered by them in war after a brave resistance, by permitting all the slaves, too, who were manumitted among them to become citizens, and by disdaining no condition of men from whom the commonwealth might reap an advantage, but above everything else by their form of government, which they fashioned out of their many experiences, always extracting something useful from every occasion.ġ0 1 There are some who affirm that the Aborigines, from whom the Romans are originally descended, were natives of Italy, a stock which came into being spontaneously 24 (I call Italy all that peninsula which is bounded by the Ionian Gulf 25 and the Tyrrhenian Sea and, thirdly, by the Alps on the landward side) and these authors say that they were first called Aborigines because they were the founders of the P31 of Aborigines but under Latinus, their king, who reigned at the time of that war, they began to be called Latins, 4 and when Romulus founded the city named after himself sixteen generations after the taking of Troy, they took the name which they now bear. Till the time of the Trojan war they preserved their ancient name 3 And these people remained in this same place of abode, both never afterwards driven out by any others but, although they continued to be one and the same people, their name was twice changed. These rivers spring from the foot of the Apennine mountains, the range by which all Italy is divided into two parts throughout its length, and at points about eight hundred stades from one another discharge themselves into the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Tiber to the north, near the city of Ostia, and the Liris to the south, as it flows by Minturnae, both these cities being Roman colonies. 2 These people had previously lived on the mountains in unwalled villages and scattered groups but when the Pelasgians, 23 with whom some other Greeks had united, assisted them in the war against their neighbours, they drove the Sicels out of this place, walled in many towns, and contrived to subjugate all the country that lies between the two rivers, the Liris and the Tiber. But some time later the Aborigines gained possession of it, having taken it from the occupants after a long war. As to the condition of the place before their time, whether it was occupied by others or uninhabited, none can certainly say. to the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.9 1 This city, mistress of the whole earth and sea, which the Romans now inhabit, is said to have had as its earliest occupants the barbarian Sicels, a native race. ![]() In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wires. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. “A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses.: this is obscenity. “This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people. “For it is a fire that, kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom, caught from a wandering spark out of another private heart, glows and enlarges until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women, upon the universal heart of all, and so lights up the whole world and all nature with its generous flames. ![]() ![]() Famous quotes containing the words world, war and/or operations: ![]()
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