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The History of Rome, Book V

CHAPTER XII
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These enactments gave rise to the conception of robbery as a separate crime, while the older law comprehended robbery under theft.
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V.II.The Pirates in the Mediterranean 27.

As the line was thirty-five miles long (Sallust, Hist, iv, 19, Dietsch; Plutarch, Crass.

10), it probably passed not from Squillace to Pizzo, but more to the north, somewhere near Castrovillari and Cassano, over the peninsula which is here in a straight line about twenty-seven miles broad.
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That Crassus was invested with the supreme command in 682, follows from the setting aside of the consuls (Plutarch, Crass.
10); that the winter of 682-683 was spent by the two armies at the Bruttian wall, follows from the "snowy night" (Plut.l.


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