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Pinnock’s Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith’s History of Rome

CHAPTER XXI
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What resolution did she form, and how did she accomplish it?
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Did not Augustus attempt to prevent her resolution, and was he successful?
FOOTNOTES: [1] In this contest the famous Alexan'drian library, consisting, it is said, of 700,000 volumes, was accidentally burnt.
[2] I came, I saw, I conquered.
[3] The Romans divided their months into three parts; namely, Calends, Nones, and Ides; all which they reckoned backwards.

The Ides were always eight in number.

The Nones sometimes four, at others six.

The Calends varied according to the length of the month, and also with the Nones, as they were four or six.


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