Author: Theodor Mommsen

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About the time of the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome, the Etruscan power had reached its height.

About the time of the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome, the Etruscan power had reached its height.

- Theodor Mommsen

The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage.

The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage.

- Theodor Mommsen

Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.

Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.

- Theodor Mommsen

The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.

The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.

- Theodor Mommsen

Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.

Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.

- Theodor Mommsen

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