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According to Plutarch, Julius Caesar had ambitious plans for the marsh, which if realized or realizable would have diverted the Tiber through " During the expedition planned campaign around Europe he intended ... to receive the Tiber immediately below the city in a deep cut, and giving it a bend toward Circaeum to make it enter the sea by Tarracina, ... besides this he designed to draw off the water from the marshes about Pomentium and Settia, and to make them solid ground, which would employ many thousands of men in the cultivation ..."
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According to Diogenes Laertius and Plutarch he fled to Lampsacus due to a backlash against his pupil Pericles.
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According to Eusebius and Plutarch, Herodotus was granted a financial reward by the Athenian assembly in recognition of his work and there may be some truth in this.
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According to Plutarch, he said in Latin, " Casca, you villain, what are you doing?
According to Plutarch, Antony threw her out of his house in Rome, because she slept with his friend, the tribune Publius Cornelius Dolabella.
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According to Plutarch, Spartan society twice underwent major upheavals sparked by ephors ' dreams at the shrine during the Hellenistic era.
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According to Plutarch, Vercingetorix surrendered in dramatic fashion, riding his beautifully adorned horse out of Alesia and around Caesar's camp before dismounting in front of Caesar, stripping himself of his armor and sitting down at his opponent's feet, where he remained motionless until he was taken away.
According to Plutarch, a seer had foreseen that Caesar would be harmed not later than the Ides of March ; and on his way to the Theatre of Pompey ( where he would be assassinated ), Caesar met the seer and joked, " The ides of March have come ", meaning to say that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied " Aye, Caesar ; but not gone.
According to Plutarch, Demosthenes employed Isaeus as his master in Rhetoric, even though Isocrates was then teaching this subject, either because he could not pay Isocrates the prescribed fee or because Demosthenes believed Isaeus ' style better suited a vigorous and astute orator such as himself.
According to Plutarch, when Demosthenes first addressed himself to the people, he was derided for his strange and uncouth style, " which was cumbered with long sentences and tortured with formal arguments to a most harsh and disagreeable excess ".
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According to Plutarch, this is the reason the Egyptians had a taboo against eating fish.
According to Herodotus the country was bound by Solon to maintain his reforms for 10 years, whereas according to Plutarch and the author of Athenaion Politeia ( reputedly Aristotle ) the contracted period was instead 100 years.
According to Plutarch however, Solon originally wrote poetry for amusement, discussing pleasure in a popular rather than philosophical way.
According to Plutarch, Solon was related to the tyrant Pisistratus ( their mothers were cousins ).
According to Plutarch, he spent some time and discussed philosophy with two Egyptian priests, Psenophis of Heliopolis and Sonchis of Sais.
According to Herodotus and Plutarch, he met with Croesus and gave the Lydian king advice, which however Croesus failed to appreciate until it was too late.
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According to Julius Pokorny the Angri-in Angrivarii, the-angr in Hardanger and the Angl-in Anglii all come from the same root meaning " bend ", but in different senses.
According to this account, Athanasius composed it during his exile in Rome, and presented it to Pope Julius I as a witness to his orthodoxy.
According to Tacitus, they drew inspiration from the example of Arminius, the prince of the Cherusci who had driven the Romans out of Germany in AD 9, and their own ancestors who had driven Julius Caesar from Britain.
According to Julius Caesar, the Belgian tribe of the Atuatuci " was descended from the Cimbri and Teutoni, who, upon their march into our province and Italy, set down such of their stock and stuff as they could not drive or carry with them on the near ( i. e. west ) side of the Rhine, and left six thousand men of their company there with as guard and garrison " ( Gall.
According to Julius Caesar, the Helvetians were divided into four subgroups or pagi.
According to historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, occultist currents persist in " neo-völkisch movements ", such as neo-fascist and national mysticist neopaganism, since the 1990s revived in the European Nouvelle Droite in the context of the Traditionalist School of Julius Evola and others ( Alain de Benoist, Werkgroep Traditie ; see Neopaganism and the New Right ).
According to Julius Firmicus Maternus of the fourth century, this play was re-enacted each year by worshippers who
*" According to Julius Caesar, it was customary among the ancient Britons for brothers, and sometimes for fathers and sons, to have their wives in common.
According to the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, the Kestoi " appears to have been intended as a sort of encyclopedia of the material sciences with the cognate mathematical and technical branches, but to have contained a large proportion of merely curious, trifling, or miraculous matters, on which account the authorship of Julius has been questioned.
According to John Julius Norwich, the traditional first doge of Venice, Paolo Lucio Anafesto, was actually Exarch Paul, and his successor, Marcello Tegalliano, Paul's magister militum ( General ; literally, " Master of Soldiers.
According to the testimony of Julius Caesar, the Gaulish language proper was distinct from the Aquitanian language and the Belgic language.
According to Pliny the Elder and his citation by Gaius Julius Solinus, the sea voyage time from Atlantis crossing the Gorgades to the islands of the Ladies of the West ( Hesperides ) is around 40 days.
According to the special edition DVD, significant and uncredited improvements were made to the script by the famous " script doctors ," twin brothers Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein.
According to Julius von Payer, one of the leaders, the journey was to find the north-eastern passage.
According to Julius Caesar, the slaves and dependents of Gauls of rank would be burnt along with the body of their master as part of his funerary rites.
According to Hitler biographer Ian Kershaw, the organization's " membership list ... reads like a Who's Who of early Nazi sympathizers and leading figures in Munich ", including Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Julius Lehmann, Gottfried Feder, Dietrich Eckart and Karl Harrer.
According to Julius Caesar, the ancient Celts executed thieves and prisoners of war by burning them to death inside giant “ wicker men ”.
According to Gildas, followed by Bede, Roman Caerleon was the site of two early Christian martyrdoms, those of Julius and Aaron.
According to Truesdell ( 1980 ), Julius Robert von Mayer in 1841 made a statement that meant that " in a process at constant pressure, the heat used to produce expansion is universally interconvertible with work ", but this is not a general statement of the first law.
According to Feklisov, he was supplied by Perl, under Julius Rosenberg ’ s direction, with thousands of documents from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, including a complete set of design and production drawings for the Lockheed's P-80 Shooting Star.
According to Alexandre Feklisov, the former Soviet agent who was Julius ' contact, he had not provided the Soviet Union with any useful material about the atomic bomb, " He didn't understand anything about the atomic bomb and he couldn't help us.
" According to renowned architectural photographer Julius Shulman, it was Rand's work that " brought architecture into the public's focus for the first time ," and he believes that The Fountainhead was not only influential among 20th century architects, it " was one, first, front and center in the life of every architect who was a modern architect.
According to the theories of Julius Wellhausen and others who have followed his approach, the Biblical chapters that contain the Jubilee and Sabbatical-year legislation ( chapters 25 and 27 of Leviticus ) were part of the so-called " P " or Priestly Code that represented the last stage in the development of Israel's religion.
According to Julius Evola, tradition in its purest form encompassed asceticism, which he described in The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts as a discipline.
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