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: When, after the action had thus occurred, his own men returned to each general, Scipio could adopt no fixed plan of proceeding, except that he should form his measures from the plans and undertakings of the enemy: and Hannibal, uncertain whether he should pursue the march he had commenced into Italy, or fight with the Roman army which had first presented itself, the arrival of ambassadors from the Boii, and of a petty prince called Magalus, diverted from an immediate engagement ; who, declaring that they would be the guides of his journey and the companions of his dangers, gave it as their opinion, that Italy ought to be attacked with the entire force of the war, his strength having been nowhere previously impaired.
When the Achaean hostages were released in 150 BC, Polybius was granted leave to return home, but the next year he went on campaign with Scipio Aemilianus to Africa, and was present at the capture of Carthage, which he later described.
When news of these setbacks reached Rome, he was replaced as consul by Scipio Aemilianus.
When Antiochus refuses, the Battle of Magnesia is fought near Magnesia ad Sipylum, on the plains of Lydia in Anatolia, between the Romans, led by the consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio and his brother, Scipio Africanus, with their ally Eumenes II of Pergamum, and the army of Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire.
When Scipio left Massilia ( Marseilles ) he had no or minimal forces.
When a measure was passed to found a colony at Carthage, which had been destroyed in 146 BC by Scipio Africanus the Younger, Gaius was appointed to oversee the construction and left for Africa.
When Scipio the Younger agreed to represent the Italian allies, who were protesting the injustices done to them which Tiberius Gracchus ' land reform was supposed to remedy, he won the hostility of the People, who accused him of standing against Tiberius Gracchus and wishing to abolish the law and incite bloodshed.
When Scipio died suddenly and mysteriously, both Fulvius and Gaius were implicated in his death.
The poem begins with the narrator reading Cicero ’ s Somnium Scipionis in the hope of learning some “ certeyn thing .” When he falls asleep Scipio Africanus appears and guides him up through the celestial spheres to Venus ’ s temple, after some deliberation at the gate both promising a “ welle of grace ” and a stream that “ ledeth to the sorweful were / Ther as a fissh in prison is al drye ” ( Reminiscent of Dante's " Abandon all hope ye who enter here ").
When his friend Scipio Africanus announced that, if his brother Lucius was chosen to lead the campaign against Antiochus, he would accompany his brother as a legate, the decision was inevitable-Lucius would be preferred.
: When he thought that he was old enough to marry ,— and up to that time he had consorted with no woman ,— he engaged himself to Lepida, who had formerly been betrothed to Metellus Scipio, but was now free, since Scipio had rejected her and the betrothal had been broken.
When the troop failed to respond to the order, fearing, Polybius speculates, the large number of enemies around the consul, Scipio drove his horse into the enemy.
When the tribune Publius Servilius Rullus introduced his agrarian law ( 63 ), these lands, which had been originally assigned to the Roman people by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, were expressly exempted from sale, which roused the indignation of Marcus Tullius Cicero ( De lege agraria, i. 4, ii.
When the rebellion was crushed, Scipio escaped from South Carolina into Augusta, Georgia, where he assumed the name " Xerxes " and over the years worked as a waiter at several restaurants: first that of Jerry Oglethorpe, then Erasmus, a prosperous black, and finally under Jerry Dover at the prestigious Huntsmans ' Lodge.

When and acting
When the system is arranged for automatic leveling, the platform angles respond to any horizontal components of acceleration acting on the accelerometers.
When the plague takes a grip on the town, Grand joins the team of volunteers, acting as general secretary, recording all the statistics.
When my father, who had been appointed by his country as public notary in the customs at Bugia acting for the Pisan merchants going there, was in charge, he summoned me to him while I was still a child, and having an eye to usefulness and future convenience, desired me to stay there and receive instruction in the school of accounting.
When Jellicoe was promoted to First Sea Lord in 1916, Beatty succeeded him as commander-in-chief of the Grand Fleet and received promotion to the acting rank of Admiral at the age of 45 on 27 November.
When he showed the film to people they praised the actor's actingthe hunger in his face when he saw the soup, the delight in the child, and the grief when looking at the dead woman.
When a Governor-General is overseas on official duties or unable to perform official functions, or the office is vacant, the senior state governor is appointed as Administrator of the Commonwealth, and is effectively acting Governor-General.
When acting as Lord of Mann, the Queen acts on the advice of the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom having prime responsibility as Privy Counsellor for Manx affairs.
When we act in the world we really are acting with causal power.
When a shatz recites a prayer on behalf of the congregation, he is not acting as an intermediary but rather as a facilitator.
When already regarded as a legend, he met the teenage Spacey backstage after a theater performance and spoke to him about pursuing an acting career.
When they arrived, they were confronted with Chinese assertions that the Japanese had invaded unlawfully, while the Japanese claimed they were acting to keep peace in the area.
When there is no flow, there is no lift and the aerodynamic forces acting on the airfoil are zero.
When she retired from acting in 1933, Pickford continued to produce films for United Artists, and she and Chaplin remained partners in the company for decades.
When he was five years old, Palin had his first acting experience at Birkdale playing Martha Cratchit in a school performance of A Christmas Carol.
When Cruz was a teenager, she began having an interest in acting after seeing the film Tie Me Up!
When a person swims under the water, water pressure is felt acting on the person's eardrums.
When an individual, or entity, has no " minimum contacts " with a forum State, the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits that State from acting against that individual, or entity.
When asked if she believed her beauty had been an impediment to being taken seriously as an actress, she said, " People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap, if you really want to look like the part you're playing, which isn't necessarily like you.
When Stigand, who was acting as intermediary, conveyed the king's jest that Godwin could have his peace if he could restore Alfred and his companions alive and well, Godwin and his sons fled, going to Flanders and Ireland.
When acting in others ' films he sometimes takes over directing, such as for The Outlaw Josey Wales, if he believes production is too slow.
When Quinn mentioned he was drawn to acting, Wright encouraged him.
When the French Government first investigated the idea of overhauling their system of measurement, Talleyrand, in the late 1780s, acting on Concordet's advice, invited Riggs, a British Parliamentarian and Thomas Jefferson, the American Secretary of State to George Washington, to work with the French in producing an international standard by promoting legislation in their respective legislative bodies.
When Sarah was young her mother sent her to Grandchamp, an Augustine convent school near Versailles In 1860 she began attending The Conservatoire de Musique at Déclemation in Paris and eventually became a student at the Comédie Française where she would have her acting debut ( August 11, 1862 ) in the title role of Racine's Iphigénie to lackluster reviews.
When she graduated from high school in 1923, Gaynor decided to pursue an acting career.
When he received the lead in Merton of the Movies, he realized the beauty of acting as a profession, as it allowed him to deflect attention from his own tongue-tied personality and create stage characters relying on someone else's scripted words.

When and on
When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.
When he saw the expression in her eyes, he knew he couldn't send them on.
When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.
When one of the men in the hall behind us spat on the floor and scraped his boot over the gob of spittle I noticed how the clerk winced.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:
When I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.
Joyce went on, `` When we'd finished, Lou -- Mr. Thor -- asked me to stay a little longer.
When we opened the door again for business and switched on the lights she said:
When he sank on his knees, they had allowed him to char without administering the stroke of mercy.
When he got closer to the tree, Matsuo noted the wild look on his face.
When he rolled on the left side, propping on his left elbow, Matsuo seized his hair and pulled him back over.
When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.
When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.
When you pass a church on an Irish bus, all the hands flurry in the sign of the cross.
When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.
When combined with the metaphysical notion that pure forms of this universe are best appreciated when least embodied in a material substratum, it becomes clear that while earth will be dross on a scale of material-formal ratios, celestial bodies will be of a subtle, quickened, ethereal existence, in whose embodiment pure form will be the dominant component and matter will be absent or remain subsidiary.
When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.
Besides doing a single song, `` When The Sun Comes Out '', they worked on the ambitious American-Negro Suite, for voices and piano, as well as songs for films.
When I returned to make my report, the Hetman did not remember having sent me on the secret mission.
When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.
When the young biologist, Dr. Ballard, began to show interest in our daughter Elizabeth, this induced a corresponding interest, on our part, in him.
When he turns briefly to literary style, in the Third Book, he again looks to the effect on the audience.

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