Other material by Sallust and ps‑Sallust are also available from the page.Ĭomplete Latin texts, English translations Similarly, the war with Jugurtha deals among other things with conducting a foreign war with a polarized citizenry, in which the defeatist half may have been bribed by the enemy to call off the war. The story of Catiline's revolt is interesting to students of Roman history as a dry run for Caesar's revolution but also to modern man, dealing as it does with terrorism, the infiltration of republican government, and preëmptive strikes at them to preserve liberty. Since it has failed to appear courtesy of anyone else, I entered it myself.Īre among the best-written works onsite. In progress, if at a glacial pace: I'm linking each paragraph of the Latin to a photograph of it in the only surviving ancient manuscript, sometimes commented with a rudimentary apparatus: so far, 13 of these 130 paragraphs of the facsimile are online.Ĭomplete Latin text and English translationĪnother work I expected would have been online long before this. Of everything Roman I've ever read, this is my favorite work, and I'm pleased to be able to share it with you. Having done so, he wrote a very accurate and engagingly sober book about it, which is a mine of information for modern archaeologists and historians.
Sextus Julius Frontinus was called on to administer the city's water, and methodically set out to discover and put an end to endemic theft of the resource, and prevent it in the future. Here and there, annotated, illustrated with photos of my own, and linked to the Gazetteer, the Atlas, and the best and most stable sites on the Web. In modern Greece, they are still used for ordinal numbers and in contexts similar to those in which Roman numerals are still used elsewhere in the West.The complete Latin text as established by Karl Mayhoff in 1897‑1908. Greek (Hellenic) numerals, are a system of writing numbers using the letters of the Greek alphabet. Modern usage employs seven symbols, each with a fixed integer value. Numbers in this system are represented by combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet. Latin (Roman) numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. This is the most common system for the symbolic representation of numbers in the world today. Special designed custom keyboards for each type of numeral system.Īrabic (decimal) numerals are the ten digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. A simple to use tool, for three-way conversion between Arabic (decimal), Latin (Roman) and Greek (Hellenic) numeral systems.
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