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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 224

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a fleet of 50 sail, when Philip,observing that the vessels were being wafted over by a favourablebreeze, saw there was something in the wind, and resolved—whateverthe blow—to be prepared for it. This was the commencement of theMacedonian War, which became extremely unpopular with the Romans ;for… … 194 COMIC HISTORY OF ROME. [OHAV. XIX. declaring they were no enemies to Philip, for the Senate insisted hewas an enemy of theirs, and that it was accordingly their duty to fightwith him. The campaign was opened hy P. Sulpicius Galba, who crossed theAdriatic, but did little, and was succeeded hy…

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