The Battle of Cannae 
.... A delegation of the prisoners was sent, along with a Carthagenian noble named Carthalo, to plead their case to the
Senate.
Livy gives two versions of what ....
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Machiavelli: Two Theories
.... In Discourses on
Livy, Machiavelli (1, 1) argues that the Roman Republic was .... to contemporary Venice: "Sparta created a King with a small
Senate which should ....
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Hannibal's Strategy
.... Neapolitans. According to
Livy, in Nola "the
senate and especially its leading members stood loyally by the alliance with Rome. But ....
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The Roman conquest of Britain by Claudius
....
Livy knew, of course, that Augustus' adoptive father Julius Caesar had tried twice (55 .... added still more men from northern and central Gaul to the
senate and he ....
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Hannibal's Victory at Cannae & Continued War Strategy
.... The Carthagenian
senate did indeed vote "with great unanimity" to send four thousand .... with a large amount of money (the amount is lost in
Livy's account), as ....
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Hannibal & the Second Roman War
.... honour or alliance of the Romans." This was after the fact, and indeed
Livy may have invented it; Polybius says nothing of the episode. But the
Senate did not ....
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Hannibal and Wars
.... The Roman
senate was duly alarmed at the possibility of a new enemy coming into the war, though according to
Livy, "they were so far from giving way to that ....
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Hannibal Hannibal belongs to the select group
.... modern sense; both were historians, not participants or witnesses, and
Livy wrote of .... The celebrated scene in the Carthagenian
senate, in which Fabius Buto gave ....
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Hannibal's & the Gauls
.... and
Livy, center on his character, and on Hannibal's success at "reading" him. Sempronius was clearly a bold, active commander, which may be why the
Senate ....
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Roman Battle Force & Hannibal
.... death toll at Cannae,
Livy specifies "eighty senators or men who had held offices which would have given them the right to be elected to the
senate, but had ....
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Hannibal's first major victory at Trebia
.... his subsequent policy as Fabius Cunctator, "the delayer." According to
Livy, there was .... election of the assembly (though surely on the "advice" of the
Senate). ....
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Hannibal's Offensive Policy & Roman Campaign
.... For the maker of a lurid film spectacle, the Rome found in
Livy or Virgil .... Even more notable was the evolution of the
Senate, initially a shadowy ad-hoc body of ....
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The Presidential Cabinet of the Federal Government
.... of The Prince, and, later, through the publication of the Discourses of
Livy. .... Hoover entered government service, Republicans controlled both the
Senate and the ....
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The City of Carthage
.... government centered on a council of nobles which Roman writers called a
Senate, and a .... preparing to set out for Spain, according to the account in
Livy, he took ....
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