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Title: Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord), d. 1913
Subjects: Rome -- History Republic, 510-30 B.C
Publisher: London, G. Harrap
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library

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MARIUS the Aedui, who dwelt between the Upper lyoire and the Saone.The new possession was secured by the foundation of fortressesat Aquae Sextiae^ and Narbo,^ the latter of which became thecapital of this important province. It was in the neighbour-hood of Aquae Sextiae that the battle was fought which savedItaly from the peril of invasion from the north for generationsto come. The Cimbri Beyond the mountain rampart lay the plains of central andnorthern Europe, a region of forest, river, and swamp, the rudecradle of young nations whose day of glory was yet to be.Here roamed the wild hordes of the Celts and Teutones, drivenhither and thither with their wives, their cattle, and theirlittle ones as the pressure of material want or the impact ofnew invaders directed their course. They came like the wind,and like the wind they went, and their path was marked bydesolation and ruin. Foremost among these marauders werethe Cimbri, whose original seat seems to have been in Jutland,called after

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