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The annals of Tacitus

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40 COENELII TACITI<br />

5 uiribvis diiiersae. neque multuni distantia inter se<br />

meraorabant de uetustate generis, studio in populuni<br />

Romanum per bella Persi et Aristonici aliorumque<br />

regum. uerum Hypaepeni Trallianique Laodicenis<br />

ac Magnetibus simul tramissi ut parum ualidi; ne<br />

lo Ilienses quidem, cum parentem urbis Romae Troiam<br />

referrent, nisi antiquitatis gloria pollebant. paulum<br />

addubitatum, quod Halicarnasii mille et ducentos<br />

per annos nullo motu terrae nutauisse sedes suas<br />

uiuoque in saxo fundamenta templi adseuerauerant.<br />

15 Pergamenos (eo ipso nitebantur) aede Augusto ibi<br />

sita satis adeptos creditum. Epliesii Milesiique, hi<br />

Apollinis, illi Dianae caerinionia occupauisse ciuitates<br />

uisi. ita Sardianos inter Zmyrnaeosque deliberatum.<br />

Sardiani decretum Etruriae recitauere ut consan-<br />

20 guinei ; nam Tyrrhenum Lydumque Atye rege<br />

genitos ob multitudinem diuisisse gentem; Lydum<br />

patriis in terris resedisse, Tyrrlieno datum nouas ut<br />

conderet sedes; et ducum e nominibus indita uocabula<br />

illis per Asiam, his in Italia; auctamque adhuc<br />

25 Lydorum opulentiam missis in Grraeciam populis,<br />

cui mox a Pelope nomen. simul litteras imperatorum<br />

et icta nobiscum foedera bello Macedonum ubertatemque<br />

fluminum suorum, temperiem caeli ac dites<br />

circum terras memorabant.<br />

56. At Zmyrnaei repetita uetustate, sen Tantalus<br />

loue ortus illos, sine <strong>The</strong>seus diuina et ipse stirpe,<br />

sine una Amazonum condidisset, transcendere ad ea<br />

quis maxime fidebant, in populum Romanum <strong>of</strong>ficiis,<br />

5 missa nauali copia non modo externa ad bella, sed<br />

quae in Italia tolerabantur ;<br />

seque primes templum

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