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  • Within a short distance of the tomb of the Scipios are the most celebrated of all the Columbaria of Rome.

    Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

  • The tomb of the Scipios is a dirty dark wine cellar: all the urns, the fine sarcophagus, and the original tablets and inscriptions have been removed to the Vatican.

    The Diary of an Ennuyée 1827

  • Fifty survivors were paraded in Scipios triumph; the rest were sold into slavery.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Fifty survivors were paraded in Scipios triumph; the rest were sold into slavery.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Fifty survivors were paraded in Scipios triumph; the rest were sold into slavery.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • Fifty survivors were paraded in Scipios triumph; the rest were sold into slavery.

    The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009

  • The statue of Fortune spoke; the Scipios, the Ciceros, and the

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Scipios, the Catos, the Pompeys, and the Cæsars, I find a difficulty in ranking with them a factious monk who was made a pope under the name of Gregory VII.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The world is now so entirely governed by books that they who command in the city of the Scipios and the Catos have resolved that the books of their law shall be for themselves alone; they are their sceptre, which they have made it high treason in their subjects to touch without an express permission.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • It was never proposed to the Manliuses, Camilluses, or Scipios, to prove their innocence by plunging their hands into boiling water without its scalding them.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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