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  • Thrasymene: there is a most confusing one about a girl who refused to kiss the emperor Otho, which reads as if she would not kiss her own father.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

  • The former, which is the one Sir Henry selected, is the most attractive to the ordinary traveller; who is enabled to visit the fall of Terni, Thrasymene, and the temple of Clitumnuss The first, despite its being artificial, is equal in our opinion, to the vaunted Schaffhausen; -- the second is hallowed in story; -- and the third has been illustrated by Byron.

    A Love Story A Bushman

  • For two thousand years history has accused him with bitterness for his inaction after the battle of Aufidus, and for his delay at Capua; perhaps it might reproach him more justly for having removed from the north of Italy, and for having allowed his communications with the soldiers who had conquered under him at Thrasymene and Cannæ, to be cut off.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

  • We cannot follow the steps of the great conqueror in his memorable campaigns -- in his fatal march over the fens of Etruria, or through the glorious field of Thrasymene.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

  • Near the lake of Thrasymene, they passed some hours; allowing Pietro to put up his horses at Casa di Piano.

    A Love Story A Bushman

  • Never, not even when the disasters of Thrasymene and Cannæ were first heard, was such consternation apparent in Rome, as when that mournful resolution was communicated in the Forum.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

  • Thrasymene; and an _Etruscan Sarcophagus_, which lay nearly 2000 years buried in the earth, and is supposed to have been made about 300 years

    The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

  • Thrasymene, a reedy basin in the mountains not far from the city of

    The Red Book of Heroes Mrs. Lang 1909

  • In spite of Thrasymene and Cannæ things were now changed, and it was

    The Red Book of Heroes Mrs. Lang 1909

  • Immediately after the battle of Thrasymene, Hannibal, knowing quite well that he was not strong enough to attack Rome, had taken up his headquarters on the shores of the Adriatic, so as to be at hand if

    The Red Book of Heroes Mrs. Lang 1909

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