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  • Ubi quisque legatus aut tribunus curabat, eo acerrime niti, [319] neque alius in alio magis quam in sese [320] spem habere: pariterque oppidani agere; oppugnare aut parare omnibus locis, avidius alteri alteros sauciare quam semet tegere, clamor permixtus hortatione, laetitia, gemitu, item strepitus armorum ad coelum ferri, tela utrimque volare.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Romanus imperator ubi se dolis fatigari videt neque ab hoste copiam pugnandi fieri, urbem magnam et in ea parte qua sita erat arcem regni, nomine Zamam, [311] statuit oppugnare, ratus id quod negotium poscebat

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Sic Agamamnon Troianos vicit sed, ubi troias validos vidit, copias ab urbe reduxit: parva oppidia finitima, ubi habitabant troianorum socii, oppugnare constituit.

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  • _oppugnare_ to the Romans, and _parare_ to the men of Zama; a distinction which Kritzius justly condemns.

    Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

  • Gubernator in sequenti anno cum valido exercitu Hebrides oppugnare parans, Donaldum veniam supplicantem, ac omnia praestiturum damna illata pollicentem, nec deinceps iniuriam ullam illaturum iurantem in gratiam recepit. "

    An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

  • (Trajecti ad Rhenum, 1722, in 4to.)] [Footnote 6: Your master, says Nicephorus, has given aid and protection prinminibus Capuano et Beneventano, servis meis, quos oppugnare dispono ....

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

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