 ... anchorites and abstainers lived no idle or careless lives. It was they who painfully imported and planted the trees of the East on their native hills, who laboured to increase and improve the vines, the olives and the cattle of Italy, who studied...  The Greatness and Decline of Rome - Página 306de Guglielmo Ferrero - 1907Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1913 - 494 páginas
...olives, and the cattle of Italy, who studied and wrote on the philosophy of Greece, who acclimatized the arts and the industries of Asia, who reformed...surviving trophies of the world-conquest of Rome. Yet these were the men who gave the death-blow to the ancient spirit of Roman citizenship, and allowed... | |
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