The Conquered
VICTRIX CAUSA DIIS PLACUIT SED VICTA PUELLIS
THE CONQUERED
By NAOMI MITCHISON
NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.
Sixth printing, October, 1938
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY RAHWAY. N. J.
To MY BROTHER J. B. S. HALDANE
Contents
NOTE.--Of the coins on the title-page, the first is a gold stater of Vercingetorix; the second is a denarius of L. Hostilius Saserna, struck about the time of Cæsar’s Triumph, and bearing what is probably a portrait of Vercingetorix as a captive.
CHAPTER PAGE
1. AUTUMN, 58 B.C. 11 2. SPRING TO WINTER, 57 B.C. 27 3. SPRING TO AUTUMN, 56 B.C. 53 4. AUTUMN, 56 B.C. 78 5. AUTUMN, 55 B.C. 100 6. SUMMER TO WINTER, 54 B.C. 122 7. WINTER, 54 B.C., TO WINTER, 53 B.C. 154 8. WINTER AND SPRING, 52 B.C. 179 9. SPRING AND SUMMER, 52 B.C. 203 10. AUTUMN, 52 B.C. 225 11. AUTUMN, 52 B.C., TO SPRING, 51 B.C. 247 12. SUMMER AND AUTUMN, 51 B.C. 277 13. SUMMER, 46 B.C. 303
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