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DUILIUS (or DuELLTUS), GAIUS

DUILIUS (or DuELLTUS), See also:
GAIUS
GAIUS , See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

general during the first Carthaginian See also:

War and See also:

COMMANDER

commander in the first Roman See also:

NAVAL

naval victory. In 260 B.c., when See also:

consul in command of the See also:

LAND

land forces in See also:

SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily, he was appointed to supersede his colleague Cn. See also:

Cornelius Scipio Asina, commander of the See also:

FLEET

fleet, who had been captured in the See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour of Lipara. Recognizing that the only See also:

CHANCE (through the O. Fr. cheance, from the Late Lat. cadentia, things happening, from cadere, to fall out, happen; cf. " case ")

chance of victory See also:

LAY

lay in fighting under conditions as similar as possible to those of a land engagement, he invented a See also:

SYSTEM

system of grappling irons (corvi) and boarding See also:

bridges, and gained a brilliant victory over the Carthaginian fleet off Mylae on the See also:

north See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of Sicily. He was accorded a See also:

TRIUMPH (triumphus)

triumph and the distinction of being accompanied, when walking in the streets during the evening, by a torchbearer and a See also:

FLUTE

flute-player. A memorial See also:

COLUMN (Lat. columna)

column (columna rostrata), adorned with the beaks of the captured See also:

SHIPS

ships, was set up in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of his victory. The inscription upon it (see LATIN See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

LANGUAGE, See also:

section 3, " The Language as Recorded ") has been preserved in a restored See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form in pseudo-archaic language, ascribed to the reign of See also:

Claudius. See Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, i. No. 195; See also:

POLYBIUS (c. 204–122 B.C.)

Polybius i. 22; Diod. Sic. xvii.

44; See also:

FRONTINUS, SEXTUS JULIUS (c. A.D. 40-103)

Frontinus, Strat. ii. 3; See also:

Florus ii. 2; See also:

CICERO

Cicero, De senectute, 13; SIlius Italicus vi. 667; and PUNIC See also:

WARS

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