29 examples of brennus in sentences

[Footnote 11: See Brennus Burns Rome, page 110.]

BRENNUS BURNS ROME B.C. 388 BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR (Julius Caesar is the first writer who gives us an authentic and enlightening account of the Gauls, whom he divided into three groups.

His desire was fulfilled, for soon after "the Gaul was at the gates" under the leadership of the haughty Brennus, who had come upon the Romans at a most opportune moment.

The episode also gave rise to the saying of the conqueror, Brennus, who, when reproached by his antagonists with using false weights, cast his sword into the scale, crying, "Woe to the conquered!")

These Gauls were partly Celts, and partly (indeed principally) Belgae or Cymri, as may be perceived from the circumstance that their king, as well as the one who appeared before Delphi, is called Brennus.

Brennus, commanding the Gauls, burns Rome.

See "BRENNUS BURNS ROME," ii, 110.

The Gauls under Brennus invade Greece; they are cut to pieces near Delphi.

Doth Brennus brandish fire-brands againe? Seneca.

In olden days there lived two brothers, British born, namely, Belinus, King of the Britons, and Brennus, Duke of Burgundy, both wise and doughty lords.

When Belinus went to his own place, he commended Rome to the charge of Brennus, his brother.

Now Constantine, the son of Helena, drew from Brennus and Belinus, and in his turn held Rome in his care.

The Romans, for the moment much too weak to attempt a battle, concluded an armistice, and to gain time allowed envoys from the Celts to proceed to Rome, who ventured in the senate to demand the cession of Ariminumit seemed as if the times of Brennus had returned.

[1105]A little after, the like happened to Brennus, lightning, thunder, earthquakes, upon such a sacrilegious occasion.

" The vine, acclimatised and propagated by the Gauls, ever since the followers of Brennus had brought it from Italy, five hundred years before the Christian era, never ceased to be productive, and even to constitute the natural wealth of the country (Fig. 81 and 82).

Your ancestors proceed from race divine: From Brennus and Belinus is your line; Who gave to sovereign Rome such loud alarms, That even the priests were not excused from arms.

How said Brennus the Gaul, when he done vanquished Rome?

Their Brenn, or most famous chieftain, whom the Latins and Greeks call Brennus, dragged in his train Macedonian prisoners, short, mean, and with shaven heads, and exhibiting them beside Gallic warriors, tall, robust, long-haired, adorned with chains of gold, said, "This is what we are, that is what our enemies are.

It was, according to the unquestionably exaggerated account of the ancient historians, two hundred thousand strong, and commanded by that famous, ferocious, and insolent Brennus mentioned before.

But soon, just as in the case of the Persians, traitors guided Brennus and his Gauls across the mountain-paths; the position of Thermopylae was turned; the Greek army owed its safety to the Athenian galleys; and by evening of the same day the barbarians appeared in sight of Delphi.

Brennus would have led them at once to the assault.

Brennus and the picked warriors about him made a gallant resistance, but defeat was a foregone conclusion.

Brennus was wounded, and his comrades bore him off the field.

Brennus summoned his comrades "Kill all the wounded and me," said he; "burn your cars; make Cichor king; and away at full speed."

At last, after a terrible fatigue, we began to see the western parts of Yorkshire, some few villages, and the country at a distance looked a little like England, for I thought before it looked like old Brennus Hill, which the Grisons call "the grandfather of the Alps."

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