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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome

Note 48 — IV

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The modern Durazzo, a seaport on the Adriatic in Albania. It was founded by colonies from Corfu about 625 B.C. and became important afterward as a terminus of one of the great Roman roads. Pompey here defeated Cæsar a short time before he was himself defeated at Pharsalia.

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